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

His exhibition programming increasingly foregrounds practices by artists living in diaspora, or whose work relates to migration. In response to this lived experience, a broad thread or subtext of ‘movement’ has been present in the exhibitions he has curated recently. This can be through performance (relating to tenderness, magic and folklore, language), to interconnectivity in the cityscape (communities, networks, and logistics), and displacement (storytelling, adapting traditions to new contexts, dreaming).

In his practice-led curatorial work, he collaborates closely with artists to produce site- and contextually-responsive exhibitions, whether they are in a gallery setting or outside of formal situations. In 2024 he curated two major exhibitions in the active industrial setting of Dublin Port, integrating large-scale immersive installations into a disused pump house with Yuri Pattison, and open-air graving dock with Liliane Puthod. In 2025 he will make independently curated exhibitions with Liliane Puthod at Weatherproof, Chicago; Mairead O’hEocha at The Model, Sligo; and solo exhibitions by Dragana Jurišić, Jorge Satorre and Frank Sweeney in his role at TBG+S. He is an invited participant of the Curatorial Exchange at EXPO Chicago.

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

He was previously Curator at The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College Dublin, where he produced a series of exploratory site-responsive artist projects by Áine Mac Giolla Bhríde, Andy Fitz, Ruth Clinton and Niamh Moriarty. He has worked in public, private and artist-run contemporary art galleries in Ireland and UK since 2008.

His mentoring practice includes Freelands Artist Programme, Belfast; Jerwood Cultural Accelerator, London; Chronic Connections, Fire Station Artists’ Studios, Dublin. He also maintains an occasional independent 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.