Daniel Hill is an American artist currently residing in Long Island City, NY. Hill is an abstract painter and sound artist, who explores the connections between painting, sound and science.
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Daniel Hill has been awarded a New York State Council on the Arts Support for Artists Grant.
Long Island City, NY – Daniel Hill received a Support for Artists grant from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) to support his creative work. Sponsored by Long Island City Artists (LICA), this award will fund Daniel Hill: Juniper: An Immersive Experiment in Sound, Vision, and Creativity. Through New York State’s continued investment in arts and culture, NYSCA has awarded $80.9 million in FY 2026 to arts and culture nonprofits across all 10 regions and a historic number of artists.
“New York’s arts and culture sector is a cornerstone of the state’s identity, and we’re making bold investments to ensure it remains strong,” Governor Hochul said. “These grants will lift up artists and organizations in every region, fueling local economies and expanding access to the arts. Congratulations to all the grantees – your talent and dedication help power New York’s future.”
New York State Council on the Arts Executive Director Erika Mallin said, “During these challenging times, the New York State Council on the Arts has been a stalwart and innovative funder. These grants will serve artists and organizations in every region and county, fueling our economy and serving our communities. We know this support isn’t just an investment in the arts; it’s an investment in New York’s future. Congratulations to all our FY2026 grantees and thank you for your perseverance, your creativity, and your tireless service to New York State.”
New York State Council on the Arts Chair Patrick Willingham said, “With the unwavering support of Governor Hochul and our Legislature, the Council is proud to congratulate this year’s grantees, whose collective efforts strengthen and benefit us all. I also want to recognize the work of NYSCA’s panelists, staff, and the entire Council, whose dedication has ensured that this critical support will reach every corner of New York State.”
About the New York State Council on the Arts The mission of the New York State Council on the Arts is to foster and advance the full breadth of New York State’s arts, culture, and creativity for all. To support the ongoing recovery of the arts across New York State, the Council on the Arts will award over $161 million in FY 2026, serving organizations and artists across all 10 state regions. The Council on the Arts further advances New York’s creative culture by convening leaders in the field and providing organizational and professional development opportunities and informational resources. Created by Governor Nelson Rockefeller in 1960 and continued with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, the Council is an agency that is part of the Executive Branch. For more information on NYSCA, please visit arts.ny.gov, and follow NYSCA’s Facebook page, on X @NYSCArts and Instagram @NYSCouncilontheArts.
Here is my appearance on Why It Matters, discussing the relevancy of cave art in 21st century:
https://kymatiko.bandcamp.com/album/topos
Field Formation 3
-a modular sound environment by Daniel Hill
-Metaphor Projects 382 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn NY
-Sunday March 20, 2022, at 4p.m.
To assist entering the focused mind state required to make my paintings, I also create drone based sound environments which are then listened to as sonic support for the painting process. As a result, the sonic and visual have crystalized into a creative feedback loop: each modality informing and adapting from interaction with the other. Unlike a traditional musician, my main instrument has become the entire encompassing process of recording, performing, deep listening, sculpting, treating, and mixing found sounds and musical elements. Field Formation 3 is essentially a sonic meditation weaving textural elements such as cicadas, treefrogs, spring peepers, shortwave radio, analog synthesizer, and tapes into a sonic architecture conducive for thinking and creativity.
Drawing on what I learned with Reciprocal Synchrony, a recent sound installation exhibited in Athens Greece, this installation will utilize the same modular wood boxes playing loops from my library of field recordings. While these are looping, I will live mix other sonic elements.
This piece will be the third track from the upcoming Field Formations album, which will in turn, function as the sonic support for the next paintings in the Equivalent series.
SONIC at Metaphor Projects
Ed Kerns: Interconnected at Lafayette College curated by Daniel Hill
Here is the description for my sound installation Reciprocal Synchrony opening September 9 2021 in the exhibition Reality Check in Athens, Greece.
Reality Check – curated by Dr. Kostas Prapoglou, Sept.9 – Oct. 9, 2021
Thingly Affinities: Rethinking Aethetic Form for a Posthumanist Future
Quarantine Chalkboard Drawings on display in lobby of Pace University at 41 Park Row, Spring 2021
SciArt Magazine “Algorithmic” June 2020
My article “Restoring Things with the Power of Sound” at Interalia Magazine.
In all my sound work I examine the space between sound and music. As such, this is only marginally “music” in that the sonic relationships are organized around the tempo of a place or a field recording of a place. I have created this “music” as sonic thought structures in which one can cognitively inhabit. It is meant to be only marginally noticed and yet simultaneously fractal, in that close and deep listening is rewarded.
I think of it as a foundational thought structure on which the listener may bring forth the high resolution thinking that is the result of sustained concentration. I value creative thinking higher than anything else and this is the fuel for all of my projects and endeavors. Hence, this is meditative thinking music, creating a cognitive space for painting, drawing, writing, reading, thinking, reflection, problem solving, and meditation.
