Anthea Hamilton (born 1978) is a British artist who graduated from Leeds Metropolitan University (Leeds Beckett University)[1] and the Royal College of Art[2] and was one of four shortlisted for the 2016 Turner Prize. Hamilton was responsible for the show's most popular exhibit Project for a Door (After Gaetano Pesce) depicting a doorway consisting of large naked buttocks which reworks a proposal by Italian architect Caetano Pesci, dating from the early 1970s .[2][3] She is known for creating strange and surreal artworks and large-scale installations.
Her exhibitions have included Sorry I'm Late at Firstsite.
In 2017 she became the first black woman to be awarded a commission to create a work for Tate Britain's Duveen Galleries, and according to Alex Farquharson, Tate Britain's director, Hamilton has made a "unique contribution to British and international art with her visually playful and thoughtful works".[4][5] Her sculptures feature collage-like images which reuse images from her previous works.[6]
Early life
Hamilton was born in 1978 in London, where she lives and works.[7] She expressed no interest in becoming an artist as a child and she told her mother at an early age that she wanted to be an accountant, because of her love for maths.[3]
Solo exhibitions
2018: The New Life, Secession, Vienna, Austria
2018: The Squash, Tate Britain, London, UK
2015: Donuts, Fig-2, ICA, London, England
2014: LOVE (with Nicholas Byrne), Glasgow International, Glasgow, Scotland
2013: LET’S GO!, Bloomberg Space, London, England
2012: Kabuki, The Tanks, Tate Modern, London, England
2009: Calypsos (in collaboration with Nicholas Byrne), Studio Voltaire, Zoo Art Fair, London, UK, Anthea Hamilton, Ibid Projects, London, UK
2009: Spaghetti Hoops (curated by Jill Gasparina and Caroline Soyez-Petithomme), La Salle de bains, Lyon, FR
Turnhalle (Gymnasium), Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, DE
2008: Gymnasium, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
2007: Anthea Hamilton and Thomas Kratz, Mary Mary, Glasgow, UK
2007: Cut-outs, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2007: Art Statements Art Basel 38, Basel, Switzerland
2006: Solo Presentation, Liste 06: The Young Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
2005: How Deep Is Your Love?, Vision On, London, UK