JULIE F HILL. From Dorset, UK. Lives and works in London.
EDUCATION
Royal Academy Schools, Digital Print Fellow
MA, Royal College of Art
BA, Central Saint Martins
The Arts Institute, Bournemouth
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024–25 The Book of Sand, 5 Marble Arch, London.UK. Curated by HS Projects.
2023 Earth, Water, Night, The Stone Space,
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.
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.
AWARDS
2025–6 First Contact, Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice Award involving 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: Developing Your Creative Practice Award.
2016–17 Arts Council Grants for the Arts Award.
2013. Cartographies of Life & Death, Wellcome Trust People Award & Arts Council Award, (Artakt/Curator)
2012 Crying Out Loud, Arts Council: Grants for the Arts.
2006 Glass Gun, Arts Council & British Film Council New Cinema Lottery Fund Commission.
RESIDENCIES
Food & Art Studies, Institute of Post-Natural Studies & La Foresta, ES / IT, The Gramounce, 2023–24
Sustainable Futures Series: Outer Space, Land Art Agency. 2021. Partnered with Dr Valerie Olson and artists Abigail Hunt & Kieren Reed.
DEFAULT 19, Ramdom, Gagliano del Capo, IT. 2019
Terminal Creek Contemporary, Bowen Island, Vancouver, CA. 2019
In Search of Darkness, Grizedale Sculpture. 2018
Lumen Studios, London, UK. 2017
Lumen: Atina, IT. 2016
The Florence Trust, London, 2013–14
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Aesthetica Art Prize, York Art Gallery
2025 The Geological Unconscious, Hypha Studios, London. UK
2025 Clinging On, ACME Glass Yard.
2024–5 An Xhibition of Small Things with Big Ideas, White Conduit Projects, Curated by Paul Carey-Kent & Yuki Miyake
2024 HyperThyme, Espacio Gaviota, Madrid, ES. Curated by Kevin Bello for The Gramounce
2024 Outside/In, SET Ealing, Curated by Anna Lytridou. London, UK
2023 Seventeen, Bomb Factory, Marylebone, London. 2023
2022 Aora IV: Light, Aora. 2022.
2022 Heaven Neither Burning Farther, The Crypt Gallery, London, UK. 2022
2022 Seeing Stars, The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds, UK. 2022
2021 The AI Gallery, National Gallery X: National Gallery, London, UK. 2021
2021 Thinking Machines, National Gallery X & RUSI: National Gallery, London, UK. 2021
2021–22 Astronomy Photographer of the Year, Fox Talbot Museum
2020–1 Astronomy Photographer of the Year, National Maritime Museum
2020–1 Astronomy Photographer of the Year, Jodrell Banks
2020 VIA Art Prize, Embassy of Brazil, UK
2020 Transits for Local Midnights, Part I & II,Home Cooking (online). Curated by Asad Raza, Mariana Simnett & Prem Krishnamurthy. 2019 The Immaculate Dream, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London. Curated by Rosalind Davies
