Allison Janae Hamilton

Photo by Frankie Alduino

Allison Janae Hamilton (b. 1984 in Kentucky, raised in Florida) has exhibited widely across the U.S. and abroad. Her work has been the subject of institutional solo exhibitions at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) and Atlanta Contemporary. Select recent group exhibitions include there is this We, Sculpture Milwaukee; The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (traveling); Shifting Horizons, Nevada Museum of Art; Enunciated Life, California African Art Museum; More, More, More, TANK Shanghai; Indicators: Artists on Climate Change, Storm King Art Center. 

Allison Janae Hamilton, still from "A House Called Florida", 2022

I wanted to make work that is a mirror to an experience like mine, to consider…the history and reality…through the lens of people that are…forgotten about.

- Allison Janae Hamilton

Allison Janae Hamilton, still from "A House Called Florida", 2022
Allison Janae Hamilton, still from "A House Called Florida", 2022
Allison Janae Hamilton (b. 1984), "A House Called Florida," 2022. three-channel film installation (color, sound), 34:46 min. Courtesy the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen. TGM11. Photography by Mitro Hood. Courtesy of the Mississippi Museum of Art and Baltimore Museum of Art.
Allison Janae Hamilton (b. 1984), "A House Called Florida," 2022. three-channel film installation (color, sound), 34:46 min. Courtesy the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen. TGM11. Photography by Mitro Hood. Courtesy of the Mississippi Museum of Art and Baltimore Museum of Art.
Allison Janae Hamilton (b. 1984), "A House Called Florida," 2022. three-channel film installation (color, sound), 34:46 min. Courtesy the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen. TGM11. Photography by Mitro Hood. Courtesy of the Mississippi Museum of Art and Baltimore Museum of Art.
Allison Janae Hamilton (b. 1984), "A House Called Florida," 2022. three-channel film installation (color, sound), 34:46 min. Courtesy the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen. TGM11. Photography by Mitro Hood. Courtesy of the Mississippi Museum of Art and Baltimore Museum of Art.
Allison Janae Hamilton (b. 1984), "A House Called Florida," 2022. three-channel film installation (color, sound), 34:46 min. Courtesy the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen. TGM11. Photography by Mitro Hood. Courtesy of the Mississippi Museum of Art and Baltimore Museum of Art.
Allison Janae Hamilton (b. 1984), "A House Called Florida," 2022. three-channel film installation (color, sound), 34:46 min. Courtesy the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen. TGM11. Photography by Mitro Hood. Courtesy of the Mississippi Museum of Art and Baltimore Museum of Art.
Allison Janae Hamilton (b. 1984), "A House Called Florida," 2022. three-channel film installation (color, sound), 34:46 min. Courtesy the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen. TGM11. Photography by Mitro Hood. Courtesy of the Mississippi Museum of Art and Baltimore Museum of Art.

Allison Janae Hamilton, still from "A House Called Florida", 2022

Work by the artist is held in public collections, including Hood Museum of Art, The Menil Collection, Nasher Museum of Art, Nevada Museum of Art, and Speed Museum of Art, among others. Hamilton has participated in a range of fellowships and residencies, including the Whitney Independent Study Program, NY; Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; and Fundación Botín, Santander, Spain. She is the recipient of the Creative Capital Award and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant. Hamilton holds a PhD in American Studies from New York University and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University. She lives and works in New York.

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