Ash Thayer

Ash Thayer a a photographer and multi-media visual artist based in Los Angeles.
Her work is held in several art collections including the Saatchi Gallery in London, Chicago Art Institute, The Ogden Museum and The Museum of the City of New York. She has taught art and photography at NYU, Columbia University and the University of Memphis.

Her art practice poses questions about the experience of temporality and the presence of fantasy as storytelling agents, utilized in photography and film. By leveraging and exploiting the shifting nature of perception as it applies to consuming and interpreting images, the viewer is invited to reflect on their own presumptions, conjectures and verdicts.

Her book Kill City: Lower East Side Squatters 1992-2000, published by powerhouse Books in 2015 consists of images and text from her time spent living in community with housing activists and squatters in 1990’s Lower East Side in NYC. Kill City earned significant attention, garnering dozens of articles, a book tour, panel discussions and presentations at The New York Mid-Manhattan Public Library and The Colloquium For Unpopular Culture at NYU. In 2016 her book was listed in American Photography Magazine’s list of top 10 photography books of the seas...

BFA in Photography School of Visual Arts
MFA Columbia University

2022 Chromatic Encounters, Box Gallery, Memphis, TN
2021 New Connections, Crosstown Arts, Memphis, TN
2021 Interface: Art and Community in the Ahmanson
Collection, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Spunkt Art Now, Galerie d’ Art, Université de
Sherbrooke, Quebec 2020 Maison de la Culture,
Janine-Sutto, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Maison de la Culture, Janine-Sutto, Montréal
2017 Femmes Video Art Festival No. 3, The Situation
Room, Eagle Rock, CA
2016 Respectability Politics, Outlet Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Heroine, Elizabeth Houston Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Kill City, Superchief Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Kill City, powerhouse Arena, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Hit the Street, Outlet Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Vroom, Vroom, Outlet Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Bikesploitation, Ornamental Metals Museum,
Memphis, TN
2013 Obsessions, Zebrastraat, Ghent, Belgium
2011 A Wealth of Plunder, New Albany Heritage Museum
2010 Father Daughter Exhibition, Memphis College Of Art,
Memphis, TN
2009 取り憑かれている情熱- MEM, Osaka, Japan
2004 Marian Boesky Gallery, Auction to benef it The
Richard Foreman Hysterical Theatre
2003 Innocence and Transgression, The Proposition, Ne...