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Ann Hamilton is a visual artist known for large-scale multi-media installations, as well as her work in video, sculpture, photography, textile art, and printmaking.
Hamilton received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in textile design from the University of Kansas in 1979 and a Master of Fine Arts in sculpture from the Yale University School of Art in 1985. 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. Since 2001, she has been a Professor of Art at The Ohio State University.
Hamilton has been the recipient of the Heinz Award, United States Artists Fellowship, NEA Visual Arts Fellowship, Anonymous Was a Woman Award, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture and the Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. She has represented the United States in the 1991 São Paulo Bienal, the 1999 Venice Biennale, and has exhibited extensively around the world. Her major museum installations include The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis; The Guggenheim Museum, New York; Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan; La Maison Rouge Fondation de Antoine Galbert, Paris, France; Historiska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts; The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; The Wanas Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden; Akira Ikeda Gallery, Taura, Japan; The Musee d'art Contemporain, Lyon, France; The Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; The Art Institute of Chicago; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Tate Gallery, Liverpool; Dia Center for the Arts, New York; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
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