Nicole Jean Hill was born and raised in Toledo, Ohio. Her photographs have been exhibited throughout the U.S., Europe, Canada, and Australia, including Gallery 44 in Toronto, the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney, and Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon. Hill has been an artist-in-residence at the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Wendover, Utah, the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming, and the Newspace Center for Photography in Portland, Oregon.
Hill is the curator of the Lora Webb Nichols Archive and has worked on the preservation, research, and presentation of Nichols’s photographs since 2013. She edited "Encampment, Wyoming: Selections from the Lora Webb Nichols Archive 1899–1948", published by FW Books, Amsterdam, which was shortlisted for the 2021 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook of the Year and the Rencontres d’Arles Historical Book Award, and was recognized by Time, The Guardian, El País, Photo-Eye, and others among the year’s notable photobooks.
She is currently Chair of the Department of Art and Film at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt.
