Catherine Noa Ashley is a Black, Afro-Indigenous multimedia designer and performance artist working across sound, installation, and moving image. By leaning on the senses, Ashley creates portals of awareness that attune viewers to the inexorability of time, the echoes of history and the fluidity of identity.
This way of working resists clean categories and quick readings.
The work asks not to be solved and I respect that.
Ashley’s work has been shown at the Flynn Center, New York Theatre Workshop, the Santa Fe Opera, Struer Tracks, the RISD Museum, Jacob’s Pillow, PerformaNYC, The Brick Theatre, The Makers Space, Wilbury Theatre Group among others. MFA in Digital + Media, Rhode Island School of Design. Part time faculty at Parsons School of Design.
RECENTLY: Resident with Woodward Residency.
Summer Scholar at Fine Arts Work Center.
CURRENTLY: Sound Design for STAR VEHICLE at Edinburgh Fringe.
UPCOMING: POSTURES OF RETURN,
Boston CyberArts Gallery, August 15.
TRIANGULATED SYMPHONY, Le Petit Versailles Garden, September 5.