Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill


Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill is a Cree and Métis multimedia artist and writer, living and working in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Through creating sculptures, collage, and installation works with found objects, Hill explores and questions the capitalistic treatment of land as an economic capital, which leads the land contamination and violence against people living on the land. As a member of BUSH Gallery, Hill is also involved in group art projects, through which artists embodies the indigenous way of knowing and art practicing, as a mean of decentralizing Eurocentric theorization of art. Hill was longlisted for the 2019 Sobey Art Award.

Early life and education

Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill was born in 1979 in Comox, British Columbia, Canada. She holds a Bachelor of Arts with honors in English and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, and a Master of Fine Arts from the California College of the Arts, Oakland.

Career

As a Writer

Hill’s writing has been published in multiple magazines and books, including in the Capilano Review and in the exhibition catalog, '. She is also the co-editor of the books including The Land We Are: Artists and Writers Unsettle the Politics of Reconciliation and '.

As an Artist

Incorporating organic materials Hill finds in nature, Hill creates sculptures, installations and collage pieces which explores the complex relationships between settler and Indigenous' economies.
As a member of an Indigenous artist collective, BUSH gallery, Hill seeks the ways of demolishing the Eurocentric models of making and theorizing art, through land-based teaching and practicing Indigenous way of knowing. Hill is an Advisory Committee Member of Simon Fraser University Gallery, and the board member of the Vancouver based non-profit art society, Other Sights for Artist’s Projects.
Hill's work has been exhibited at multiple art galleries in Canada and United States, including the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Western Front, Polygon Gallery, grunt gallery, Sunset Terrace, Gallery Gachet, and Unit 17 in Vancouver; Cooper Cole, Gallery TPW, the Woodland School, and Gallery 44 in Toronto; SBC galerie d’art contemporain in Montreal; the Alberta Art Gallery in Edmonton; Stride Gallery in Calgary; SOMArts in San Francisco; and Get This! Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia.

Selected Artworks

Hill's work has been shown in multiple art institutions across North America.
Solo exhibitions include:
Group exhibitions include: