Luzene Hill
Native American multimedia artist
Caroline Luzene Hill (born 1946) is a Native American multimedia artist and citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. She combines performance with installation to reflect on violence against women, using lyrical abstraction to approach difficult topics. She is best known for her 2011-2015 work Retracing the Trace, an installation reflecting on the prevalence and pain of sexual assault through the lens of Hill's own experience. Her works primarily explore themes of the trauma and shame produced by various types of violence enacted against women and indigenous cultures and the transformative healing powers of art. Beyond the United States, Hill's art has exhibited internationally in Canada, Russia, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
Early life and education
Caroline Luzene Hill received the name "Luzene" through her paternal Cherokee grandmother. She grew up in Atlanta with her European mother and her family. Hill explained that because her father's parents were sent to Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania where they faced severe punishment for speaking their native language, her grandparents never spoke or taught Cherokee to their own children or grandchildren, despite teaching them to have pride in their heritage.
Hill began studying art in her early thirties, but did not pursue her art in earnest until her late forties, due to familial obligations. In 2006, she moved to Western North Carolina in order to focus on art, deepen her understanding of her Cherokee heritage, and learn more about the endangered Cherokee language.
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