Ruth Hamill is a visual artist whose interdisciplinary practice incorporates painting, printmaking, collage, and installation. She mines everyday language, old family snapshots and media images from the 1960s to explore the stickiness of gender roles cast in childhood and how everyday language supports patriarchal entrenchment.
In 2007, Hamill had her first solo exhibition. She has since shown her work in a dozen solo and two person shows in galleries in Chicago; Charleston, SC; the Boston area; Martha’s Vineyard, MA; Portland, ME; Southport, CT; and in 2025 in the Broad Street Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Her group exhibitions include the New Jersey Arts Annual, Noyes Museum of Art and Arts Garage; Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA; Copley Society of Art, Boston; Arts Club of Washington, D.C.; Attleboro Arts Museum, MA; and Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts, NJ, among others. 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. Hamill's MFA is from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.