Allison Janae Hamilton | Celestine
January 30th - March 8th, 2025
Marianne Boesky Gallery
Installation View @ Marianne Boesky Gallery
509 West 24th Street, New York, NY, 10011
Opening: Thursday, January 30 | 6–8 PM
(Via Marianne Boesky Gallery) Hamilton has exhibited widely across the United States and abroad. Her work has been the subject of institutional solo exhibitions at the Georgia Museum of Art, the Joslyn Art Museum, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), and Atlanta Contemporary, as well as a commissioned solo project with Creative Time. Her sculpture, Love is like the sea… (2023) is currently on view in the Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition, presented by The Helis Foundation in New Orleans, LA. Select recent group exhibitions include A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, organized by the Mississippi Museum of Art and the Baltimore Museum of Art; there is this We at Sculpture Milwaukee; The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Shifting Horizons at the Nevada Museum of Art; Enunciated Life at the California African Art Museum; More, More, More at TANK Shanghai; and Indicators: Artists on Climate Change, Storm King Art Center. Hamilton’s work is included in public collections such as the Hood Museum of Art, The Menil Collection, Nasher Museum of Art, Nevada Museum of Art, and Speed Museum of Art, among others. Hamilton has participated in a range of fellowships and residencies, including at the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; and Fundación Botín, Santander, Spain. She is the recipient of the Creative Capital Award and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant. Hamilton holds a PhD in American Studies from New York University and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University. She lives and works in New York.
