Artist

Ann Hamilton

Portrait of Ann Hamilton

American, b. 1956

Ann Hamilton is an American artist. 4 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Ann Hamilton was born in Lima.

Ann Hamilton is an American visual artist who emerged in the early 1980s, known for her large-scale 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.

Collections represented

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