About Chris Hill

Chris Hill is a media curator, artist, and educator and a former student of the Vasulkas and colleague who has helped document their work. 

Hill received an MFA from SUNY Buffalo in 1984 and from for twelve years was video curator at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center. During this period, she co-founded Squeaky Wheel with Julie Zando and also served as board president during the start-up years of BCAM, one of Buffalo’s public access projects. Hill curated the 17-hour collection Surveying the First Decade: Video Art & Alternative Media in the U.S., 1968–1980 (1996) that has been distributed internationally by Video Data Bank. From 2008 to 2011 Hill served in the leadership of Nonstop Institute, a faculty/alumni educational initiative (2008–9) in response to the closure of Antioch College (Yellow Springs, Ohio). 

From 1997–2008 she was an Associate Professor of Media Arts at Antioch, where she co-directed four Summer Documentary Institutes. She was a visiting artist and instructor at the Technical University in Brno, Czech Republic, where she produced Walking Trips in Czech Lands (1996), a series of interviews with artists involved in the Czech “parallel” culture prior to 1989.Her recent work has investigated documentary media on the US incarceration crisis, tactical media initiatives in response to a community emergency, and beekeeping. 

From 2012 until 2024, Hill taught at California Institute for the Arts and served as Associate Dean in the Film/Video School. She has since returned to Buffalo.