Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill

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Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill (b. 1979) is a Métis artist and writer. Hill’s sculptural practice explores the history of found materials to enquire into concepts of land, property, and economy. Often, her projects emerge from an interest in capitalism as an imposed, impermanent, and vulnerable system, as well as in alternative economic modes. Her works have used found and readily-sourced materials to address concepts such as private property, exchange, and black-market economies. Hill is a member of BUSH gallery, an Indigenous artist collective seeking to decentre Eurocentric models of making and thinking about art, prioritizing instead land-based teachings and Indigenous epistemologies.

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Hill received her MFA from the California College of the Arts, and a BFA and BA from Simon Fraser University. Most recently, her work has been exhibited at Le Magasin - CNAC, Grenoble (2023); the 59th Venice Biennale (2022); the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2021); the Vancouver Art Gallery (2020); the College Art Galleries at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon (2020); Stride, Calgary (2019); Burnaby Art Gallery (2019); Gallery TPW, Toronto (2018); Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton (2018); SBC galerie d’art contemporain, Montreal with the Woodland School (2017) and Gallery 44, Toronto (2016). Her writing has been published in many places, most recently in Beginning With the Seventies (Helen Belkin, UBC, 2019). She was also the co-editor of The Land We Are: Artists and Writers Unsettle the Politics of Reconciliation (ARP 2009) and Read, Listen, Tell: Indigenous Stories from Turtle Island (Wildred Laurier 2017). Hill lives on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and səlilwətaɬ Nations.

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News

shortlist, 2023 Sobey Art Award

current group exhibition, Indian Theatre: Native Performance, Art, and Self-determination Since 1969, Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard, until 26 November 2023

forthcoming group exhibition, the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 13 October 2023 - 3 March 2024

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Exhibitions

Apparitions (2018)

Money (2019)

Residue (2019)

Sorry (2020)

We Work to Pay the Bills (2022)

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Writing & Press

Frieze Magazine

Artforum

Brooklyn Rail

C Magazine

Public Parking

Frieze Critic's Guide

The Guardian

Artnet

Art & Education

Galleries West

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