Ann Hamilton (b. Lima Ohio, 1956) is a visual artist internationally acclaimed for her large scale multi-media installations, public projects, and performance collaborations. Her site responsive process works with common materials to invoke particular places, collective voices, and communities of labor.

Hamilton has received the National Medal of Arts, MacArthur Fellowship, Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, NEA Visual Arts Fellowship, United States Artists Fellowship, the Heinz Award, and was selected to represent the United States at the 1991 Sao Paulo Biennial and the 1999 Venice Biennale.

She received a BFA in textile design from the University of Kansas in 1979 and an MFA in Sculpture from the Yale University School of Art in 1985. Hamilton currently lives in Columbus, Ohio where she is Distinguished University Professor of Art at The Ohio State University.