Ann Hamilton Biography

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Ann Hamilton (born June 22, 1956, Lima, Ohio) is a contemporary American artist best known for her installations, textile art, and sculptures, but is also known to work with video and video installation.

She trained in textile design at the University of Kansas and later received an MFA from Yale University in sculpture. She taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara from 1985 to 1991 and won the MacArthur Fellowship in 1993.

In 1999, Hamilton was the American representative to the Venice Biennale, where her work, a series of glass and textured walls, addressed the topics of slavery and oppression in American society.

Allegheny Riverfront Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is one of her major commissions.

Major works

Some of her best known installations include:

• tropos
  
• corpus
  
• and the permanent installation Floor of Babble in the new Seattle Public Library building.
  

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