As a person who has spent many years walking in the northern woods, I have found these walks to be of enormous benefit for creative thinking. When I am out in nature I always carry a field recorder and often employ these recordings in the works, which then become an instrument to be manipulated and sculpted.
Recorded in 2016, this album comes from in the same sonic territory as the album Topos (2007), where I was working to capture the cognitive space of the Greek landscape. Borealis is the experiment of trying to capture the essence of an imagined place or a real place in the world which I have never been. The cognitive landscape here is one that I partially know having grown up on one of the Great Lakes, but also of further north, where the aurora borealis can be experienced.
“Boreas” (Βορέας, Boréas; also Βορρᾶς, Borrhás)[7] was the Greek god of the cold north wind and the bringer of winter.
Instruments: Field Recordings (found and made), electric bass, various analog synthesizers, digital synthesizer, hand and digital percussion, electric guitar, sonic sculpting.
Borealis Daniel Hill 2019
https://soundcloud.com/aitherios/sets/borealis
www.danielhill.net
“While grounded in science, Daniel Hill’s lyrical visual stenography offers a deep dive into resonances that reach beyond the five senses, and edge toward a more metaphysical realm along the lines of mystic-mathematician pythagoras’ theory of “the music of the spheres”
The crisply defined, symmetrical lines expand outward in concentric ripples, forming graceful cascades of interweaving, emanating waves (of sound? of fluid? of light?) One must spend some time staring into the paintings to begin viscerally *feeling* the pulses, rather than merely “looking at” them. There is an “op art” component to these paintings, as the crisscrossed sinuous lines can induce a slight sense of motion and warping of space.
If we allow the work to take us into its world, maybe we can almost hear the the pulse of whatever source may be producing these emanations—if not audibly, then perhaps by engaging faculties of higher perception.” _ Julie Nelson
“United by a shared transpersonal perspective that reaches beyond the individual ego, the artists of ODETTA’s current show “Bluebird of Happiness” employ the self as an instrument for making art, rather than as the subject of the work.
Refreshingly unmired in the daily temporal slog, curator Ellen Hackl Fagan has selected paintings that invite a renewed consideration of that which is instead eternal and unchanging—the laws of nature—and their concomitant physical and metaphysical dimensions.”
_ Julie Nelson
A harbinger of good luck,
the bluebird signals to us that joy is forthcoming.
For the artists of Bluebird of Happiness, each coming to blue in their own way, our joy is actualized in their paintings through saturated hues, an impossibly light touch, and a flair for the psychedelic. Their meditative fields invite us to move slowly, loosen the reins, and let our eyes dance.
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Photo essay by Christopher Villafuerte.
I will have my studio open for the first time in a few years on Saturday May 18 from 12-6 and Sunday 1-3. Link is here.
Deep Field: a new album (three tracks) of sound environments finished and on Soundcloud. The cognitive space created by this album I find conducive as sonic support for thinking, painting, drawing, mediation, writing, reading, creative problem solving, etc… It is best experienced with headphones or at higher volume on speakers.
Instruments: Moog Prodigy, Arturia Microbrute, Field Recordings, Yamaha synth, mbira, harmonizer, various sonic sculpting techniques.
I am thrilled to have three paintings included in the exhibition Strange Attractors at the Walsh Gallery at Seton Hall University- with the opening this Friday January 25, 6-8 pm. This is an extension of the fantastic and enlightening online symposium Strange Attractors: Art, Science, and the Question of Convergence from last year co-organized by Taney Roniger and the CUE Art Foundation. The exhibition features most of the artists involved in this conversation and is co-curated by Taney Roniger and Jeanne Brasile.
The catalog is here:
Untitled 14 2018 – 30″ x 44″
Drawing 1, 2019
“Off The Wall” at Plaxall Gallery in Long Island Cityuntil Feb. 3, 2019.
Very happy to have two paintings in New Optics III at Museum Modern Art Hunfeld, Germany, in excellent company with John Aslanidis, Melbourne; Rob de Oude, New York, Edgar Diehl, Wiesbaden; Roland Helmer, Munich; Daniel Hill, New York; Gilbert Hsiao,New York; Antonio Marra, Neapel.
Untitled 10, 2018 and Untitled 3, 2016
New Optics III
Happy to have two paintings included in The International Festival of Fine Arts in the exhibition Geometry- The Rationality of a View from September 27 – November 4 in Kranj Slovenia. Other New York artists include Angie Drakopoulos, Ron Janowich, Gilbert Hsaio, and Steven Salzman.
The catalog is below or click here.
Daniel Hill: Frequencies at Scholes Street Studio, opening September 17.
