April 2008 Craig Hill
-- Artist Biography --
Craig Hill earned his BFA in Drawing from the Atlanta College of Art and his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design. Hill is currently a Visiting Professor of Art at Kenyon College teaching Painting, Printmaking and Drawing. He has also taught at: Normandale Community College, Brown University, Rhode Island School of Design, and Wesleyan University.
Hill's work borrows imagery and techniques from pop culture and modernist works of art. In using well-known childhood imagery such as super heroes, toys, and ray guns he creates paintings that revolve around issues of masculinity and male rites of passage. Challenged by the ideas of icons from both his childhood and adult life, Hill establishes a subversive vision of maleness.
Hill has exhibited extensively, in group and solo shows in Minneapolis, MN; Boston, MA; Atlanta, GA; Providence, RI; Philadelphia, PA and Columbus, OH.