Jamie Hamilton

Jamie Hamilton's work has been exhibited internationally at venues including the Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Fe and the Lindner Project Space in Berlin. Hamilton grew up in Santa Fe, NM, where he studied classical piano for thirteen years with proteges of Claudio Arrau and Arthur Rubinstein. He holds a BA from Bard college in New York and an MFA from Transart University in Berlin. A climber since the age of eight, Hamilton has explored the Himalayas, Alps, Canadian Rockies but most enjoyed climbing El Capitan. Building wood, concrete and steel structures for Judy Pfaff, working with Tom Joyce and Bruce Nauman, and as a rigger in the entertainment world have solidified a knowledge of material and working processes that informs his artwork. Drawing from a varied background in sport, music and building, Hamilton's interdisciplinary work arises from curiosity about the limits of the body, knowledge and materials. Described by ARTnews as a “free-wheeling modern-day Leonardo,” Hamilton makes an art of pursuing balance in precarious circumstances, evoking both mythic themes and contemporary dilemmas.

2002 BA Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, NY

2014 MFA, Transart University, Berlin/New York

Solo Exhibition:
2016:
Limits To Human Performance, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM
2015:
 Incompleteness Theorem, Solo Exhibition, Chiaroscuro Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2012
Arrhythmic Visions, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2011
Eros, Launch Projects, Santa Fe, NM
2005
Sidereal Motion, No space, Rosendale, NY

2017
Brewery Art Walk, Los Angeles, CA
Spread 6.0,  Presentation Competition, Site Santa Fe, NM
Beauty is the Antidote, Group Exhibition, Electric Pony Studio, Los Angeles, CA
2016   
Brewery Art Walk, Group Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
Site Unseen 9, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Just south of Washington Ave, Clandestine high wire performance, Los Angeles, California
Between the 10 and 5, Clandestine high wire performance, Los Angeles, California
Currents New Media Festival, Santa Fe, NM
Ready Made: 100 years, Axle Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2015
High Wire, Bread and Soup, Solo High Wire Performance, Glorieta, NM
Axle Indoors, Peter Projects, Santa Fe, NM
2014
Art Collision and Repair, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
Morsel of Ground, Clandestine Solo Highwire Performance, Güterbahnhof Pankow, Berlin, Germany
Currents New Media, Santa Fe, NM
Geophilia, Solo Aerial Performan...