Faculty Profile

Katie Hill

Adjunct and Graduate Faculty

Dr Katie Hill is a senior lecturer and curator specializing in Art from China and the Chinese diaspora. She holds an MA in Chinese from the University of Edinburgh and a DPhil in Art History from the University of Sussex. She has devised and led numerous courses on Asian art at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London, including founding the MA in Modern and Contemporary Asian Art. She co-directed the recent course Navigating the Hong Kong Art Scene with Felix Kwok. Her curatorial work includes the recent exhibition Strange Wonders. Jizi and pioneers of contemporary ink from China at SOAS Gallery. She is currently an external examiner for the MA in Art History at SOAS and a trustee at the Li Yuan-Chia Foundation. Her Oxfordshire-based consultancy, the Office of Contemporary Chinese Art (OCCA), promotes the work of artists from China in the global context, in collaboration with galleries, collections and museums.

Education:
PhD, University of Sussex; MPhil/PhD, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; MA (Hons), The University of Edinburgh

Details

Exhibitions

Out of the Blue, expanded calligraphy installation at Palazzo Reale, Milan, a collaboration with Alcantara. Co-curated with Dagmar Carnevale. Sept 9-Oct 11, 2020

Lifelines, Wang Huangsheng solo exhibition, Hong Kong Arts Centre/ 3812 Gallery. Sept, 2019

Underflow: the agony and the ecstasy. Deng Jianjin solo exhibition, Triangle Space Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts. Sept, 2019

Van Gogh Was Here. From China, With Love. Cai Yuan, Sheng Qi, Xi Jianjun. San Mei Gallery, London. Aug, 2019

Curator, producer and fundraiser: Wastelands, group exhibition at OVADA with Ai Weiwei, Cao Fei, Wessie Ling, Anthony Key, Cai Yuan, Sun Yi, Sun Haili, 1st Floor Collective Nanjing. Oxford July-Aug, 2015

Flux: Wang Huangsheng solo exhibition, Pearl Lam Galleries, Shanghai 1 Jun–20 Jul,2015

Sidelines, Sun Yi solo exhibition, Arts Trust (2015)

Optimism. Duan Yingmei and Cai Yuan, live drawing- performance, OCCA Space, Oxford, February 2 – March 31 2014

Art of Change: New Directions from China Southbank Centre, Hayward Gallery. Researcher, Artist Selection, and catalogue writer (Duan Yingmei) September 2012

Producer and Curator, English Lounge, Tang Contemporary Gallery, Beijing, Mar-Apr 2009, group exhibition of contemporary art from the UK, including Turner nominees Langlands & Bell & Turner Prize winner Martin Creed

One World One Dream. Aircraft Carrier Project, Cai Yuan and JJ Xi. Tokyo Gallery Beijing, Feb-Mar, 2009

Legacy, Contemporary Chinese Photography, Rossi and Rossi Gallery, London. 2007

The Political Body. Posters from the People’s Republic of China in the 1960s and 1970s Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies 2004; Oriental Museum, Durham; 2005, Museum of East Asian Art, Bath; 2005 Union College, Schenectady, NY, USA

Co-Curator with Sally Lai, Happy and Glorious, solo exhibition of UK-based Chinese artists: JJ Xi and Cai Yuan (2004)

Manchester Chinese Arts Centre
Producer, Intervention: Jumping on Tracey Emin’s Bed, Mad For Real at Tate Gallery, 1999

Publications

Hill, K. ‘Re/collection: the architecture of ink and cultural topographies in the paintings of Raymond Fung’, in 70, Raymong Fung Retrospective catalogue essay, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou and M+ Pavilion, Hong Kong, 2023

Hill, K., Encyclopedia of Contemporary Art, Treccani (Rome, 2021). Entries on contemporary art from China.

Hill, K., “Huang Yongping 1954-2019”, Apollo Magazine, November 13, 2019.

Courses Taught

Undergraduate