BIO: Ashley Eliza Williams (they/she) born in the Blue Ridge Mountains in SW Virginia, makes work about interspecies communication and non-human language. Ashley has exhibited widely including at Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver (CO), Hersbruck Museum (Germany), The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder (CO), Bronx Museum Project Space (NY), The New York Hall of Science (NY), and Wasserman Projects in Detroit (MI). Ashley’s work has been featured in many publications including New American Paintings, Hyperallergic, and The Washington Post. Recent residencies include: Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Vermont Studio Center, Shoals Marine Laboratory, The Studios at Mass MoCA, and Shangyuan Art Museum, China. In 2023 Ashley was a Lucille Walton Fellow and resident artist at the University of Virginia Mountain Lake Biological Station.
Ashley often works with scientists, including at the Museum of Comparative Zoology in Boston MA, and McDonald Observatory in West Texas. Ashley lives and works in Western Massachusetts and teaches studio art at Smith College.
