Dell Marie Hamilton

Dell Marie Hamilton’s expansive multimedia practice includes curatorial projects as well as painting, drawing, sculpture, video, photography, and performance art, which has been featured at the Museum of Fine Arts,Boston; the Clark Art Institute; and the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College. In 2019, she was a participating artist in the Ríos Intermitentes exhibition curated by María Magdalena Campos-Pons for the Havana Biennial. In 2021, she was a recipient of the ICA/Boston’s James and Audrey Foster Prize. Her work has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, the Boston Globe, Hyperallergic, Art in America, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, and, most recently, in Kimberly Juanita Brown’s latest book, Black Elegies: Meditations on the Art of Mourning (MIT Press, 2025). Her work has also been featured in the 2024 documentary film Out of the Picture, written and directed by journalist Mary Louise Schumacher, which chronicles the last decade of contemporary art practice and its profound impact on art criticism and the changing media landscape. In 2024, she also received a Dean’s Distinction Award for outstanding contributions to Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and is currently the acting director of the Alain Locke Gallery at Harvard's Hutchins Center for African & African American Research. Her work is also in the collections of Google, Tufts University, and the MIT List Visual Arts Center.

You can visit Dell at dellmhamilton.com or on Instagram at @dellmhamilton.

Photo courtesy of the artist