b. 1986 Sydney, Australia
a@ash-garwood.com

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020     Common Fault, UCLA MFA Thesis Exhibition, New Wight Gallery
2017     MASSING, May Space Gallery, Sydney
2016     Under Erasure, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
2015     Of Other Spaces, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
2014     Of Other Spaces, The Corner Cooperative, Sydney
2013     Whispers and Hunters, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney
2011     The Threshold, The General Store Gallery, Sydney

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023     Spring 2023, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
2023     Profound Edges, PSLA, Los Angeles
2022     Currents Festival of New Media Art, Santa Fe Gallery of Contemporary Art
2022     Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, HOTA
2020     National Works on Paper Prize, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
2020     Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery
2020     Aperture Summer Open, Information, Fotografiska, New York
2019     Church of Ego, U10 Art Space, Belgrade, Serbia
2018     Scenes from Another World, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale VIC
2017     2017 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, Artspace, Sydney
2017     UTS Photography Honours Exhibition, UTS Gallery, Sydney
2017     Another Green World: Landscape in the 21st Century, Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo
2017     Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, Sutherland
2017     Fourteen, May Space, Sydney
2016     Silver and Salt, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, Sutherland
2016     Yea, Cheers, thanks a Lot , Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
2016     MAMA Art Foundation National Photography Prize, Murray Art Museum, Albury
2015     The Alchemists: Rediscovering Photography in the Age of the Jpeg, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
2015     New Acquisitions, Macquarie Group Collection, Sydney
2015     Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, Sutherland
2015     Chippendale New World Art Prize, X88 Gallery, Sydney
2014     DRESDEN PUBLIC ART VIEW, Dresden, Germany
2012     Farrago, PGTE Gallery, Sydney
2011     Uncover, Perth Centre of Contemporary Photography, Perth
2011     Arc at COFA Emerging Artist and Designer Award, Ivan Doherty Gallery, Sydney
2011     art through the ages: the bog from whence we came, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
2011     National Youth Self Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
2010    National Youth Self Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra

EDUCATION

PHD, UTS (Supervised Cherine Fhad + Andrew Burrell) est. completion 2024
MFA Studio Art, UCLA, 2020
Bachelor of Photography Honours, University of Technology Sydney, 2017
Bachelor of Art Theory, UNSW College of Fine Arts, 2009

SELECTED AWARDS & GRANTS

2022     Awarded, City of Sydney Creative Site Works Program
2022     Finalist, Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award
2020     Finalist, Bowness Photography Prize
2017     Finalist, Hazelhurst Works On Paper Prize
2016     Recipient, ArtsNSW Artist Support
2016     Finalist, Grace Cossington Smith Award
2016     Finalist, Hariban Award, Benrido Collotype Atelier, Kyoto, Japan
2016     Recipient, Australia Council Arts Projects For Individuals and Groups Grant
2015     Recipient, Eva Breuer Travelling Art Scholarship
2015     Finalist, Hazelhurst Works On Paper Prize
2015     Finalist, Chippendale New World Art Prize
2012     Artstart, Australia Council for the Arts
2011     Jump, Australia Council for the Arts
2011     Finalist, Uncover Award
2011     Finalist, National Youth Self Portait Prize
2010     Online Finalist, National Youth Self Portait Prize

RESIDENCIES

2019     Online Smyposium, 280A Collective
2018     Residencia Monte, Buenos Aires
2017     Astrophotography Residency, Astrophysics Dept University of Idaho, USA
2016     AGNSW Paris Studio Residency, Dr Denise Hickey Memorial Studio
2016     Cité Internationale des Arts
2014     Brand X, Chippendale

PUBLICATIONS

(Illustrated) Preston, Sammy. “What Next”, Art Collector, October/December 2017, p.98
Off the Wall #9, 2017
MAMA National Photography Prize Catalogue, 2016
The Alchemists, ACP Publication, 2015
(Illustrated) Wolifson, Chloe. “Curators Radar, Art Collector, January/March 2016, p.106
(Illustrated) Wallpaper* City Guide - Sydney, London: Phaidon Press, p.68
(Illustrated) Backhouse, Megan. “The Alchemists”, Art Guide, November/December, p.83
Portrait Magazine, Autumn 2011– Featured

COLLECTIONS

Gippsland Art Gallery, Australia
Artbank, Australia
Macquarie Group Collection, Australia
Private Collections

MEDIA

2020    Aperture, Can Photographs Provide Information When Truth Is Disrupted?
2020    Daily Bruin, Graduate student exhibition highlights innovative works utilizing various media
2017     UTS, Student Spotlight: Ashleigh Garwood Bachelor of Photography
2017     Broadsheet, The World Through Their Eyes: Three Photography Exhibitions to See in November
2017     Museums & Galleries of NSW, Interview - Andrew Frost, Curator, Another Green World
2016     Art Collector, ASHLEIGH GARWOOD: UNDER ERASURE
2015     Art Collector, ASHLEIGH GARWOOD TAKES OUT THE INAUGURAL EVA BREUER TRAVELLING SCHOLARSHIP
2015     The Art Life, Memento | Of Other Spaces
2014     The Art Life, New Work Friday #164
2013     The Art Life, New Work Friday #151