Ej Hill

EJ Hill works across durational performance, installation, painting, neon, and collage, using these diverse artistic methods to unlearn and dismantle coded behaviours and societal structures which are built into institutional environments, specifically academic spaces. Hill studied with Andrea Fraser and Jennifer Bolande whilst at UCLA which undoubtedly feeds his playful, explorative techniques and the currents of institutional critique which pulsate through his works. Commonly working collaboratively with photographers and labourers who help build and document his extended site interventions and performances, there’s a sense of healing or catharsis which filters through each of his projects. Collectively Hill, his collaborators and eventually his audiences encounter and deconstruct the hierarchical structures which pervade our everyday habitats. Outside of these performative pieces, Hill also creates gestural, abstracted paintings and collages, inscribing them with colloquial phrases or clichés. His neon works host similar expressions, illuminating the ironies that pervade motivational idioms found within alleged egalitarian environments such as schools, colleges, and universities. ...

Since 2009, François Ghebaly has presented an innovative, eclectic program of Los Angeles-based and international artists. With a history of identifying and championing diverse voices and emerging talent, the gallery’s roster has grown to include 27 artists and 2 artist estates, ranging from early career, such as Sharif Farrag and Ludovic Nkoth, to mid-career, like Christine Sun Kim, Meriem Bennani, Kelly Akashi, Farah Al Qasimi, and Genesis Belanger, to well established, including Sayre Gomez, Kathleen Ryan, Neïl Beloufa and Candice Lin as well as underground legends, like Patrick Jackson and Mike Kuchar. The gallery advances the reach of its artists’ visions by publishing exhibition catalogues and producing artist editions. Located since 2013 in a 12,000 square foot warehouse space in Downtown Los Angeles, the gallery is a mainstay of the burgeoning Arts District community, and recently expanded to New York's Lower East Side. François Ghebaly’s program demonstrates a commitment to challenging work across all media and to fostering the progressive, boundary-pushing practices of its artists. ...