Aron Hill
Aron Hill currently lives and works in Calgary, Alberta. He graduated from Alberta College of Art and Design in 2000 with a BFA in Interdisciplinary studies. He then completed his MFA at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His work there evolved into installation based projects using traditional drawing and painting methods alongside formal sculptural elements, large format photography and text based work. He has recently been focused on formalist paintings that recall aspects of minimalism and color field paintings though with references to the figure throughout. He finds conceptual company in the late Modernist paintings produced particularly in Canada. The choice of a restricted medium, acrylic ink washes on prepared raw canvas, forces restraint. The work's graphic nature relies on the sheer flatness this medium produces. Aron has exhibited internationally, occasionally lectures, and writes.
Aron Hill
Aron Hill currently lives and works in Calgary, Alberta. He graduated from Alberta College of Art and Design in 2000 with a BFA in Interdisciplinary studies. He then completed his MFA at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His work there evolved into installation based projects using traditional drawing and painting methods alongside formal sculptural elements, large format photography and text based work. He has recently been focused on formalist paintings that recall aspects of minimalism and color field paintings though with references to the figure throughout. He finds conceptual company in the late Modernist paintings produced particularly in Canada. The choice of a restricted medium, acrylic ink washes on prepared raw canvas, forces restraint. The work's graphic nature relies on the sheer flatness this medium produces. Aron has exhibited internationally, occasionally lectures, and writes.
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Biography
Aron Hill’s latest exhibition, The Lake of Fire is a continuation of the artist’s reflections and meditations on the history of Christian evangelism and its links to masculinity and violence, particularly as it relates to colonialism within Canada. This work draws influence from late modernist Canadian painting and sculpture as well as early Greek and Roman motifs during the early church and universal iconography by way of masks and symbols. Hill looks to queer theorists in order to profane the dominant Christian masculine narrative and currents. Formally, these paintings use flat intense colors and deep atmospheric washes. The sculptures use ceramics, canvas tarps, wood and brass.
Aron Hill lives and works in Calgary, Alberta. He holds a BFA in Interdisciplinary studies from Alberta College of Art and Design and a MFA at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His work has evolved into installation based projects using traditional drawing and painting methods alongside formal sculptural elements, large format photography and text based work. Hill as an artist, an educator, and a writer added foster parent to their biography when their family fostered a baby girl. This life-changing event has become woven into the work through themes of domestic life, labour, care, community and historical colonialism to create compelling visual narratives.
Aron has exhibited internationally, writes and occasionally lectures.
Education
2006 MFA, Master of Fine Arts, Goldsmiths College, University of London
2000 BFA, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Interdisciplinary Studies) Alberta College of Art and Design
Arts Administration
2006-current Arts Advisory, Collections Management and Consulting Curatorial and technical services
2012-2014 Community Workshop, Founder and Director, Arts Administration Community based arts education centre
2006-2009 Red Deer College, Curator of Permanent Art Collection (Faculty Position)
Head of visiting artist program
Arts administration, Collection Management:
Management of existing collection which included research for educational programming, Accessioning and
de-accessioning, new acquisitions, Canadian Cultural Properties applications, Grant writing and research,
and archival updates.
2006-2009 Bilton Centre for Contemporary Art, Curator and Programming
2002-2005 attn: design group, Art Director
1998-1999 Science Alberta Foundation, Art direction and Project management, Committees and Special Projects
Residencies
2018 Arquetopia, Puebla, Mexico
2017 Artist Ranch Project, Alberta, Canada
Publications
2019 Relation and Identity with Jesus Caba, Poetry and Non-fiction, (Release in 2020)
2018 From The Archives, Living Documents, Non-fiction: Editor
2016 Love With the Enemy, Short Stories
2013 The Watercolors, Fiction: Novela
2007 Mapping Modernism, Art from the RDC permanent art collection exhibition and catalogue.
2005 Atelocyte, Fiction:Novel
Committees
2006-08 Western Canadian Institute of Arts and Culture, Red Deer, AB
2006-08 RDC Acquisitions Committee, Red Deer College, AB
2007-08 BFA Degree Development and planning group, Red Deer College, AB
Selected Exhibitions
2019 Full Spectrum: Shayne Dark and Aron Hill, Oeno Gallery, ON
2019 Damn Good Paintings, Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary, AB
2019 Spring Salon, Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary,AB
2018 Press Play, Oeno Gallery, Prince Edward County, ON
2018 BLACK AND WHITE (AND RED ALL OVER): PART 3, Kritische Kunst, Berlin
2018 Sampler 2018, Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary, AB
2017 Paintings and Drawings, Christine Klassen Gallery, Calgary AB
2017 Colour Break, Oeno Gallery, Prince Edward County, ON
2016 Echo, Oeno Gallery, Prince Edward County, ON
2013 A Reading Room, The Art Gallery of Calgary, AB
2009 Taste the World & Digest It, Newzones, Calgary, AB
2008 Foreground.Background, Elementa Modern Art, Dubai, UE
2007 Colony, The Weiss Gallery, Calgary. AB
2007 Unnatural Response, Art Gallery of Calgary, AB
2006 Birds in Opposition: A Natural History, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2005 New Work, Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary, AB
2004 Combustible, Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary, AB
2002 Out Reach, Van Alen Institute, New York, NY
2002 LOVELAND, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2001 Zippity Zip, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2000 Inheritance, AV Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1998 Exchange, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
1998 New Work, Marion Nickel Gallery, Calgary, AB
1997 Reproduction, The Stride Gallery, Calgary, AB
Collections
RBC, Suncor, Fairmont Hotels and Resorts, Alberta University of the Arts as well as private collections in New York, Chicago, Seattle and across Canada.