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Image of a light red iron oxide square printed next to a dark red iron oxide square of equal size with circular embossment and debossment on both squares

elocution, 16 of 16, 2012-2013

About the artist

Ann Hamilton is a visual artist internationally recognized for her large-scale multimedia installations, public projects, and performance collaborations. Responsive to the contingencies of the sites where she works, her recurring forms—cloth, texts spoken and written, animals, and people suspended or in motion—immerse viewers in an atmosphere both visceral and literary, individual and collective, animate and inanimate, silent and spoken.

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 Emeritus in the Department of Art.

Among her many honors, Hamilton has been the recipient of the National Medal of the Arts, 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 and the 1999 Venice Biennale. She currently serves as a board member to The Wexner Center of the Arts, The American Academy in Rome, United States Artists, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters. (from 2021)

24"x24"

Master Printer Tom Reed

Other works by Ann Hamilton

Image of white square with a blue palimpsest of circles next to a dark blue square with a light blue palimpsest of circles
Grid of 16 dark blue carbon squares placed in a grid with light gray light blue circular shapes in the middle of each square
Image of a light red iron oxide square printed next to dark blue carbon square of equal size with circular embossment and debossments on both squares
Image of a light red iron oxide square printed next to a dark red iron oxide square of equal size with circular embossment and debossment on both squares
Image of a dark blue carbon square printed next to a light blue carbon square of equal size with circular embossment and debossments on both squares
Image of a dark blue carbon square printed next to a dark red iron oxide square of equal size with circular embossment and debossments on both squares
Image of a light blue carbon square printed next to a dark red iron oxide square of equal size with circular embossment and debossments on both squares
Image of a dark iron oxide square printed next to a dark blue carbon square of equal size with circular embossment and debossments on both squares
Image of a light red iron oxide square printed next to a dark red iron oxide square of equal size with circular embossment and debossments on both squares
Image of a light blue carbon square printed next to a dark blue carbon square of equal size with circular embossment and debossments on both squares
Image of a dark iron oxide square printed next to a dark blue carbon square of equal size with circular embossment and debossments on both squares
Image of a dark carbon square printed next to a light red iron oxide square of equal size with circular embossment and debossments on both squares
Image of a dark iron oxide square printed next to a dark blue carbon square of equal size with circular embossment and debossments on both squares
Image of a dark blue carbon square printed next to a light blue carbon square of equal size with circular embossment and debossments on both squares
Image of a light red iron oxide square printed next to a dark blue carbon square of equal size with circular embossment and debossments on both squares
Image of a dark iron oxide square printed next to a dark blue carbon square of equal size with circular embossment and debossments on both squares
Image of a dark blue carbon square printed next to a light blue carbon square of equal size with circular embossment and debossments on both squares