Artist residencies have provided Hamill pivotal support, starting with a VSC Grant for residency at the Vermont Studio Center in 2009 and highlighted by the Copley Society of Art Fellowship Award for summer residency at Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC), Provincetown, MA, in 2017. She completed The Artist Residency Project at the School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York, in 2023, and travelled to Thailand for a Sam Rit Artist Residency in 2017.