GENE GILL was born in Memphis, Tennessee and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from The Chouinard Art Institute (now called The California Institute of the Arts).

He has exhibited widely in the Los Angeles area since 1970, in group shows as well as in one-man exhibitions.  His paintings and graphics are included in the permanent collections of The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Palm Springs Desert Museum, Container Corporation of America, Atlantic Richfield Corporation, The Northrop Corporation, Home Savings, and The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

In addition to his career as an artist, Gene Gill was an art teacher with the Los Angeles School District for 25 years.  Always the avid traveler, he began moving away from painting-printmaking in 1985 to building miniature replicas of famous landmark buildings.  He continues with this today.

In April of 2007, a new website debuted on the World Wide Web, titled "Memphis Tech High Alumni" and it featured yearbook photos of every graduate of Tech High from 1922 to 1987. He created this website as part of a "love-affair" with a very special Memphis high school and the website has remained a labor of love.