Anthea Hamilton (London, born 1978) is a British visual artist known for large-scale sculptures and installations with a strange, surreal character. She trained at Leeds Metropolitan University, now Leeds Beckett University, and at the Royal College of Art, and in 2016 she was one of four artists shortlisted for the Turner Prize.
Her most visible work from that period was Project for a Door (After Gaetano Pesce), a doorway formed by a pair of large naked buttocks. The piece reworks a proposal by the Italian architect Gaetano Pesce from around the early 1970s, and it became the most popular exhibit in the show. Her sculptures often include collage-like images that reuse material from earlier works.
In 2017 she became the first Black woman to be commissioned to make a work for the Duveen Galleries at Tate Britain. Alex Farquharson, Tate Britain's director, praised her unique contribution to British and international art, citing the mix of visual playfulness and thought in her work.
Her solo exhibitions include The New Life at the Secession in Vienna (2018), The Squash at Tate Britain (2018), and Kabuki at The Tanks, Tate Modern (2012). Her legacy lies mainly in how her work plays with scale, humour and the reuse of her own images.