Ann Hamilton

Portal, 2005
Digital print
12 x 25 inches
acquired 2001

Untitled (Honey Pocket)*, 1999
VideoDisk
30 minutes, looped
acquired 2005
www.annhamiltonstudio.com

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Biography

Born in 1956 in Lima, Ohio.

Ann Hamilton received a BFA in textile design from the University of Kansas in 1979 and an MFA in sculpture from the Yale School of Art in 1985. From 1985 to 1991, she taught on the faculty of the University of California at Santa Barbara. In 1992, she established her home and practice in Columbus, Ohio. Since 2001, she has been a Professor of Art at The Ohio State University.

Awards

Hamilton has been the recipient of the Heinz Award, MacArthur Fellowship, United States Artists Fellowship, NEA Visual Arts Fellowship, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture and the Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. She has represented the United States in the 1991 Sao Paulo Bienal, the 1999 Venice Biennale, and has exhibited extensively around the world.

Links

• www.pbs.org/art21/artists/ann-hamilton
• The Audience as Art Movement by Roberta Smith | New York Times, December 6, 2012