Patrick Hill is an artist based in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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Hill was born in Michigan

Michigan

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. His abstract sculptures juxtapose hard and soft materials and references to Minimalism and the human body. Common materials are wood

Wood

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, stone

Rock (geology)

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, steel

Steel

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, fabric

Fabric

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 dye

Dye

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 and glass

Glass

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. Hill also makes painting

Painting

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s on un-primed canvas with oil paint

Oil paint

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 and various organic pigment

Pigment

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s. 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

Whitney Biennial

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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