Rodrigo Hill

Rodrigo Hill (Brasil / Aotearoa New Zealand) is a photographic artist specialised in gallery installations and publications. Rodrigo’s creative interests are rooted at the intersection of lens-based and documentary approaches in which photography plays the role of representing layered ‘place-imaginaries’. Rodrigo is a Senior lecturer at the University of Waikato School of Arts and holds a PhD in Photography (2019).

Rodrigo’s research explores the multiple possibilities that surround photographic practices and how photography is used as a way to perceive and make place. Selected works below cover a collection of recent photographs and exhibitions informed by Mātauranga Māori and intersecting relationships with place, representation and the decolonising of the photographic lens. Project collaborations also cover considerations and shared curiosity about aesthetics in the Anthropocene and how to express entangled relationships with place

Rodrigo is available to one-on-one portfolio reviews and Halide workshops.

Research and writing: profiles.waikato.ac.nz/rodrigo.hill

rodrigohill.com

@_rodrigohill

Black-and-white portrait of a smiling photographic artist based in Whāingaroa (Raglan), holding a camera, co-founder of Halide Studios, photographed in studio lighting

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A white gallery wall displaying a series of photographic works in the exhibition “Harbinger” at Gallery One, Unitec, Auckland, including images of organic forms, human gestures, and abstracted surfaces arranged in a quiet, spatial dialogue.

Ki te Kapu o Taku Ringa - In the Palm of My Hand. Collaborative Exhibition at Ōtorohanga Museum and Waikato University

Visitors stand and talk inside a white-walled gallery during the exhibition “INTER” at Gradfest, Unitec, Auckland, viewing a series of small-scale photographic works arranged in an open, informal installation across the space.

South of the Rising Sun. Solo Exhibition at Ramp Gallery

A white gallery wall displaying a series of photographic works in the exhibition “Harbinger” at Gallery One, Unitec, Auckland, including images of organic forms, human gestures, and abstracted surfaces arranged in a quiet, spatial dialogue.

Solastalgia: Conflict and the fabric of life. Group Exhibition at Ramp Gallery

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Ki te Kapu o Taku Ringa – In the Palm of My Hand. Collaborative Exhibition at Ōtorohanga Museum and Waikato University

South of the Rising Sun. Solo Exhibition at Ramp Gallery

Solastalgia: Conflict and the fabric of life. Group Exhibition at Ramp Gallery

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