2018 In Search of Darkness, Grizedale Sculpture Project Space, Cumbria, UK.
2018 Recreational Grounds II, Ground Floor Car Park, Wendover House, London, UK. Curated by Fiona Grady & Tim Ralston.
2016 La Fine Dell’Universo, The Crypt Gallery, London, UK. 2016 & La Fine Dell’Universo, Atina, IT. Curated by Lumen.
2016 Pokey Hat, curated by VERBureau, Glagow International Festival, Glasgow, UK.
2015 Activating the Archive, Banner Repeater/Hackney Archives, London, UK.
2014 Summer Exhibition, The Florence Trust, London, UK.
2011 Salon Photo Prize, Matt Roberts Arts, London, UK.
2010–2011 Ffilm: Single-Shot, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery/Film & Video Umbrella, Swansea,
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
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Geological Unconscious, with contributions from Jason Groves and Ruth Siddall. 2025
A Stone Sky, with essay by Anjana Janardhan. 2023
Earth, Water, Night, with essay by Victoria Walters. 2023
What makes a lake, Another Earth. 2023
Less A Building: Interactions with the London Zoo Aviary, Michaela Nettell (artist/editor). Pub. Passengers. 2021
Times III: Terrain, 87 Gallery. 2021
Recreational Grounds, eds. Fiona Grady, Tim Ralston & Anna Lytridou. 2021
Artist Feature: The Universal Library, Sluice A/W 2020–21
Uncertain Ruins, with contributions from Roberto Trotta, Crystal Bennes, Libby Heaney et al. 2020
Default 19: Extreme Land, Ramdom. 2019
Of Stars & Chasms, exhibition catalogue with essay by Sara Jaspan. 2019
Passengers, exhibition catalogue with essay by Farrah Jarral. 2018
Ladies Room, with texts by Marina Warner, Farrah Jarral & Nella Aarne. Petel, 2016
Uncertain States, catalogue. 2015
The Lost Aura, Petrel, artist book. 2015
Florence Trust, catalogue. 2014
inconTROLL, catalogue. 2014
‘Stoke Newington Library’ in All the Libraries, Ruth Beale and Simon Elvins. 2014
Cartographies of Life & Death, web-catalogue, ed. Julie Hill and Caterina Albano. 2013
Crying Out Loud, exhibition catalogue with essays by Volker Sommer, Chantal Faust and Deborah Levy. Petrel. 2012
The Mulberry Tree Press: Partial Fictions, SE8, London. 2011
Crisp Divination: Tuberosumography, artist book, Exposure Publishing, ISBN 1846851920, May 2006, 2011
SELECTED PRESS
Lumen // Artist of the month. 10.20
The Experience we were supposed to be having: Asad Raza on DIY Intimacy, Édouard Glissant, and Home Cooking, 032c.com. 06.20
Travelling Bristolian artists, and Toy Story characters, among treats at Art Licks Weekend festival, The Art Newspaper, 10.1
Sculpting the cosmos, Bowen Island Undercurrent, 04.19
Review of Field/s, Lina Ivanova, Revolv, 11.18
‘Kosmos: History is constructed’, Art Narratives, 04.16
Interview: ‘Doctors didn’t know how cholera spread until one genius drew a map’, Science Solved It, Motherboard/VICE Radio, 05.17
Pokey Hat, The Tempohouse, Apr 2016
Exploring a woman’s space, Radio Gorgeous, Feb 2016
City Gallery, The Bristol Magazine, Feb 2016
Maps and Legends, The Lancet, 2013
John Snow & Disease Mapping, M Reisz, Times Higher Education, 2013
A Rake’s Progress, Amanda Sanfilippo, The Miami Rail, Winter 2012
DWNTWN ArtHouse adds to lively downtown Miami scene, Tom Austin, Miami Herald, 30 Sep 2012
The First 48 Hours, Give or Take, Art Practical, 26 Sep 2012
A conversation with Julie Hill, artisabout.com
Crying Out Loud, Zoe Pilger, The Independent, Visual Arts Review 4*, 30 May 2012
Crying Out Loud, Artfeelers.com, May 2011
Selected Portfolio, Forms of practice, Idea magazine, Issue 340. May 2010
London Art Fair: A project of tradition, Oliver Basciano, Artreview.com, Jan 2010
Artbreakers: Artists to Watch, NYLON magazine, Feb 2008
Single-Shot, Modern Painters, March 2007
Single-shot, Aaron Callow, Aesthetica Magazine, Feb/Mar/Apr 2007
Single-Shot, Film Preview, The Guardian Guide, Nov 2006
EVENTS, TALKS & WORKSHOPS
Artist’s talk, London Metropolitan University. 03.23
Land Art Agency: Sustainable Futures: Outer Space, online event. 03.21
An Evening of Astrophotography, panel discussion, Royal Museums Greenwich. 12.20
In Search of Darkness, artist talk with Lumen for Yorkshire Dales Dark Sky Festival with Go Stargazing. 10.20
Dark Quartet, choral performance, Multiplex, Passengers, London. 09.17
Panellist: The Details are Invented, Passengers, London. 08.17
Sensing Space, Super/Collider, The Collective. 06.17
Film screening: Intro to Antonioni’s The Passenger, Curzon Bloomsbury. 04.17
Artist dinner based on the Saturnian moon Titan, Passengers. 03.17
Reading with ice-cream at Jaconelli’s, Pokey Hat, Glasgow International. 04.16
Cultural Connections, panellist, Visual Communication, Royal College of Art. 05.15
Performance/Reading with Scent of the Universe, Banner Repeater. 05.15
Visiting lecturer, Criticism, Curation and Communication, Central Saint Martins. 04.15
Visiting lecturer, Duncan of Jordanstone Art School, Dundee, talk and workshop. 10.12
Visiting lecturer, Canford School, Dorset. 03.12
Staying Alive: Collaboration for survival, Department 21, Royal College of Art. 07.10
Interference, Co-curator/facilitator, workshop/events, Artsadmin, London. 06.10
Visiting lecturer, Glasgow School of Art, talk and workshop. 04.10
Visiting lecturer, Brighton University. 02.10
PROFESSIONAL NETWORKS
Food & Art Studies, The Gramounce, 2023–24
a-n, Professional Development Bursary. 2022–23
London Creative Network, SPACE, London. 2018
Field/s, ARTQUEST Peer Forum, The Photographers Gallery/GASWORKS, 2017–
EDUCATION
Royal Academy Schools, Digital Print Fellow
MA, Royal College of Art
BA, Central Saint Martins
The Arts Institute, Bournemouth
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024–25 The Book of Sand, 5 Marble Arch, London.UK. Curated by HS Projects.
