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Gary Hill

American artist (born 1951)
Person Human Q2545780

Facts

26 properties
Instance of
human
Sex or gender
male[23]
Date of birth
April 4, 1951
Place of birth
Santa Monica, Santa Monica[8]
Country of citizenship
United States[9]
Occupation
visual artist, video artist, dancer, creator, television producer, film director, screenwriter, installation artist[10][11][12]
Employer
Beaux-Arts de Paris, Le Fresnoy, University at Buffalo, Bard College, Cornish College of the Arts[14][15][16][17][18]
Field of work
video art[13]
Educated at
Art Students League of New York, Rancho Alamitos High School[19][20]
Award received
Guggenheim Fellowship, MacArthur Fellows Program[21][22]
Genre
video recording, installation artwork[24][25]
Official website
garyhill.com[28]
Languages spoken, written or signed
English[34]
Artist files at
Philadelphia Museum of Art Library and Archives, Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library, National Gallery of Art Library
Birth name
Gary Hill[35]
Contributed to creative work
Infermental 5, Infermental 6, Infermental 7
Copyright representative
Gary Hill, reproduction right not represented by CISAC member, reproduction right represented by CISAC-member
Copyright status as a creator
works protected by copyrights
Described by source
UbuWeb, mediakunst.net[29][30]
Family name
Hill[26]
Given name
Gary[27]
Has works in the collection
Museum of Modern Art, Tate, Art Institute of Chicago, Kunsthaus Zürich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Van Abbemuseum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, LIMA, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Kröller-Müller Museum, Musée National d'Art Moderne, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Finnish National Gallery, Hessel Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art
Name in native language
Gary Hill[36]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject PCC Wikidata Pilot — Smithsonian Libraries — Artists Files, NADD Wikidata project
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Participant in
documenta 8, Documenta IX, documenta x[31][32][33]
Represented by
Bitforms gallery, Artists Rights Society, Electronic Arts Intermix, Video Data Bank, LIMA[37][38][39][40][41]
🏷️ Also known as
en Gary Hill en Gary R. Hill ar غاري هيل cs Garry Hill fa گری هیل ja ゲイリー・ヒル ko 게리 힐 ru Гарри Хилл zh 加里·希尔 zh 蓋瑞·希爾
🔖 Identifiers · 105
ISNI
0000000109275754
VIAF cluster ID
96095476
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n93075444
GND ID
11927096X
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Gary Hill, The Psychedelic Gedankenexperiment, 2011.jpg ↗
ACMI ID
creators/7133
ADAGP artist ID
gary-hill-622616
ARTIC artist ID
65967
AbART person ID
86025
Artcyclopedia artist ID
hill_gary
Artist-info artist ID
14716
Artists of the World ID
40270104T
Show all 105 identifiers +93
Artnet artist ID
gary-hill
Artsy artist ID
gary-hill
Awards & Winners artist ID
041y__
BAnQ authority ID
0000382802
BIBSYS ID
13070220
Basis Wien person ID
18223
Benezit ID
B00087711
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
12297296r
Bridgeman artist ID
47815
Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
hill-gary
CANTIC ID
981058614008106706
Canadiana Name Authority ID
ncf10420958
CiNii Research ID
1140000791804541440
DACS ID (2022)
005811
DACS ID (former)
61b89b9c-3c8b-df11-9cbd-00237d073984
DDB person (GND) ID
11927096X
Danish National Filmography person ID
180040
De Agostini ID
Hill,+Gary
Deutsche Biographie (GND) ID
11927096X
DigitaltMuseum ID
021039688171
Discogs artist ID
719007
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
gary-hill
Europeana entity
agent/base/68256
Evene ID
gary-hill-18006
FAST ID
360636
FID performing arts ID
agent/gnd_11927096X
Finnish National Gallery artist ID
911523FD-A44E-4F61-AFEF-C21AD2290223
Flanders Arts Institute person ID (former scheme)
1892339
FotoCH photographer ID
44487
FranceArchives agent ID
635306790
Freebase ID
/m/041y__
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
gary-hill
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Gary_Hill
Grove Art Online ID
T096843
Guggenheim fellows ID
gary-hill
HAND ID
842F-DFC6-5835-E10D-AB8F
IMDb ID
nm0384262
IPI base code
I-003162355-7
IdRef ID
031831109
Instagram username
garyhillstudio
Invaluable.com person ID
7xrcaxzzpv
Itaú Cultural ID
pessoa412009/gary-hill
IxTheo authority ID
080075770
J9U entity ID
987007452186905171
Joconde author ID
T513-14945
Kalliope-Verbund (GND) ID
11927096X
KulturNav-ID
8c39f64e-02a8-4588-ac47-9e8d2fe7e579
Kunstenpunt Knowledge Graph ID
Beloyarsky
Kunstindeks Danmark Artist ID
12813
LIMA media artist ID
4483
Le Delarge artist ID
26432_artiste_HILL_Gary
Les Archives du spectacle person ID
92941
Libraries Australia ID
35245338
MACM artist ID
hill-gary
MNCARS artist ID
hill-gary
MacArthur Fellows Program ID
class-of-1998/gary-r-hill
Media Library for Dance and Theatre person ID
2412
Munzinger person ID
00000024344
Museum of Modern Art artist ID
7416
NACSIS-CAT author ID
DA11918927
NE.se ID
gary-hill
NL CR AUT ID
jo20000076513
NLA Trove people ID
880148
NUKAT ID
n2002043110
National Gallery of Canada artist ID
gary-hill
National Library of Brazil ID
000515028
National Library of Korea ID
KAC2020B1778
National Library of Latvia ID
000064466
National Library of Poland MMS ID
9810531115605606
Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID
111156939
Open Library ID
OL431947A
Oxford Reference overview ID
20110803095936771
Persée author ID
666071
Photographers' Identities Catalog ID
296000
PictoRight ID code
AR-00248
Pinakothek artist ID
o5xrd8bG7X
Prabook ID
785359
RERO ID (legacy)
A003371707
RKDartists ID
228219
SEARCH on line catalogue ID
73055
SFMOMA artist ID
Gary_Hill
SNAC ARK ID
w6pr8qf5
Smithsonian American Art Museum person/institution ID
28960
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam ID
556-gary-hill
Tabakalera ID
57436
Tate artist ID
gary-hill-2376
Threads username
garyhillstudio
Union List of Artist Names ID
500061240
University of Barcelona authority ID
981058614008106706
Whitney Museum of American Art artist ID
4419
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJvRRBHG9GHRHYFHw4RtKd
Yale LUX ID
person/553fa89a-5a5e-4c3d-9c47-4e4373589803
ZKM person ID
gary-hill

