Ian Hill was born in Vancouver British Columbia and raised in the tranquil suburbs of Vacaville California. Graduating from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco with a BFA in Illustration and an insatiable love for painting, Hill has begun a career as a promising emerging artist.

Hill's work is realized from a mixture of imagination, still life, digital imaging, and photo references. His paintings are a place where the past, present,and future, collide with other worlds to create their own surreal cosmos. With a degree in illustration and an obsession for the obscure, he strives for an ambiguous narrative quality that the viewer can experience psychologically. His inspiration comes from the grande hallucination most americans are lead to believe through the lens of popular media, vintage photo's, nature, toys, and quantum theories. He is also inspired by other artists such as Velasquez, Norman Rockwell and contemporaries like Jeff Koons, Eric White, and Jorge Santos.

As well as receiving awards such as the "Direct Art Award" from the Limner Gallery, and being published internationally, Hill has exhibited in San Francisco, Manilla, D.C.,and New York.