2023 Earth, Water, Night, The Stone Space,
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.
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.
AWARDS
2025–6 First Contact, Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice Award involving 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: Developing Your Creative Practice Award.
2016–17 Arts Council Grants for the Arts Award.
2013. Cartographies of Life & Death, Wellcome Trust People Award & Arts Council Award, (Artakt/Curator)
2012 Crying Out Loud, Arts Council: Grants for the Arts.
2006 Glass Gun, Arts Council & British Film Council New Cinema Lottery Fund Commission.
RESIDENCIES
Food & Art Studies, Institute of Post-Natural Studies & La Foresta, ES / IT, The Gramounce, 2023–24
Sustainable Futures Series: Outer Space, Land Art Agency. 2021. Partnered with Dr Valerie Olson and artists Abigail Hunt & Kieren Reed.
DEFAULT 19, Ramdom, Gagliano del Capo, IT. 2019
Terminal Creek Contemporary, Bowen Island, Vancouver, CA. 2019
In Search of Darkness, Grizedale Sculpture. 2018
Lumen Studios, London, UK. 2017
Lumen: Atina, IT. 2016
The Florence Trust, London, 2013–14
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Aesthetica Art Prize, York Art Gallery
2025 The Geological Unconscious, Hypha Studios, London. UK
2025 Clinging On, ACME Glass Yard.
2024–5 An Xhibition of Small Things with Big Ideas, White Conduit Projects, Curated by Paul Carey-Kent & Yuki Miyake
2024 HyperThyme, Espacio Gaviota, Madrid, ES. Curated by Kevin Bello for The Gramounce
2024 Outside/In, SET Ealing, Curated by Anna Lytridou. London, UK
2023 Seventeen, Bomb Factory, Marylebone, London. 2023
2022 Aora IV: Light, Aora. 2022.
2022 Heaven Neither Burning Farther, The Crypt Gallery, London, UK. 2022
2022 Seeing Stars, The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds, UK. 2022
2021 The AI Gallery, National Gallery X: National Gallery, London, UK. 2021
2021 Thinking Machines, National Gallery X & RUSI: National Gallery, London, UK. 2021
2021–22 Astronomy Photographer of the Year, Fox Talbot Museum
2020–1 Astronomy Photographer of the Year, National Maritime Museum
2020–1 Astronomy Photographer of the Year, Jodrell Banks
2020 VIA Art Prize, Embassy of Brazil, UK
2020 Transits for Local Midnights, Part I & II,Home Cooking (online). Curated by Asad Raza, Mariana Simnett & Prem Krishnamurthy. 2019 The Immaculate Dream, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London. Curated by Rosalind Davies
