Ann Hamilton (artist)

Ann Hamilton (artist)

Infobox Artist


name = Ann Hamilton
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birthdate = Birth date and age|1956|6|22|mf=y
location = Lima, Ohio
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nationality = flagicon|US American
field = Textile art, sculpture, video
training = University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; Yale University, New Haven, CT
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awards = MacArthur Fellowship, 1993

Ann Hamilton (born June 22, 1956, Lima, Ohio) is a contemporary American artist best known for her installations, textile art, and sculptures, but is also known to work with video and video installation.

She trained in textile design at the University of Kansas and later received an MFA from Yale University in sculpture. She taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara from 1985 to 1991 and won the MacArthur Fellowship in 1993.

In 1999, Hamilton was the American representative to the Venice Biennale, where her work, a series of glass and textured walls, addressed the topics of slavery and oppression in American society.

Allegheny Riverfront Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is one of her major commissions.

Ann Hamilton was named a 2007 Agnes Gund Foundation Fellow and awarded a $50,000 grant by United States Artists, a public charity that supports and promotes the work of American artists.

Major works

Some of her best known installations include:
* [http://www.diacenter.org/exhibs/hamilton/tropos/ tropos]
* [http://www.massmoca.org/visual_arts/corpus.html corpus]
* The permanent installation "Floor of Babble" in the new Seattle Public Library building

External links

* [http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/hamilton/ Biography, interviews, essays, artwork images and video clips] from PBS series "" Season 1 (2001).
*In 2006, [http://grmandco.com Gregory R. Miller & Co.] published [http://grmandco.com/publications/hamilton.htm "Ann Hamilton: An Inventory of Objects"] (text by Joan Simon).
* [http://www.unitedstatesartists.org/Public/USADonors/USANationalLeadershipCommittee/AgnesGund/index.cfm Gund Art Foundation Fellows 2007]
* [http://www.unitedstatesartists.org United States Artists Arts Advocacy Organization.]
*Article and streaming video of Ann Hamilton and her tower at the Oliver Ranch, from [http://www.kqed.org/arts/people/spark/profile.jsp?id=18240 "KQED Spark"] .

*Ann Hamilton's [http://www.annhamiltonstudio.com/ "web site"] .


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