Stephen Hamilton is a mixed-media artist, researcher, and arts educator living and working in Boston, MA. He is currently a fourth-year Ph.D. Student in Harvards AAAs Program focusing on African Studies and African History. Hamilton has been an exhibiting artist for the past ten years in and around Boston, MA. These include solo and collaborative exhibitions at the Medicine Wheel Spoke Gallery, The Museum of the National Center for African American Artists, and the Joan Resnikoff Gallery. During the last two years, Hamilton worked on temporary site-specific, large-scale mixed-media textile and sculpture installations. These include The Founder's Project previously located at the Bruce C. Bolling Building, and Stitched Into Memory previously located at Atlantic Wharf. Hamilton worked in the permanent collections of private collectors as well as The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, The Rose Museum at Brandeis University and The Institute of Contemporary Art.
Hamilton graduated from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2009 with a focus on illustration. Thanks to a travel grant from Arts Connect International, he studied Yoruba weaving, dyeing, and woodcarving at the Nike Centers for Art and Culture in Osogbo and Ogidi Ijumu, Nigeria. He was an assistant professor in the Illustration Department of Massachusetts College of Art and Design from 2016-2021.