Ansley West Rivers was born in 1983 in Atlanta, Georgia and received her BFA from the University of Georgia and MFA from the California College of the Arts. In 2019 she had her first solo museum exhibition at Telfair Museum, Savannah, GA. West Rivers work is featured in many public and private collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, The Judge Collection, LaGrange Art Museum and The Mayo Collection. Additionally, West Rivers's work has been shown at The Wiregrass Museum (Dothan, AL), Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art (San Francisco, CA), Sous Les Etoiles Gallery (New York, NY), Burrard Arts Foundation (Vancouver BC), The David Brower Center (Berkley, CA), Kala Art Institute (Berkley, CA), Hathaway Gallery (Atlanta, GA), The Print Center (Philadelphia, PA). She currently lives with her husband and two children in Victor, Idaho.