Anthea Hamilton

Born:
1978
Residence:
London, United Kingdom
Nationality:
British
Trust:
APT London
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  • On Milly Thompson, Emma Hart and Jonathan Baldock, Tala Madani, Helen Marten, Caragh Thuring, Leah Capaldi, Simon Fujiwara, ‘Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s,’ and the Guerrilla Girls.

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  • The Art Fund has announced the five museums which have been selected as finalists for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2017, the most prestigious prize for museums in the UK.

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  • The digital revolution has made us crave authenticity. When everything is reduced to anonymous, characterless electronic “information”, we yearn for physical and emotional substance: the crackle of good old vinyl records, the lived interaction of proper theatre, the atavistic sugar orgy of baking.

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  • Landmark fashion meets great sculpture in the designer’s ambitious new show.

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  • New Salon space will host selling exhibitions in collaboration with blue-chip galleries

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  • The artist beat Anthea Hamilton, Michael Dean, and Josephine Pryde to £25,000 prize with complex sculptures made from array of materials.

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  • A Hayward Touring exhibition opening at the Whitworth, The University of Manchester.

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  • The Instagram moment is the bare bum, of course: a gigantic backside clutched by a pair of muckle hands. It comes straight from the carnivalesque. Or not quite straight, because the artist, Anthea Hamilton, has enlarged it from a design by Gaetano Pesce for a New York apartment block, to which it would have been a doorway...

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  • Is it really that time of year already? It seems like yesterday that I was waiting in line to board a morning flight up to Glasgow to cover the last incarnation of the Turner Prize.

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  • Anthea Hamilton’s 10m-high Gaetano Pesce-inspired sculpture of parted buttocks is catching eyes this week, as pictures of it installed at Tate for the Turner Prize exhibition proliferate.

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  • Tomorrow, the Turner Prize 2016 opens to the public, featuring a giant bum and £20,436 worth of penny coins

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  • A model train and bare buttocks are among artworks nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize.

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  • Anthea Hamilton's giant pair of golden butt cheeks steals​ the show at England's annual Turner Prize Exhibition.

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  • With curious junk, lumpy sculptures and a train to nowhere, this year’s shortlisted Turner prize artists – Michael Dean, Anthea Hamilton, Helen Marten and Josephine Pryde – conspire to both baffle and delight.

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  • Francesca Gavin talks to the curators of Tate's contentious contemporary art event to find out more about its four contenders.

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  • Members of the public have their first chance to see the artwork nominated for the Turner Prize when an exhibition featuring the four artists opens later.

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  • Lisa Cooley Gallery, an influential Lower East Side space that opened on Orchard Street in 2008, has closed, sources tell ARTnews.

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  • If you’re planning on leaving the metropolis for your staycation, Artlyst has put together a selection of the best UK shows outside of London.

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  • Last September, SculptureCenter announced that all of its solo shows in 2016 would feature work by female artists—a plan that, in an ideal world, would not be treated as breaking news, but here we are.

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  • An exciting new series of immersive performances that will add to the Serpentine’s growing programme of experimental live events, are set for the 2016 calendar at the gallery.

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  • Anthea Hamilton, Michael Dean, Helen Marten and Josephine Pryde earn place on shortlist

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  • This year's overall winner will be announced in December. This year’s Turner Prize shortlist has gone bottoms-up, with Anthea Hamilton’s eighteen-f

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  • For the exhibition “LOVE IV: Cold Shower” Anthea Hamilton and Nicholas Byrne inhabit the Schinkel Pavillon with an installation of large, free-standing, brightly-coloured inflatable sculptures.

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  • The Contemporary Art Society in London and SculptureCenter in New York have joined forces with patron and collector—of works by female artists only—Valeria Napoleone as part of a new project, Valeria Napoleone XX.

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  • In an age when everyone can play with their formal representations for the outside world, the group exhibition “Don’t You Know Who I Am? – Art After

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  • Hot on the heels of the British Art Show 7, the Saatchi gallery has just launched "Newspeak," the second part of its survey of young British artists.

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  • The artist shoots on an open set for her new film inspired by 70s Italian motifs and American superrealism at Hoxton's IBID Projects

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  • In an age when everyone can play with their formal representations for the outside world, the group exhibition “Don’t You Know Who I Am? – Art After

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  • Hot on the heels of the British Art Show 7, the Saatchi gallery has just launched "Newspeak," the second part of its survey of young British artists.

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  • The artist shoots on an open set for her new film inspired by 70s Italian motifs and American superrealism at Hoxton's IBID Projects

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BIOGRAPHY

Anthea Hamilton was born in 1978 in London, United Kingdom, where she continues to live and work. Evolving out of a cross-disciplinary engagement with performance, Hamilton’s sculptural practice is engaged in opening up theatrical spaces into which she projects herself, creating elaborately staged self-portraits that resemble three-dimensional Surrealist tableaux. Her sculptures are props for narratives that have yet to be realized. They are precarious and subjective formations that seem to be poised on the cusp of realization and collapse. Although made deeply autobiographical through the recurring insertion of personal motifs, such as Hamilton’s signature cut out of her own leg, these installed scenarios involve viewers on a bodily level through a combination of tactile materials and sensual allusions. For her exhibition “Gymnasium” at Chisenhale Gallery, London (2008), Hamilton choreographed found objects into a sexually charged environment reminiscent of a sports complex, complete with ropes, red tatami mats and physical training equipment.

 
Anthea Hamilton has recently presented solo exhibitions at Frieze Projects New York, Randall’s Island, New York, US (2016), Love IV: Cold Shower, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, DE (with Nicholas Byrne) (2016), Kettle’s Yard, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, UK (2016), The Magazine Sessions in collaboration with Fiorucci Art Trust, Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London, UK (2016), Lichen! Libido! Chastity! Sculpture Center, Long Island City, US (2015) House, Curated by S Handlykken &  P Eeg-Tverbakk, Commissioned by KORO, Oslo, NO (2015), Donuts, Fig-2, ICA, London, UK (2015), Just Kimonos, Shanaynay, Paris, FR (2014), Love (with Nicholas Byrne), Glasgow International, Glasgow, UK (2014), Venice (The Kabuki Version), 59th International Short Film Festival, Flatness: Cinema after the Internet, Curated by Shama Khanna, Oberhausen, DE (screening with interactive performance) (2013),IBID Projects, London (2009), La Salle de Bains, Lyon (2009), Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg (2009), Chisenhale Gallery, London (2008) and Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam (2007). Her work has also been shown as part of "Newspeak: British Art Now” at Saatchi Gallery, London (2010), “Art Now: Strange Solution” at Tate Britain, London (2008), “Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art “ at Barbican Art Gallery, London (2008), and “Blackberrying” at Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen (2007).
 

Anthea Hamilton is currently nominated for the Turner Prize.


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