Ann Hamilton (artist)
Ann Hamilton | |
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Nationality | American |
Education | University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS - BFA in Textile Design; Yale University, New Haven, CT - MFA in Sculpture |
Known for | Installation, Textiles, Sculpture, Video, Photography, Printmaking |
Movement | Installation Art |
Awards | Heinz Award (2008), United States Artists Fellowship (2007), Environmental Design Research Association Place Design Award (2002), American Society of Landscape Architects Design Award (2002), Progressive Architecture Citation Award (1997), NEA Visual Arts Fellowship (1993), MacArthur Fellowship (1993) Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture (1992), and the Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (1989) |
Ann Hamilton (born June 22, 1956 in Lima, Ohio) is a visual artist who emerged in the early 1980s known for large-scale multi-media installations, as well as her work in video, sculpture, photography, textile art, and printmaking.
Early life
Ann Hamilton was born on 22 June 1956 in Lima, Ohio. Currently she resides in Columbus, Ohio with her husband Michael Mercil, also an artist. [1] Hamilton received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in textile design from the University of Kansas in 1979.[2] She then attained a Master of Fine Arts in sculpture from the Yale University School of Art in 1985.
Career
From 1985 to 1991, she taught on the faculty of the University of California at Santa Barbara. In 1992, Hamilton established her home and practice in Columbus, Ohio.[3] In 1999, Hamilton represented the United States at the 48th Venice Biennale at the United States Pavilion with her work myein.[4] Since 2001, she has been a Professor of Art at The Ohio State University.[1]
From December 7, 2012, to January 6, 2013, Hamilton presented new work titled the event of a thread[5] at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, NY.
Select exhibitions
Hamilton has exhibited around the world, including:[1]
- The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1988)
- Dia Center for the Arts, New York (1993)
- Tate Gallery, Liverpool (1994)
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York (1994)
- The Art Institute of Chicago (1995);
- The Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (1996)
- The Musee d'art Contemporain, Lyon, France (1997)
- Akira Ikeda Gallery, Taura, Japan (2001)
- The Wanas Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden (2002)
- The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. (2003, 1991)
- MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts (2003)
- Historiska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (2004)
- La Maison Rouge Fondation de Antoine Galbert, Paris, France (2005)
- Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan (2006)
- The Guggenheim Museum, New York (2009)
- The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis (2010)
- Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS (2013)
Select works
- "the event of a thread" (2012)
- VERSE (2011)
- stylus (2010)
- human carriage (2009)
- The Meditation Boat (2005-2009)
- tower · Oliver Ranch (2007)
- voce (2006)
- phora (2005)
- corpus (2004)
- Teardrop Park, a collaboration with Michael Mercil and Michael Van Valkenburgh (2004)
- LEW wood floor at the Seattle Public Library (2004)[6]
- lignum (2002)
- Allegheny Park, a collaboration with Michael Mercil and Michael Van Valkenburgh (2004)
- the picture is still (2001)
- ghost....a border act (2000)
- myein (1999)[4]
- mattering (1997)
- lineament (1994)
- tropos (1994)
- indigo blue (1991/2007)
- privation and excesses (1989)
- still life (1988)
Recognition
Hamilton has been the recipient of the Heinz Award,[7] United States Artists Fellowship, a Bessie Award in 1988, National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship, Anonymous Was a Woman Award,[8] Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture, the Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, and the MacArthur Fellows Program "Genius Grant".[9] In 2014, Ohio State University announced that it was compiling an archive called the Ann Hamilton Project Archive, which will maintain images of more than thirty-five of Hamilton's installations.[10] In September 2015, Hamilton received the National Medal of Arts.[11]
Further reading
- Hamilton, Ann. (1996). The body and the object: Ann Hamilton, 1984-1996. Columbus, OH: Wexner Center for the Arts.[12]
- Simon, Joan and Hamilton, Ann. (2002). Ann Hamilton. New York: Harry N. Abrams.[13]
- Simon, Joan and Hamilton, Ann. (2006). Ann Hamilton: An Inventory of Objects. New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co.[14]
References
- ^ a b c Hamilton Studio, Ann. "Biography". Retrieved 13 August 2012.
- ^ Smith, Roberta. "The Audience as Art Movement", The New York Times, Retrieved 10 July 2014.
- ^ "Ann Hamilton", Ohio State University, Retrieved 10 July 2014.
- ^ a b "Myein", Ann Hamilton Studio, Retrieved 10 July 2014.
- ^ "Ann Hamilton: the event of a thread". Retrieved 13 August 2012.
- ^ "CEN Public Art", Seattle Public Library, Retrieved 11 July 2014.
- ^ "The Heinz Awards: Ann Hamilton", The Heinz Awards, Retrieved 10 July 2014.
- ^ "Anonymous Was A Woman Award, Past Winners", Anonymous Was A Woman Award. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
- ^ "Ann Hamilton - MacArthur Foundation", MacArthur Foundation, Retrieved 10 July 2014.
- ^ "Ann Hamilton Project Archive Created at Ohio State", Ohio State University, Retrieved 11 July 2014.
- ^ "National Medal of Arts Awardees Include John Baldessari, Ann Hamilton". artforum.com. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
- ^ Hamilton, Ann; Wexner Center for the Arts (1996-01-01). The body and the object: Ann Hamilton, 1984-1996. Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University. ISBN 1881390136.
- ^ Simon, Joan (2002). Ann Hamilton. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. p. 280. ISBN 0-8109-4160-0.
- ^ Simon, Joan (2006). Ann Hamilton: An Inventory of Objects. New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., LLC. p. 312. ISBN 0-9743648-5-1.
External links
- Ann Hamilton's website
- Biography, interviews, essays, artwork images and video clips from PBS series Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century, Season 1 (2001)
- Gund Art Foundation Fellows 2007
- United States Artists Arts Advocacy Organization
- Article and streaming video of Ann Hamilton and her tower at the Oliver Ranch, from KQED Spark
- Ann Hamilton at Gemini GEL, Los Angeles
- The Heinz Awards, Ann Hamilton profile
- Ann Hamilton's interview with Robert Ayers, February 2009
- "Touchy, feely: Ann Hamilton's wondrous exhibition at the Henry." Review by Gayle Clemans in the Seattle Times, October 23, 2014.
- 1956 births
- American contemporary artists
- American photographers
- American printmakers
- Installation artists
- American women artists
- Living people
- MacArthur Fellows
- People from Lima, Ohio
- University of California, Santa Barbara faculty
- University of Kansas alumni
- Yale University alumni
- Artists from Ohio
- American women photographers
- Franklin Furnace artists