Ann Hamilton is a visual artist internationally recognized for the sensory surrounds of her largescale
multimedia installations. Using time as process and material, her methods of making serve
as an invocation of place, of collective voice, of communities past and of labor present.
Noted for a dense accumulation of materials, her ephemeral environments create immersive
experiences that poetically respond to the architectural presence and social history of their sites.
Born in Lima, Ohio, in 1956, Ann Hamilton received a BFA in textile design from the University of
Kansas in 1979 and an MFA in sculpture from the Yale School of Art in 1985. From 1985 to 1991,
she taught on the faculty of the University of California at Santa Barbara. Hamilton has served
on the faculty of The Ohio State University since 2001, where she is a Distinguished University
Professor in the Department of Art.
Among her many honors, Hamilton has been the recipient of the Heinz Award, MacArthur
Fellowship, United States Artists Fellowship, NEA Visual Arts Fellowship, Louis Comfort Tiffany
Foundation Award, Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture, and the Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship.
She represented the United States in the 1991 Sao Paulo Bienal, the 1999 Venice Biennale, and
has exhibited extensively around the world.
The lecture is sponsored by the Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Series in Contemporary Sculpture and Criticism, endowed at UNT by Nancy A. Nasher, David H. Haemisegger and grandchildren.