Luzene Hill is a multidisciplinary artist, best known for immersive installations and performance collaborations.

Through work informed by pre-contact culture of the Americas, Hill advocates for Indigenous sovereignty - linguistic, cultural and individual sovereignty.

Employing early autochthonous motifs, she asserts female power and sexuality to challenge colonial patriarchy. Recent works, Smoke and Mirrors, ᎯᎸᎢᏳ  ᏥᎨᏒ .  .  . ᎠᏂᎦᏴᎵᎨ and REVVV present evocative new ways of thinking about the past and the future..

An enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Hill divides her time between Atlanta and the Qualla Boundary in Cherokee, NC.

She has exhibited throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, Russia, Japan and the United Kingdom.

Awards include:  Ucross Fellowship, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Fellowship, Eiteljorg Museum Fellowship and First Peoples Fund Fellowship.

Recent residencies:  Social Engagement Residency, IAIA MoCNA;  Invited Artist Residency, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Township 10, and Boundary End Research Center. 

Hill's work is featured in Jeffrey Gibson’s book, An Indigenous Present, Susan Powers' Cherokee Art: Prehistory to Present, Josh McPhee's Celebrate People's History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution, PBS Documentary Native Art NOW!, and is a contributing author in Art, Activism and Sexual Violence by Sally Kitch and Dawn Gilpin. 

Read more about Luzene in this booklet - written and prepared by the Asheville Art Museum, for the opening of her installation, Revelate.

Portland Art Museum interview.