Ash Arder
b. 1988 Flint, MI. Lives + works in Detroit, MI.
EDUCATION
2016 – 2018 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI: Master of Fine Arts
2006 – 2010 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI: Bachelor of Arts
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 “Flesh Tones,” Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
2023 “Whoop House,” Duderstadt Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
2022 “Rock Garden,” Riverbank Arts, Flint, Michigan.
2021 “pseudocop,” Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New York. [virtual]
2018 “A Study: Collision Detection,” Hartnett Gallery, Rochester, New York.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 “Energies,” Swiss Institute, New York, New York.
2024 “World Without End: The George Washington Carver Project,” California African American Museum, Los Angeles, California.
2023 “Get Together,” Reyes Finn, Detroit, Michigan.
2023 “Motion,” Spot Lite, Detroit, Michigan.
2022 “Automata,” Arnold’s Auto Electric, Detroit, Michigan.
2022 “Dewdrops in the Garden,” Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, California.
2021 “InLight,” 1708 Gallery and Great Shiplock Park, Richmond, Virginia.
2021 “BROOD,” Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead at Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, Michigan.
2019 “Art @ The Max VI,” Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Detroit, Michigan.
2019 “Emergency Contact,” Sadie Halie, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
2019 “Parallels and Peripheries,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, Michigan.
2018 “Graduate Degree Exhibition,” Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
2018 “Queer Tropics.” Transformer, Washington, DC.
2018 “Predicated.” The Kitchen, New York, New York.
2017 “Queer Tropics,” Pelican Bomb Gallery X, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2017 “Millennial Pink,” Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
2017 “Julius Eastman: That Which Is Fundamental - Predicated,” Bowerbird, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2016 “Photo Pool,” Public Pool Art Space, Hamtramck, Michigan.
RESIDENCIES
2024 Artist in Residence, Banff International Curatorial Institute, Banff Center for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
2024 Artist in Residence, Michigan Central x Newlab Art + Technology Residency, Detroit, Michigan.
2022 Artist in Residence, Solar Power For Artists, New York, New York.
2022 Artist in Residence, University Musical Society and University of Michigan, Flint, Michigan.
2021 Artist in Residence, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska.
2019 Artist in Residence, Recess, Brooklyn, New York.
2018 Artist in Residence, A Studio in the Woods, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2018 Visiting Artist, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York.
2016 Artist in Residence, University Musical Society, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
FELLOWSHIPS | GRANTS | AWARDS
2022 Studio Fellow, Fiber Department, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
2022 Knight Arts Challenge Winner, Knight Foundation, Detroit, Michigan.
2020 Micro Grantee, Red Bull Arts, Detroit, Michigan.
2018 New Beginnings Awardee, Mercedes- Benz Financial Services, Bloomfield Hills,
Michigan.
2017 Artist Fellow, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, Michigan.
2017 Career Development Grantee, AAUW, Washington, DC.
2017 Merit Scholarship Recipient, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
2016 Knight Arts Challenge Winner (Fringe Society), Knight Foundation, Detroit, Michigan.
2016 Merit Scholarship Recipient, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
2016 Seed Grantee (Fringe Society), Rauschenberg Foundation, New York, New York.
2016 Seed Grantee, Detroit Narrative Agency, Detroit, Michigan.
2015 5 Under 10 Award, University of Michigan Black Alumni, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
2014 Field Diversity Scholarship Recipient, Americans for the Arts Annual Convention,
Washington, D.C.
2006 Merit Scholarship Recipient, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
INVITED TALKS
2023 “Visiting Artist Series,” Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
2022 “Feminist Excavations: Unearthing Otherwise Possibilities in the UB Poetry Collection,” University of Buffalo, Buffalo, New York. [virtual]
2021 “broadcast: broadcast,” Oberlin College and Conservatory, Oberlin, Ohio. [virtual]
2021 “Environmental Art Infiltrations,” Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival at Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York. [virtual]
2019 “The Science of Nature and Technology,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, Michigan.
2019 “Art @ the Max VI,” Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Detroit, Michigan.
2019 “Creative Design,” Michigan Forest Bioeconomy Conference, Midland, Michigan.
2019 “Intersection,” Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, Michigan.
2018 “Art in the Anthropocene,” Parsons The New School, New York, New York.
2018 “Collision Detection,” University of Rochester, Rochester, New York.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2024
Carollo, Elisa.
“‘Energies’ at Swiss Institute Explores
the Power of Community,” www.observer.com. London, United Kingdom. October 12.
2024 Thomas, Amy. “Beyond Pizza and Yale: What to See, Eat and Do in New Haven,” www.newyorktimes.com. New York, New York. August 5.
2024 Panton, Steve. “Ash Arder: Flesh Tones,” www.brooklynrail.org. Brooklyn, New York. February 2.
2023 Green, Randiah Camille. “Supercoolwicked’s off-grid performance rocks the Charles H. Wright for Earth Day,” www.metrotimes.com. Detroit, Michigan. April 20.
2022 Reiner-Roth, Shane. “Design Core Detroit showcases the city’s capacity for 21st century design innovation and community building.” www.archpaper.com. New York, New York. September 26.
2022 Yang, Vy. “5 Events to Look Forward to During Detroit Month of Design.” www.designmilk.com. Pickerington, Ohio. August 30.
2021 Beddingfield, Duante. “More than $1 million awarded to winners of 2021 Knight Art Challenge.” www.freep.com. Detroit, Michigan. December 9.
2019 McGarvey, Kathleen. “Is ‘convincing the new ‘real?’” www.rochester.edu. Rochester, New York. May 1.
2019 Mott, Laura, et al. “Landlord Colors: On Art, Economy, and Materiality.” Cranbrook Art Museum. Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
2019 Panton, Steve. “130 Ash Arder.” www.essayd.org. Detroit, Michigan. September 19.
2019 Sharp, Sarah Rose. “Detroit’s New Mini Community Center is a Greenhouse by Day, Movie Theater by Night.” www.hyperallergic.com. Brooklyn, New York. March 6.
2018 Lynne, Jessica. “Broadcast #3.” www.asapjournal.com. Baltimore
, Maryland. July 2.
2018 Hodges, Michael. “Cranbrook Art Academy
hosts Sunday open house.” The Detroit
News. Detroit, Michigan. April 27.
2018 Jenkins, Mark. “In the galleries: Images
in ‘Weather the Storm’ are both reassuring
and ominous.” www.washingtonpost.com. Washington, DC. April 13.
2018 Colucci, Emily. “Stranded in the Jungle:
Exoticism and Resistant Illegibility in ‘Queer Tropics.’” www.filthydreams.org. January 12.
2017 D’Addario, John. “In the orbit of Prospect.4:
Satellite exhibits round out the scene.” The New Orleans Advocate. New Orleans, Louisiana. December 12.
2017 Riverwise Magazine. Detroit, Michigan.
September 16.
2016 Sharpe, Sarah Rose. “Beyond Photography
@ Public Pool.” Detroit Art Review.
Detroit, Michigan. January 12.
2016 Aldridge, Taylor Renee. “Renaissance
Before Revival.” Blac Detroit. Detroit, Michigan. October.