2018 In Search of Darkness, Grizedale Sculpture Project Space, Cumbria, UK.
2018 Recreational Grounds II, Ground Floor Car Park, Wendover House, London, UK. Curated by Fiona Grady & Tim Ralston.
2016 La Fine Dell’Universo, The Crypt Gallery, London, UK. 2016 & La Fine Dell’Universo, Atina, IT. Curated by Lumen.
2016 Pokey Hat, curated by VERBureau, Glagow International Festival, Glasgow, UK.
2015 Activating the Archive, Banner Repeater/Hackney Archives, London, UK.
2014 Summer Exhibition, The Florence Trust, London, UK.
2011 Salon Photo Prize, Matt Roberts Arts, London, UK.
2010–2011 Ffilm: Single-Shot, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery/Film & Video Umbrella, Swansea,
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
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Geological Unconscious, with contributions from Jason Groves and Ruth Siddall. 2025
A Stone Sky, with essay by Anjana Janardhan. 2023
Earth, Water, Night, with essay by Victoria Walters. 2023
What makes a lake, Another Earth. 2023
Less A Building: Interactions with the London Zoo Aviary, Michaela Nettell (artist/editor). Pub. Passengers. 2021
Times III: Terrain, 87 Gallery. 2021
Recreational Grounds, eds. Fiona Grady, Tim Ralston & Anna Lytridou. 2021
Artist Feature: The Universal Library, Sluice A/W 2020–21
Uncertain Ruins, with contributions from Roberto Trotta, Crystal Bennes, Libby Heaney et al. 2020
Default 19: Extreme Land, Ramdom. 2019
Of Stars & Chasms, exhibition catalogue with essay by Sara Jaspan. 2019
Passengers, exhibition catalogue with essay by Farrah Jarral. 2018
Ladies Room, with texts by Marina Warner, Farrah Jarral & Nella Aarne. Petel, 2016
Uncertain States, catalogue. 2015
The Lost Aura, Petrel, artist book. 2015
Florence Trust, catalogue. 2014
inconTROLL, catalogue. 2014
‘Stoke Newington Library’ in All the Libraries, Ruth Beale and Simon Elvins. 2014
Cartographies of Life & Death, web-catalogue, ed. Julie Hill and Caterina Albano. 2013
Crying Out Loud, exhibition catalogue with essays by Volker Sommer, Chantal Faust and Deborah Levy. Petrel. 2012
The Mulberry Tree Press: Partial Fictions, SE8, London. 2011
Crisp Divination: Tuberosumography, artist book, Exposure Publishing, ISBN 1846851920, May 2006, 2011
SELECTED PRESS
Lumen // Artist of the month. 10.20
The Experience we were supposed to be having: Asad Raza on DIY Intimacy, Édouard Glissant, and Home Cooking, 032c.com. 06.20
Travelling Bristolian artists, and Toy Story characters, among treats at Art Licks Weekend festival, The Art Newspaper, 10.1
Sculpting the cosmos, Bowen Island Undercurrent, 04.19
Review of Field/s, Lina Ivanova, Revolv, 11.18
‘Kosmos: History is constructed’, Art Narratives, 04.16
Interview: ‘Doctors didn’t know how cholera spread until one genius drew a map’, Science Solved It, Motherboard/VICE Radio, 05.17
Pokey Hat, The Tempohouse, Apr 2016
Exploring a woman’s space, Radio Gorgeous, Feb 2016
City Gallery, The Bristol Magazine, Feb 2016
Maps and Legends, The Lancet, 2013
John Snow & Disease Mapping, M Reisz, Times Higher Education, 2013
A Rake’s Progress, Amanda Sanfilippo, The Miami Rail, Winter 2012
DWNTWN ArtHouse adds to lively downtown Miami scene, Tom Austin, Miami Herald, 30 Sep 2012
The First 48 Hours, Give or Take, Art Practical, 26 Sep 2012
A conversation with Julie Hill, artisabout.com
Crying Out Loud, Zoe Pilger, The Independent, Visual Arts Review 4*, 30 May 2012
Crying Out Loud, Artfeelers.com, May 2011
Selected Portfolio, Forms of practice, Idea magazine, Issue 340. May 2010
London Art Fair: A project of tradition, Oliver Basciano, Artreview.com, Jan 2010
Artbreakers: Artists to Watch, NYLON magazine, Feb 2008
Single-Shot, Modern Painters, March 2007
Single-shot, Aaron Callow, Aesthetica Magazine, Feb/Mar/Apr 2007
Single-Shot, Film Preview, The Guardian Guide, Nov 2006
EVENTS, TALKS & WORKSHOPS
Artist’s talk, London Metropolitan University. 03.23
Land Art Agency: Sustainable Futures: Outer Space, online event. 03.21
An Evening of Astrophotography, panel discussion, Royal Museums Greenwich. 12.20
In Search of Darkness, artist talk with Lumen for Yorkshire Dales Dark Sky Festival with Go Stargazing. 10.20
Dark Quartet, choral performance, Multiplex, Passengers, London. 09.17
Panellist: The Details are Invented, Passengers, London. 08.17
Sensing Space, Super/Collider, The Collective. 06.17
Film screening: Intro to Antonioni’s The Passenger, Curzon Bloomsbury. 04.17
Artist dinner based on the Saturnian moon Titan, Passengers. 03.17
Reading with ice-cream at Jaconelli’s, Pokey Hat, Glasgow International. 04.16
Cultural Connections, panellist, Visual Communication, Royal College of Art. 05.15
Performance/Reading with Scent of the Universe, Banner Repeater. 05.15
Visiting lecturer, Criticism, Curation and Communication, Central Saint Martins. 04.15
Visiting lecturer, Duncan of Jordanstone Art School, Dundee, talk and workshop. 10.12
Visiting lecturer, Canford School, Dorset. 03.12
Staying Alive: Collaboration for survival, Department 21, Royal College of Art. 07.10
Interference, Co-curator/facilitator, workshop/events, Artsadmin, London. 06.10
Visiting lecturer, Glasgow School of Art, talk and workshop. 04.10
Visiting lecturer, Brighton University. 02.10
PROFESSIONAL NETWORKS
Food & Art Studies, The Gramounce, 2023–24
a-n, Professional Development Bursary. 2022–23
London Creative Network, SPACE, London. 2018
Field/s, ARTQUEST Peer Forum, The Photographers Gallery/GASWORKS, 2017–