Born in Montreal and raised in various locales across Canada, Hri Neil has lived in Prince Edward County for the past 13 years. Neil has a BFA in Painting and Drawing from Concordia University. He has been focused on an interdisciplinary media-based practice as well as independent curation over the last two decades. Centered on sound, video, installation, and performance - Neil’s work has been shown both nationally and internationally. His work was included in performances for the Art Gallery of Ontario, for the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, and in the New Territories program at ARCO in Spain. He is a recipient of the Telus Award for Technological Innovation in the Arts. Parallel to his artistic practice Hri has spent many years as a cultural worker in both the public and for-profit visual arts field, taking on many different roles with organizations such as Latitude 53, Harcourt House, The Works Festival, and the Art Gallery of Alberta in Edmonton, The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Interaccess and Heffel Auction House in Toronto, and was the Assistant Curator at Oeno Gallery here in Prince Edward County. In the summer of 2018, he opened his own contemporary art gallery - Carbon Art and Design - in the heart of downtown Picton. In the six seasons he ran the gallery he curated 45 art exhibits, as well as 10 workshop series and various on and off-site performances. Neil continues to produce new video work and performs regularly as a live video artist (VJ) and DJ, and recently developed curriculum and mentored an emerging First Nations video artist on behalf of the Electric Circuits Festival in Kingston.