Stephen Hamilton is a mixed-media artist, researcher, and arts educator living and working in Boston, Massachusetts. He is currently a First Year Ph.D. Student in Harvard’s AAAS (African And African American Studies) Department. His research focuses on the indigenous textile industries of southern Nigeria. Hamilton has been an exhibiting artist for the past ten years. These include solo and collaborative exhibitions at the Medicine Wheel Spoke Gallery, Boston MA, (2020) and The Museum of the National Center for African American Artists, Boston MA (2016). Hamilton has worked on temporary site-specific large-scale mixed media textile and sculpture installations for the past four years. These include "The Founder's Project," previously located at the Bruce C. Bolling building In Boston MA (2018-2019), and "Stitched Into Memory," previously located at Atlantic Wharf, also in Boston MA (2017). Hamilton has work in the permanent collections of The Museum of Fine Arts Boston and The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston.