Ann Hamilton

b. 1956, Lima, Ohio, United States

Ann Hamilton is a major American artist best known for her immersive multimedia installations that respond to architectural settings and social history.

Less well-known are her roots in fibre. After learning to weave with Cynthia Schira at the University of Kansas (BFA 1979), Hamilton spent the following year weaving at the Banff School of Fine Arts. “When I was first in Banff, I was doing work that was very much like [Schira’s]. I still feel a lot of my work comes out of a textile sensibility.” After Banff, she moved to Montreal before pursuing a graduate degree in sculpture at Yale (MFA 1985). Subsequent work has displayed a concern for the “relations of cloth, sound, touch, motion and human gesture” and a “dense materiality.”