Patrick Hill (artist)

Patrick Hill (born 1972) is an artist based in Los Angeles.

Hill was born in Michigan. His abstract sculptures juxtapose hard and soft materials and references to Minimalism and the human body. Common materials are wood, stone, steel, fabric dye and glass. Hill also makes paintings on un-primed canvas with oil paint and various organic pigments. He studied with controversial Los Angeles artist, Larry_Johnson_(artist).

Hill shows with David Kordansky in Los Angeles; Bortolami Gallery in New York City; The Approach in London; and Almine Rech in Paris and Brussels.

He participated in the 2008 Whitney Biennial.

Selected exhibitions

2010

• Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, MI
• Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY (upcoming)
• The Secret (Still) Knows, LAND, Los Angeles, CA
• Leopards in the Temple, Sculpture Center, Long Island, NY
• The Mass Ornament, curated by John Rassmussen, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY*
• The Story of O, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
• The Secret Knows, 508 House, Austin, TX
• Mostly Sculpture Show, Sea and Space Explorations, Los Angeles, CA
• Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines, Bortolami Gallery at the Webster, Miami

2009

• David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
• Leopards in the Temple, curated by Fionn Meade, Sculpture Center, New York
• Play With Your Marbles (Walead Beshty, Karl Haendel & Partick Hill) Noma Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture from the U.S., Saatchi Gallery, London
• Geoplay (Part II), Pilar Parra & Romero, Madrid, Spain

2008

• Patrick Hill, The Approach, London
• Base: Object, curated by Cory Nomura, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
• Pruesspress@Rental, Rental, New York, NY
• Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY

2007

• Uneasy Angel, Imagine Los Angeles, Galerie Sprüth Magers, Munich
• Forming, Bortolami, New York
• Exit Music (for a film), Grimm/Rosenfeld, Munich

2006

• L.A. Trash & Treasure, Milliken Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
• Golden Syrup, The Approach (The Reliance), London
• Cloudbreak, Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo
• Patrick Hill, Eileen Quinlan, Florian Schmidt, Galerie Kosak Hall, Vienna

2005

• Ask the Dust, D’Amelio Terras, New York
• Alpha Flight II, John Connelly Presents, New York

External links

• More images and information from David Kordansky Gallery
• Patrick Hill The Approach, London
• Golden Syrup at The Reliance, London
• Patrick Hill on ArtNet.com
• Further information, images and texts from the Saatchi Gallery