CV
Born Little Rock, AR
Live in Los Angeles, CA
Education
2015 California State University at Fullerton – Master of Fine Art, Creative Photography
2001 University of Memphis – Bachelor of Arts, Film and Video Productions
Solo Exhibition
2021 Remove the Noose By All Means Necessary, Muzeo Museum and Cultural Center, (Anaheim, CA)
2017-2018 TRAN(S)junction, Norfolk ARTS and Offsite Gallery, World Trade Center & Transit Gallery, HRT,
(Norfolk,VA)
2015 A Gender Monologue, Grand Central Art Center (Santa Ana, CA)
2015 A Gender Monologue, California State University Fullerton- West Gallery (Fullerton, CA)
Awards and Honors
2015 Elevars Scholarship
Curatorial Work
2017 Invisible: Minds of the Contemporary, Santa Ana College Main Gallery, (Santa Ana, CA)
Selected Group Exhibition & Collaborations
2022-2023 Walk the Walk Performance Art collaboration with Invertigo Dance Theatre Artists,
(LA Dance Project, Los Angeles, CA)
2021 For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, Muzeo Museum
and Cultural Center, (Anaheim, CA)
2020 LA Mise-En-Scene video festival, LA Art Documents, (Los Angeles, CA)
2020 We Are More Than A Moment, MCLA Gallery 51, (North Adams, MA)
2020 Instagram Takeover, Virtual Residency, Brea Gallery, (Brea, CA)
2018 The Art of the Self, Golden West College, (Huntington Beach, CA)
2017 Fair, Brickell City Centre, Art B, Collaboration with artist Micol Hebron, (Miami, FL)
2017 WE: Visual Reflections of the American Experiment, Darling Library, Azusa Pacific University, (Azusa, CA)
2017 Reading Series - Do You Feel the Siren, Days Gallery, (Los Angeles, CA)
2017 Maybe All of Us at Once, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (Los Angeles, CA)
2017 Still: Movement + the Body Through the Lens, From the Permanent Collections at UCR
ARTSblock University of California Riverside (Riverside, CA)
2015-2016 Second Wave: Aesthetics of the 80’s in Today ContemporaryArt, Photography + video
Series + Performance collaboration with artist Takeshi Kanemura, ARTSblock University of
California Riverside (Riverside, CA)
2015 LA vs CV2, Performance Collaboration with artist Takeshi Kanemura, Coachella Valley Art
Center (Indio,CA)
2015 Slice Strike Make An X Prick!, Collaboration with artist Gina Osterloh, Francois
Ghebaly Gallery (Los Angeles, CA)
2014 The Gender Talley Project, Collaboration with artist Micol Hebron, For Your Art Gallery
(Los Angeles, CA)
2014 GLAMFA, California State University LongBeach (Long Beach, CA)
2014 Dichotomies of Vision, 57 Underground Gallery (Pomona, CA)
2014 MFA Biennial: Sophomore Year, City of Brea Art Gallery (Brea, CA)
2013 Compass:Navigating the Journey to Self-Identity, Orange County Center for
Contemporary Art (Orange County, CA)
2012 Performance Videos for Liftoff, LIFT Gallery at Greensboro College (Greensboro, North Carolina)
2012 Cross Trends: MFA Visual Exchange, dA Center for the Arts (Pomona, CA)
2010 6x6 and Femme in Butch Clothing, dual opening, LA Phantom Galleries (Long Beach, CA)
Bibliography
2023 WALK THE WALK CARVES PATHWAYS AND UNDERSTANDING, LA Dance Chronicle by Celine Kiner,
September 27, 2023
2017 An Interview with Trans Artist D Hill, by LGBT Life Center, December 19, 2017
2015 How 1980’s Aesthetics Influence Contemporary Artists Today, KCET by Christopher Michno,
December 15, 2015
Public Collections
Sweeney Art Gallery and Art Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, CA.
Darling Library, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA.
CSUF Begovich Gallery, Fullerton, CA.
Academic Positions/Guest Artist Lectures
2022-Present Full-Time Staff, Photography Technician, California State University at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.
2019-Present Adjunct Professor, History of Photography, Visual Performance and Art Department, Chaffey College,
2021 Artist Lecture, Contemporary Art World: Theory Topics, California State University Fullerton, CA,
February 6th
2020-21 Adjunct Professor, History of Photography, Media Arts Foundations & The Female Frame,
Photography Department, University of La Verne
2020 Artist Lecture, Contemporary Art World: Theory Topics, California State University Fullerton, CA,
February 13th
2018-19 Adjunct Professor, Beginning Digital Photography, Irvine Valley College
2018 Adjunct Professor, Beginning Digital Photography, Pasadena City College
2018 Adjunct Professor, Topics in Photography, Chapman University
2017-18 Adjunct Professor, Art Theory, Art Department, Irvine Valley College
2017-18 Adjunct Professor, History of Photography, Art Department, Irvine Valley College
2017 Artist Lecture, Contemporary Art World: Theory Topics, California State University Fullerton, February 8th
2015 Artist Lecture, Gender Globalization, California State University Fullerton, CA, September 8th
2015 Artist Lecture, Contemporary Art World: Theory Topics, California State University Fullerton, CA,
September 17th
2015 Artist Lecture, Trans Awareness, California State University Fullerton, CA, November 19th
2015 Artist Lecture, Gender and Sexuality, Irvine Valley College, March 9th
2015 Adjunct Instructor, Introduction to Photography, Creative Photo Program, California State University Fullerton
2014 Graduate Assistant, Creative Photography, California State University Fullerton
2014 Artist Lecture, Gender and Sexuality, Irvine Valley College, October 21st
2014 Artist Lecture, Gender and Sexuality, Irvine Valley College, March 17th
2013 Artist Lecture, Social Inequality Course, California State University at Fullerton, March 11th & 25th
2013 Artist Lecture, Gender and Sexuality, Irvine Valley College, November7th.
D.Hill-Visual Artist