Craig Hilton is a New Zealand scientist, artist and educator. After completion of a PhD in genetics and biochemistry at the University of Otago in New Zealand, he took a position at Harvard Medical School and then later at the University of Massachusetts as an oncologist and immunologist. He then returned to New Zealand in 2003 where he obtained an MFA at the Elam School of Fine Arts. Various international journals have published his medical research findings.

Craig Hilton's interests include the use of photography and other media, to investigate the relationships between the photograph and the viewer and to explore the intersections and interactions between science and art, technology and biology. Email: chilton@unitec.ac.nz.