Barbara Hammer is a visual artist primarily working in film and video. Her work reveals and celebrates marginalized peoples whose stories have not been told. Her cinema is multi-leveled and engages an audience viscerally and intellectually with the goal of activating them to make social change. She has been honored with five retrospectives in the last three years: the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, Tate Modern in London, Jeu de Paume in Paris, the Toronto International Film Festival and Kunsthalle Oslo in Norway. Her book Hammer! Making Movies Out of Sex and Life was published in 2010 by The Feminist Press at the City University of New York. 

She teaches at the Euorpean Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Her work is represented by the gallery KOW in Berlin, Germany. COmpany (formerly Capricious88) will exhibit her drawings and paintings in a one-woman show in New York City opening in September of 2015.

Barbara Hammer lives and works in New York City and Kerhonkson, New York.