Luzene Hill is a multidisciplinary artist, best known for immersive installations and performance collaborations.

Through work informed by pre-contact culture of the Americas, Hill advocates for Indigenous sovereignty - linguistic, cultural and individual sovereignty.

Employing early autochthonous motifs, she asserts female power and sexuality to challenge colonial patriarchy. Recent works, Revelate and Smoke and Mirrors, present evocative new ways of thinking about the past and the future.

An enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Hill lives and works on the Qualla Boundary, Cherokee, NC.

She has exhibited throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, Russia, Japan and the United Kingdom.

Awards include:  Ucross Fellowship, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Fellowship, Eiteljorg Museum Fellowship and First Peoples Fund Fellowship.

Recent residencies:  Social Engagement Residency, IAIA MoCNA;  Invited Artist Residency, Anderson Ranch Arts Center; and Invited Artist Residency, Township 10.  

Hill's work is featured in An Indigenous Present, edited by Jeffrey Gibson, Susan Powers' book, Cherokee Art: Prehistory to Present, Josh McPhee's book, Celebrate People's History! The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution, and the PBS Documentary, Native Art NOW!.

Read more about Luzene in this booklet - written and prepared by the Asheville Art Museum, for the opening of her installation, Revelate.

Portland Art Museum interview.