Ashley Chew (b. Chicago, IL) is a Visual Artist based in New York, NY. Chew's paintings focus on the resilience, rest, regality and visibility of marginalized groups. This is a direct contrast of the trauma depicted across mass media. Chew works across; painting, illustration, murals, installations, dyes, leather goods, hand-lettering, and silkscreening. Chew's work has been featured in Spike Lee's Netflix series "She's Gotta Have It", Bethann Hardison's "Invisible Beauty", Sheryl Lee Ralph's "Being Sheryl Lee Ralph", exhibitions throughout New York City, and is in permanent collection at Centraal Museum in Utrecht, Netherlands.
Clients and Partnerships include: Tommy Hilfiger, Coach, PUMA, Alice + Olivia, Zadig & Voltaire, Nike, The North Face, Kipling, Topshop, Pharrell’s Billionaire Girls Club, Bumble Bizz, Dress For Success, L’Oreal, Color Of Change, Midwest Fashion Week and more. Milk Studios previously named Chew “Artist of The Week”. In 2016, PATTERN Magazine listed her one of “The 26 To Watch Under 26”, and My Domaine listed her as one of “10 Uplifting Artists To Follow on Instagram.”
Chew has held Artist Talks for The New York Times, The Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Eiteljorg Museum: Steward Speakers, FCDA in Lagos, Nigeria, and Columbia University.
Photo: Briannia Walters @modelshootingmodels
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Every Woman Biennial: I Will Always Love You. La MaMa Galleria, New York, NY
2023 Homecoming: The Family Show, La MaMa Galleria, New York, NY
2023 The Collective, Visionary Projects, The High Line Nine Galleries, New York, NY
2023 Handle With Care, Girl Knew York Gallery, Rockefeller Center, New York, NY
2022 Artsy Impact Auction, Thurgood Marshall College Fund, New York, NY
2021 INNOVATE, The Untitled Space, New York, NY
2021 Voices Of Fashion, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2020 Art4Equality x Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Happiness, The Untitled Space, New York, NY
2020 Art4Equality + SaveArtSpace, Public Art Series, New York, NY
2019 Never Stop Exploring, The North Face, New York, NY
2015 IX EXIT XI, Julia M Carson Resource Center, Indianapolis, IN
2012 RAW Visual Arts: Visual Artist Of The Year, Indianapolis, IN
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
2021 Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
RESIDENCIES
2021-2022 Stonehenge NYC, Still Standing. New York, NY
2021-2022 PUMA x You, New York, NY
2015 Driftwood Studios, East London, South Africa
2015 The Madame Walker Legacy Theatre, Indianapolis, IN
ARTIST TALKS
2023 Steward Speakers - Eiteljorg Museum
2022 ART SHE SAYS - Studio Talks
2021 The Artist Business Plan - SuperFineArtFair
2020 Columbia University - Voting Week
2020 The Untitled Space
2020 Ivy Tech Community College: Fine Arts
2019 The New York Times - Student Journeys
2016 FCDA Nigeria - Fashion Forward
2015 The Madame Walker Legacy Theatre
SELECTED PRESS
2023 Hyperallergic, A View From The Easel
2023 Tanya Taylor, Our Women: Ashley Chew
2022 Gallery Gurls, Art Convo With Ashley Chew by Jasmin Hernandez
2022 Voyage LA, Rising Stars: Meet Ashley Chew
2022 LA MODE ES POLITIQUE by Melody Thomas
2022 Artsy, New In Figurative Painting
2022 Artsy, Textbook Figures, Viewing Room
2021 Black Art In America - The Magical, Multiple, Singularity of Ashley Chew
2021 Voices Of Fashion, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
2021 The Daily Front Row, Art From The Heart.
2021 Zadig & Voltaire, Art Is Hope.
2021 Voyage LA, Conversations With Ashley Chew
2020 Forbes, Artists Taking Billboards Across America. Chadd Scott
2020 Shoutout LA, Meet Ashley Chew, Artist, Activist, Model & Writer
2020 Harper’s Bazaar UK, Author, A letter to the fashion industry: what you need to do to go beyond performative allyship.
2020 Complex, Stream Pharrell’s Billionaire Girls Club and ENVSN Showcase Celebrating Artists of Color
2019 Vogue Germany, Author, Aktivismus und Initiativen für mehr Repräsentation
2017 The New York Times, Walking The Walk, Talking The Talk