CV

Born: 1971 Edinburgh, Scotland

Education:

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

1989 - 1993 BA (Honors) - Painting and Drawing, Grays School of Art, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2024

Sarasota Art Museum, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota FL (upcoming Fall 2024)

Luminous Love Junk, Saint Kate Hotel, Milwaukee, WI

2023

POP UP, Inflatable Sculpture Show, Shelburne Museum, VT

Radiant Beasts, Phillips Exeter Academy, NH

Distant Viridian Crush, Grand Valley State University, Allendale MI

2022

Fluoraformunculi, Visual Arts Gallery, Governors State University, IL

Plump Pucker Squish, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO

Cantankerous Clowns/Psychedelic Selkies, Meliora Festival, Curated by Fraser Taylor, Beacon Arts Center, Greenock, Scotland

Puns, Puckers, Particles, Curated by Fraser Taylor, Beacon Arts Center, Greenock, Scotland

B.A.I.R.N.S (A Gaggle), curated by Anna Cerniglia + Kate Pollasch at The Cube Demi, for Print/Object Editions, Chicago, IL

2021

COSMIC GASP, West Shore Community College, Ludington, MI and Ludington Area Center for the Arts

COSMOCULUS, Peeler Arts Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN

Adam’s Madam, Rooftop Installation and Artist in Residence, Kimball Arts Center, Chicago, IL

2020

ASTROZONE: An Interactive Art Experience, Griffin Music Hall, Murphy Arts District, El Dorado, AR, Organized by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR

2019

Strewn, Hither and Thither, HUB-Robeson Galleries, Penn State University, State College, PA

2018

Close Encounters: Adam’s Madam, Project Atrium, MOCA Jacksonville, FL

Umpy Lundersphere, Immersive Installation, Boston Children’s Museum, Boston, MA

2017

(((CRZ.F.4NRS.AAK))) -Crazy Female Foreigners Alive and Kicking, 808 Gallery, Boston University, MA

YellaBelly, Facebook Office, Artist in Residence Installation, Chicago, IL

Night Visions, Georgia Southern University Center for Art and Theater Gallery, Statesboro, GA

Loathsome Beauty, Loaded Body, UB Anderson Gallery, University of Buffalo Art Galleries, Buffalo, NY

2016

CAWT, TAUT, HOT…NOT, Illinois State University Galleries, Normal, IL, w/Joshua Patterson

Lumpy Morsels, Hot Rocks, Cleve Carney Art Gallery, College of Du Page, Glen Ellyn, IL

2015

Lank Limp Lemons Suck, Young World International, Detroit, MI

2013

distant landscapes: peepdyedcrevicehotpinkridge, Ice Box, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA

frizzflopsqueezepop, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

2012

limes and bricks suck pink, TERRAIN: an exterior exhibition space, Oak Park IL

FLUORESCENT POP, El Centro College Art Gallery, Dallas TX

Selected Group Exhibitions/Events/Curatorial Projects:

2024

Millennium Park Augmented Reality Project, Chicago, IL

Assaf Evron/Claire Ashley, NON STNDRD, Sauget, IL

Prismatic Terrain, with students from Kentucky College of Art and Design, Louisville, KY

2023

Cosmic Loops: Claire Ashley + Matt Irie, Rockford University Art Gallery

Abstraction + Love, Lubeznik Arts Center, Michigan City, IN

Terrain Biennial, Ludington, Michigan, Chicago, IL, and Magnolia, IL

Claire Ashley/Tariq Tamir, Cultivator Arts, Bray Grove Farm, Morris, IL

Chicago Humanities Festival, Epiphany Arts Center

Memory Bank with Jozef Bajus, The RAFT, Buffalo, NY

Pop Up! Inflatable Sculpture Show, Shelburne Museum, VT

For Those Without Choice, with Planned Parenthood, Weinberg Newton Gallery, Chicago, IL

Pop Air, Balloon Museum, Milan, Italy

2022

The Shape of Things to Come, Fundraiser Print Project, Riverside Arts Center, IL

Art In Place, Oak Park, IL

Abstract Acres, Fluffybutt Farm, Fennville, MI

Noughts and Crosses, Lobby Installation, HAVAS Chicago, 36 E. Grand Ave, Chicago, IL

