Morgan Joseph Hamilton

b. 1988
Transmedia edu-curator, scholar, artist
Pisces ✸, Capricorn ☽, Capricorn ↑

About

Morgan Joseph Hamilton is an artist with no fixed home. He was born to US Navy Cryptologists at the end of the Cold War, and by virtue of colonial imperialism, saw the world through military bases and what remained of conquest. The double vision of cultural exploration and White, Western hegemony situated his tolerance and global perspective, while blindly leading him to uphold US imperialist ideals. His understanding of the world bifurcated at each contradiction in life; hard work gets you far while the highest earners work the least, be true to yourself unless you need to mask to get what you need, be honest with all institutions even when they lie to you, etc. He embodied the maxim Bloom where youre planted and adapted to ever-changing home fronts, economic hardships, and personal growth. Hamilton has doubts about reality and the norms we accept without question. Currently, he is speaking to you in the third person.

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Hamilton is writing his doctoral dissertation for the Museum Education and Visitor-Centered Curation program at Florida State University. His research interests concentrate on new media exhibition for visitor and artist equity in the contemporary art space, and the professionalization of the museum education field. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in installation, performance, and video, an Honors in the Major, and minors in non-western art history and visual cultures, and geography from Florida State University. He received his Master of Fine Arts in installation, performance, and video from The University of Delaware, after which he taught new media courses to its undergraduate fine arts and visual communications students. Hamilton also served as the associate curator at The Delaware Contemporary before joining the Center for Undergraduate Research and Academic Engagement at Florida State University as an Assistant Director in 2018. He has been working full-time towards his doctorate since 2019, expecting to graduate in 2024. Hamilton is currently the Director of Museum Learning at The Delaware Contemporary in Wilmington, Delaware. He is a transmedia artist and creates future realms whose bedrock is in our present experience.

Morgan Joseph Hamilton received the A. Gray Magness Scholarship for creative merit from The University of Delaware, and a Mentored Research and Creative Endeavors Grant from Florida State University. He is featured in ART Habens 10th Anniversary Biennale publication and Create! Magazine's Issue IX. He regularly contributes interviews, workshops, and reviews to video series, radio talk shows, and digital and print publications such as Speak, Speak at Grizzly Grizzly in Philadelphia and Creators Vice. He has exhibited in Germany at Berlin's Tapir Kunsthalle, at CICA Museum in Gyeonggi-do in South Korea, at London's Five Years gallery, and UK-based virtual Skelf Site gallery. His solo shows have ranged from full-scale installation at Gallery 621 in Tallahassee, FL to public participatory performance at Practice Gallery in Philadelphia, PA. He is focused on publishing for the field of museum education, with a chapter in Dimensions of Curation (2023), and conferences. He is currently co-editing Creating Digital Exhibitions: A Guide with colleague and friend Zida Wang.

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