Dr. Hill will present his recent work on Indigenous contemporary art and curatorial practices.
Please register online at the Webexlink - https://uwaterloo.webex.com/uwaterloo/onstage/g.php?MTID=ee52aab86bc711deeb3b2556cfe6f05c8. For more information on the lecture please send your questions to Bojana Videkanic or Sharon Dahmer.
Richard Hill is an art historian at Emily Carr University of Art and Design whose primary research is focused on contemporary Indigenous art in Canada and the US from 1980 to 1995, mapping the emergence of a new generation of artists, many of whom were, for the first time, trained in mainstream art schools. He is interested in examining the projects of institutional critique initiated by this generation of artists and curators and their progress in creating a discourse for their work and claiming institutional space and recognition. He has written a column at Canadian Art Online about some of the issues arising from this research.
Prior to coming to Emily Carr, Hill taught full-time in the Art History program at York University, beginning in 2007 and leaving as Associate Professor in 2015. As a curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario in the early 2000s, he oversaw the museum’s first substantial effort to include Indigenous North American art and ideas in permanent collection galleries. He co-curated, with Jimmie Durham, The American West at Compton Verney, UK in 2005 and, beginning in 2006, The World Upside Down, which originated at the Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre and toured across Canada. Hill’s essays on art have appeared internationally in numerous books, exhibition catalogues and periodicals. His regular column Close Readings, began in FUSE Magazine in 2013 and continued in C Magazine until 2015. He is currently on the editorial board of the journal Third Text.