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PROJECTS: GABRIELLE
L’HIRONDELLE HILL
The Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art presents Projects: Gabrielle
L’Hirondelle Hill, the artist’s first solo museum exhibition
in the United States, on view in the Museum’s street-
level galleries. For the exhibition, part of MoMA’s Elaine
Dannheisser Projects Series, Hill, a Métis artist and writer,
has assembled multiple works in which her use of tobacco
as a key material alludes to the plant’s complex indigenous
and colonial histories. The exhibition features sculptures
and drawings, including several new works, constructed
primarily from tobacco along with other sourced and found
materials, such as pantyhose, Crisco, wildflowers, and
other tokens collected from her Vancouver neighborhood.
Projects: Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill is organized by Lucy
Gallun, Associate Curator, Department of Photography.

The Elaine Dannheisser Projects Series is made possible in
part by the Elaine Dannheisser Foundation and The Junior
Associates of The Museum of Modern Art.

Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill. Dispersal. 2019 Virginia tobacco, Perique tobacco,
thread, seed pods, support stocking, wood, found pole, 43×14 5/16 in (109.2×36.4
cm). Courtesy of the artist and Unit 17, Vancouver & Cooper Cole, Toronto
Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill. Exchange. 2019. Pantyhose, tobacco, cigarettes,
Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill. Mint. 2019 Pantyhose, beer can tabs, tobacco, thread, tobacco flowers, aluminum can tabs, spider charm, found metal
bunny fur, thread. 5 1/2×7 1/16 × 9 1/2 in. (14×17.9×24.1 cm). Courtesy of hair clip, 17 5/16 × 20 3/16 × 31 3/8″ (43.9 × 51.3 × 79.7 cm). Courtesy of
the artist and Unit 17, Vancouver, and Cooper Cole, Toronto the artist and Unit 17, Vancouver, and Cooper Cole, Toronto

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