Ruth Hamill Ruth Hamill is a visual artist working across painting, printmaking and collage to explore transience in contemporary life through pervasive symbols such as ocean waves and cut flowers.
The Vermont Studio Center was my introduction to artist residencies, back in 2009.  The VSC gave me a grant to go; Helen Frankenthaler was on the board; the studio was huge compared to my studio at the time.  Heaven.

The Vermont Studio Center was my introduction to artist residencies, back in 2009. The VSC gave me a grant to go; Helen Frankenthaler was on the board; the studio was huge compared to my studio at the time. Heaven.

View from my Vermont Studio Center studio in January 2009.

View from my Vermont Studio Center studio in January 2009.

The Tin Shop Residency in Breckenridge, Colorado, in June 2009.

The Tin Shop Residency in Breckenridge, Colorado, in June 2009.

The air in Breckenridge...so different from my life at sea level.

The air in Breckenridge...so different from my life at sea level.

I re-applied and the Tin Shop generously took me back for a second residency 18 months later (December 2010).  This time, I  really fell in love with the mountains.

I re-applied and the Tin Shop generously took me back for a second residency 18 months later (December 2010). This time, I really fell in love with the mountains.

My next artist residency was almost 6 years later in Harrington, Maine, at the Golden Apple Residency.  Generous scholarship award from the residency made it possible for me to go.

My next artist residency was almost 6 years later in Harrington, Maine, at the Golden Apple Residency. Generous scholarship award from the residency made it possible for me to go.

Lobster boats went past my studio window from dawn to dusk and I found the industriousness motivating.

Lobster boats went past my studio window from dawn to dusk and I found the industriousness motivating.

In 2017, I was the Copley Society Fellow in residency at the Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC) and it was great to be in Provincetown and the studio in that storied creative place.

In 2017, I was the Copley Society Fellow in residency at the Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC) and it was great to be in Provincetown and the studio in that storied creative place.

FAWC, Provincetown, Mass., September 2017

FAWC, Provincetown, Mass., September 2017

My first international residency to Sam Rit, Thailand, November 2017.

My first international residency to Sam Rit, Thailand, November 2017.

Where I worked much of the time when on residency in Thailand.

Where I worked much of the time when on residency in Thailand.

BIO
Ruth Hamill is a visual artist working with a range of techniques on canvas and on paper to explore transience in contemporary life through pervasive symbols such as ocean waves and cut flowers.

In 2007, Hamill had her first solo exhibition. She has since shown her paintings in eleven solo and two person shows in galleries in Chicago; Charleston, SC; the Boston area (Gloucester, Ipswich, and Beverly, MA); Martha’s Vineyard, MA; Portland, ME; and Southport, CT.

Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Art New England, Artmag of the South, and The Charleston Post and Courier.

In addition, her paintings have been included in group exhibitions in Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA; Copley Society of Art, Boston; Arts Club of Washington, D.C.; National Association of Women Artists, NY; Shore Institute of Contemporary Arts, Long Branch, NJ; the Attleboro Arts Museum, MA, Bone Creek Museum, David City, NE, and The Noyes Museum and Noyes Arts Garage, Hammonton and Atlantic City, NJ, and among others.

Hamill participated in and received grants and fellowships for numerous artist residencies. This year, she completed The Artist Residency Project at the School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York, NY. Previously, she received a residency fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC), in Provincetown, MA, supported by the Copley Society of Art, and a VSC grant for residency at the Vermont Studio Center. Other residencies include the Tin Shop in Breckenridge, CO, and the Golden Apple Residency in Maine, for which she received a scholarship. Her first international residency was Sam Rit Artist Residency in Thailand and later this year she travels to Galway, Ireland, for a residency at Watershed Studios.

Ruth Hamill was born and raised in Chicago, lived in the Boston area for many years, and for the past 8 years has lived and worked near the water in May’s Landing, New Jersey, splitting her time during the past year between New Jersey and the mountains outside Golden, Colorado.