Ann Hamilton

Ann Hamilton (born 1956) is a visual artist who emerged in the early 1980s known for her largescale multimedia installations. After receiving her BFA in textile design from the University of Kansas in 1979, she lived in Banff, Alberta, and Montreal, Quebec, Canada before deciding to pursue an MFA in sculpture at Yale in 1983. From 1985 to 1991, she taught on the faculty of the University of California at Santa Barbara. Since 2001, Hamilton has served on the faculty of the Department of Art at the Ohio State University. She was appointed a Distinguished University Professor in 2011.

Hamilton has been the recipient of the 14th Annual Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities, United States Artists Fellowship, a Bessie Award in 1988, National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship, Anonymous Was a Woman Award, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture, the Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, and the MacArthur Fellows Program “Genius Grant”. 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. In September 2015, Hamilton received the National Medal of Arts. She was the Vice President for Art of the American Academy of Arts and Letters from 2019 to 2020.