Dell M Hamilton

Dell M. Hamilton is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and independent curator whose artist talks, solo performances, scholarly lectures, and collaborative performances have been presented to a wide variety of audiences in the U.S., (including Boston University, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, the Smithsonian Museum National Portrait Gallery, and Peabody Essex Museum), as well as in France (Musée Quai Branly), Italy (New York University, Villa La Pietra) and Chile (Perfolink: Plataforma LatinoAmericana de Arte de Performance). Born in Spanish Harlem with ancestral roots in Belize, Honduras and the Caribbean, her practice wrestles with the social and geopolitical constructions of memory, gender, race, language and history through the mediums of photography, video, drawing, installation & performance.

Dell received a B.A. in Journalism from Northeastern University and received a merit scholarship to obtain her M.F.A. in studio art through a joint program of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University, where she studied with artists Marilyn Arsem & Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons.

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