# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ann-hamilton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:18:05.193Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ann-hamilton"
name: "Ann Hamilton"
slug: "ann-hamilton"
description: "Ann Hamilton is an American visual artist who emerged in the early 1980s, known for her large-scale multimedia installations. After receiving her BFA in textile design from the University of Kansas in 1979, she lived in Banff, Alberta, and Montreal, Quebec, Canada before deciding to pursue an MFA in sculpture at Yale in 1983. From 1985 to 1991, she taught on the faculty of the University of California at Santa Barbara. Since 2001, Hamilton has served on the faculty of the Department of Art at the Ohio State University. She was appointed a Distinguished University Professor in 2011."
tagline: "Visual artist (born 1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/New_WTC_Cortlandt_1_Station_(30685500988)_-_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1956-06-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.752737333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.annhamiltonstudio.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/348228"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%86_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "آن هاميلتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%86_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "آن هاميلتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Hamilton"
    title: "Ann Hamilton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Hamilton_(artist)"
    title: "Ann Hamilton (artist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Hamilton"
    title: "Ann Hamilton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9F_%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%98%D7%95%D7%9F"
    title: "אן המילטון"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Hamilton"
    title: "Ann Hamilton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Hamilton"
    title: "Ann Hamilton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/14ee7e27-c8e7-41e4-a207-fa364b712f5a"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4766433"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump