Michael Hill is Programme Curator at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE, and half of the TBG+S Curatorial Team (with Clíodhna Shaffrey) that represented Ireland at the 59th Venice Biennale 2022, and Irish Tour 2023, with artist Niamh O’Malley.

He was previously Curator and Assistant Curator at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College Dublin (2008-2017) and has experience working in public, private and artist-run contemporary art galleries in Ireland and the UK. He is invested in emerging Irish practices and independent publishing and design. His exhibition programming increasingly foregrounds practices by Irish artists based overseas and artists who have found themselves resident in Ireland through a range of different personal circumstances.

He has worked with several artists on their first public solo exhibitions in Ireland (Lisa Freeman, Fanny Gicquel, Aileen Murphy, Tai Shani, Tamsin Snow), and curated solo gallery exhibitions by artists who have represented their countries at the Venice Biennale, and exhibited at other major global art events (Sean Edwards, Sean Lynch, Pilvi Takala, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca).

From 2015-2017, he curated a series of exploratory site-responsive artist projects at The Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art, including Áine Mac Giolla Bhríde, Andy Fitz, Ruth Clinton and Niamh Moriarty. He has an active artist mentoring and support practice that includes Freelands Artist Programme, Belfast; Jerwood Cultural Accelerator, London; Chronic Connections, Fire Station Artists’ Studios, Dublin.

He also maintains an occasional publishing and graphic design project, 100 Years Ago Today, that includes books, postcards and music releases. He is a member of the Arts Council of Ireland’s Peer Panel, a Member of IKT International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art, and a Board Member of Askeaton Contemporary Arts.