Nicole Jean Hill was born and raised in
Toledo, Ohio. She received a BFA in photography from the Nova Scotia
College of Art and Design and an MFA in Studio Art from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her photographs have been exhibited
throughout the U.S., Europe, Canada and Australia, including Gallery 44
in Toronto, the Australia Centre for Photography in Sydney, and the Blue
Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon. Her work has been featured in the
Magenta Foundation publication Flash Forward: Emerging Photography from the U.S., U.K., and Canada, the Humble Art Foundation’s The Collector’s Guide to Emerging Photography,
and National Public Radio. Hill has been an artist-in-residence at the
Center for Land Use Interpretation in Wendover, Utah, the Ucross
Foundation in Wyoming, and the Newspace Center for Photography in
Portland, Oregon. She currently resides in Humboldt County, California
and is an Associate Professor of Art at Humboldt State University.