Background
Hamilton, Ann Katherine was born on June 22, 1956 in Lima, Ohio, United States. Daughter of Robert S. and Elizabeth B. Hamilton.
23 Romoda Dr, Canton, NY 13617, United States
St. Lawrence University
1450 Jayhawk Blvd, Lawrence, KS 66045, United States
University of Kansas
New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
Yale University
Santa Barbara, California 93106, United States
University of California in Santa Barbara
Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
Ohio State University
Hamilton, Ann Katherine was born on June 22, 1956 in Lima, Ohio, United States. Daughter of Robert S. and Elizabeth B. Hamilton.
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Textile Design, University Kansas, 1979. Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture, Yale School Art, 1985. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Rhode Island School Design, 2002.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), School Art Institute Chicago, 2005.
She has memories of sitting on the couch with her, reading, knitting, and doing needlepoint together. Hamilton prefers the term "maker" to "artist." 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.
In 1999, Hamilton represented the United States at the 48th Venice Biennale at the United States Pavilion with her work myein.
Since 2001, she has been a Professor of Art at The Ohio State University. In 1989, she performed Privations & Excesses at Capp Street Project, located in San Francisco.
Hamilton covered the entire room with 750,000 pennies and sat in the room wringing her hands inside a hat filled with honey. Behind her, was a barred room with several grazing sheep.
In 1993 she performed her piece tropos at Dia Center for the Arts.
She covered the entire floor with interwoven horse hair and sat at a desk, located in the middle of the room. While sitting at the desk, she erased words from a book with a heated coil. From December 7, 2012 to January 6, 2013, Hamilton presented new work titled the event of a thread at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, New New York Hamilton was commissioned by museum director Sylvia Wolf to create new works for a museum-wide exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle called the common South East North South East. Hamilton drew from collections at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture and holdings in the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections to create an exhibition about animals, the commonalities we share with animals, and our uses of animals.
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.
Married Michael John Mercil, November 1993. 1 child, Emmett Moore Mercil.