Mary Oestereicher Hamill

Areas of Expertise

Contemporary Installation Art

Email: maryoham@brandeis.edu

Current Project

Proceeding from years of documentary installation work with the homeless in Boston and with rural villagers in Vietnam, Hamill is now focusing on her video installation “Aged in China.”  This project is one of sixty cross-cultural art collaborations in forty countries being featured by TransCulturalExchange in its international event “Here, There, and Everywhere,” 2009.

Biography

Mary Oestereicher Hamill is both a multimedia artist and a developmental psychologist. Her installation, sculpture and video have been shown in Montevideo, in Berlin, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Rose Art Museum, and the Carpenter Center and Sanders Theatre at Harvard University.  In addition to her public art at the Massachusetts State House, her community-based projects have been presented in California and in Vietnam. Other exhibitions include North American Sculpture Exhibition, Boston City Hall, Tufts University, Emory University, Radcliffe Institute, Massachusetts College of Art, and Longy School of Music. Hamill turned to making visual art as a step beyond her extensive career in educational innovation and reform, work that led both to two national awards and to a set of US legislation. She served as Senior Research Scientist in the New York Mental Health system, tenured Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies at Brooklyn College, and Associate Professor of Psychology and Dean of Undergraduate Studies at Babson College. Hamill’s art awards include Traveling Scholar (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), as well as a residency at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and a fellowship at the Djerassi Program in California. A frequent collaborator with other artists, she is the mother of two adult sons and resides in Cambridge and in the Bay area of California.

Education

Ph.D., Columbia University

M.Phil., University of Sussex, England

B.A., University of Michigan

Representative Publications

Exhibitions

Hamill, Mary O.  Interwoven Vietnam., Multimedia installation on community-based work in Tra Dong.  Brandeis University, April 2007, and Stanford University, October 2007.

Hamill, Mary O. with Lomon, Ruth, composer, regardisregard: a collaboration with the homeless, multimedia installation at Sanders Theatre, Harvard University,  September, 2006.

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