Charles Hill has worked for the National Gallery of Canada since 1972 and has been the gallery's Curator of Canadian Art since 1980. His exhibitions include Canadian Painting in the Thirties (1975); John Vanderpant: Photographs (1977); To Found a National Gallery: The Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, 1880-1913 (1980); Morrice: A Gift to the Nation; The G. Blair Laing Collection (1992); William Kurelek (1992); The Group of Seven: Art for a Nation (1995) Tom Thomson (2002); Emily Carr: New Perspectives on a Canadian Icon (2006); and Artists, Architects and Artisans: Canadian Art, 1890-1918 (2013). Hill was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2000 and received an honorary doctorate from Concordia University, Montreal, in 2007.