In addition to his still photography, Hill has wide-ranging
experience in other media, as the dashing, Indiana Jones-like host of
Florida Public Television’s Suncoast Emmy Award Winning quarterly
“ART 360” program, a production consultant on mid-century
Modern architecture for Atom Egoyan’s film “Where the Truth
Lies” and as a songwriter for “The Birth of Freedom”
recorded by Inner Voice.
One of Hill’s particular areas of expertise is the architectural
style that has come to be known as Miami Modern, or MiMo for short,
typified by the exuberant resort architecture of Morris Lapidus and
other masters of mid-century tropical Modernism. Hill’s contributions
to the book “MiMo: Miami Modern Revealed by Eric P. Nash and Randall
C. Robinson Jr. (Chronicle, 2004) were instrumental in having Biscayne
Boulevard be declared the city’s first MiMo historical preservation
district. He is also a frequent slideshow lecturer on MiMo, Frank Lloyd
Wright, Le Corbusier and other architectural topics.
Hill’s work is widely varied, spanning the interplay of shadow,
light and color in architectural design as well as the grace of water
in motion, but is unified by a spiritual appreciation of the power of
the moment and the appearance of the miraculous in the everyday.
TV CREDIT
TV Host for EMMY (Suncoast Regional) award winning PBS series ‘ART
360’ 2005-present
MAGAZINE CREDITS
Dwell, Vogue, WallPaper, People, National Geographic Traveler, ISLANDS,
American Way, Sky, Photo District News, Ocean Drive Magazine, Inside
Out,
Architectural Record, Architecture, Popular Photography, Home Miami,
Home Fort Lauderdale (contributing editor),Panache, The New York Times
TEACHING
Architectural Photography at the Miami AD school
PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS
2007 Designing the Good Life…Norman Giller and Miami Modern
2007 The Glass House (Pentagram
2007 The Glass House (Assouline)
2006 ‘Prologue to Greatness’ Story of the Carnival Center
for the Performing Arts in Miami (Herald Publishing)
2004 “MiMo: Miami Modern Revealed” (San Francisco: Chronicle
Books)
1999 “National Geographic Traveler Guide to Miami and the Keys”
SELECT AWARDS
2006 Architectural nominee International Color photography awards
2004 Miami Design Preservation League Appreciation Award, for MiMo Photos
2002 Print Magazine photo awards
Miami Herald Tropical Best photo, 1999
Lucie Awards 2006‘Architectural photo nominee’
Print Magazine Design awards 2002 Best Photo essay
Photo Essay of the Year 1999 Florida Magazine Association
Popular Photography 1996 Your Best Shot
Popular Photography 1995 Zoom photo of the year
MOVIE CREDITS
2005 ‘Where the truth lies’ Consultant on mid century modern
architecture and design to Production designer Philip Barker. Directed
by Atom Egoyan.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 Lurie Fine Art Gallery, Miami
2006 Design Within Reach, Miami Beach
2006 Pthalo Gallery Wynwood
2005 Museum of Florida History, Tallahassee
2004 Susane R, Miami
2004 Newton Gallery, Miami
2003 Sotheby’s/Fortune International, Miami Beach
2003 Britto Central Miami Beach
2003 Gallery 428, Miami Beach
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 Casa Décor Miami
2007 Art Futures Miami
2007 Lurie Fine Art Gallery, Miami
2005 Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale
2005 The Gallery House, Miami
2004 Art Miami, Miami Beach
2003 Museum of Science, Miami
2003 Pthalo, Miami
2003 Miami International Airport, Miami
2003 Art Temple, Miami Beach
2003 Artopia, Miami Beach
2003 Steven Watt Gallery, Miami
2003 Susane R, Miami
2003 Art Miami, Miami
2003 Dot 51, Miami
2003 Dance for Life, Gusman Theater, Miami
2003 Trinity Cathedral, Miami
2003 Art Serve, Fort Lauderdale
2002 Seymour Hotel, Miami Beach
2002 Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum New York
2002 Municiapl Art Society New York
PRESS WRITE-UPS
International Herald Tribune (Miami Modern)
Financial Times London (Miami Modern)
New York Times Travel Section (Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale)
Newsweek, Travel Podcast on MiMo, (ongoing)
The Beach Channel, on MiMo (ongoing)
PBS Channel 2 State of the Arts Design Within Reach, by Rob Forbes,
July 2005
The Miami Herald, by Beth Dunlop, July 2005
Dwell magazine “In the Modern World,” September 2005
The Sun Sentinel, by Emma Trelles, July 2005
The Style Channel by Brini Maxwell, October 2004
WAXY 790 AM “A Higher Path,” January 2004
WLRN “TV Art Street,” January 2004
WAXY 790 AM “News & Views,” September 2003
WAXY 790 AM “News & Views,” June 2003
CNN Jeanne Moos, December 2002
Hospitality Design magazine, Kelly Beamon October 2004
Shutterbug magazine, Maria Piscopo September 2004
La Nacion, by Carolina Robbiano, April 2004
The Miami Herald, by Beth Dunlop, October 2003
The Miami Herald, by Beth Dunlop, September 2003
The Miami Herald, by Beth Dunlop, November 2001
The Miami Herald, by Nicole White, October 2001
Ocean Drive magazine, by Tom Austin December 2003
Art Basel Program Sam keller 2002
Hospitality Design magazine, by Kelly Beamon, December 2002
Photo District News, by Jane Gottlieb, March 2002
Sun Sentinel, by Matt Schudel, October 2001
Miami New Times, by Nina Korman, May 2003
The Miami Herald, by Mathew Pinzar, March 2003
American Way, by Elaine Glusac, February 2002
GRID Magazine, by Peter Slatin March 2002
Miracle Journeys, by Sorah Dubitsky, March 2003
Miracle Journeys, by Sorah Dubitsky, June 2003
El Nuevo Herald, by Miguel Sirgado, July 2003
SLIDE LECTURES
Miami Dade College, “Frank Lloyd Wright”
Design Within Reach, “Le Corbusier”
Historical Museum of South Florida, “MiMo Architecture”
DACRA/Miami Intelligence, “MiMo and Beyond”
Miami Intelligence, 2004, “Light, Shadow and the Creative Process”
Art Deco Weekend, 2003, “MiMo Architecture”
Miami Intelligence, 2003, “MiMo Architecture”
Gallery 428, 2003, “The Art of Creativity”
Gallery 428, 2003, “MiMo”
Gallery 428, 2003, “The Dordogne”
Miami Ad School, 2003, “MiMo Architecture”
One Ear Society, 2003, “MiMo Architecture”
Miami International University, 2003, “MiMo Architecture”
Sotheby’s, 2003, “MiMo Architecture”
Kiwanis, 2003, “MiMo Architecture”
Artopia, 2003, “MiMo Architecture”
Robin Hill lives in Miami Beach with his wife, Cindy, daughter, Grace
and dog, Harry “houdini’ Hill |
