biography
 Mary Oestereicher Hamill is known for her award-winning collaborative documentary installations. Her interactive "regardisregard," developed with the homeless, was shown at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Sanders Theater, Harvard. Her documentary mixed-media piece "regardregard: project china, chinatown," made in Beijing and New York, was presented at the Danforth Museum of Art and the Boston Cyberarts Festival. Her art has also been shown at the Rose Art Museum, the Carpenter Center, the Massachusetts State House, North American Sculpture Exhibition, Boston City Hall, Tufts University, Emory University, Stanford University, Longy School of Music, as well as in Virginia, New York, India, Uruguay, Vietnam, China, Spain, France, and England. Hamill, the mother of two adult sons, turned to making art as a step beyond her career in educational reform, work that led to four national awards and to a set of U.S. legislation (PL94142). She served as Senior Research Scientist in the New York Mental Health system, tenured Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies at Brooklyn College, and Associate Professor of Psychology and Dean Undergraduate Studies at Babson College, where she led the acclaimed curriculum reinvention. Hamill earned a Diploma from the Museum School and received the Traveling Scholar award. She has held artist residencies at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and at Djerassi Resident Artists Program in California. She is Resident Artist/Scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University and lives in Cambridge and New York.
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Art Awards
- Fellow, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA, 2011 and 2006.
- Resident, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 2004.
- "Traveling Scholar, 2003-04" by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. 93rd recipient of the Ruth A. Sturdivant Award.
- Tyre Foundation Awards, 2010 and 2007
- Tavris Foundation Award, 2005
- Dean's Grant, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, 2003.
Exhibitions
- "Abiquiu Blanket", Abiquiu Chamber Music Festival, New Mexico, August, 2010
- “regardregard: project china/chinatown” multimedia installation, Danforth Museum of Art, March, 2009.
- “Aged in China.” A collaboration with hutong residents. Exhibition in YanYue Center for Culture, Beijing, August, 2008. Featured in TransCulturalExchange “Here, There, and Everywhere,” Boston, April, 2009.
- “TraDong Vietnam where there is no doctor” video after August 2006 public intervention at village cultural center in Quangnam province. January, 2007.
- “regardisregard” 7. Multimedia presentation featuring words and images of and by the homeless, with composition by Ruth Lomon sung live by Boston Secession in benefit for Cambridge Housing Assistance Fund, Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, September, 2006.
- “Cloud Messenger” video installation, with music with Jasna Jovicevic, Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Woodside, CA, July, 2006.
- “Sand Dance” and “Barn Dance” videos with choreography and dance by Martin Inthamoussu and Gabriel Calderon, music with Jasna Jovicevic, and poetry by Tina Chang. Nosideoedison Gallery, Montevideo, Uruguay, October, 2006.
- “regardisregard” 6. a collaboration with the homeless. Multimedia and webcam installation, Traveling Scholars Exhibition, Foster Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, February and March, 2004.
- “regardisregard” 4. a collaboration with the homeless. Interactive installation, Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, April 2003.
- "regardisregard" 1. a collaboration with the homeless. Performative installation, Massachusetts State House, Boston, March 2003.
- "What Water Tells Me," video in collaboration with Ruth Lomon original composition for 3 flutes. Music performed by Auros, Pickman Auditorium, Longy School of Music, April, 2001.
- "editedin," sculpture with G. Berg, Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, May 2001.
- "Constructs of Frailty," installation with music performed by Boston Secession, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, March, 2001.
2000 North American Sculpture Exhibition, Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO, May-July, 2000.
- Emory University, "Constructs of Frailty," solo installation, May, 1999
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 30th MiniPrint International, Taller Galeria, Cadeques, Spain; Tharrats Graphic Art Foundation, Pineda de Mar, France; Galerie L'Estangd'Art, Bages, France; Wingfield, England, 2010.
- Filmmakers Showcase Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, Virginia; Auvillar, France; New York, New York. 2011
- "Chess--Adjustable Objects VII and VI," Medialia Gallery, New York, January, 2011 and January, 2010.
- "Cairns," Kniznick Gallery, Brandeis University, June-October, 2009
- "Dead Video/Live Video Festival," Boston Cyberarts Festival, Pozen Center, Massachusetts College of Art, May, 2009.
- "The Tile Project, Destination the World" sponsored by TransCulturalExchange and United Nations in KU Art Center, Beijing, August, 2008.
- "Sustaining our Environment," Women's Caucus for Art and United Nations Development Fund for Women, Dallas, February, 2008.
- Brandeis University Salon of the Arts, April, 2007.
- International Video Festival, Women's Caucus for Art, Waltham, February 2006.
- "Visions of Active Citizenship," Tufts University College, 2005-6.
- "Boston 375," Boston City Hall and Logan International Airport, 2005-6.
- "Reach for the Stars," Brandeis University, October, 2005.
