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.
Upcoming Exhibition
Aron Hill
The Lake of Fire
October 18 - November 15, 2025
Opening Reception, Saturday, October 18th from 2 to 5 pm.
Artist in Attendance
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.
