Contact: rowlandhillart@gmail.com 

I frequently work collaboratively and across a range of media, especially film and video, live performance, installation, sound, collage and experimental event formats. 

Recent work includes Fluchtpunkt, an installation which was commissioned by artist Mark Leckey and the Turner Contemporary for a variety show at Dreamland in Margate; my ongoing event 100 Videos with artist Darren Nixon, which presents 100 videos on 100 screens for 100 minutes; and the 4-hour performance Opera which I made with composer Jack Sheen, commissioned by the Holden Gallery in Manchester. My debut institutional solo show Logical Song is currently open until 3rd March 2024 at Castlefield Gallery (Manchester).

I have performed and presented my work at spaces including Raven Row (London), ICA (London), the Koppel Project (London), Splendor (Amsterdam), Videographé (Montreal) and Flux Factory (New York), as well as in Ambit, Motor Journal and on Montez Press Radio (New York), amongst others.

I have also interpreted and performed the work of other artists, including UK premieres of work by Yvonne Rainer and Vito Acconci, at venues including Tate Britain, London Contemporary Music Festival and the Lowry (Salford). 

In 2018 I received the Clare Winsten Memorial Award from the Slade School of Art where I completed my MA. In subsequent years I have been awarded a Jerwood Bursary and a Manchester Culture Award for my event series Video Jam (2012-2022).
 


CV
Born 1989 in Leicester, lives and works in Manchester

EDUCATION
2016-18  MA Fine Art, the Slade School of Fine Art, London [Distinction]
2008-11  BA Drama and English, the University of Manchester [1st class honours]

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024  Logical Song, Castlefield Gallery - more info

TWO/THREE PERSON SHOWS
2023  100 Videos, Rowland Hill and Darren Nixon - Longsight Art Space, Manchester
2023  100 Videos, Rowland Hill and Darren Nixon - Bath House Galleries, Huddersfield
2019   Time Crush, Rowland Hill, Gray Wielebinski, Dyveke Bredsdorff - Organon, Odense, Denmark
2019   Opera, Rowland Hill and Jack Sheen - The Holden Gallery, Manchester
2018   In So Many Words, Rowland Hill, Jez Dolan, Jonathan Hitchen - The Portico Library, Manchester

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 
2024  HOME Open - HOME, Manchester 
2023  Bankley Open - Bankley Gallery, Manchester 
2023  Summer Camp - Eastside Projects, Birmingham
2022  Winter Special - No Bounds Radio [online]
2022  UK New Artists -  Phoenix Arts Centre, Leicester
2021   Microneme x Holden Gallery - Wuhan and Manchester [online]
2021   Interruptions: Sounds, The Holden Gallery, Manchester [online]
2020  Visions in the Nunnery, curated by Hetain Patel - Bow Arts, London
2020  Hold On, curated by trans-collective - The Koppel Project, London
2019   The Lived Female Body in Performance Symposium - Live Art Bistro, Leeds
2019   Bankley Open - Bankley Gallery, Manchester
2019   Interesting Times - ilyd.nu, UK/DK [online]
2019   neo:art prize exhibition - Bolton Museum and Art Gallery
2019   Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair - The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles       
2019   22nd International Contemporary Artists’ Book Fair - The Tetley, Leeds
2018   London Radical Book Fair - Goldsmiths University, London 
2017    Three - Rua Dom Carlos, Mascarenhas n.22, Lisbon
2017    Many Hares Running - Charlton Gallery, London
2016   A Pixel Or Digit?, curated by Turf Projects - Parfitt Gallery, London
2016   Tracing Paper - Paper Gallery, Manchester
2016   Diving into the Wreckage - The Old Police Station, London
2016   Science in the City Festival - Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester
2016   Show & Thumb - Paramount Books, Manchester
2016   DADA 100 - The Wonder Inn, Manchester 

PERFORMANCES
2023   Basket 3 - SOUP, Manchester
2022   Salamagundy, curated by Mark Leckey, commissioned by Turner Contemporary - Dreamland,
            Margate
2021   Performance Two, curated by Elysia Lukoszevieze - PINK Gallery, Manchester
2021   Do you think you’re better off alone? - VIRTUALLYREALITY festival [online]
2020  Do you think you’re better off alone? - The Royal Standard, Liverpool [online]
2019   Soundings - Raven Row, London
2019   Interjectional Exercises - The Portico Library, Manchester
2019   Post Paradise - Centrala, Birmingham
2019   Against the Run of Play - St Paul’s House, Deptford Market Yard, London
2019   Archway Sound Symposium, curated by Hannah Dargavel-Leafe - 5 Years Gallery, London
2018   The Hand of the Artist - The Old Telephone Exchange, London
2018   Visible Speech - The Portico Library, Manchester
2017    Progress/Regress - Crypt Gallery, London
2017    Cinema Flux - Flux Factory, New York City
2017    Authentic Tongues, curated by G Going-Lucas - Bloomsbury Theatre, London
2017    Small Press Sound Project, curated by Hannah Dargavel-Leafe - The Woburn Centre, London
2016   Emergency Festival - Z-Arts, Manchester
2016   Abeerance - Platform Southwark, London
2016   Praxis - The Advisory, London
2015   Fleck, 10 part UK and EU tour - including Splendor, Amsterdam; Mayhem, Copenhagen
2015   Flatpack, curated by Amy Lawrence - Federation House, Manchester
2015   Studio, curated by Tess Denman-Cleaver - The Northern Charter, Newcastle

