Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill

Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill (b. 1979, Comox, British Columbia, Canada) is a Métis artist and writer. Hill’s sculptural practice explores the history of found materials to enquire into concepts of land, property, and economy. Often, her projects emerge from an interest in capitalism as an imposed, impermanent, and vulnerable system, as well as in alternative economic modes. Her works have used found and readily-sourced materials to address concepts such as private property, exchange, and black-market economies. Hill is a member of BUSH gallery, an Indigenous artist collective seeking to decentre Eurocentric models of making and thinking about art, prioritizing instead land-based teachings and Indigenous epistemologies. Hill is Cree and English, with maternal roots in the Michel Band and Papaschase. She lives on the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm and səlilwətaɬ Nations.

Hill received her MFA from the California College of the Arts, and a BFA and BA from Simon Fraser University. Recent exhibitions include the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the 59th Venice Biennale; Le Magasin CNAC, Grenoble; the Vancouver Art Gallery, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; the College Art Galleries at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon; Art Gallery of Alberta; Cooper Cole, Gallery TPW, Toronto, Ontario; amongst others. Her writing has been published in many places, most recently in Beginning With the Seventies (Helen Belkin, 2019). She is also the co-editor of The Land We Are: Artists and Writers Unsettle the Politics of Reconciliation (ARP 2009) and Read, Listen, Tell: Indigenous Stories from Turtle Island (Wilfred Laurier 2017).

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The Milk of Dreams, 59th Venice Biennale

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The Milk of Dreams, 59th Venice Biennale, 2022

Venice, Italy

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La Position de L’Amour, Le Magasin CNAC

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La Position de L’Amour, Le Magasin CNAC, 2022

Grenoble, France

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We Yes Are Meat

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We Yes Are Meat, 2022

Tobacco-infused Crisco, pigment, paper cutouts, dried flowers, press on nails, on paper

17.125" X 13.25"
43.5cm X 33.65cm

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Last Hot Days

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Last Hot Days, 2022

Tobacco-infused Crisco, pigment, paper cutouts, dried flowers, blackberries, on paper

17.125" X 13.25"
43.5cm X 33.65cm

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Exit

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Exit, 2022

Tobacco-infused Crisco, pigment, paper cutouts, blackberries, dried flowers

17.125" X 13.25"
43.5cm X 33.65cm

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Entrance

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Entrance, 2022

Tobacco-infused Crisco, pigment, paper cutouts, press on nail, charm, thread, dried flower, on paper

17.125" X 13.25"
43.5cm X 33.65cm

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Dandelions

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Dandelions, 2022

Tobacco-infused Crisco, oil pigments, on paper

13.5" X 11"
34.29cm X 27.94cm

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Before

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Before, 2022

Tobacco-infused Crisco, pigment, paper cutouts, press on nail, on paper

14.375" X 11.5"
36.51cm X 29.21cm

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Counterblaste

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Counterblaste, 2021

Pantyhose, tobacco, beer can tabs, plastic flowers, dried flowers, earring beaded by Cheryl L'Hirondelle, thread, charms, running shoes, rabbit-fur earrings, nail polish

9.5" X 79" X 26"
24.13cm X 200.66cm X 66.04cm

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Spell #14, petrovoloi

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Spell #14, petrovoloi, 2020

Tobacco-infused crisco oil, oil paint, magazine cutouts, cocoon, and thistle on paper

12" X 9"
30.48cm X 22.86cm

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X-tend

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X-tend, 2021

Pantyhose, tobacco, thread, dried flowers, and rabbit fur

12.5" X 10.8" X 13.5"
31.75cm X 27.43cm X 34.29cm

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Wave

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Wave, 2021

Tobacco-infused crisco oil, oil paint, magazine cutouts, tobacco pendant, charms, plastic flowers, electrical tape, and thread on paper, and dowel

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Spread

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Spread, 2021

Pantyhose, tobacco, thread, charms, and rabbit fur

12.3" X 9.3" X 10.5"
31.24cm X 23.62cm X 26.67cm

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Herald

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Herald, 2021

Tobacco-infused crisco oil, oil paint, magazine cutouts, tobacco pendants, electrical tape, and thread on paper, and dowel

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Projects: Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill, MoMA

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Projects: Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill, MoMA, 2021

New York, USA

Digital Images © 2021 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photos by Denis Doorly, and Robert Gerhardt

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Four effigies for the end of property, Kenderdine Art Gallery

