Hal Gage formally studied drawing and painting at University of Alaska Anchorage. In 1977 he was introduced to photography. Since the early 80s, Hal Gage’s photographic and mixed media artwork has been exhibited extensively in Alaska, the contiguous Forty-Eight, and in England, Europe, Russia and East Asia. His images are in such collections as: Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center; Pratt Museum; Alaska State Museum; the University of Alaska Museum of the North; and is in the Houston Museum of Art's permanent collection. Among other distinctions, Gage has been twice honored with a Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship. and received the International Sony World Photography Award for landscape photography.