Winter 2006 Hot Shot Nicole Jean Hill will have her hands full over the next few months!

This summer her photo, Lou, formerly in the Winter 2006 Hey, Hot Shot! exhibit at Jen Bekman Gallery, will be shown at the Print Center's 80th annual photography exhibtion in Philadelphia.

Lou by Nicole Jean Hill

She will also be in the BemisUNDERGROUND:Terrain show with two other artists, Lydia Moyer and Mark Bradley-Shoup at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, Nebraska, where whe will exhibit a new series of landscape photographs from May 5 to June 10.

Bemis Center writes:

"Omaha artist Nicole Jean Hill utilizes large-format color photography to explore both the social and physical aspects inherent in Midwestern landscape. Through the process of photographing ordinary spaces such as baseball diamonds, Hill seeks to create metaphors for land and our use of it. In so doing, she addresses global issues of land use through very local reference points. In her recent body of work, Hill has been creating several "picturesque" images of a single capped landfill in eastern Nebraska."

Furthermore, Nicole's first European exhibition will be at Gallery Sottoportego, Venice, in July. In August, she will begin her residency at the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Wendover, Utah where she'll be documenting drag racing in the salt flats. Nicole also received a scholarship to take a digital bookmaking course at the Anderson Ranch Art Center in Snowmass Village, Colorado, which she will be attending at the very end of the summer.