The body in all
its vulnerability is recalled in Ann Hamilton’s welle, a wall
that weeps barely visible beads of water, as if it were a functioning body
rather than an architectural element. In her explorations of the complex
functions of boundaries, Hamilton has used such surfaces as conceptual
devices for upsetting the traditional distinctions between inside/outside
and human/nonhuman. Here she turns architecture into a seemingly living
membrane, reawakening the viewer to otherwise conventional surrounds. Her
interest in boundaries is further amplified in her video and photographic
works, which focus on the physiological and sensory aspect of speech.
Ann Hamilton, welle, 1998, water,
14 x 110 feet (detail)
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Ann
Hamilton has exhibited extensively in group shows since 1981, including
XXI Bienal de São Paulo and the 1991 Carnegie International, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania (1991); Sonsbeek 93, Arnhem (1993); Outside the Frame: Performance
and the Object, Cleveland Center for the Arts, Ohio (1994); About Place:
Recent Art of the Americas, The Art Institute of Chicago (1995); Longing
and Belonging: From the Faraway Nearby, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico (1995);
Jurassic Technologies Revenant, the 10th Biennale of Sydney (1996); Artists
Projects, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, and
Future, Past, Present, 1965-1997, 47th Venice Biennale (1997); and 48th
Venice Biennale (1999). Solo exhibitions of her work have been presented
at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1988); San Diego Museum of Contemporary
Art, La Jolla, California (1990); Dia Center for the Arts, New York (1993);
Tate Gallery Liverpool and Museum of Modern Art, New York (1994); Institute
of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1995); Wexner Center for
the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pennsylvania,
and Sean Kelly, New York (1996); Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, and Contemporary
Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (1997); and Miami Art Museum, Florida, and Musée
d’Art Contemporain de Montréal (1998). In 1989 Hamilton was awarded a Guggenheim
Memorial Fellowship, in 1990 a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, and in 1993
a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation grant.
Education
1974-76 St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York
1979 University of
Kansas, Kansas City, B.F.A.
1985 Yale School of
Art, New Haven, Connecticut, M.F.A.
Selected Further
Reading
Simon, Joan. “Ann Hamilton: Inscribing Place.” Art in America 87, no.
6 (June 1999): 76-85, 130, cover.
United States Pavilion,
48th Venice Biennale. Ann Hamilton: myein (1999). Exhibition catalogue,
texts by Katy Kline and Helaine Posner.
Dia Center for the
Arts, New York. Ann Hamilton: tropos (1995). Exhibition catalogue, texts
by Lynne Cooke, Bruce Ferguson, Dave Hickey, and Marina Warner.
Tate Gallery Liverpool,
England. Ann Hamilton: mneme (1994). Exhibition catalogue, texts by Judith
Nesbitt and Neville Wakefield.
San Diego Museum of
Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California. Ann Hamilton (1991). Exhibition
catalogue, texts by Lynda Forsha and Susan Stewart, interview by Forsha
and Hugh M. Davies.
Selected Links
www.diacenter.org/exhibs/hamilton/images.html
arts.usf.edu/art/naming.html
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