- "Art in Life," Tressider Union, Stanford University, PaloAlto, CA, October, 2004.
- Graduates' Shows, Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, May 2002, 2003.
- Sukkot, Brandeis University, October, 2002.
- "Recuerdos de Cuba," Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June, 2001.
- "Film and Video Annual," Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, May, 2001.
- "Sanctuary," Women's Caucus for Art, Rothschild Gallery, Radcliffe Institution, Cambridge, MA, February, 2000.
- Carpenter Center Summer Show, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, August, 1999.
- Habitat Gallery, Belmont, MA, February, 1997 and 1998
Public Art
- “Cairns: Proportional Representation,” Installation series, Boston, February, 2009.
- “regardregard: project china/chinatown.” Video projections, New York City, November, 2008.
- “regardisregard” 5. a collaboration with the homeless. Installation with audio, international conference of Womens Institute for Policy Research, Washington, DC, June, 2003.
- “regardisregard” 3. a collaboration with the homeless. Performative installation, Episcopal City Mission, Boston Common, April, 2003.
- “regardisregard” 2. a collaboration with the homeless. Performative installation with the advocacy group HEAT, Boston streets, March, 2003.
- "Tributary," Performative installation with Ruth Lomon original composition for three flutes, Brandeis University pond, May, 2000.
- "River Buoys," Installation, on the Muddy River at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March, 2000
- "Sculpticles," Lighted installation in collaboration with eight artists, on the Fenway, Boston, December, 1999
Professional Positions
- Resident Artist/Scholar, Women's Studies Reesearch Center, Brandeis University, 1996-present.
- Dean, Undergraduate Studies, and Associate Professor of Psychology, Babson College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 1992-1995
- Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies, and tenured Assistant Professor, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, 1980-1992.
- Project Manager, Research and Demonstration Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. 1975-1977.
- Instructor, John Jay College, Department of Communications Skills, 1974-1975.
- Senior Research Scientist, New York State Department of Mental Hygiene. Championed client to forge Public Law 94142. 1968-74.
- Instructor, Wayne State University, Department of English, 1967-1968.
Education
- Ph.D., Psychology, Columbia University, 1980.
Dissertation: On the contribution of category context to visual word recognition of exemplars: a developmental study.
- M.Phil., English, University of Sussex, England, 1977.
Dissertation: On George Eliot and the Meanings of Middlemarch.
- A.B., Religion & English, University of Michigan, 1964. With freshman year at Stanford University 1960-61, and post-baccalaureate study at Hunter College, 1969.
Postdoctoral
- School of Museum of Fine Arts Fifth Year Certificate, 2003 (teaching assistant to Magdalena Campos-Pons).
- School of Museum of Fine Arts Diploma, 2001. (98-99 studied intermediate and advanced painting with Paul Stopforth at Tufts).
- Art in Amsterdam Workshop with Charles Goss, Wacker Academy of Art, Amsterdam, July, 2009.
- New media workshop and show with Andy Zimmerman, Massachusetts College of Art, Spring, 2006.
- Public intervention workshop and fieldwork, Santa Fe Art Institute, December, 2006.
- Harvard University, DES, Mixed Media Seminar, Summer, 1999.
- Bennington College, Art New England, Advanced Abstract Painting with Carol Haerer, Summer, 1997; and Color with Ellen Kozak, Summer, 1998.
- DeCordova Museum, Drawing with Rebecca Doughty, 1996.
Press Coverage of Artwork
- Mandell, Fred, Becoming a Life Change Artist, pp. 202-205, Penguin Group, 2010.
- Rosenzweig, R, "Mother Art and Maternal Health" Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, Canada: York University Press, 2009.
- "Aged in China," Here, There and Everywhere: Anticipating the Art for the Future, Boston: TransCultural Exchange, 2009.
- Feeney, Mark, "From Paris to China to Space, a Shift in Focus" Boston Sunday Globe, April, 11, 2009.
- Bergeron, Chris. "Global Exploration at the Danforth," The Daily News, March 29, 2009.
- Totty, Heather Holt, "World-Class Art in Framingham," AAAHorizons, New England, March, 2009.
- Davidson, Susie, "State House show to feature city's homeless people," Cambridge Chronicle, March 12, 2003.
- Ericson, Bethany, “Art as Dialogue at MFA: Hamill achieves a rare democratic engagement with her art,” Cambridge Chronicle, March 4, 2004.
- Sweeney, Emily, "An insider's look at homelessness," The Boston Globe, Thursday March 13, 2003.
- Sweeney, Emily, "Survivors, but barely so: An exhibit probes world of homeless," Boston Sunday Globe, March 23, 2003.
- Pulse Field, International Archive of Sound Art, Georgia State University, 2002 ff.
- Cleary, David, “Auros for New Music,” 21st Century Music, September, 2001.
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