VISUAL CULTURE
Richard W. Hill: Profile
I am an independent curator and writer of Cree heritage, currently working on a PhD at Middlesex University, researching the problem of agency in the art and writing of Jimmie Durham. As a curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario I over-saw the museum’s first substantial effort to include North American Aboriginal art and ideas in permanent collection galleries. I also curated Kazuo Nakamura: A Human Measure at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2004 and co-curated, with Jimmie Durham, The American West at Compton Verney, UK in 2005. I am currently curating The World Upside Down: for the Walter Philips Gallery at the Banff Centre, which will open in fall 2006. My essays on art have appeared in numerous books, exhibition catalogues and magazines. I have a long association with the Canadian art magazine Fuse, where I was a member of the board and editorial committee and remain a contributing editor. I also teach Aboriginal art history and contemporary art at York University, Toronto.