Gage Hamilton is an artist and curator from Portland, Oregon, currently residing in Seattle, Washington. 

He received his BFA in Digital Arts and BA in Political Science from University of Oregon in 2011.

In 2012, he worked as an arts + culture contributor for Converse in Portland, London and Tokyo. While this was more lifestyle oriented, it provided his first platform to share artists vision and practice while connecting with an international community. 

He founded the 501(c)3 nonprofit Forest For The Trees in 2013, curating and producing over 100 public murals by local and visiting artists from 25 different countries over six years. This was on the heels of murals becoming legal in Portland, quickly making the city a regional standout for its contemporary public artworks. 

In 2015, he created the Public Art Plan for the SODO Public Transit Corridor for Seattle’s 4Culture, which he then developed into SODO Track, a 2-mile mural project featuring 60 artists from 2016-2018. This project received recognition for Best In Public Art from Americans For The Arts awards.

In 2019, he founded Tips On Failing, a diverse, community-centric art and gathering space exploring sociopolitical issues and histories in a converted North Portland warehouse. This included extensive research into regional emerging artists that had gone previously unrepresented, often serving as a springboard for these artists and curators careers. 

Leading up to the 2020 Presidential Election, he worked with Facebook’s Artist-In-Residence program on a public art campaign to encourage voter participation. For this, he and a team of artists and videographers traveled around the US in an RV, installing 50 public artworks in San Diego, Los Angeles, Colorado Springs, Fort Worth, Birmingham, Atlanta, Miami, Philadelphia, New York City, and Detroit.

Coming out of the pandemic in 2022, he rallied a team to relaunch Forest For The Trees as an indoor arts festival in Seattle’s RailSpur building, filling an 8-story 80,000 sq ft building with 9 exhibitions during the week of Seattle Art Fair. This festival has continued every Summer, opening large scale exhibitions to the public, and has expanded to include a growing number of rotating public artworks throughout the Pioneer Square neighborhood.

In 2023, he began working as a curator with the arts production agency ARTXIV, curating monthly exhibitions and events in RailSpur’s ground floor gallery and alleyways. These exhibitions helped to revitalize Pioneer Square’s historic First Thursday Art Walk, which had suffered due to the changing post-pandemic landscape. 

In 2024, he continued working with ARTXIV as a curator for Hotel Westland, developing a renowned collection of artworks created in residency by an impressive roster of emerging, mid-career and established artists. This collection then made its debut at Seattle Art Fair, generating excitement for Hotel Westland’s pioneering art program.