Ashley Hamilton - CV

born Nashville, TN 1991

lives and works in Lake City, SC

Education

2010  BFA Queensland College of Art, Brisbane, Australia

2014  BFA University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN

Solo Exhibitions

2021  (Sub)Liminal Space, FMU University Place Gallery, Florence, SC

2018  Grand Re-Opening, Frequency Arts, Chattanooga, TN

2017  Nomadic Painting, Frequency Arts, Chattanooga, TN

2016  Fragmented Desire, Swine Gallery, Chattanooga, TN

2013  Saw Myself Seeing Myself, Indigo Sky Gallery, Savannah, GA

2012  Dichotomy of the Sign, Apothecary Gallery, Chattanooga, TN

2011  A New Perspective, Planet Altered, Chattanooga, TN

Juried Exhibitions

2021 Small Works, Front Gallery, Lake City, SC, juror: Jerome Meadows

2020  Small Works, Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY

2020  Small Works, FMU University Place Gallery, Florence, SC, juror: Lisa D. Watson

2020  EcoFeminism: Bazar Art House, Chattanooga TN, juror: Alecia Buckles

2014  Live Amateurs, Mint Gallery, Atlanta, GA, juror: Craig Drennen, artist and painting professor at Georgia State University

2013  I Guess You Had To Be There, AVA, Chattanooga, TN, juried panel

2013 UTC Student Show, Cress Gallery, Chattanooga, TN, juror: Joseph Peragine, artist and Associate Professor of Art, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

2012 AVA Juried Exhibition, AVA, Chattanooga, TN, juror: Paul Lee, photographer and professor of Art at the University of Tennessee Knoxville.

2012 UTC Student Show, Cress Gallery, Chattanooga, TN, juror: William Dooley, Director and Curator, Sarah Moody Gallery, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

Group Exhibitions 

2021  Spectrum, Stay Home Gallery, Paris, TN

2020  A Light in The Darkness, online exhibition, Las Lagunas Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

2020  Pause | Connect, Trax Visual Art Center, Lake City, SC

2019  New Paintings, Barley, Chattanooga, TN

2018  Group Show, Frequency Arts, Chattanooga, TN

2017  Mainx24 Pop Up Exhibition, 1435 Market Street, Chattanooga, TN

2017  Ashley Hamilton and Brianna Bass, Lit Art Gallery, Chattanooga, TN

2017  Incline Art Crawl, St. Elmo, Chattanooga, TN

2017  Garden Party, Lit Art Gallery, Chattanooga, TN

2016  Gallery For A Night: curated by Laura Little, Barking Legs Theater, Chattanooga, TN

2015  Art Anonymous, Atlanta, GA

2015  Gallery Hop, Justice Arts, Chattanooga, TN

2015  7 Artists: Gallery for a Night, Barking Legs Theater, Chattanooga, TN

2015  Level Ground, Deamor, Nashville, TN

2014  Eve Apart, Chattanooga Theater Center, Chattanooga, TN

2014  Kaleidoscope Minds: Wyatt Moody Invitational Exhibit, Slocumb Galleries, Johnson City, TN

2014  FRESH, AVA, Chattanooga, TN

2014  UTC Senior Thesis Exhibition, Cress Gallery of Art, Chattanooga, TN

2014  Society of Ink and Paper, Apothecary Gallery, Chattanooga, TN

2014  You Are Here, Apothecary Gallery, Chattanooga, TN

2014  Hunter Underground, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN

2014  Inconspicuous, Apothecary, Chattanooga, TN

2013  Whatever Bubbles Up, Graffiti Gallery, Chattanooga, TN

2013  Comprised: Life in the Middle, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's 937 Liberty Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

