Candace Hill (Candace Hill-Montgomery) was born and raised in Queens, New York. In 1979, she was artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem and exhibited her work at Artists Space. She was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1981, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1985. Since then, she has exhibited widely, contributing to Colab’s Times Square Show with the installation ‘Remembering Fred Hampton’, making public installations, publishing artists books, collaborating with Ntozake Shange, and co-curating the exhibition Working Women/Working Artists/Working Together with Lucy Lippard. Today, she resides in Bridgehampton, Suffolk County, and has recently exhibited at the Sag Harbor Whaling & Historical Museum.