EDUCATION New York Botanical Garden The Bronx, NY2017 Urban Naturalist Certificate Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME2012 Tyler School of Art Philadelphia, PA Tyler School of Art Rome, Italy 2011 MFA Cyprus College of Art Lempa, Cyprus2002 Post Baccalaureate Degree Yale University New Haven, CT 2001 BA PROJECTS + ORGANIZATIONS2021-present The Marshy Garden Co-creator The Soil Factory, Ithaca, NYCreated in collaboration with Brandon Hoak, the Marshy Garden is a rewilding landscape project, test lab, artist studio, and gathering place. The garden is a part of The Soil Factory Network (SFN), a vibrant interdisciplinary art, event, and research hub centered around ecology and soil health that brings together scientists, scholars, artists, and practitioners from abroad and the local community. The garden itself fills the niche of being a demonstrational ecological restoration garden, while providing support for wildlife—which is paramount, and exists as a resource to our community. We share knowledge, skills, and methods of gardening and supporting wildlife through workshops and events. We foster artistic collaborations by inviting artists to use the garden for research inspiration and source material for projects. 2022-present MOTH BALL Co-creator Athens, NY, Ithaca, NYDeveloped with artist Patrick Costello, Moth Ball is an annual information-gathering wild science extravaganza celebrating creatures of the night with mothing, art, and performative spectacle. Rooted in citizen science and participatory creative practice, the event is held around the summer solstice (peak moth diversity) in the Wooshy Woods of Athens, New York. 2025 will also see a presentation in Ithaca, NY. 2022-present The Soil Factory Artist-in-Residency Member Organizer The Soil Factory, Ithaca, NY The SFN Artist-in-residency program hosts artists and scientists, bringing together art, sustainability research to address urgent ecological and social issues. 2021-2023* Skowhegan Bird and Nature Club Co-founder An international bird club for artists. Created with Pallavi Sen with the support of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Through in-person birding excursions and monthly online meetings featuring scientists, artists and ecologists, we share information about the fascinating world of birds and offer new ways of seeing and orienting. *in discussions regarding resuming these meetings EXHIBITIONS + EVENTS 2025 Ways of Knowing North Loop West, Williamstown, MA COLOR GROUP The Barn Project, East BoothBay, ME Rustle Blue Boy Space, Savannah, GAMOTH BALL ITHACA The Soil Factory, Ithaca, NY MOTH BALL IV Wooshy Woods, Athens, NY Open Season 9 Ithaca Print Commons, Ithaca, NY 2024 Yellow Night: Ash Ferlito + Ilse Murdock The Barn Project, East Boothbay, ME Open Season 8 Ithaca Print Commons, Ithaca, NY The 72nd Annual Lepidopterist Convention Cornell University, Ithaca, NY MOTH BALL III Wooshy Woods, Athens, NY 2023 This Earth The Concord Center for the Visual Arts, Concord, MAThe Disappearing Birds of North America by Jen De Los Reyos www.disappearingbirds.orgLandings String Room Gallery, Wells College, Aurora, NY Summer Moon Mothing Station Sage Street Mill, North Bennington, VT MOTH BALL II Wooshy Woods, Athens, NY 2022 MOTH BALL Wooshy Woods, Athens, NYLife as Clouds String Room Gallery, Wells College, Aurora, NY 2021 This Earth: Notes + Observations Southern Utah Museum of Art, Cedar City, UTEarth Modern West Gallery, Salt Lake City, UTMoth Light Freshkills Park, Staten Island, NY soloStill-Life-S Available Spaces Art Project, Las Vegas, NV 2020 Moth Light Box Light Bulletin at Citygroup, NYC, NYFlorida Rights Restoration Coalition Benefit Canada Gallery, NYC, NYPlease and Thank You VSOP Projects, Greenport, NY 2019-2020 Sun Tarps Freshkills Park, Staten Island, NY outdoor installation 2019 Moth Light InkDwell Studio, Half Moon Bay, CA solo Dry Wit Marjorie Barrick Museum, Las Vegas, NV 2018 Video Room Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA2017 I Become the Sapsucker Sointula Gallery, Sointula, B.C, Canada solo 2016 I Want to Break Free Arts+Leisure, NYC, NY solo Coming in Hot White Cubicle, London, England soloFelt Like ON/OFF Vogue Fabrics, London, England solo Everybody’s Fool: Ash Ferlito + Clare Torina Bannerette, NYC, NYFIVE Marjorie Barrick Museum, Las Vegas, NV 2015 