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JULIE F HILL. From Dorset, UK. Lives and works in London.

EDUCATION
Royal Academy Schools, Digital Print Fellow
Royal College of Art, MA 
Central Saint Martins, BA Hons.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024– The Book of Sand, HS Projects. London, UK. (On permanent display)
2023 Earth, Water, Night, The Stone Space. London, UK
2020 Cavern, Glass Cloud Gallery. London, UK
2019 The Space Out of Time, Capture Photography Festival. Vancouver, CA
2017 Mirror Darkness, Lumen Studios. London, UK
2017 Deserts on the moons of other planets, Passengers. London, UK with Dark Quartet, choral performance
2012 A Rake’s Progress, Dimensions Variable. Miami, USA
2008 Single-Shot: Glass Gun, Manchester Craft and Design Centre. Manchester, UK

DUO EXHIBITIONS
2023 A Stone Sky, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London, UK
2019 Of Stars & Chasms, ArthouSE1, London, UK
2019–20 Uncertain Ruins, Swiss Cottage Gallery, Camden, London, UK

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Aesthetica Art Prize, York Art Gallery. Yorkshire, UK
2025 The Geological Unconscious, Hypha Studios. London, UK
2025 Clinging On, ACME Glass Yard. London, UK
2024–25 An Xhibition of Small Things with Big Ideas, White Conduit Projects. London, UK
2024 HyperThyme, Espacio Gaviota/The Gramounce. Madrid, ES. 
2024 Outside/In, SET Ealing. London, UK. 
2023 Seventeen, Bomb Factory Marylebone. London, UK
2022 Aora IV: Light, Aora. Online.
2022 Heaven Neither Burning Farther, The Crypt Gallery. London, UK
2022 Seeing Stars, The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery. Leeds, UK
2021 The AI Gallery, National Gallery X: National Gallery. London, UK
2021 Thinking Machines, National Gallery X & RUSI: National Gallery. London, UK
2021–22 Astronomy Photographer of the Year, Fox Talbot Museum. Wiltshire, UK
2020–21 Astronomy Photographer of the Year, National Maritime Museum. London, UK
2020–21 Astronomy Photographer of the Year, Jodrell Banks. Cheshire, UK
2020 VIA Art Prize, Embassy of Brazil. London, UK
2020 Transits for Local Midnights, Part I & II, Home Cooking. Online
2019 The Immaculate Dream, Collyer Bristow Gallery. London, UK
2018 In Search of Darkness, Grizedale Sculpture Project Space. Cumbria, UK
2018 Recreational Grounds II, Wendover House. London, UK
2016 La Fine Dell’Universo, Lumen Studios. London, UK; Atina, IT. 
2016 Pokey Hat, VERBureau, Glasgow International Festival. Glasgow, UK
2015 Activating the Archive, Banner Repeater/Hackney Archives. London, UK
2011 Salon Photo Prize, Matt Roberts Arts. London, UK
2010–2011 Ffilm: Single-Shot, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery/Film & Video Umbrella. Swansea, UK
2010 C.R.A.S.H: A Postcapitalist A–Z, Artsadmin. London, UK
2007 Festival Pocket Films, Forum des Images, Pompidou Centre. Paris, France
2007 ArtRadio, Cornerhouse. Manchester, UK
2007–11 Single-Shot, Tate Britain & touring. UK
2006 Object:React, ICA. London, UK


AWARDS
2025–26 First Contact, Arts Council England, Developing Your Creative Practice Award; Research at Harvard Plate Stacks, Harvard College Observatory
2025 Aesthetica Art Prize, Longlisted
2018 a-n Professional Development Award
2020 Annie Maunder Prize for Image Innovation, Astronomy Photographer of the Year, Royal Museums Greenwich
2019–21 Through Machine & Darkness, Arts Council England, Developing Your Creative Practice Award
2016–17 Arts Council Grants for the Arts Award
2013 Wellcome Trust People Award & Arts Council Award
2012 Arts Council Grants for the Arts Award
2006 Glass Gun, Arts Council & British Film Council New Cinema Lottery Fund Commission


RESIDENCIES
2025 The Bothy Project. Eigg, Scotland 
2023–24 The Gramounce: Food & Art Studies with Institute of Post-Natural Studies, Spain & La Foresta, Italy 
2021 Land Art Agency: Sustainable Futures Series: Outer Space, Partnered with Dr Valerie Olson
2019 DEFAULT 19, Ramdom. Gagliano del Capo, Italy
2019 Terminal Creek Contemporary. Bowen Island, Vancouver, Canada
2018 In Search of Darkness, Lumen + Grizedale Sculpture, UK
2017 Lumen. London, UK
2016 Lumen. Atina, Italy
2013–14 The Florence Trust. London, UK


COLLECTIONS
Harvard Plate Stacks
ESR Europe
GadCollection
Private collections

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2025 The Geological Unconscious, contributions from Jason Groves and Ruth Siddall
2023 ‘Dark nights and signs of unseen things’, essay by Anjana Janardhan in A Stone Sky
2023 ‘But who can picture what the future holds?’ essay by Victoria Walters in Earth, Water, Night
2023 What makes a lake, Another Earth
2023 All the Libraries, Ruth Beale + Simon Elvins
2021 Less A Building, Michaela Nettell. Passengers
2021 Times III: Terrain, 87 Gallery
2021 Recreational Grounds, eds. Fiona Grady, Tim Ralston & Anna Lytridou
2020–21 The Universal Library, artist feature Sluice
2020 Uncertain Ruins, contributions from Roberto Trotta, Crystal Bennes, Libby Heaney et al.
2019 Default 19: Extreme Land, Ramdom
2019 Of Stars & Chasms, essay by Sara Jaspan
2018 ‘Deserts on the moons of other planets’, essay by Farrah Jarral. Passengers
2016 Ladies Room, texts by Marina Warner, Farrah Jarral & Nella Aarne. Petrel
2015 The Lost Aura, artist book. Petrel
2012 Crying Out Loud, with essays by Volker Sommer, Chantal Faust and Deborah Levy. Petrel
2011 Crisp Divination: Tuberosumography, artist book, Exposure Publishing


PUBLIC TALKS & READINGS
2023 Fine Art, London Metropolitan University
2021 Land Art Agency: Sustainable Futures: Outer Space
2020 An Evening of Astrophotography, Royal Museums Greenwich
2020 In Search of Darkness, Lumen, Yorkshire Dales Dark Sky Festival with Go Stargazing
2017 The Details are Invented Panel, Passengers, London
2017 Sensing Space, Super/Collider, The Collective
2017 Introduction to Antonioni’s The Passenger, Curzon Bloomsbury
2017 Artist dinner + Readings based on the Saturnian moon Titan, Passengers
2017 Reading, Pokey Hat, Glasgow International Festival
2017 Cultural Connections Panel, Visual Communication, Royal College of Art
2015 Performative reading with Scent of the Universe, Banner Repeater
2015 Criticism, Curation and Communication, Central Saint Martins

PROFESSIONAL NETWORKS
Food & Art Studies, The Gramounce. 2023
London Creative Network, SPACE, London. 2018
Field/s, ARTQUEST Peer Forum, The Photographers Gallery/GASWORKS, 2017–




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