Morgan Joseph Hamilton

b. 1988
Transmedia artist, edu-curator, scholar
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Morgan Hamilton is a multi-state artist writing his doctoral dissertation in 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 Museum Programs and Learning Manager at The Delaware Contemporary in Wilmington, Delaware.

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He is a son of retired US Navy Cryptologists. His childhood was spent moving around the world, a privilege of colonial imperialism that engendered his love of culture and advocacy for tolerance. His work ranges from performance and video to sculpture and installation, exhibiting abroad and at home. 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.

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