Profile
Daniel G. Hill was born in 1956 in Providence, R.I. He is currently a Part-Time Lecturer at the Parsons School of Design where he served as an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, 2001–2021. From 2013 to 2018, he served as President of American Abstract Artists and currently serves as its Secretary. Hill is a multi-disciplinary artist who has worked in sculpture, installation, painting, photography and digital media. He has exhibited in the U.S. for over 40 years and, more recently, in Europe, Asia and Central America and has curated exhibitions in New York (John Molloy Gallery), Brooklyn (Trestle Gallery), and Paris (ParisCONCRET and Abstract Project). His work is held in the collections of the Stiftung Konzeptuelle Kunst, Soest, Germany; Stichting EST art foundation, Leiden, the Netherlands; Metropolitan Museum of Art; MoMA Library Special Collection; New York Public Library; Phillips Collection; Cleveland Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, The Frances Mulhall Achilles Library; Yale University Art Gallery; US Embassy, Beijing Embassy Annex, US Department of State; Arkansas Art Center; and in several corporate and private collections. He is the recipient of a fellowship in painting from the National Endowment for the Arts and was awarded two year-long residencies at PS122 in New York City.
Degrees Held
MFA, Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, NY
AB, Magna cum Laude, Brown University, Providence, RI
Professional Affiliation
American Abstract Artists
Secretary since 2019
President 2013–2018
Member since 1997
Performances and Appearances
Curatorial & Directorial Projects:
Co-Curator, Paralle Play, John Molloy Gallery, New York, NY
Co-Curator, Objectify, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Co-Curator, Intercontinental Line, Abstract Project, Paris, France
Project Director, American Abstract Artists 75th Anniversary Print Portfolio
Curator, Raisonnement circulaire (Circular Reasoning), ParisCONCRET, Paris, France
One person exhibitions:
Abstract Project, Paris, France
Mary Ed Mecoy Hall Gallery, Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky
The Painting Center, New York, NY
Melville House Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Square One Gallery, New York, NY
Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba, New York, NY
Koussevitzky Gallery, Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, MA
Selected Group exhibitions:
Transmitter, Brooklyn, NY
Hofstra University Museum of Art, Hempstead, NY
dr. julius | ap, Berlin, Germany
Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA, Portland, Maine
Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Penzance, Cornwall, UK
108AG projects, Colonia Juárez, Mexico City
The Achmea Gebouw, Leiden, NL
Salon Zürcher, New York, NY
Sculpture Space NYC, Queens, NY
Abstract Project, Paris, France
Espace Christiane Peugeot, Paris, France
Claudia Weil Galerie; Friedberg-Rinnenthal, Germany
RCM Galerie, Paris, France
Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
dr. julius | ap; Berlin, Germany
Galerie Victor Sfez; Paris, France
Schema Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Clement & Schneider; Bonn, Germany
Derbylius Libreria Galleria D’Arte, Milan, Italy
Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Downtown Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Gallery 705, Stoudsburg, PA
Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Paris, France
Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca Alcalá (IAGO), Oaxaca, México
Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
ParisCONCRET, Paris, France
Galerie oqbo, Berlin, Germany
Deutscher Kunstlerbund e.V., Project Space, Berlin, Germany
O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
Nel Castello Aragonese di Otranto, Otranto, Italy
The Painting Center, New York, NY
PS122 Gallery, NY, NY
Yellow Bird Gallery, Newburgh, NY
Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, Brookvale, NY
Katarina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY
Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY
Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, NY
Research Interests
color theory ,computer graphics (CG),new genres,painting,photography,sculpture
Awards And Honors
Project Space Recipient, P.S. 122, NYC
National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in Painting
Portfolio
Artist's Web Site
Westbeth home to the arts