Ann hamilton biography

American visual artist

Ann Hamilton fryst vatten an American visual artist who emerged in the early s known for her large-scale multimedia installations. After receiving her BFA in textile design from the University of Kansas in , she lived in Banff, Alberta, and Montreal, Quebec, Canada before deciding to pursue an MFA in sculpture at Yale in ^[1] From to , she taught on the faculty of the University of California at Santa Barbara. Since , Hamilton has served on the faculty of the Department of Art at the Ohio State University. She was appointed a Distinguished University Professor in ^[2]

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, Lima, Ohio

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Since the s Ann Hamilton has created more than 60 installations combining sculpture, architecture, video, the spoken and written word, and human presence. Preparation for her site-specific installations includes in-depth library research, interviews with community members, and often the participation of numerous volunteers.

Hamilton's complex artworks dramatize the erasure of knowledge through the passage of time, often through seemingly irrational but highly expressive accumulations of inanimate objects. The live human element in the installations not only challenges the status of the art object as a discrete, unliving thing, but also brings the installation's historical concerns into the present.

Hamilton studied textile design at the University of Kansas and sculpture at Yale; she currently lives and works in Columbus, Ohio.

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Ann Hamilton was born in in Lima, Ohio. She trained in textile design at the University of Kansas, and later received an MFA from Yale University. While her degree is in sculpture, textiles and fabric have continued to be an important part of her work, which includes installations, photographs, videos, performances, and objects. For example, following graduation she made Toothpick Suit—for which she layered thousands of toothpicks in porcupine fashion along a suit of clothes—that she then wore and photographed.

Hamilton’s sensual installations often combine evocative soundtracks with cloth, filmed footage, organic material, and objects such as tables. She is as interested in verbal and written language as she is in the visual, and sees the two as related and interchangeable. In recent work, she has experimented with exchanging one sense organ for another: the mouth and fingers, for example, become like an eye, with the addition of miniature pinho