Speakers
- Dell M. Hamilton
- Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University
Dell Marie Hamilton is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and independent curator whose artist talks, solo performances and collaborative projects have been presented to a wide variety of audiences in New York at Five Myles Gallery, Panoply Performance Lab, and MOCADA, as well as in the New England area at MIT, Boston University, the Museum of Fine Arts/Boston, the ICA/Boston, and the RISD Art Museum. In 2019, Dell presented her first solo show “All Languages Welcomed HERE” at Salem State University (Massachusetts) and was also included in the “Intermittent Rivers” group exhibition curated by artist and educator Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons for the 13th Havana Biennial. Working across a variety of mediums including performance, video, painting and photography, Dell uses the body to investigate the social and geopolitical constructions of memory, gender, history and citizenship. With roots in Belize, Honduras and the Caribbean, she frequently draws upon the personal experiences of her family as well as the folkloric traditions and histories of the region. She has presented her scholarly work at the Black Portraiture[s]: The Black Body in the West conference held in 2013 at the Musée Quai Branly in Paris, and at Black Portraitures II: Imaging the Black Body and Restaging Histories conference held at New York University/Villa La Pietra in Florence in 2015. She currently works on a variety of projects at Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research where she previously served as the assistant director. She has a B.A. in journalism from Northeastern University (Massachusetts) and completed her MFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University (Massachusetts). Her curatorial project “Nine Moments for Now” was ranked by Hyperallergic.com as one of 2018’s top 20 exhibitions in the U.S.