SCREENINGS
2023  SET Film Festival - SET Space, Peckham
2021   No-body’s room x LUX - The Room Projects, Paris
2020  Correspondance / Correspondence, curated by Sam Meech - Videographé, Montreal
2019   Fracto Film Encounter - ACUD, Berlin
2019   6X6 Project - artist moving image online streaming platform
2018   An assembly, curated by Jack Sheen - 3 part UK film screening including Centrala, Birmingham
2016   Kgnm Fest - Cologne
2016   Open Studios, Aldeburgh Music
2016   Colombo Art Biennale, Sri Lanka
2016   ddmmyy - Sandbar, Manchester
2015   London Short Film Festival - ICA, London
2015   FOKUS Video Fest - Copenhagen Contemporary Arts Centre
2015   Broadcast - Liverpool Small Cinema, Liverpool
2015   Elsie and Hannah premiere - Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

SELECTED CURATION
2021   The Winner Takes it All, with Gabriella Hirst - Montez Press Radio, New York City
2020  Spaces-in-Between, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester.
2019   Soundings, Raven Row, London
2018   Body as Archive, exhibition of 18 live performances, Slade Research Centre
2018   Video Jam x Basquiat, the closing event to Basquiat: Boom for Real, the Barbican Hall
2017    Video Jam - with the Wellcome Collection and Manchester Science Festival - Manchester
            Museum

2017    Video Jam, Knockdown Centre, Brooklyn, NY
2016   Show & Tell - with Ralph Pritchard - A.M, London
2016   Video Jam, FACT, Liverpool
2016   Video Jam, Whitworth Art Gallery
2015   Video Jam, Manchester Jewish Museum
2015   Video Jam x Jeremy Deller, Manchester Art Gallery


GRANTS/AWARDS
2023  Shortlisted for Jerwood & MAYK grant
2021  Shortlisted for the MIF Fellowship
2019  Jerwood Bursary
2019  a-n Artist Bursary
2018  Dean’s Fund, Slade School of Fine Art
2018  Manchester Culture Award 
2018  Nominated for the Acme Studio Award
2017   The Clare Winsten Memorial Award, Slade School of Fine Art
2017   UCL Changemakers Grant
2017   Shortlisted for the Sekforde Trust Scholarship
2015  Creative Skillset Grant
2015  Shortlisted for a Sky Arts Scholarship

RESIDENCIES
2023  Hospitalfield, Arbroath, Scotland 
2023  Abingdon Studios, Blackpool, with artist Darren Nixon
2017   Flux Factory, New York City
2017   Inventory, London, with composer Jack Sheen 
2016  Snape Maltings
2015  Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, with Sidestep collective
2015  Paper Gallery, Manchester

SCHEMES
2022  UK New Artists
2021  The Exchange, an alternative learning project co-organised by Eastside Projects
2016  Brighter Sound artist development scheme hosted by musician Anna Meredith, Manchester
2014  BFI and LUX Experimenta Forum

TEACHING/ENGAGEMENTS   
2023  Guest Mentor for Manchester Contemporary Youth Opera
2023  Panel Contributor, Dialogues Project, University of Westminster
2023  Artist talk for third year and MA Film Studies students, Manchester School of Art
2021   Panel Contributor, “From a culture of crisis to a culture of learning“, University of Westminster 
2020  Workshop Leader, Contact Theatre, Manchester [online]
2019  Guest Mentor for graduating Manchester School of Art BA Film students
2019  Masterclass Leader for Filmmaking BA Talent Lab, Manchester School of Art
2019  Judge for ‘Gallery Work’ award, Move Film Festival, Manchester School of Art
2018  Workshop Leader, Manchester Deaf Centre
2018  Judge for TENT Academy Awards Film Festival
2016  Workshop Leader, Brighter Sound, Manchester
2016  Artist talk, HOME, Manchester
2015  Workshop Leader, Blaze Festival, Burnley
2015  Workshop Leader, Blaze Festival, Accrington
2015  Career talk for Northern Film + Media - Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle
2015  Whitworth Young Contemporaries, Z-Arts, Manchester

PUBLICATIONS/WRITING      
2022  Interruptions: Sounds published by the Holden Gallery
2022  Maternal Performance, Feminist Relations by Lena Šimić and Emily Underwood-Lee,
            Palgrave MacMillan
2021  ‘hold on’ exhibition catalogue, The Koppel Project
2018  ‘Brgy. South Kensington’, exhibition catalogue published by UnBound
2018  SPP 3, Small Press Project vinyl publication, curated by Hannah Dargavel-Leafe
2015  Catalogue essay for Feint by James Moss, published by Fuse Arts Space, Bradford
2015  Script editor for ‘Fleck, Flob, Flop’ by Joe Snape

PRESS/FEATURES
2023  Motor Dance Journal feature by Bryony Dawson
2021  HOAX Publication featured artist
2019  Featured artist for Ambit Issue 238
2019  ‘A Thing Unseen: An interview with Rowland Hill’, Still Life Issue 4: Ways to Disappear
2019  A5 magazine, February 2019 Issue  
2019  6x6 featured artist
2018  ‘On Location: An assembly’, The Wire, Issue 418 - review of Tha-at’s right
2018  ‘Trip Report: An Assembly play Charlie Usher and Rowland Hill’, Boring like a Drill, 16/10/18
2018  ‘Ten Artists to Watch’, Elephant, 24/07/18
2018  ‘Rowland Hill’s Digital Relics and Provocation’, 5 Questions, Elephant, 09/07/18
2018  ‘Unmissable Culture of 2018’, The Guardian 02/01/18 - preview of Video Jam x Basquiat
2015  ‘Young, Creative and Manc, i-D, 30/06/15

COLLECTIONS
The Portico Library, Manchester
The Delia Derbyshire Day Archive, John Rylands Research Institute, University of Manchester
Private collections