Catherine Ashley is a Brooklyn-based Black multimedia designer and performance artist. With a background in composition, film, projection, theatre, and object-making, Ashley uses storytelling to cultivate spaces for reflection, relation, and repair, moving across live performance, gallery installation, and digital environments.
Ashley’s recent projects consider the entanglement between organic and constructed systems and their relationship to the inexorable characteristics of time. Her research explores how embodied memory, and communal time-based material processes shape forms of care, resistance, and rest.
Ashley holds a MFA in Digital + Media from Rhode Island School of Design and a BA in Film + Media Arts and Theatre Arts from American University, and is currently teaching Spatial Dynamics at Rhode Island School of Design and Parsons School of Design.
RECENTLY: Vocalist in Pakui Hardware’s Spores with Performa 2025 Biennial, Sound Designer for Blue Seal, Blue Sea, writted by Dante Fuoco, dir Clara Wiest.
UPCOMING: Solo performance in
Snap First Person Arts Festival at
The Flynn.