Ann Hamilton

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ann Hamilton
Occupation	Multimedia Artist
Date Of Birth	Jun 22, 1956(1956-06-22)
Age	68
Birthplace	Ohio
Country	United States
Birth City	Ohio
Horoscope	Cancer

Ann Hamilton Biography

Ann Hamilton is one of the most popular and richest Multimedia Artist who was born on June 22, 1956 in Ohio, Ohio, United States. American visual artist best known for her prints, photos, sculptures, and multimedia art installations. Her works included “the event of a thread” from 2012 and “lignum” from 2002.

She and Eleanor Anin were both prominent artists who paid particular attention to engaging the senses.

Ann Hamilton (born 1956) is a 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.

While working on suitably positioned, Hamilton began to think about her subject matter differently, hoping to create an installation that “demonstrates a relation instead of making a picture of a relation.” This thinking led Hamilton to begin creating her body object series, a collection of photographs first produced in 1984 with further editions produced in 1987, 1994, and 2006. Working with photographer Bob McMurtry on the series, Hamilton shot photographs of herself wearing constructed objects like her toothpick suit. The coverings of the body in these photographs represent what Hamilton calls, “the articulation of the self at the boundaries of the body.”

Her family was residing in Lima, Ohio, when she was born.

Ann Hamilton Net Worth

Ann Hamilton is one of the richest Multimedia Artist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ann Hamilton 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She studied at the University of Kansas and at the Yale University School of Art.

She received a MacArthur Fellowship and numerous other awards and saw her work exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

Ann Hamilton was born on June 22, 1956, in Lima, Ohio. She grew up in a tight- knit family and was close to her grandmother. She has memories of sitting on the couch with her, reading, knitting, and doing needlepoint together. She attended St. Lawrence University from 1974–1976; University of Kansas, BFA in Textile Design, 1979; Yale School of Art, MFA in Sculpture, 1985. Currently she resides in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband Michael Mercil, also an artist.

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indigo blue, one of Hamilton’s best-known works was first exhibited in a garage near the public market in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1991. She created the piece as a commissioned work as a part of the Places with a Past exhibition within the Spoleto Festival, in which artists chose a site and responded to both the historical and current context of the city. The installation was an homage to labor, respectfully commenting on and remembering the process of manual work through sculptural elements like a pile of 47,000 blue work uniforms and sacks full of soybeans hanging on a wall. Behind the stacked uniforms, a writer sat at another table, applying an eraser and saliva to small, blue-covered books, working one by one from back to front to remove the writing within, leaving the eraser shavings to accumulate within the books throughout the duration of the installation. This action of erasing the past served as another memory of labor, and the names embroidered on the shirts echoed the history of the laborers living in the city. The back wall held the hanging bags of soybeans that slowly spilled and began to sprout from the humid air within the space, calling attention to the atmosphere of South Carolina. The title of the exhibition, as well as the incorporation of blue objects, likewise referenced Charleston’s history and indigo’s economic significance as a plant and dye in the city. The work was later acquired and exhibited by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2007.

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Ann Ranked on the list of most popular Multimedia Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Ann Hamilton celebrates birthday on June 22 of every year.

In 1993 she performed her piece tropos at Dia Center for the Arts. The Greek word tropos indicates a turn, physically or figuratively. For the art piece, Hamilton covered the entire warehouse floor with varying colored interwoven horse hair. She sat at a small table, located in the middle of the room. While sitting at the table, she studiously burned each word from a book with an electric heated coil.

What did Ann Hamilton do?

Ann Hamilton, (born June 22, 1956, Lima, Ohio, U.S.), American installation artist who created performance art, physical objects, video and audio works, photographic prints, public art projects, site-specific sense-intensive installations, and other types of art.

What kind of art does Ann Hamilton do?

Ann Hamilton is a visual artist internationally acclaimed for her large- scale multimedia installations, public projects, and performance collaborations. Her site-responsive process works with common materials to invoke particular places, collective voices, and communities of labor.

Where is Ann Hamilton from?

Lima, OH

Is Ann Hamilton married?

Currently she resides in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband Michael Mercil , also an artist.

What medium does Ann Hamilton use?

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