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The Possibilities of Line
June 21 – August 4, 2018
McKenzie Fine Art
Untitled 11, 2018
Stay tuned! Art and Science tomorrow Friday on TV 4/20/2018 @ 1:30 PM & 5:30 PM & Saturday 8:30 AM. Optimum 67; Spectrum 34; Verizon FIOS 42; RCN 82; WEB: BRIC Channel 1
Artists: Sally Bozzuto, Julia Buntaine, Daniel Hill, and John Torreano
You can also watch it on our website: http://transborderart.com/index.html
Stay tuned! Art and Science tomorrow Friday on TV 4/20/2018 @ 1:30 PM & 5:30 PM & Saturday 8:30 AM. Optimum 67; Spectrum 34; Verizon FIOS 42; RCN 82; WEB: BRIC Channel 1
Artists: Sally Bozzuto, Julia Buntaine, Daniel Hill, and John Torreano
You can also watch it on our website: http://transborderart.com/index.html
Here is the complete catalog for the Ed Kerns exhibition, The Octopus Meditations, where my essay “Distributed Perceptions” can be read along with essays by Dr. Elaine Reynolds and Taney Roniger:
Daniel Hill Drawing 2017
Watch the entire Art and Science: The Two Culture Converging conference online here-
https://www.sciartcenter.org/conference-roundtables-2017.html
I am happy to be part of this critical dialogue of the art and science connection:
Strange Attractors: Art, Science, and the Question of Convergence
A Multi-format Symposium.
Co-organized by CUE Art Foundation and Taney Roniger.
November 4 – 15, 2017.
With the current groundswell of interest in interdisciplinary thinking sweeping the arts and academia, the intersection of art and science is becoming increasingly promising terrain for many contemporary artists. But with the two fields representing such distinct epistemological enterprises, prospects for a mutually beneficial partnership remain unclear. The objective of this symposium is to examine some of the underlying assumptions and motivations of this burgeoning movement, to clarify what its practitioners seek to accomplish, and to consider ways in which an art-science alliance might contribute to the larger cultural discourse of our fraught and complex century.
Co-organized by the CUE Art Foundation and Taney Roniger, Strange Attractors features a panel of distinguished artists, scientists, writers, and curators in a ten-day online dialogue, initiated by a live lecture given by art historian James Elkins at the Foundation’s Chelsea gallery. Both components are free and open to the public, and readers of the online symposium are encouraged to contribute through moderated comments. Strange Attractors concludes with a social gathering at the Foundation gallery welcoming all participants. As a follow-up to the conference, selected participant essays will be published in the December/January issue of The Brooklyn Rail which will be dedicated to the intersection of art and science.
Full details to be announced.
CALENDAR
In-Person Event
Saturday, November 4, 3PM
Lecture by James Elkins
Online Symposium
Sunday, November 5 – Tuesday, November 15
The Brooklyn Rail Critics Page
December/January issue
I am happy to be continuing the art and science dialogue and will be participating in a roundtable discussion on Art, Science, and Society sponsored by The Helix Center and SciArt Center on Sunday December 3, 10-11:30 am at the Helix Center (247 East 82nd Street, NYC).
Panelists: Elizabeth Demaray, Daniel Hill, Amelia Amon, Paul Browde, Nancy Princenthal, and Farzad Mahootian.
For more information, see The Helix Center and SciArt Center.
TransBorder Art broadcasts in Brooklyn Public Speech a conversation among four artists whose practices are connected to science. Sally Bozzuto, Julia Buntaine, Daniel Hill and John Torreano. They discuss their creative process and how the influx of innovative technologies and scientific discoveries can be helpful or disruptive to our world.
4/7/2017 @ 1:30 PM & 5:30 PM
Spectrum 34, Cablevision 67, Verizon Fios 67, RCN 82, Channel 1 BRIC
In depth interview: Interalia Magazine
The program on Art and Science will be broadcasted in MNN
MNN2 (channels TWC56 RCN83 FIOS34 and livestream on www.mnn.org click on MNN2) the following dates.
Jan 17, 2017 at 2pm
Jan 21 and 23, 2017 at 10:30am
Jan 25, 2017 at 6pm
Interference
Dec 03, 2016 – Jan 08, 2017
Opening Reception:
- Friday, December 2, 7–9pm
NURTUREart, 56 Bogart Street, Lower Level, Brooklyn NY
Phone:718-782-7755
NURTUREart presents Interference, curated by Steven Salzman and featuring artists Johnny Abrahams, John Aslanidis, Daniel Hill, Gilbert Hsiao, Julie Oppermann and Jessica Rosner. Interference explores the physical phenomena of the superposition of two or more waves resulting in a new wave pattern. Waves of air, sound and electro-magnetism—and their subsequent interference patterns—permeate our environment. These phenomena surround, bombard and penetrate our bodies continuously. The artists in this exhibit explore these omnipresent patterns as a visual motifs, including hard-edge geometry, gestural improvisation, and handwriting. Inspirational sources include optics, physics, music and meditation. The ensemble of works on view grasp the pervasive hum of interference radiation to capture and re-present it as analysis visually and poetically.
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