2013  Minions at Foodworks, Foodworks, Chattanooga, TN

2013  Members only Show, AVA, Chattanooga, TN

2013  Ashley Hamilton, Roger Halligan, and Jan Chenoweth, Front Gallery, Chattanooga, TN

2013  I Guess You Had to be There, AVA, Chattanooga, TN

2013  AVA traveling juried show, Knoxville, TN

2013  Repeating Gaze, Tanner Hill Gallery, Chattanooga, TN

2013  Haus of Minions II, Chattanooga, TN

2013  Zine show, Apothecary Gallery, Chattanooga, TN

2013  Ashley Hamilton and Laura Little, 301 Gallery, Chattanooga, TN

2013  Hunter Underground, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN

2012  Feedback at Tanner Hill Gallery, Chattanooga, TN

2012  Grand Opening Show, Graffiti Gallery, Chattanooga, TN

2012  Gallery Hop show, 301 Gallery, Chattanooga, TN

2012  Small Works, 301 Gallery, Chattanooga, TN

2012  The Pulse State of the Arts exhibition, Warehouse Row, Chattanooga, TN

2012  Haus of Minions, Chattanooga, TN

2012  Touch, Apothecary Gallery, Chattanooga, TN

2012  Outsiders; Extremists; and Children, Invasion Gallery, Chattanooga, TN

2012  Selected Drawings, Collective Clothing, Chattanooga, TN

2011  Skitl, Circle Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

2010  New Reason New Renaissance, Loose Cannon, Chattanooga, TN

Collaborative Performance / Installation

2014  Falcultative Symbiosis & The Pants of Limerence (collaborative performance with Aaron Cowan), Lost Nest, Chattanooga, TN

2013 Perpetual Change (collaborative performance with Nolan McGuire, Nathan King, and Sam Sencabaugh), Easy Lemon, Chattanooga, TN

2013 Finishing School (collaborative performance with Tim Hinck), Haus of Minions II, Chattanooga, TN

2013 I like being a girl (collaborative performance with Megan Hollenbeck), Wide Open Floor at Barking Legs Theater, Chattanooga, TN

2012 MERGE (collaborative performance with Tim Hinck), Wide Open Floor at Barking Legs Theater,  Chattanooga, TN

2012  CTR. ALT. SPEAK. (collaboration with Tim Hinck), New Dischord Festival, Easy Lemon,  Chattanooga, TN

2012  Chance procedure (collaboration with Tim Hinck), Wide Open Floor at Barking Legs Theater,  

Chattanooga, TN

2010 Live Drawing at New Dischord Festival, Chattanooga, TN

Public Installations

2012  The Medea Experience, in association with Theatre for the New South, Rivoli Art Mill, Chattanooga, TN

2012  It’s Always Happening, Public installation for HATCH art festival, Chattanooga, TN

Selected Awards/Honors

2014  Member, Student Advisory Committee

2013  Recipient, UTC’s Artists and Authors club scholarship

2013  First Place, UTC student juried exhibition, Cress Gallery of Art

2012  Recipient, C.A.F.E grant, Planet Altered, Chattanooga, TN

Artist Lectures

2021 (Sub)liminal Space, FMU University Place Gallery, Florence, SC

2016  Fragmented Desire, Swine Gallery, Chattanooga, TN

2015  Recovering Addicted Queer, Level Ground, Nashville, TN

2013  I saw myself seeing myself, Indigo Sky Gallery, Savannah, GA

2013  Art as a Social Responsibility, Barking Legs Theater, Chattanooga, TN

2013  Art as conversation: Speaking with the Caves, UTC, Chattanooga, TN

Press

2015  Pulse News Weekly, “An Artist’s Journey out of Darkness” August 4

2014 Pulse News Weekly, The Wine Issue, “Possibilities from Impending Failure; Ashley Hamilton is Queering Painting,” March 20-26 vol. 11, issue 12

2014 Chattanooga Times Free Press, Women’s History Month Issue, “Changing Chattanooga: Ashley Hamilton,” March 14

2014  Sequoia Review annual UTC arts and literature publication

2013 Savannah Connect Newspaper, “I Saw Myself Seeing Myself: Art Exhibition and Live Performance” November 13-19

2013  Sequoia Review, annual UTC arts and literature publication

2012  Pulse News Weekly, State of the Arts “Fresh and Fringe” issue, Vol. 9, No. 34 vol. 11, issue 12

2012  Pulse News Weekly, Gallery Hop issue, Sept. 6-12 vol. 9, issue 36

2012  Pulse News Weekly, New Dischord Festival issue, Sept. 6-12 vol. 9, issue 36

2012  GlobaLinks Learning Abroad catalogue

Related Work

2020-present full-time artist

2014-19   Curator at Tanner Hill Gallery

2017    Traveling artist assistant for Lorri Kelly

2013-15    Curator and Artist in Residence at Barking Legs Theater

2011-14    Curator at Apothecary Gallery

2011-13    Co-founder and curator of Easy Lemon Art Residencies

2011-14     Public relations and creative director at New Dischord Festival

2013-14     Studio assistant for Roger Halligan

2013-14     Studio assistant for Jason Meyer and Ray Padron

2013       Creative team member for Theatre for the New South

2011-12     Gallerist at 301 Gallery