Ashley Hunt

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Ashley C. Hunt (born April 3, 1970 in Los Angeles ) is an American conceptual artist , video artist and activist .

life and work

Ashley Hunt studied art at the University of California, Irvine until 1994 and received her Master of Fine Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1998 . In 2000 he enrolled in the Whitney Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art . Hunt has received numerous awards. He holds lectures, symposiums and seminars at home and abroad. Hunt is director of photography and media at the California Institute of the Arts .

With the help of videos, photographs, maps and text, Hunt draws attention to social processes and conditions that are not shown in the media. A constant theme of his artistic exploration is the subject of power and its disproportionate distribution to individuals as well as to companies and countries.

The Corrections Documentary Project is a well-known video installation by Ashley Hunt. Together with David Thorne , Katya Sander , Sharon Hayes and Andrea Geyer , he exhibited the video installation 9 Scripts from a Nation at War at documenta 12 in Kassel. A Worldmap: In Which We See… Ashley Hunt exhibited in 2011 at the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ashley C. Hunt at californiabirthindex.org
  2. ↑ bacon line About Ashley Hunt, artist, activist, and writer, Los Angeles accessed January 1, 2019
  3. ↑ Ashley Hunt biography , accessed January 1, 2019.
  4. ↑ artswriter Ashley Hunt accessed on January 1, 2019 (English)
  5. ^ The Global Contemporary Ashley Hunt. Retrieved January 1, 2019
  6. ^ CAL Arts Ashley Hunt. Retrieved January 1, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Hunt, Ashley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hunt, Ashley C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American conceptual artist, video artist, and activist
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd April 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles