Artist
Co-director of Kunstverein Toronto
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Live Wire, Tender Stakes Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto, Ont
2021 Tight Register, Loose Change Tops Gallery, Memphis, TN
2019 Nothing is Wild Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto, Ont
2018 Water in Two Colours AGO, Toronto, Ont
2017 Character Witness Queen Specific, Toronto, Ont
2016 SAFE Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto, Ont
2016 Wane Awareless and Lifted G Gallery Toronto, Ont
2012 Gift. Provenance: unknown Salon 94, NY, NY
2003 Prototypes for New Landscapes General United, Brooklyn, NY
2002 Lost Reception Art Lot, NY
2002 “What More Do You Know Joe” Siegel House, Marfa TX
2001 6’ Under White Box, New York City
2000 Waiting for Celebrity Ally, London, England, public video installation
1999 Ant Onward, Paris, France, public video installation
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 there is this We Sculpture Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
2021 Salon Hang Kunstverein Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Holland
2019 Somebody MKG127, Toronto, Ont
2019 Vanishing Act Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2017 Sandra Meigs in Context AGO, Toronto, Ont
2017 STAGES: Drawing the Curtain Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Manitoba
2017 Homestead Carl Louie, London, Ont
2017 Nasty Dan Faria Gallery, Toronto, Ont
2016 Accompaniment EFA Project Space, NY, NY
2015 River Crossings Thomas Cole House, Catskill NY
2015 Off the Shelf Tate Liverpool, UK
2015 Opening Aspen Museum, Aspen CO
2014 Where Were We Kunstverein, Amsterdam, Holland
2013 Trim Front Gallery, Houston, Texas
2013 Can Cats Talk to Dogs in their Own Way Taut and Tame, Berlin, Germany
2012 Genius Loci Mississauga Art Gallery, Toronto, ONT
2012 The Haberdashery Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2012 Material By Duro Olowu Salon 94, NY, NY
2011 Waiting Ground Kate Werble Gallery, NY, NY
2009 We’re all gonna die Sue Scott Gallery, NY, NY
2009 We’re all gonna die Number 35 Gallery, NY, NY
2008 Design and Art Armory Show Feature, NY, NY
2007 Crown Jewels Salon 94 Freeman, NY, NY
2007 Holiday Reading Number 35, NY, NY
2006 Could Have Been the Weather Tatar Gallery, Toronto, Ont
2006 WallpaperLab Lennon Weinberg Gallery, NY, NY
2004 Nothing Compared to This: ambient, incidental and new minimal tendencies in current art Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
2004 Working Editions: An Exploration of Art and Function Wallpaper Fine Art in Space, NY, NY
2004 Forest by Paula Hayes with outdoor “Wallpaper” by Kara Hamilton, Salon 94, NY, NY
2003 Morning Call by Katy Grannan with “Wallpaper” by Kara Hamilton, Salon 94, NY, NY
2002 Loving El Paso Terlingua House Projects, Alpine, TX
2001 Untilted Haggerty Gallery, Dallas, TX
2000 Non Stop Beautiful Ladies Marfa, TX, curated by Steffen Boddeker
1999 Dog Show Marfa ,TX, curated by Steffen Boddeker
1998 Big Deal Marfa, TX, curated by Steffen Boddeker
EDUCATION
1999 Yale University, New Haven, CT, M.F.A (Sculpture)
1993 University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, Bachelor of Architecture
1989 Concordia University, Montreal, Que., B.F.A
PUBLICATIONS
2020 Art in America, A New Meaning for "We the People" by Glenn Adamson
https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/kara-hamilton-katy-grannan-we-the-people-1234573187/
2019 Art Forum, Critics’ Picks, “Water in Two Colours” https://www.artforum.com/picks/kara-hamilton-78860
2017 Border Crossings, issue 144, “STAGES: Drawing the Curtain”
2017 Momus, Online http://momus.ca/performance-art-blows-open-prairies-stages/
2017 Hyperallergic, Online https://hyperallergic.com/398466/making-art-from-a-citys-isolation/
2017 Canadian Art, Studio Visit Online Video https://canadianart.ca/features/video-studio-kara-hamilton/
2016 esse “Wane Awareless and Lifted” by Alex Bowron http://esse.ca/en/g-gallery-toronto-wane-awareless-lifted-kara-hamilton
2016 BOMB “Accompaniment” by Charity Coleman
2016 TK-21 “Accompanying Our Own Past” by Jae Wook Lee
2015 Old Gold (catalogue)
2015 New York Times “River Crossings” by Daniel Van Benthuysen
2014 Art Forum “Kara Hamilton, Christine Roland with Angie Keefer. Shoes by Steffie Christiaens” by Robert Jan Muller
2012 Metalsmith vol.32 “Kara Hamilton- Gift: Provenance Unknown” by Rosanne Raab
2012 Wall St. Journal profile
2009 The Compendium Finale of Contemporary Jewellery Makers Cologne: Darling Publications,
2009 New York Times Magazine
2007 New York Times
2004 Art Forum “Nothing Compared to This”
2003 Vogue Magazine
2001 Lundy issue 1 & 2
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