Doug Ashford
Doug Ashford, born in Rabat (MA) in 1958, is an artist, teacher and writer based in New York. He is Associate Professor at The Cooper Union for The Advancement of Science and Art, where he has taught sculpture, design and interdisciplinary studies since 1989. Ashford’s principle visual practice from 1982 to 1996 was the multi-form practice of Group Material. His work has been recently compiled in the book Show and Tell: A Chronicle of Group Material (Four Corners Books, 2010). Since 1996 he has continued to produce paintings, essays and collaborative projects that engage sociality with artistic form. His most recent public effort ended in the project Who Cares (Creative Time, 2006), a book built from a series of conversations between Ashford and other cultural practitioners on public expression, ethics and beauty.
Solo exhibitions
2014 Bureau publik, Kopenhagen. 2013 Abstraction as Empathy, Wilfried Lentz Gallery, Rotterdam (NL). Kunstverein, Graz (AT).
Group exhibitions
2015 Adventures of the Black Square, Whitechapel Gallery, London. The problem today is not the other but the self, Ludlow 38, New York (US). 2014 We are Living on a Star, Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo. 2012 Ruptures: Forms of Public Address, 41 Cooper Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York. dOCUMENTA 13, Kassel (DE). The Air We Breathe, SFMOMA, New York. 2011 Sharjah Biennial 10: A Plot for A Biennial, Sharjah Arts Foundation and other locations, Sharjah (AE). 2010-2012 Abstract Possible, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; Malmö Konsthall (SE); Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm.
Publications
Krist Gruijthuijsen (Kunstverein, Graz) (ed.), Writings and Conversations by Doug Ashford, Mousse Publishing, Milan 2013.
Julie Ault (ed.), Show and Tell: A Chronicle of Group Material, Four Corners Books, London 2010.
Doug Ashford, Anne Pasternak, et al., Who Cares, Creative Time and D.A.P., New York 2006.