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, …. curated by Industry of the Ordinary, Chicago Design Museum, IL

Pop Air, The Balloon Museum Paris, Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, France

Soft Allergy: Claire Ashley, Judith Brotman, Cameron Clayborn. Curated by Meg Duguid, Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College Chicago

Tender Irritant: Claire Ashley, Judith Brotman, Cameron Clayborn. SAIC Galleries

2021

Soft Allergy: Claire Ashley, Judith Brotman, Cameron Clayborn. Curated by Meg Duguid, Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College Chicago

Tender Irritant: Claire Ashley, Judith Brotman, Cameron Clayborn. SAIC Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Hereafter, Roots and Culture, Chicago, IL

Portables, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK

2020

Humor Us!, Riverside Arts Center, North Riverside, IL

Artists Run Chicago 2.0, with SLOW Gallery and Ohklahomo!, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago

Art in Place, Oak Park, IL

Hot Rocks Performance, Astrozone, Griffin Music Hall, Murphy Arts District, El Dorado, AR

Ruddy Udder Dance (Refrain), Astrozone, Griffin Music Hall, Murphy Arts District, El Dorado, AR

2019

Color Field, ArtisNaples, Naples, FL

PLAY/GROUND, Medina, NY

Color Field, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR

How We See: Materiality and Color, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO

Hot Rocks Performance, How We See, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO

Ruddy Udder Dance (Refrain), How We See, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO

2018

When the Normal Thing is the Miracle: Judith Brotman and Claire Ashley, Slow Gallery, Chicago, IL

underSTOOD, ROCKELMANN & PARTNER, Berlin, Germany

Miller ICA Open House and Keyword International Tour, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

The Annual: Mixtapes for the New Millennium, curated by Jordan Martins, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL

Lake Effect: Claire Ashley, Susannah Coffey, Jaclyn Mednicov, Maryam Taghavi, Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY

2017

Terrain Biennial, participating artist and host site/curator, Oak Park, IL

Collaboration, Kjell Theory, ATOM-R performance group, Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, IL

2016

Painting in Time: Part Two (Faculty Organizer, Curated by Sarah Kate Wilson), Sullivan Galleries, SAIC

“CAWT, TAUT, HOT…NOT”, Illinois State University Gallery, Normal, IL

CAFKA Biennial of Art in Public Places 2016, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Collaboration with Ish Muhammed for Indiana Bicentennial Celebration, Indiana State Museum

Lumpy Morsels, Hot Rocks Performance with audio-scape by Joshua Patterson, Performers: Justin Deschamps, Jason Schroeder, and Ashley Strickland, Cleve Carney Art Gallery, McAninch Arts Center, College of Du Page, Glen Ellyn, IL

2015

Bad at Sports, Ten Year Birthday Booth at EXPO CHICAGO 2015, Chicago, IL

Gently Fried: an Exhibition in Three Parts, Sam Coronado Gallery, Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Arts Center and Fusebox Festival, Austin, TX

Painting in Time, Tetley Gallery, Leeds, UK

BLOW UP: Inflatable Contemporary Art, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

Selected Publications/Bibliography:

2024

Soft Allergy Exhibition Catalog published

2023

“Distant Viridian Crush” exhibition essay by Sean J. Patrick Carney, Grand Valley State University, MI

2022

Vassar Review, Sense and Splendor https://vassar-review.vassarspaces.net/

BAD AT SPORTS Interview, Soft Allergy, Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College Chicago, and Tender Irritant, SAIC Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL. With Claire Ashley, Judith Brotman, Cameron Clayborn, Meg Duguid, Duncan MacKenzie, and Brian Andrews.

2021

Review of Portable Sculpture Show, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK

Studio International Interview

https://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/claire-ashley-interview-im-not-an-artist-who-is-afraid-about-the-word-entertainment-inflatable-sculptures

Yorkshire Post Magazine Review

Portable Sculpture at the Henry Moore Institute

https://henry-moore.org/portable-sculpture-films

2020

“Art in Place” CNL Projects and Terrain Exhibitions on NBC Chicago

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/art-in-place

Extreme Protections Suits featured on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight

https://news.wttw.com/2020/05/19/inflatable-art-blowing-during-shutdown