Mixed Media Drawing

Artist Biography

Darius Hill is Chair of the Visual Arts Department at the Alabama School of Fine Arts. He holds a BFA in printmaking from the Atlanta College of Art and an MFA in studio art from the University of Alabama. He is an exhibiting artist, participating in shows throughout the southeast, and his work is represented in many museum, corporate, and private collections throughout the U.S. He has earned several honors and awards including Operation New Birmingham Best in Show Award at the Magic City Art Connection, and he was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts. He was one of 13 Alabama printmakers selected to work with the University of Montevallo’s Big Print project. Hill’s work has been selected by many juried exhibitions such as the Red Clay Survey, Huntsville, and the Energen Exhibition, Birmingham. His work has been reviewed in publications such as Art Papers, Birmingham Magazine, B-Metro Magazine, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Birmingham News, and the recently published Alabama Creates: 200 Years of Art and Artists, which “features ninety-four of Alabama’s most accomplished, noteworthy, and influential practitioners of the fine arts from 1819 to the present.”