Ann Hamilton & SITI Company

Internationally renowned installation-art pioneer Ann Hamilton, who lives and works in Columbus and is a Distinguished University Professor in The Ohio State University’s Department of Art, has engaged the Wexner Center since New Works for New Spaces (1990–91), one of its inaugural exhibitions, and was the subject of the center’s 1996 survey of her multimedia work, the body and the object. She developed her interest in video through the support of the center’s Film/Video Studio Program and launched her first collaborations with performing artists such as choreographer Meg Stuart and multidisciplinary visionary Meredith Monk in projects spearheaded and commissioned by the center’s performing arts department. In addition to representing the US at the 1999 Venice Biennale, Hamilton has exhibited installations at such major institutions as the Park Avenue Armory, Guggenheim Museum, and Museum of Modern Art in New York, and has received the prestigious MacArthur “Genius” Award, among countless others.

Through Wexner Center creative residencies SITI Company has created and premiered multiple works at the center, including Bob (1998), Alice’s Adventures (1998), Room (2000), and Score (2002), and presented several other productions on the center’s stages. Among other notable accolades, SITI Company has received the Rene Castillo Otto Award for Political Theater and the American Theatre Wing Award.

Hamilton met SITI Company through SITI’s repeat visits to the Wexner Center, which led to her inviting SITI actors and designers to take part in her acclaimed, large-scale installation the event of a thread at the Park Avenue Armory in late 2012. This success triggered their interest in joining forces for the theater is a blank page.