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 Robert Hill creates lyrical collage paintings and drawings that weave a rich tapestry of
aesthetic styles, languages and philosophies rooted in cultures around the world. Embracing the African-influenced modernist idiom, Hill explores patterns, images and
forms drawn from cultural sources as diverse as comic books, outsider folk art, tribal textiles, Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, Asian calligraphy, graffiti, and Art History to
produce an art that engages the viewer in a visually meditative experience. His iconic collage paintings of crying prophets, haiku divas, ghetto geishas, dancing bulls and the
ornately adorned elephants of the Tembo Series are directly influenced by his years spent living in Thailand and the Netherlands and traveling to exotic places around the
world, as well of his deep studies of Religion, Art History and the African-American experience.
Primarily a self-taught artist, Hill has studied under the Native American conceptual
artist Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds and abstract painter George Bogart at the University of Oklahoma. He has participated in several museum group shows and curated and created an installation for the
exhibition "Casting Stones" at the Fred Jones Museum of Art. He has participated in a number of solo and group shows in the US and the Netherlands.
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