Ann Hamilton (born June 22, 1956, Lima, Ohio) is a contemporary American artist best known for her installations, and use of textiles and sculptures. June 22 is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 192 days remaining. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Downtown Lima. ...
She trained in textile design at the University of Kansas and later received an MFA from Yale University in sculpture. She taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara from 1985 to 1991, and won the MacArthur Fellowship in 1993. The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is a coeducational public university located in Santa Barbara County, California. ... The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution. ...
In 1999, Hamilton was the American representative to the Venice Biennale, where her work, a series of glass, and textured walls addressed the topics of slavery and oppression in American society. View of Pump Room, a work by the Hungarian artist Balázs Kicsiny at the Venice Biennale in 2005. ...
Major Works
Some of her best known installations include:
tropos
corpus
and the permanent installation Floor of Babble in the new Seattle Public Library building.
Archbishop Hamilton was hanged at Stirling in 1571 for alleged complicity in the murder of Darnley, and is said to have admitted that he was a party to the murder of Murray.
At the pacification of Perth in 1573 the Hamiltons abandoned Mary's cause, and a recon-ciliation with the Douglases was sealed by Lord John's marriage with Margaret, daughter of the 7th Lord Glamis, a.
James Douglas, 4th duke of Hamilton (1658-1712), eldest son of the preceding and of Duchess Anne, succeeded his mother, who resigned the dukedom to him in 1698, and at the accession of Queen Anne he was regarded as leader of the Scottish national party.
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