Allison Janae Hamilton Explained

Allison Janae Hamilton
Birth Place:Lexington, Kentucky
Nationality:American
Alma Mater:Columbia University, New York University, Florida State University
Website:allisonjanaehamilton.com

Allison Janae Hamilton (born 1984) is a contemporary American artist who works in sculpture, installation, photography and film.

Early life and education

Hamilton was born in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1984 and raised in Florida, with family rooted in Tennessee and the Carolinas.

Hamilton received her MFA in visual arts from Columbia University, PhD in American studies from New York University, MA in African-American studies from Columbia University and two BS degrees from Florida State University.[1]

Work

Hamilton's relationship with the locations of her upbringing and family roots forms the cornerstone of her artwork, as particularly seen in her engagement with the landscapes of Northern Florida and Western Tennessee. Using plant matter, layered imagery, complex sounds, metal, and found objects, Hamilton creates immersive spaces that consider the ways that the American landscape contributes to our ideas of "Americana"; and social relationships to space in the face of a changing climate, particularly within the rural American south.[2]

Hamilton is known as an interdisciplinary artist, whose artwork ranges from immersive multi-channel film installations, monumental outdoor sculpture, and environmental portraits. Hamilton refers to landscape as the "central protagonist" in her work, rather than a backdrop, and through the blending of land-centered folklore and personal family narratives, she engages haunting yet epic mythologies that address the social and political concerns of today's changing terrain.[3] [4]

Hamilton has presented solo exhibitions at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and the Joslyn Art Museum, and has also exhibited her work at Storm King Art Center, the Museum of Modern Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and others. In 2021, Hamilton presented an immersive film artwork, Wacissa, on 73 screens in Times Square in New York City.[5] She is a recipient of the Creative Capital Award[6] and a Rema Hort Mann Foundation grant.[7] She was a 2013-2014 fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program, sponsored by the Whitney Museum of American Art.[8] She has been awarded artist residencies at the Studio Museum in Harlem (New York),[1] Recess (New York)[9] and Fundación Botín (Santander, Spain).[10] Work by the artist is held in public collections such as the Menil Collection, Nasher Museum of Art, Nevada Museum of Art, the Hood Museum of Art and the Speed Art Museum.

In 2023, Hamilton's work was included in the Spirit in the Land traveling exhibition and publication, organized by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. The show is on view at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida, in 2024.[11] [12] [13]

Hamilton is represented by Marianne Boesky Gallery (New York and Aspen).

Selected solo exhibitions

Selected collections

References

  1. Web site: Studio Visit: Allison Janae Hamilton . Studio Museum in Harlem . Kima Hibbert . 19 October 2022.
  2. Web site: 'The Landscape is a Witness' Aunjanue Ellis Talks with Allison Janae Hamilton . The Bitter Southerner . 27 July 2021 . 17 October 2022.
    - Art Museum Announces New Acquisition of Allison Janae Hamilton Sculptural Work . Syracuse University Art Museum . 17 October 2022.
  3. Web site: Allison Janae Hamilton: Pitch . Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art . 2018 . 17 October 2022.
  4. Web site: Biography . Allison Janae Hamilton . 17 October 2022.
  5. Web site: Wacissa: Midnight Moment . Times Square Arts . 19 October 2022.
  6. Web site: Announcing the 2019 Creative Capital Awards . Creative Capital . 11 January 2019. 31 August 2022.
  7. 2017 Emerging Artist Grant in New York City. Rema Hort Mann Foundation . 31 August 2022.
  8. Web site: Whitney Independent Study Program: Critical Studies Symposium. 13 March 2021 . Whitney Museum of American Art.
  9. Web site: Recess . Recess Presents: Wonder Room. March 13, 2021.
  10. Web site: 15 artistas procedentes de 10 países participarán en el Taller de Artes Plásticas de Villa Iris de la artista Joan Jonas en Santander. 2 May 2016. 13 March 2021 . Fundación Botín . es . 15 artists from 10 countries will participate in the Villa Iris Plastic Arts Workshop of the artist Joan Jonas in Santander.
  11. Web site: Spirit in the Land . 2024-02-28 . Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University . en-US.
  12. Web site: Spirit in the Land • Pérez Art Museum Miami . 2024-02-28 . Pérez Art Museum Miami . en-US.
  13. Book: Schoonmaker, Trevor . Spirit in the land: Exhibition, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 2023 . 2023 . Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University . 978-0-938989-45-5 . Durham, North Carolina.
  14. Web site: Allison Janae Hamilton A Romance of Paradise March 27 - April 24, 2021. 13 March 2021. Marianne Boesky Gallery.
  15. Web site: Waters of a Lower Register. 13 March 2021. Creative Time.
  16. Web site: Allison Janae Hamilton - Passage . 13 March 2021 . Atlanta Contemporary.
  17. Web site: 2017. Allison Janae Hamilton: Wonder Room. 13 March 2021. Recess.
  18. Web site: Blackwater Creature III . Hood Museum . 6 August 2021 .
  19. Web site: Recent Acquisition: Allison Janae Hamilton . Nasher Museum of Arts at Duke University . 31 August 2022.
  20. Web site: Yard Sign with Yellow and White Constellation, Yard Sign with Blue Constellation . Nevada Museum of Art . 6 August 2021 .
  21. Web site: 'Remixing the Hall' presents new research, new acquisitions, and new voices . Williams College Museum of Art . 31 August 2022.

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