Nicole Jean Hill

Nicole Jean Hill is an artist using photography and video to explore the American cultural and natural landscape. She was born and raised in Toledo, Ohio, and received a BFA in photography from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and an MFA in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her photographs have been exhibited throughout the U.S., Europe, Canada. and Australia, including Gallery 44 in Toronto, the Australia Centre for Photography in Sydney, and the Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon.

Hill has been an artist-in-residence at several arts organizations and universities, including the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Wendover, Utah, and the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming. She currently resides in Humboldt County, California, and is the chair of the Department of Art and Film at California Polytechnic University, Humboldt. Her book Encampment, Wyoming: Selections from the Lora Webb Nichols Archive 1899-1948 was published by FW Books, Amsterdam, and shortlisted for the Aperture/Paris Photo Photo Book of the Year in 2021.