Sol Hill

Sol Hill’s parents opened the first contemporary art gallery in Santa Fe, NM. His early memories were of his parents in their studios and Hill’s Gallery. The mysterious objects that pervaded the gallery intrigued him. Seeing those artworks felt like observing some secret alchemical language that young Hill wanted to learn.

Sol Hill grew up in 9 states in every corner of the United States, Jamaica, and Germany. However, he always had one parent in Santa Fe. He married a Brazilian and has traveling to Brazil regularly for 20+ years. His parents belong to different classes, one wealthy and one poor. Belonging was always a challenge, but the broad perspective of places and people has steeped deeply into his perspective and fuels Hill’s artistic point of view.

Although he majored in International Relations, Hill returned to the arts after an intense medical crisis. He earned an MFA in photographic art at Brooks Institute and has been working full-time as an artist since 2010, still seeking to decipher that alchemical language or at least to invent his own.

To this end, Hill uses camera sensors to record the energetic thumbprint of the universe and renders the interference data, called digital noise, into a visual language that expresses his wonder at the fundamentally immaterial nature of our universe. He calls his work Metagraphs because, like a photograph, they are a recording but of much more than just visible light. His goal is to make work that explores the space where art, science, and spirituality intersect.

“I aim to provide a hole in ordinary perception to allow the viewer to see through the veils of habitual seeing.”