Catherine Noa Ashley is a multimedia installation and performance artist with a focus in narrative and experimental world building. Across her work, there is use of projection, animation, composition, biomaterials, found objects, playwriting, sound archive, live performance and sculpting to construct environments that hold heavy questions. 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, the Santa Fe Opera, Struer Tracks, the RISD Museum, Jacob’s Pillow, 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: Vocalist in Pakui Hardware’s Spores with Performa 2025 Biennial, Solo performance in Snap First Person Arts Festival at The Flynn.
UPCOMING: Sound/Projections Designer for
We’re Deliquents.PDF at the Brick Aux.
Curator for Soft Structures at
The Makers Space Gallery.
CURRENTLY: Resident with Woodward Residency.