Allison Janae Hamilton
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Allison Janae Hamilton (b.1984) is a visual artist working in sculpture, installation, photography, and video. She was born in Kentucky, raised in Florida, and her maternal family's farm and homestead lies in the rural flatlands of western Tennessee. Hamilton's relationship with these locations forms the cornerstone of her artwork, particularly her interest in landscape. Using plant matter, layered imagery, complex sounds, and animal remains, 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.
Hamilton has exhibited her work at numerous institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, Storm King Art Center, the Studio Museum in Harlem, MoMA PS1; the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery; the Jewish Museum, New York, NY; and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA). Hamilton received her PhD in American Studies from New York University and her MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University. She lives and works in New York, NY.
