Skip Hill grew up primarily in Oklahoma City and began his creative path through design, studying advertising/marketing and working as a graphic designer before extended travel and residence abroad helped pivot his focus toward fine art. His time in Southeast Asia and later in the Netherlands—along with frequent immersion in major museums—became foundational to his evolving practice, which centers on collage as a way to reconstruct experience and create order from visual “remnants.” Returning to Oklahoma, he studied at the University of Oklahoma with artists including Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds and George Bogart, then built studios and audiences across the region while also engaging youth through school-based artist residencies.

Hill’s work spans mixed-media drawings, paintings on canvas/wood, collages on paper, and large-scale murals. He has been recognized as a 2021 OVAC Fellowship Award recipient, with OVAC-produced profile programming and public recognition listing him among the year’s fellows. His art is also held in museum collections, including Philbrook Museum of Art (e.g., Beauty Shop Aria (for Mabel Little) listed in Philbrook’s collection database).

Locally, Hill is active in Tulsa’s creative community and maintains a studio practice connected with WOMPA (West O’Main), a Tulsa arts/coworking campus.