CV | dhill

Born Little Rock, AR
Live in Los Angeles, CA

Education
2015 California State University at Fullerton – Master of Fine Art, Creative Photography
2001 University 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 & HONORS

2015 - Elevars Scholarship

Curatorial Work
2017 - "Invisible: Minds of the Contemporary", Santa Ana College Main Gallery (Santa Ana, CA)

Selected Group Exhibition
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 (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)
2012 - “Good is Good”, West Gallery of Cal State Fullerton (Fullerton, CA)
2012 - “Excepts”,East/West Galleries (Fullerton, CA)
2012 - “Titan Student Union Annual Student Art Show”, Titan Student Union Center Gallery
(Fullerton, CA)
2011 - “Dwell: the residents of Grand Central Art Center”, Sales Gallery (Santa Ana, CA)
2010 - “6x6 and Femme in Butch Clothing” dual opening, LA Phantom Galleries (Long Beach
CA)

Bibliography
2015 - 'How 1980’s Aesthetics Influence Contemporary Artists Today', KCET by Christopher Michno,
December 15, 2015

2017 - 'An Interview with Trans Artist D Hill', by LGBT Life Center, December 19, 2017

Public Collections
Sweeney Art Gallery and Art Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, CA.

Darling Library, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA.

Academic Positions/Lectures
2021 - Artist Lecture, Contemporary Art World: Theory Topics, California State University Fullerton, CA, February 6th
2020 - Present, Adjunct Staff, 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
2019 - Present, Adjunct Staff, History of Photography, Photography Department, Chaffey College

2019 - Adjunct Staff, Beginning Digital Photography, Irvine Valley College

2018 - Adjunct Staff, Beginning Digital Photography, Pasadena City College

2018 - Adjunct staff, Topics in Photography, Chapman University

2017 - 2018 Adjunct Staff, Art Theory, Art Department, Irvine Valley College

2017 - 2018 Adjunct Staff, 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 Staff, 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.