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I was 20 years old in 2005. This was before I had any inkling that I would pursue the path of an artist. That summer, Hurricane Katrina ripped through New Orleans and forever changed the city. As I watched reports of the devastation from Los Angeles, this image of Six Flags New Orleans submerged in 8 feet of water was one that stuck with me.
Fourteen years later in 2019, I received an invitation from curators Naima Keith and Diana Nawi to participate in Prospect.5, the fifth edition of the New Orleans triennial exhibition. The resulting artwork (Rises in the East, 2021) is a permanent 50-ft tall structure which repurposes an original gondola from The Big Easy Ferris Wheel. This work still stands today at the entrance of Joe W. Brown Memorial Park in New Orleans East. It stands as a monument and as a promise.
During the install of this work, I met with community members from The Friends of Joe W. Brown Park organization, and I learned that since 2005, they had been working to raise funds for an operational carousel to the park in a revitalization effort. And here I was, an artist with no previous ties to New Orleans, bringing a monumental sculpture to life for an art exhibition. They took me to task, and rightfully so.
After the triennial opened, I came back home and began quietly building a network of interest around the park and the organization. As a child of Belizean immigrants with humble holdings, I’m frequently astonished by the amount of capital that flows through the art industry. I correctly intuited that while I myself do not possess this capital, I have access to people and organizations that do. So every studio visit, every art party, every opening dinner, I would be sure to mention The Friends of Joe W. Park and their desire for a carousel.
With great honor, I am happy to announce that the permanent kinetic sculpture A Monument for New Orleans East (2026) will open to the public in December. This has been such a labor of love and would not have been possible without the support of many folks who I will thank in great detail in the coming weeks. But for now, here’s to sharpening your tools in secret and keeping your promises. 🎠🩷
21 Oct 2026
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01 Dec 2025
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23 Nov 2025
As is to be expected, I still don’t have the words but @hmolesworth does. Helen, thank you for your pilgrimage, for bearing witness, and for returning to the village to relay tales of the journey.
Visiting Critic Lecture: Helen Molesworth
October 29, 2025
Anderson Ranch Arts Center
@andersonranchartscenter
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14 Nov 2025
2nd verse dropping in 2026. Or 2027. Stay tuned for smaller shorts and higher socks. Comment for more painting #content. Follow for semi-regular existential spiraling. My summer was fine, how about yours? 🥴🧎🏿♂️😵💫 Slowly coming back to life. What’d I miss?
11 Nov 2025
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14 Sep 2025
Amen.
Yearning for an Absolute, 2025.
Performance duration: 430 hours.
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EJ Hill: Low-Slung Promises on the Tongues of the Devout
June 25–September 13, 2025
52 Walker, New York.
14 Sep 2025
Seems fitting for a Sunday.
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13 Jul 2025
Transcendence and liberation are a couple of not-so-distant cousins, mere ticks away from one another on an orbital and celestial timeline.
It can’t be coincidence that throughout history, within all cultures across the globe, humans (while looking toward the sky) have devised elaborate systems, narratives, architectures, and rituals in an attempt to reconcile the infinite canyon between body and spirit.
Recently, I have been making my own attempt at this reconciliation. During all gallery hours at 52 Walker (@52walkerstreet) from June 26 to September 13, 2025, I plan to remain on my knees in silence, in meditation, in prayer, in spell-casting, in presence, and in love—love for all that is broken and in need of repair. And where repair is not possible, then honor and remembrance.
Deep within, you already harness the divine and sacred. Share it and get free.
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07 Jul 2025
Opening tonight, June 25, 6-8pm @52walkerstreet
Can I get an Amen?
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25 Jun 2025
I often waver between my penchant for quiet/privacy/solitude and the seeming necessity (especially as it pertains to my chosen profession) to broadcast aspects of my person far and widely, as things like “audience” and “reception” are not mere theoretical concepts better waved off in the studio, but actual impressions (for better or worse) upon my livelihood.
I worry that my slow-fade retreat might be perceived as cold, personal slights to some and that if/when I choose to return, there might not be as warm a welcome as I need. This is a risk I am willing to take in service of personal peace and recovery. Increasingly, I utilize social media (this platform in particular) less as a participant in the cacophonous echo chamber, but more as a captain’s log, a record of voyage, dispatches from a sensitive-someplace…a one-way transmission to declare “I’m still here.” Have we ever known a more disembodied proof of presence?
That said, today’s signal comes amid a series of unrelenting environmental, social, and political catastrophes. I won’t zero-in on any specific malady as it is their compounded nature which debilitates me. And somewhere within all of this, I make a thing called art, or poetry, or prayer—one and the same, effectively—both as soul-salve and as vocation.
The difficulty with art-as-day-job (a gilded problem surely), is that there is a sun-sized rift between calls from spirit (art) and the demands/expectations of the profession (work). These respective summons are at odds constantly. Art asks for slow time. It requires years of gestation and perhaps decades more before it invites its truest witnesses to bear. Work, conversely, operates efficiently and needs a 500-word blurb and hi-res images by Friday.
Times like these, when I need both lodestar and anchor, I consult my old captain’s log, my previous records of voyage. I’ve been told I’m too rooted in the past and that my sentimentality leads me to recall only the rosy parts of unsavory times. But I’ve never minded the hard lessons of hindsight. I find it more reliable than the anxious preoccupations with fore.
There is wisdom in looking back, peace in looking in, and power in looking up. I swear 🩷
09 May 2025
For a special Art Sundae at Dallas Contemporary, children collaborated with artists EJ Hill and Martin Gonzales to craft a small-scale neighborhood! Inspired by the artists’ practice using mixed media, children were invited to create an immersive public art installation with paper, tape, markers, and fabric. Art Sundae is in dialogue with the exhibition EJ Hill + Martin Gonzales: Velvet Faith, curated by Emily Edwards, at Dallas Contemporary. Check-out the Art Sundae installation on view at @DallasContemporary through May 18, 2025!
Made possible through the generous support of @Leatherology.
#ArtSundae #ArtProductionFund #DallasContemporary #EJHill #MartinGonzales #Leatherology #PublicArt
13 Apr 2025
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