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Four effigies for the end of property, Kenderdine Art Gallery, 2020

Saskatoon, Canada

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Preempt

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Preempt, 2017

De-accessioned artifacts from the North Vancouver Museum and Archives

10" X 32" X 16"
25.4cm X 81.28cm X 40.64cm

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The Highest and Best Use

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The Highest and Best Use, 2017

De-Accesioned artifacts from the North Vancouver Museum and Archives

71.5" X 32" X 16"
181.61cm X 81.28cm X 40.64cm

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Improve

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Improve, 2017

De-accessioned artifacts from the North Vancouver Museum and Archives

36" X 29" X 16"
91.44cm X 73.66cm X 40.64cm

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Dispersal

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Dispersal, 2019

Virginia tobacco, perique tobacco, thread, seed pods, support stocking, wood, found pole

43" X 18.3"
109.22cm X 46.48cm

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Be Long

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Be Long, 2017

De-accessioned artifacts from the North Vancouver Museum and Archives

23" X 98" X 14"
58.42cm X 248.92cm X 35.56cm

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Idle Sun Chair

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Idle Sun Chair , 2016

Scrap metal, gloves, socks, and gravel

30" X 21" X 24"
76.2cm X 53.34cm X 60.96cm

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Rare Coins

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Rare Coins, 2017

Rebar, steel pipe, antennae, paper, marker, beer can tabs

43.5" X 29" X 15"
110.49cm X 73.66cm X 38.1cm

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Disintegration

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Disintegration, 2019

Virginia tobacco, perique tobacco, seed pods, thread, wood, found pole

43" X 18.3"
109.22cm X 46.48cm

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Trade

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Trade, 2019

Pantyhose, tobacco, beer and tab, wildflower, thread

5" X 7.5" X 7"
12.7cm X 19.05cm X 17.78cm

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Cousin

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Cousin, 2019

Pantyhose, tobacco, thistle, spider charm, dandelion, thread

6" X 4" X 7"
15.24cm X 10.16cm X 17.78cm

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Spell #11, for cages

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Spell #11, for cages, 2019

Tobacco-infused crisco oil, oil paint, magazine cutouts, cigarette, thread, tobacco flower, beer can tab

12" X 11.5"
30.48cm X 29.21cm

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Spell #10, for unsticking

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Spell #10, for unsticking, 2019

Tobacco-infused crisco oil, oil paint, magazine cutouts, snake charm, tobacco flower, beer can tab, thread

13.5" X 13"
34.29cm X 33.02cm

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Spell #9, sunrise on clark

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Spell #9, sunrise on clark, 2019

Tobacco-infused crisco oil, oil paint, wildflowers, tobacco flower, magazine cutout, spider charm, thread

13" X 9.75"
33.02cm X 24.76cm

Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill

Spell #8, sunset on clark

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Spell #8, sunset on clark, 2019

Tobacco-infused crisco oil, oil paint, wildflowers, beer can tab, tape

13" X 9.75"
33.02cm X 24.76cm

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Spell #7, those streets are gone

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Spell #7, those streets are gone, 2019

Tobacco-infused crisco oil, oil paint, magazine cutouts, charm, beer can tab, thread

13" X 9.75"
33.02cm X 24.76cm

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Spell #6, at the bus stop

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Spell #6, at the bus stop, 2019

Tobacco-infused crisco oil, oil paints, magazine cutouts, tobacco flower

13" X 9.75"
33.02cm X 24.76cm

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Spell #5, tony’s story

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Spell #5, tony's story, 2019

Tobacco-infused crisco oil, oil paints, tobacco flower, tobacco pendant, magazine cutouts, thread

13.5" X 11"
34.29cm X 27.94cm

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Spell #4, Billow

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Spell #4, Billow, 2019

Tobacco-infused crisco oil, oil paint, tobacco flower, tobacco pendant, magazine cut outs, thread

13.5" X 11"
34.29cm X 27.94cm

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Spell #3, more than money

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Spell #3, more than money, 2019

Tobacco-infused crisco oil, oil paint, magazine cut outs, beer can tab, thread

14.5" X 11.5"
36.83cm X 29.21cm

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Spell #2, lying out on the gravel

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Spell #2, lying out on the gravel, 2019

Tobacco-infused crisco oil, oil paint, dandelions, bluebells, thistles, magazine cutouts

13.5" X 11"
34.29cm X 27.94cm