Mike Hill
Mike Hill earned his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1996 and his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999. A recent Urban Culture Project Studio Resident, Hill has exhibited at venues including Urban Culture Project’s La Esquina gallery; Urban Culture Project Space (solo show); VertexList, Brooklyn; Raw Space, New York, NY; Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA; Esther Klein Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; and West End Gallery, Houston, TX. For a number of years, Hill has been developing complex systems for tracking, organizing, and charting specific fields of information. From rigorously mapping baseball statistics from each and every game played by the Boston Red Sox over several seasons, to a new “History of Metal” project that engages extensive research directed toward comprehensively tracing the evolution of the Heavy Metal genre from the 1970s to the present, Hill creates large-scale drawings that simultaneously elevate these obsessions to a fine art, critique that very obsession, and exalt the process of gathering, organizing, and presenting highly specific information.
