December 14, 2025
Ann Hamilton: still and moving • the tactile image
The Cleveland Museum of Art

Eight years in the making, Hamilton’s exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art focuses on a medium that has become increasingly important to her over the past decade—photography.
Hamilton used a handheld scanner to bring to life objects in the museum’s collection that are rarely on display: small-scale figurative ceramics and crèche figures from the 1600s to the 1800s. Her floor-to-ceiling images of the diminutive sculptures fill the walls and surround the viewer in the museum’s photography gallery. The sculptures become characters joined in a story that is hinted at but never told.
A different photographic medium—video—dominates the second of the exhibition’s two galleries, where three videos circle the walls. They ask us to consider the act of making, to explore the concept of turning in space, and to ponder the relationship between touch and language.

Autumn 2025
fallen
Emergence Magazine

Emergence Magazine returns to the collaboration with internationally acclaimed artist Ann Hamilton that calls you to offer your close attention to the fold, curl, and shrivel of the season’s fallen leaves. Inviting you to behold what is often overlooked, this experience asks if we might find beauty and the promise of renewal in the cycles of decay taking place around us.

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September 25 - December 12, 2025
Borrowed Hands
Dom Pedro V Theatre, Macao, China
Art Macao

The Macao International Art Biennale has commissioned artist Ann Hamilton to create the public artwork borrowed hands. Using the Dom Pedro V Theatre in Macao, the first Western theatre in China, as the venue, this artwork deconstructs the misunderstanding between Chinese and Western cultures through replicating the design, production, manufacturing and sales processes of export porcelain throughout history. Displayed in the theatre are Chinese folk Buddha statue collections from artist Zhang Xiao, which have either been scanned or printed into images or enlarged and carved into wooden sculptures. Combining multimedia elements such as lighting, sounds, interactive installations and video installations, this work reconstructs memories of Sino-Western trade by combining the historical building Dom Pedro V Theatre with a merchant ship, a symbol of Macao in the Age of Discovery, and incorporating historical artifacts, traces of human figures, and the emotional and interactive experiences of the audience in the cabin of the merchant ship. This spatial narrative not only integrates details from the misunderstandings about religious beliefs, folklore, legends, and cultural exchanges between China and the West, but also offers a multi-dimensional visual interpretation, highlighting the historical significance of Macao as a hub of Chinese and Western cultures while also addressing the uncertainties of the current global trade landscape.

Photo credit: Wenjian Gao

May 3 - November 2, 2025
We Will Sing
Salts Mill, Bradford, United Kingdom
Bradford 2025, UK City of Culture

Click here to watch The Hands of We Will Sing, a 15-minute film about the making of the project by Ali Lycett.

We Will Sing is a work of memory and imagining. Drawing on the origins of the textile processes that once filled this huge space, Hamilton’s site-responsive installation weaves together voice, song and printed word in a material surround made from raw and woven wool sourced from local textile companies H Dawson, based at Salts Mill, and William Halstead, which celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2025.

Curated by June Hill and Jennifer Hallam, We Will Sing features vocal and music collaborations with Emily Eagen and a new film created by Bradford-based filmmaker Ali Lycett that contextualises Hamilton’s practice and documents the making of the installation. A major engagement programme will include tours, readings, special events and an open invitation for us all to write a letter to the future, addressing the question at the heart of We Will Sing: What does the future need to know?

Click here to sumbit your letter to the future.

We Will Sing by Ann Hamilton was produced by Bradford 2025 in partnership with Salts Mill and supported by Arts Council England and William Halstead. Photo credits: Ann Hamilton Studio and David Lindsay.