Ashley Neese is an interdisciplinary artist, publisher and curator. She grew up in Atlanta, Georgia and received her BFA from the Atlanta College of Art in 2003. Neese moved to California in the summer of 2003 to attend graduate school at the California College of the Arts. Her projects and performances have been exhibited in the Bay Area, New York City, Atlanta, Portland, Providence, Toronto, ONT and Regina, SK. Shortly after completing graduate school she started a library project, it’s all for you, that is open to the public by appointment. In 2008 she began hosting a non-denominational mediation group in her apartment and founded AFY, a publishing company that specializes in small runs of contemporary art books. Currently she is working on publishing preparing for a 2 week road trip along the Oregon Trail.
Born 1980 Beloit, Wisconsin. Lives and works in Portland, Oregon.
Education 2005 M.F.A Visual Art California College of the Arts
Conferences + Festivals 2008 Artcity, The Readers, with Lori Gordon + Robin Lambert, Calagry, Alberta, September 5-12 Proflux Festival, Satellite Festivals (Be Longing), Oregon Coast, August 10 Scratching the Surface, Eastbank Esplanade, Portland, OR, August 29-30 0:1 Biennial, Infinite Exhange Gallery, San Jose Institue for Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA, June 6 2007 Conflux, Brooklyn, New York September 12-16th, www.confluxfestival.org Nuit Blanche, Infinite Exchange Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, September 29 Open Engagement: Art After Aesthetic Distance, organized by Jen Delos Reyes with guest artist Harrell Fletcher, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, October 11-14
Exhibition Record (*solo shows marked by asterisk) (curated shows marked by double asterisk) 2008 Project(ions), Mile Post 5, Portland, OR [curator: Gary Wiseman ] Experiencing the War in Iraq, The Narrows Gallery, Fall River, MA Experiencing the War in Iraq, Pawtucket Armory/Arts Exchange, Providence, RI 2007 Word
of Mouth, Bridge Art Fair at the Catalina Hotel,
Miami, FL [curator: Brian Burkhardt ] 2006 Get Together, The Hardware Store Gallery, San Francisco,
CA 2005 Lilac Ladies Benefit, The L.A.B., San Francisco, CA 2004 This IS The Future, Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 2003 99 Bottles, BUILD, San Francisco, CA 2003 Emergency Room: Artists Respond to War, Mattress Factory,
Atlanta, GA 2002 Fresh!, NoNo, Atlanta, GA [curated by Fifth Class ] 2001 Annual Choice Celebration, Park Tavern, Atlanta, GA 2000 Student Juried Show, ACA Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Film/Video Festival 2006 The San Francisco Underground Short Film Festival, Bridge Theater, San Francisco, CA
Public Video Projections [San Francisco, CA] 2005 14th and Minna Street, 30 minutes
Slideshows 2007 WC Warehouse, Oakland, CA
Radio 2007 Firsts, curated by Zefrey Throwell for Neighborhood Public
Radio, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Visiting Artist Lectures 2008 SFSU, San Francisco, CA Undergraduate Social Practice Lecture 2006 California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA, Undergraduate Photography lecture on Artist Books 2005 CAlifornia College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA, Undergraduate Photography lecture on Artist Books
Community Involvement + Curatorial Projects + Publications + Internet Projects 2008 Oregon Trail, a two week road trip and investigation that will take place in June 2008, oregontrail2008.blogspot.com Formed AFY, LLC a publishing house that specializes in small runs of artist books. Our first book will be out in Winter 2009. Letting Go,an on-going project where interested parties tell me something they wsh to let go of and twice a month I drive them to the Oregon Coast and document their performaces. Afterward I send them a CD with the documentation. return to me [here + now], silent nondenominational meditation group that I facilitate in my apartment every other week it's too late to apologize, 8.5"x 11", 1 pg. mini zine, inkjet printed on graph paper, numbered edition of 25. don't say a prayer for me now, 8.5"x 11", 1 pg. mini zine, inkjet printed on graph paper, numbered edition of 25. 2007 i need you so, version 2.0 of online archive launched September 2007 it’s all for you, curated book and zine library in my apartment, open to the public Fall 2008 American Girl , book-in-progress, expected launch Winter 2009 you change my life is a blog I started Fall of 2006 with my long distance boyfriend in Portland, Oregon, it will continue until one of us decides to move, www.youchangemylife.com/blog You Can Have It All a show I curated with Lori Gordon, a follow up to a show we curated in 2005, it took place in New York City at the Salvation Gallery and included the artists, Jason Fulford, Sal Randolph and Mike Slack one (atlanta, change and coming full circle), a CD made in conjunction with You Can Have It All (New York), edition of 100, 25 minutes 2006 untitled (i made this with you in mind), flag hung outside the window of San Francisco artist Kottie Paloma’s studio displaying the messages “with your kiss my life begins” and “all i want is you” hey Oakland, what’s love? a zine made in conjunction with the show Come On Over! At RPS, 5.5" x 8", laser printed with soft cover, saddle stitched, 1st edition, numbered, 50 copies untitled (israel 2005), 5.5" x 8.5 ", inkjet and laser printed on graph and laser paper, color and b+w, wire bound with soft cover, self-published book, edition of 20 i started making you a book…, 5.5" x 3.25", inkjet printed on 26lb. brown paper, spiral bound (plastic), self-published book, edition of three untitled (love, loss, gratitude and new beginnings), a series of sign holdings that took place in the Mission District i need you so, online archive of projects, www.ineedyouso.com i want them to know (in three voices), a CD made in conjunction with the exhibition Hush, Hush, edition of 200, 7 minutes 2005 i just want to know you, 5.5" x 8", inkjet printed on Epson Enhanced Matte, case bound, title blind embossed on cover, self-published book, edition of six i could write a song about the way you say goodnight, 12" x 12". inkjet printed on Hahemuhle paper, case bound, self-published book, only one copy made lists, 8.5" x 11", typewriter text on graph paper, case bound, self-published book, only one copy made You Can Have It All, a show I curated with Lori Gordon at Playspace, San Francisco, California 2004 letters to Benjamin Gibbard, CD made in conjunction with the exhibition This IS The Future! edition of 30, 45 minutes
Sandor Bodo, “ ‘Experiencing the War’ is a diverse group of voices”, The Providence Journal, March 13, 2008 Lea Feinstein, “Galleries: Get Together!,” SF Weekly, November 29, 2006 Michael Leaverton, “The Celluliod Underground,” SF Weekly, August 16-22, 2006 Leah Garchik, “Public Eavesdropping,” The San Francisco Chronicle, February 7, 2005 Felicia Feaster, “The Art of Paper,” The Creative Loafing, July, 3 2003 Trina Trice, “Busy, busy, busy,” The Creative Loafing,
December, 16, 2000
Professional Experience 2003 Saltworks Gallery Intern
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