Niki Hill (aka Nicola Simpkin-Hill) is a contemporary visual artist based in Tamaki Makaurau Auckland. She graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Elam School of Fine Arts, the University of Auckland in 2018, and has exhibited across Aotearoa New Zealand.

Niki is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work explores themes of spirituality, disability, identity, and societal perception. She has held many solo shows and participated in group exhibitions, with finalist representation in many Art Awards across New Zealand. Her artwork is part of the Art House Trust art collection as well as many private collections in New Zealand and across the world.

Her current art practice is in the genre of the sublime, creating photographs and paintings of mysterious and dystonic landscapes that evoke spirituality and otherworldliness—moments of calmness in a world of chaos.

She collaborates with her disabled daughter as GENIUS art collaboration to create projects that advocate for the environment. Niki's daughter, Geena Zelma Hill, is a Mapura Artist. Niki collaborates with Geena, not only as an artist but also as a parent of a person with a disability, to demonstrate a social art practice centred on disability and inclusion. By partnering with Geena, Niki recognises Geena as an artist in her own right. Additionally, Niki creates projects that advocate for positive social identity for the disability community—changing the medical and social thinking around the Cerebral Palsy condition. It is a healing process for both those who have lived an extraordinary life, as a result of Geena's birth. Both mother and daughter are lucky to have survived the ordeal, which left Geena with quadriplegic cerebral palsy. Niki's unique approach to her daughter's cerebral palsy condition has included Stem-cell therapy, Hyperbaric Oxygen treatment, physiotherapy sessions, orthotics, plus many more alternative interventions. 

All this has significantly improved many of Geena's neuromuscular symptoms, allowing her to function more independently. Niki has an intimate understanding of the physical, psychological, social, economic, political, and personal challenges of parenting in what she describes as ‘the disability landscape’. 

Through both physical and online exhibitions, she creates projects that foster the growth of disability culture in Aotearoa New Zealand, promoting an inclusive society.