Claire Ashley

Resume

    Born:1971 Edinburgh, Scotland


    Education:

  • 1993 - 1995: MFA, Painting and Drawing, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago , Chicago, IL

  • 1989 - 1993: BA(Hons), Painting and Drawing, Grays School of Art, Aberdeen, Scotland


    • Selected Solo Exhibitions:

  • 2012 (forthcoming) Claire Ashley, Plush Gallery, Dallas TX (Jan/Feb 2012)

  • 2011 (forthcoming) Claire Ashley, Happy Collaborationists Exhibition Space, Chicago, IL Nov 12, 2011

  • 2011 Claire Ashley – Onewall Micro Exhibition Space, Chicago, IL

  • 2010 Full Fill: Hoose Haul / Body Extension 3 – gallerA1 @ The Lighthouse, Edinburgh, Scotland

  • 2010 Full Fill: Objects for Tossing – Highland Institute for Contemporary Art, Loch Ruthven, Scotland

  • 2009 Inflatabubble – Spoke: at the intersection of ideas, dialogue, and change, Chicago, IL

  • 2008 Flown the Coop - Fine Arts Center Gallery, Northeastern Illinois University

  • 2008 Bedrock: The Stuff of Life - Harold Washington Chicago Public Library


    • Selected Group Exhibitions/Events:

  • 2011 The Perpetual Motion of a Still Life, curated by Sara Black, Sarah Belknap, and Joseph Belknap, Ryerson Woods Conservation Center, Deerfield, IL

  • 2011 AIR: tasteless, odorless, colorless. New Work by Claire Ashley/Mark Booth", Sidecar, Hammond, IN

  • 2011 Art Santa Fe: Project Space, Santa Fe, NM

  • 2011 NON CON FORMAL, Claire Ashley, Stephanie Pichta - Eggman and Walrus Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

  • 2011 The Precession, Spring Performances, Mark Jeffery/Judd Morrissey, wings and floor: Claire Ashley, Hyde Park Art Center

  • 2010 The Precession, by Mark Jeffery/Judd Morrissey, floor installation: Claire Ashley, Hyde Park Art Center

  • 2010 Hover: site-specific installation, for "Mischief Night", Hyde Park Art Center

  • 2010 Remember 2010?: http://thegalleryspace.tumblr.com, curated by Louis Doulas

  • 2010 The Living Newspapers: with Mark Jeffery, Judd Morrissey, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

  • 2010 Rhinofest: Chicago’s 21st Annual Rhinoceros Theater Festival, Prop Theater, Chicago

  • 2009 Home Wreckage: a subversive musing on domestic ideals, Devening Projects, Chicago, IL

  • 2009 The Network as a Space and Medium for Collaborative Interdisciplinary Art Practice Conference, sculptural commission for Mark Jeffery, Judd Morrissey’s “The Precession”, Bergen, Norway

  • 2009 Open Daybook: a perpetual calendar book project, Valencia, CA

  • 2008 Department Store - School of the Art Institute of Chicago

  • 2008 Site Unseen - performance event, Chicago Cultural Center

  • 2008 Ashley, Culp, Warner - Brown Triangle Gallery, Chicago, IL

  • 2007 Fast Forward: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the 21st Century - Rockford Museum of Art, Rockford, IL

  • 2007 Art 44/46 - IGO car project with Mark Jeffery, Judd Morrissey, Jeff Carter

  • 2007 Site Unseen - performance event, Chicago Cultural Center, with Andy Hall


    • Articles/Publications:

  • 2011 AIR - Dan Gunn, ArtSlant Chicago Review

  • 2011 Chicago Gallery Weekend – Pedro Velez, Artnet Chicago Review

  • 2011 Blow Up – Review in THE Magazine, Santa Fe

  • 2010 Open Daybook – Perpetual Calendar, Mark Batty Publishers, launch Oct '10

  • 2008 Site Unseen 08 – catalogue from performance event, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs