A native of Tennessee, Hamlett Dobbins spent most of his life in Memphis.  He received his BFA from the University of Memphis in 1993 and went on to receive his MA and MFA from the University of Iowa in Iowa City.  After completing his graduate studies, Dobbins moved to Memphis where he worked as a curator for Delta Axis @ Marshall Arts while teaching at University of Memphis, University of Mississippi and at Memphis College of Art.  In 2000 he received a fellowship for a residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont as well as a three month residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, Nebraska.  He has received grants from the Pollock Krasner Foundation as well as the Tennessee Arts Commission’s Individual Artists Grant.  He has shown his work throughout the region as well as at Art in General in New York, NP40 in Amsterdam, Dogmatic in Chicago, and Lump Gallery in North Carolina. His work has appeared in New Art Examiner, Art Papers and Number.  Since 2001 Dobbins has worked as the director for the Clough-Hanson Gallery at Rhodes College where he has curated shows with Thomas Nozkowski, Roe Ethridge, Jon Haddock, Radcliffe Bailey and Nikki S Lee.  When not painting or curating he is eating bar-b-que and spending time with his wife, Julie, his five year old daughter, Milla, and three year old son, Ives.