Alex Hamilton

Born 1958 in Adelaide, Australia


Education

1993 - 94 Tutor and Technician Printmaking Department, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
1989 Diploma of Adult Education, Hawthorne Campus, University of Melbourne, Australia
1982 Diploma of Canberra School of Art, Canberra, Australlia


Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008 Empty and Invisible, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art (May 08)
2007 In space we trust, T1+2 Artsapce, London
2005 scope Miami, patrick heide art projects (Feature Artist)
If you head was closed off on all sides, patrick heide art projects, London
2003 Please do not forget your surface, T1+2 Artspace, London
2001 Alex Hamilton - Recent Work Succession Gallery, London
1996 New Works (created during residency), Kunstverein Salzburg, Austria
The straight line, Alpha Jetzt Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany
1995 Sixteen different landscapeds British Council, Prague, Czech Republic


Selected Group Exhibitions & Performances

2009- Spikes Performance at 175 Gallery, London, Pecha Kucha evening.
If you melted I would melt myself into you. Alex Hamilton, Jürgen von Dückerhoff & Christian Holstad at Patrick Heide Contemporary Art.
Speaker & Pannel Member on ‘Un:Place A multidisciplinary event exploring the city as artistic resource’ at Jerwood Space, London
2008 Open Folds Hockney Gallery Royal College of Art
All Capital letters Deutsche Bank December 4 London
Dead City St Pancras Cript August 27 Curated by Hugh Mendes London
/seconds. Magazine Issue 9 online publishing project edited by Peter Lewis
The Free Art Fair London October London
Aqua Miami Patrick Heide Contemporary Art
2007 Free Art Fair (with Chantal Joffe, Terry Smith, Bob & Roebrta Smith), London
Avatar of sacred discontent, London
Obsession durch Technik, artMbassy, Berlin
Salon 2007-New British Painting & Works on Paper, Workplace Gallery, London
Fire, Performance and exhibition at Sartorial Gallery, London
2006 The end of civilisation, Port Elliot Literary Festival (incl. J & D Chapman, Paul Fryer and Rut Blees Luxemberg), Port Elliot, UK
concrete, sausage and other team ghosts, after the butcher Gallery, Berlin
Table Top, Josee Bienvenue Gallery, New York
Water, Sartorial Gallery, London
New Gothic (curated by Martin Sexton), Tate Britain, London
2005 Art News (incl. Martin Creed & Gillian Wearing), Raid Projects, Los Angeles
Guardian Angel St Olave Church, London (curated by Martin Sexton)
from our cold hands VTO Gallery London (curated by Thomas Kilpper)
2004 Artist’s Association of Autonomous Book Art and Magazines, Book Fair, Berlin
Art News (incl. Martin Creed & Gillian Wearing) Three Colts Gallery, London
The Patterns on the Plans and the Lack of Plan Plan T1+2 Artspace, London
Publish and be damned Artist’s Publication Show, The Crypt, London
2003 Mothers Oxford House, London, (curated by Harry Pye)
2002 Swiss light on the Tate Swiss Embassy, London (Performance)
2000 Stoke Newington Festival (Performance), UK
Pagemakers London Artist’s Book Fair, London
La llama International Artist’s Workshop, Venezuela
1994 - 99 Pagemakers Gracefield Arts Centre (Touring exhibition), UK
Braziers International Artist’s Workshop, Braziers, UK
Super Nature Studio A, London
Lady’s Smoking Room Installtion, Grand Midway Hotel, St. Pancras, London
Worth St. Pancras Station, London
A Matter of Making CSA Alumni, Canberra, Australia
Fragile Objects Embassy of Australia, Washington DC, USA
De la ville du Locle Winterthur, Switzerland & National Library of Australia, Canberra
Washington Art Book Fair, Corcoran Gallery, DC, USA
Ten Years of Graphic Investigation Canberra School of Art, Canberra, Australia
1991 Books and Boats State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
The City and Beyond La Trobe University Gallery, Melbourne (Touring Exhibition)
1989 Four Bodies Stuart Gertsmann Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1987 Scitture: Pagine e Immagini National Library, Milan, Italy (curated by Gino Gini)


Bibliography (selection)

2008 Book By Artists: Australian Artists Books By Alex Selenitsch Publisher Parkes, A.C.T. National Gallery of Australia
2007 Laura K Jones on Alex Hamilton at T1+2 London Saatchi Website
Celeste Art Prize short list catalogue
2006 The Gentle Art of Making Enemies by Andrew Colard, Lulu publications
Tintin and the secret of Literature by Tom Mc Carthy, Gratna Books.
Celeste Art Prize short list catalogue.
2004 Contemporary Art Magazine, Review of „Art News“, Melissa Gronlund
Contemporary Art Magazine, Review of T1+2 Show, Andy Weir
2003 The Independent, 29th July 05, Review „Please do not forget your surface“
Sue Hubbard
1989 The Age, Review of „Four Bodies“ Exhibition, Elizabeth Cross

Grants & Residences

2000 VACB Travel Grant, Australia Council
1999 Braziers International Artist’s Workshop
1995 Artist in Residence, Künstlerhaus Salzburg, Austria
1993/94 Artist in Residence, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
1992/93 VACB Project Grant, Australia Council
Extraordinary Fellow, Akademie Vytvarnych Umeni


Collections

Saatchi Collection
Baltimore Museum of Art
Denver Museum of Art (Polly & Mark Addison Collection)
The Progessive Collection, Ohio
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Tate Library, London
National Gallery of Australia
The Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
Gino Gini Archives, Milan
Art Gallery of South Australia
Judith Hoffberg Archives, California, USA
Paragon Press, Charles Booth-Clibbon, London
Private Collections in Australia, Scotland, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, UK & US