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Hamilton Artists Inc. is an artist run centre located in the downtown core of Hamilton, Ontario, at 161 James St North, at the corner of James St. North and Canon St. The centre was founded in 1975, making it one of the founding centres of the artist run centre movement in Canada. The centre was established by a group of artists in response to the lack of exhibition venues in the region. The centre has been exhibiting emerging and mid-career artists from across Canada for over 25 years. The mandate of Hamilton Artists Inc. emphasizes that the centre is committed to the presentation, dissemination and support of contemporary visual arts practice in Canada. The centre seeks to reflect the concerns of emerging and mid-career artists within the context of both a local and larger national discourse. The centre presents a diverse range of multidisciplinary programming with a primary focus on emerging aesthetics in contemporary art including: installation, painting, photography, graphic arts, video, performance and new media. The centre pays CARFAC artist fees for all selected exhibitions, programs and curatorial initiatives and supports the processes of working artists by providing them with an accessible forum which acts as a social backdrop for their artistic investigations. The centre empowers artists and cultural producers by supplying them with necessary resources and a cooperative working environment, which facilitates artistic freedom of expression. In recent years, the centre has exhibited International artists with the goal of increasing exposure to a wide range of contemporary art works for the emerging and mid career artists in Hamilton and its surrounding region. Recent exhibitions have included works by Attila Richard Lukacs, Hakim Abdul Onitolo, Nathalie Daoust, Mario Doucette, Fiona Kinsella, Tor Lukasik-Foss, Steve Mazza, Susan Detwiler, Noel Harding and David Acheson, Andy Fabo, Liss Platt, and Corinne Duchesne.