Bonny Hill is a contemporary Canadian artist who was selected for the 2017 Surveillance Studio Watch at the Lord Beaverbrook Art Gallery for her series, I Don’t Know Anything About Art. I Just Want Something Nice to Hang Over My Sofa to Match My Living Room.

Bonny completed a Bachelor of Art in Art Education at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1984 and has recently retired from a 31 year career teaching art in public schools. In 2011, she was recognized by the Canadian Society for Education Through the Arts with the Canadian Art Educator of the Year award . Her teaching was also recognized nationally in 2013 with a first place finish in DC21YCC Youth Creativity Challenge sponsored by Heritage Canada and provincially with the New Brunswick Teachers Association Credit Union Award for Excellence in Teaching. Bonny has also been active in theatre: directing spring musicals, building and designing sets, teaching choreography, and performing.

Bonny Hill is vice president at AX: the Arts and Culture Centre of Sussex where she chairs the exhibitions committee and actively volunteers. She also is a member of the NB Department of Education Curriculum Advisory Committee for Visual Arts.

Bonny began exhibiting her work in 2006 and has since been awarded eight solo and several group shows in public galleries. Her Meta series is scheduled to be shown at the Societe Culturelle Kent-Sud in Bouctouche in February, 2022. Bonny would like to thank ArtsNB for supporting her current work.

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WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO OWN ART? TO HAVE ART? TO BUY ART? TO SELL? TO SHOW? HOW DO WE VALUE ART? HOW DO WE ACCESS IT? WHO IS IT FOR?