Pink Elephants on Parade Spring/Break Art Show, Bannerette, NYC, NYSerpentine Beverley’s, NYC, NY On the Wall Satellite Contemporary, Las Vegas, NV Bodies Perimeter Gallery, Belfast, ME The Christmas Show GUCCIVUITTON, Miami, FL Have A Nice Day Find & Form Space, Boston, MA solo Are You Experienced? Hammock Gallery, Los Angeles, CA solo The Feminist Tea Party PARMA at Abrons Art Center, New York, NY 2014 Twilight Klüngel, Dusseldorf, Germany Time Capsule 2014-2044 Marjorie Barrick Museum, Las Vegas, NV SHIFT: California Painting Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA 2013 Canon Fodder University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND Colloidal Silver Fringe Salon, New York, NY soloThe Sign Was Just the Thing Itself WEEKEND, Los Angeles, CA Devil’s Tower Camp Beverly’s New York, NYDECENTER Network Abrons Art Center, New York, NY2012 O Fortuna Apartment, Kreuzberg, Berlin, GermanyO Fortuna Leroy Street, New York, NY Nite Slutz curated by John Walter, Skowhegan, MEHow to Be Brash in New Unreddened Spaces Bermant Lab, curated by Em Rooney, Skowhegan, ME 2011 VOX VII Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA TEACHING + SKILL SHARING 2024 Fall Seed Collecting The Marshy Garden, Ithaca, NY 2024 Natives + Non-natives Plant Walk and Risograph Workshop Ithaca Print Commons, Ithaca, NY 2023 Summer Librarian + Naturalist Skowhegan School of Painting + Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME 2023 Guest LecturerEnvironment and Sustainability Colloquium, Cornell University Ithaca, NYNative Plant Gardening Workshop Environment and Sustainability Colloquium, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 2023 Visiting Artist Lecturer Senior Art Studio Williams College, Williamstown, MA 2023 Visiting Critic Wells College, Aurora, NY 2023 Introduction to Birding Workshop Buxton School, Williamstown, MA 2022 Moth Light: Mothing Workshop Sage Street Mill, North Bennington, VT 2021 Moth Light: Mothing Workshop Freshkills Park, Staten Island, NY 2021 Guest Lecturer Environment and Sustainability Colloquium, Cornell University Ithaca, NYNative Plants Cyanotype Workshop Environment and Sustainability Colloquium, Cornell University Ithaca, NY 2019 Sun Prints Workshop Freshkills Park, Staten Island, NY 2018 Wave Hill Family Day Artist, The Bronx, NY 2014 Teaching Artist-in-Residence University Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 2014 Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Teaching Artist, Ridgefield, CT RESIDENCIES 2020 Montello Foundation Montello, NV 2019 House of Poetics - The Cooper Union House Governors Island, NYC, NY 2018 NYC Audubon Society Governors Island, NYC, NY 2017 Sointula Art Shed Residency Sointula, B.C, Canada 2015 DNA Gallery Residency Provincetown, MA 2012 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Skowhegan, ME 2008 The Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT EMPLOYMENT Jenny Holzer Studio, LLC Brooklyn, NY + Hoosick Falls, NY 2013-present Artist assistant, fabrication and materials research BOOKSBirds of Skowhegan 2022 Skowhegan School of Painting + SculptureCollaboration with Pallavi Sen Moths of Skowhegan 2025 Skowhegan School of Painting + Sculpture upcoming BIBLIOGRAPHYTHE TOMORROW ARCHIVE, Vol 1., May 2024. Long, Susan. ‘Yellow Night at the Barn Project.’ Boothbay Register, June 2024. Howell, August. ‘Art and Science Collide at Ink Dwell: Artist combines two passions.’ Half Moon Bay Review, August 2019. Baude, Dawn-Michelle. ‘Artist Styles and Messages Collide in the Sharply Cohesive ‘FIVE’ Las Vegas Weekly, May 2016. Blair, Dike. “Ash Ferlito, Steve Keister, Bobbie Oliver, Arlene Shechet.” zingmagazine, December 2015. Peterson, Kristen. “Time Capsule Comes with Pact to Meet Again.” Las Vegas Weekly, May 2014. TenWordsAndOneShot. October 2013. "24 Artists to Watch." Modern Painters, December 2012: 73-89.Blair, Dike with Jesus Benavente, Ash Ferlito, Park McArthur, Ian Page, and Marisa Williamson. "Defining Roles: Teacher/Mentor/Crazy Uncle." Skowhegan Journal, 2012: 4-6. Rochester, Katherine. "Jury's Still In." Philadelphia Weekly, July 2011. Fallon, Roberta, "Tyler Kids Show Off Their Work." Philadelphia Weekly, March 2011. Spicer, Jakki. “World Domination of Painting (and Drawing).” East Bay Express, November 2006.
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