Sol Hill

  Sol Hill was born in Albuquerque, NM, one day after his parents opened the first contemporary art gallery in Santa Fe.  The mysterious objects that pervaded his childhood intrigued him. Seeing those artworks felt like a secret alchemical language young Sol wanted to learn. Sol grew up in nine states across the United States, Jamaica, and Germany. He married a Brazilian and has traveled extensively to Brazil. His parents belong to different classes, one wealthy and one not. Belonging was always a challenge, but his broad perspective on places and people steeped deeply into Sol's perspective and fuels his artistic point of view. Although he majored in International Relations, Sol returned to the arts after an intense medical crisis. He earned an MFA in photographic art at Brooks Institute and has worked full-time as an artist since 2010. He is still seeking to decipher that alchemical language or, at least, to invent his own.

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  Sol forces camera sensors to record the energetic fingerprint of our universe and renders the data into a visual language that expresses his wonder at reality's immaterial nature. He aims to create work that explores the intersection of art, science, and spirituality.

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  Sol divides his artistic practice between working with contemporary digital imaging technology to create what he calls Metagraphs, which present visual artifacts hiting at the energetic nature of the universe we inhabit, and using art as a form of activism through creating hard-hitting social justice art projects and installations with a strong presence.