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🔗 Connections
Has works in the collection 15
Museum of Modern Art, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Art Institute of Chicago, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Tate, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Kröller-Müller Museum +7 more
Occupation 8
film director, screenwriter, television producer, dancer, visual artist, creator, installation artist, video artist
Employer 3
Beaux-Arts de Paris, University at Buffalo, Bard College
Participant in 3
documenta 8, Documenta IX, documenta x
Award received 2
Guggenheim Fellowship, MacArthur Fellows Program
Genre 2
video recording, installation artwork
Participated in 2
documenta 8, Documenta IX
Place of birth 2
Santa Monica, Santa Monica
Copyright representative 1
Gary Hill
Country of citizenship 1
United States
Described by source 1
UbuWeb
Educated at 1
Art Students League of New York
Family name 1
Hill
Field of work 1
video art
Given name 1
Gary
Instance of 1
human
Kunstenpunt Knowledge Graph ID 1
Beloyarsky
Languages spoken, written or signed 1
English
Sex or gender 1
male
← Copyright representative 1
Gary Hill
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Summary

Gary Hill was born on April 4, 1951[1], in Santa Monica[2]. He has worked as a visual artist[3], video artist[4], dancer[5], creator[6], and television producer[7].

FAQs

Where was Gary Hill born?

Gary Hill's place of birth was Santa Monica[2].

What did Gary Hill do for work?

Gary Hill worked as a visual artist[3], video artist[4], dancer[5], creator[6], and television producer[7].

Where did Gary Hill go to school?

Gary Hill was educated at Art Students League of New York[19] and Rancho Alamitos High School[20].

What awards did Gary Hill receive?

Honors received include Guggenheim Fellowship[21] and MacArthur Fellows Program[22].

Related Entities

Kröller-Müller Museum Kunsthaus Zürich Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Museum of Modern Art San Francisco Museum of Modern Art UbuWeb United States Whitney Museum of American Art ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Great Norwegian Encyclopedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . San Francisco Museum of Modern Art online collection. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . BnF authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [9] ↑ . Museum of Modern Art online collection. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [20] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [4] ↑ . The Fine Art Archive. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [7] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [11] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [12] ↑ . RKDartists. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [21] ↑ . Guggenheim Fellows database. wikidata.org.
  24. [22] ↑ . macfound.org. macfound.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [1] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  26. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [29] ↑ . ubu.com. Retrieved . ubu.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  30. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [31] ↑ . documenta.de. Retrieved . documenta.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  32. [32] ↑ . documenta.de. Retrieved . documenta.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  33. [33] ↑ . documenta.de. Retrieved . documenta.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  34. [34] ↑ . BnF authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  35. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [37] ↑ . bitforms.com. Retrieved . bitforms.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  38. [38] ↑ . arsny.com. Retrieved . arsny.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  39. [39] ↑ . eai.org. Retrieved . eai.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  40. [40] ↑ . vdb.org. Retrieved . vdb.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  41. [41] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

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  1. 25d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    "source for place of birth, source for date of birth from Store norske leksikon (OKA bot…"
  2. 5w ago · Medol · 2026-10-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID → gary-hill
    "Created claim: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID: gary-hill, Matched to Gary Hill (#326489580) in GEC — Biografies —…"
  3. 13w ago · Yirba · 2026-08-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    HAND ID → 842F-DFC6-5835-E10D-AB8F
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  4. 25w ago · Epìdosis · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Place of birth → Santa Monica
    Educated at → Art Students League of New York, Rancho Alamitos High School
    Family name → Hill
    Described by source → UbuWeb, mediakunst.net
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