Bio
Daniel Hill received a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York, NY in 1996 and a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts in 1993 from Kent State University in Ohio. He is a painter, sound artist, writer, educator, and curator whose work explores the relationship between visual art, sound, and science. His paintings and sound-works often employ a generative rules-based system in which the notion of embodied/extended cognition is an inquiry, as well as discovering a balance between the aesthetic and the conceptual. His paintings are held in many private and public collections, including United States Embassies, Microsoft Corporation, and Bank of America. Selected exhibitions include: Blue Bird of Happiness, ODETTA, New York, NY, 2019; Strange Attractors, Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University, NJ, 2019; Top of the Op, Kunstraum Stoffen, Stoffen, Germany, 2019; Daniel Hill: Frequencies, Scholes Street Studio, Brooklyn, NY, 2018; New Optics III, Museum of Modern Art, Hünfeld, Germany, 2018; 7th International Fine Arts Festival: Geometry- Rationality of a View, Museum of Gorenjska, Kranj, Slovenia, 2018; The Possibilities of Line, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY, 2018; Beyond Black and White, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY, 2018; Luscious, Brattleboro Museum of Art, Brattleboro, VT, 2017; Interference, Nurture Art, Brooklyn, NY, 2017; Morphogenesis: Angie Drakopoulos and Daniel Hill, Holland Tunnel Gallery, Paros, Greece, 2016; Cadence, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY, 2014; Angie Drakopoulos and Daniel Hill, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY, 2012. He has composed and performed over twenty albums of original compositions and sound environments including: Axial Drift (cicadas), Brooklyn, NY, 2018; Mythograph and Aurorasis, video/sound installations with Angie Drakopoulos exhibited in Paris, France, and New York, NY in 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2006. His essays have been published in: Battery Journal, 2020; The Brooklyn Rail, 2018; Interalia Magazine, 2017, 2019, 2020; SciArt in America, 2013 and various exhibition catalogues. He has given presentations or participated in panel discussions at The CUE Art Foundation, NYC, 2017; The Helix Center, NYC, 2017; SciArt Center, NYC, 2014; LASER Talks NYC, 2018; TransBorder Art Television, NYC, 2015; Shirley Fiterman Art Center, NYC, 2016, among others. He has curated Visual Inquiries: Artists Inspired by Science at Pace University, New York, NY, 2016, and co-curated the traveling exhibition Emergence and Structure at Lafayette College, Miami Dade College and the University of Florida, 2012 and will be curating Ed Kerns: Retrospective Exhibition, at the Williams Center Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, in spring 2022. He is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor of Art at Pace University in Manhattan. He lives in Long Island City, New York with his wife and artist Angie Drakopoulos and their two sons.