Nate Hill

Since 2002 Nate Hill has been an uncatagorizable force in the art world, covering everything from photography to performance art, all the way to helping you forget your last love. His first work, New Animals, seemed a fitting way to introduce himself into the artistic community of New York City. As a young man, Nate have lived in various places across America, beginning in California, then pushing east to Nebraska, then Tennessee, south to Florida, and then settling in New York City in 2001. New Animals is an amazing expression of both death and creation, from a young man brought into this world by two doctors, who has lived in so many different environments, it is only natural for him to be boiling over with a medical fascination. Add a note of a disjointed desire to create, with a splash of medicinal sterility and New Animals was born. A renound work, New Animal #31 was a combination of falcon talons, cardinal wings, opossum ears and snout, an armadillo ear and the heart of a squirrel From there, he explored a few different routes with taxidermy.

After that, there was the A.D.A.M. project, comprised of 13 diffferent animal species, put together to form a life size human replica. A.D.A.M. stands for A Dead Animal Man.

Since then, Nate’s focus moved to a more performance driven form, first with the Candy Crack Delivery Service, where he would sell bags of colored, crystallized sugar rocks, dressed in a dolphin mascot head and tuxedo, after receiving a phone call or text message from a potential “customer”. Then there was the Death Bear. A personal favorite to the RADAR team, the Death Bear consisted of Nate again arriving at a private residence after receiving a text or phone call, asking him to remove items belonging to a lost relationship, where they would be brought to his “cave” never to be seen again, aiding them in their detachment from those physical objects..

Lately, He has moved onto a few photographic exploits, most notably Untitled Nudes, where he asks female models he has found on craigslist to write his initials somewhere on their bodies, photograph them, only to mount those body parts on wireframes. This continues his theme of exploring body parts, in a selective, and disjointed fashion. Nate Hill’s work can be seen at NateHillisNuts.com.