Katy Hamer

Katy Diamond Hamer is an art writer with a focus on contemporary art and culture. Writing reviews, profiles, interviews and previews, she started the online platform Eyes Towards the Dove in 2007 and was first published in print in 2011 with Flash Art International. Hamer had a column with Flash Art from 2011-2016. Interview highlights include Robert Storr, Helmut Lang, Courtney Love, and Rebecca Horn. Taking a cue from art writers such as Jerry Saltz and movements such as Arte Povera (Italy, 1962-1972), Hamer believes that the language used to describe contemporary art should be both accessible to a large audience as well as informed regarding art historical references. Having grown up in New York, she has been visiting art museums and galleries since the age of 16 and cannot imagine a world without art, or the written words used to allow others to also experience a particular level of engagement.

Clients include Grand Life, The Creative Independent, The Art News Paper, Cool Hunting, BOMB, Cultured Magazine, Galerie Magazine, Flash Art International, W Magazine, New York Magazine (Vulture), The Brooklyn Rail and others.

Hamer is also an Adjunct Faculty member of Summer School at the Sotheby's Institute of Art and a Continuing Education Faculty at the New York School of Interior Design. Both as of 2019.

Education:

• New York University, Steinhardt School of Education, New York
• M.A., Studio Art, 2009, Magna Cum Laude
• NYU facilities in New York, Venice, Italy & Accra, Ghana
• Studied with Lyle Ashton Harris, Gerry Pryor, Maureen Gallace, Keith Mayerson, Nancy Barton
• The Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
• B.F.A., Fine Art Illustration, 1999, Magna Cum Laude
• Magna Cum Laude, Liberace Scholar, Presidential Scholar
• With extended study at Polimoda, Florence, Italy