Robert Hamilton

Robert Hamilton is an Atlanta-based artist whose practice spans encaustic painting, sculpture, works in raw hide and three-dimensional digital fractals. Moving between ancient methods and contemporary technology, he builds forms that are at once fleshy and mechanical, recognizable and strange.

Hamilton holds a BFA from the Atlanta College of Art. His 35-year career in higher education has unfolded at Spelman College, where he spent decades as an arts lab manager before joining the faculty of the Department of Art and Visual Culture, where he is a Senior Instructor. His research spans arts technology, food studies, pomology and environmental science. He helped shape Spelman's Food Studies minor and Innovation Lab, and he has collaborated with colleagues across environmental studies, anthropology, psychology, sociology and Asian studies, shaping generations of artists along the way.