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b. 1984, Corpus Christi, Texas
EDUCATION
2011 Master of Fine Arts – School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2006 Bachelor of Fine Arts – Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 TBA - Galveston Art Center - Galveston, TX
2018 Labor of Love - Presa House - San Antonio, TX
2018 House and Universe - Las Cruxes - Austin, TX
2016 Loving a Disappearing Image – Pump Project – Austin, TX
2009 Continuum – Galleri Urbane – Marfa, TX
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Ulises: Assembly - Tufts University Art Galleries - Boston, MA
2023 Soy de Tejas - Centro de Artes - San Antonio, TX
2020 Target Texas: Drawn Worlds - The Art Museum of South Texas - Corpus Christi, TX
2019 Mirror Mirrored - Austin Central Library - Austin, TX
2018 Volume: A Library of Texas Women Artists - Center for the Study of the Southwest - Texas State University - San Marcos, TX
2018 Art Faculty Exhibition - Del Mar College Joseph A. Cain Gallery - Corpus Christi, TX
2017 Mexican-American Perspectives - Del Mar College Joseph A. Cain Gallery - Corpus Christi, TX
2016 After-Facts – Gallery 102 – Washington, D.C.
2015 City Girlz – 17 Frost Gallery – Brooklyn, NY
2015 Young Latino Artists 20 – Mexic-Arte Museum – Austin, TX
2014 The Stench of Rotting Flowers – La Esquina - Kansas City, MO
2013 Night Without Sleep – Heaven Gallery – Chicago, IL
2013 In Progress Benefit – Spudnik Press – Chicago, IL
2011 Aqua Art Miami – Miami Beach, FL
2011 Dealing with New Demands – Comfort Station – Chicago, IL
2010 Construction Site: Identity Made Material – SAIC – Chicago, IL
2010 Process in Product – Sullivan Galleries – Chicago, IL
2009 Hunting Art Prize Exhibition – Houston, TX
2008 Galleri Urbane – Marfa, TX
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Lauren Moya Ford, “Field Guided,” Wildflower, 2020. Volume 37, No. 1 (link)
Lauren Moya Ford, "In the Studio with Ashley Thomas", Glasstire, June 17, 2019 (link)
New American Paintings – No. 138, 2019
Neil Fauerso, "The House and Universe of Ashley Thomas at Las Cruxes", Glasstire, May 12, 2018. (link)
Lauren Moya Ford, "Un detalle", March 2018 (pdf download)
Neil Fauerso, “In the C Cities,” Glasstire, September 9, 2017. (link)
Conflict of Interest - Vol. 1, 2016
Conflict of Interest, Interview, 2015 (link)
Ricardo Ruiz, "Young Latino Artists 20: Within Reach," Adhoc, August 4, 2015.
New American Paintings – No. 114, 2014
Image File Press – Image Files 008, 2014 (link)
Heaven Gallery, exhibition essay with photograph by Beth Capper, Chicago, IL, 2013
Ashley Thomas, Interview, Way of Women, Italy, November, 2010.
New American Paintings – No. 78, 2008
COLLECTIONS
Mexic-Arte Museum – Austin, TX