Born Barbados, West Indies, 1959
Lives and works in Kuta Bali, Indonesia
Education
1982 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California. BFA
1985 Whitney Museum Independent Studies Program, New York.
Solo Exhibitions
2008 Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
2006 Lehmann Maupin Gallery and Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
2004 Sonnabend Gallery, New York
2001 “… in paradise,” White Cube, London
2000 NEG (no limits events gallery), Milan, Italy
1999 Sonnabend Gallery, New York
1997 White Cube, London
"Back To The Wall," Sonnabend Gallery, New York
“Ashley Bickerton” Palacete del Embarcadero. Autoridad Portuaria de Santander, Spain
1993 "Recent Work", La Jolla Gallery, Quint Krichman Projects
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
1992 Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
1991 Sonnabend Gallery, New York
1990 Donald Young Gallery, Chicago,
1989 Sonnabend Gallery, New York
1988 Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
1987 International With Monument, New York
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
1986 International With Monument, New York
Cable Gallery, New York
1984 Artists Space, New York
White Columns, New York
Group Exhibitions
2007 “The Incomplete”, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
“The Fractured Figure”, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
2006 “Tomorrowland: CalArts in Moving Pictures” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
“Branded and on Display”, Krannert Art Museum, university of Illinois , Champaign, IL
2004 “Visions of America: Contemporary Art from the Essl Collection and the Sonnabend Collection, New York”; Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuberg/Vienna
2002 Sonnabend Gallery, New York
“From Pop to Now: Selections from the Sonnabend Collection”, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2001 “Plug-in: unity and mobility”, Westfaelisches Landesmuseum für Kunst-und Kulturgeschichte, Muenster, Germany
1999 “Inner Eye: Contemporary Art from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection,
Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
“Face to Face,” Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1998 “Pop-Surrealism”, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1997 “Surroundings: Responses to the American Landscape” San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA.
1996 "Natural Spectacles," David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
"Body Language," Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
1995 "Garbage", Thread Waxing Space, New York
"Border Crawl", Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
"Greenpiece", Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New York
1994 "Don’t look now", Thread Waxing Space, New York
"The Figure as Fiction: The Figure in Visual Art and Literature", The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
"Some went mad, some ran away...", The Serpentine Gallery, London: Nordic Arts Centre, Helsinki; Kunstverein, Hannover; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
"Drawing on Sculpture", Cohen Gallery, New York
"Medaljens bakside: Pirouettes", Lillehammer Bys Malerisamling, Lillehammer Art Museum, Lillehammer, Norway
"The Natural World", A/C Project, New York
"Crash", Thread Waxing Space, New York
"Location I", Basilico Fine Arts, New York
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
1993 "Contemporary Self-Portraits 'Here's Looking at Me'", elac, Centre d'Echanges de Perrache, Lyon, France
"Art in the Age of Information", Wood Street Galleries & 808 Penn Modern, Pittsburgh, PA
"The Spirit of Drawing", Sperone Westwater, New York
"Medaljens bakside: Pirouettes", Lillehammer Bys Malerisamling, Lillehammer Art Museum, Lillehammer, Norway
"Fall from Fashion", The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
"Extravagant: The Economy of Elegance", Russisches Kultursentrum, Berlin, Germany
"Image Makers", The Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
"Renewing our Earth: The Artistic Vision", United States Pavillion, Taejon International Expo '93, Taejon
1992 "American Art of the 80's", Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento, Italy
"Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing", The Museum of Modern Art, NY
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Works on paper", Galerie Georges-Phillipe Valois, Paris
"John Armleder, Richard Artschwager, Ashley Bickerton, Jan Vercruysse", Kunstnernes Hus, Wergelandsveien, Oslo
"Post Human", FAE, Musee d'art contemporain, Pully/Lausanne, Switzerland
"This is my body: this is my blood", Herter Art Gallery, University of MA, Amherst
"Translation", Center for Contemporary Arts, Warsaw, Poland
"Multiplicity", Christopher Middendorf, Washington, DC; Thea Westreich, New York; Van Straaten Gallery, Chicago, IL; Center of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MS; Davis/McClain, Houston, TX; Richard Green, Santa Monica, CA; Ellen Miller/Katie Block, Boston, MA
"Not for Sale: Loans from the Private Collections of New York Art Dealers", Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
"The Ninth Biennale of Sydney", Sydney, Australia
1991 "Word as Image: American Art 1960 - 1990", Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI)
"Collage: New Applications", Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York
"Words & #s", Museum of Contemporary Art Wright State University, Dayton, OH
"Group Show: Ashley Bickerton, Terry Winters, Gilberto Zorio", Sonnabend Gallery, New York
"Anni Novanta", Galleria Comunale d'Arte, Bologna; Musei Comunale, Rimini; ex colonia "Le Navi", Cattolica
"Group Show", Koury Wingate, New York
"Sculptures from the Straus Collection", Steinman College Center, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
"Objects for the Ideal Home: The Legacy of Pop Art", The Serpentine Gallery, London
"Devices", Josh Baer Gallery, New York
"Power: Its Myths and Mores in American Art, 1961-1991", Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana; Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
"A Passion for Art: Watercolors and Works on Paper", Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
1990 "Tierra Encantada", Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MI
"Aperto", XLIV Venice Biennale, Venice
"Signs of Life: Process and Materials, 1960-1990", Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
"The Desire of the Museum", The Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Plaza, New York
"Stendhal Syndrome: The Cure", Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
"The (Un)Making of Nature", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
"Savoir-Vivre, Savoir-Faire, Savoir-Etre", Centre International D'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal
"Un Art de la Distinction", Abbaye Saint-Andre, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Meymac, Correze, France
"The Last Decade: American Artists of the 80's", Tony Shafrazi, New York
"Mind over Matter: Concept and Object", Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
"Art et Publicite", Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
"Total Metal", Simon Watson, New York
"Language in Art", The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1989 "Horn of Plenty", Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
"Words", Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
"Bilderstreit: Constradiction, unity and fragmentation in art since 1960", Ludwig Museum in the Rheinhallen, Cologne, West Germany
"1989 Whitney Biennial Exhibition", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
"Technology/Abstraction Science: Art at the End of the Decade", Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
"The Silent Baroque", Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
"A Decade of American Drawing: 1980-1989", Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
"Image World: Art and Media Culture", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1988 "Cultural Geometry", Dakis Joannou, Athens, Greece
"Sculpture Parallels", Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
"New York in View", Kunstverein Munchen, Munich
"NY ART NOW - PART II", Saatchi Collection, London
"Collection Sonnabend", Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; CAPC, Musee d'art Contemporain, Bordeaux; Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome; Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trent, Italy; Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo; The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendari, Japan; The Fukuyama Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan; The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
"Altered States", Kent Fine Art, New York
"A Drawing" Show", Cable Gallery, New York
"Complexity & Contradiction" Scott Hanson Gallery, New York
"Innovations in Sculpture 1985-1988", Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
"New Works", Daniel Weinberg, Los Angeles
"Three Decades: The Oliver Hoffman Collection", The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1987 "New York New", Paul Maenz Gallery, Cologne, West Germany
"Romance", curated by Donald Young, Knight Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
"CalArts: Skeptical Belief(s)", The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago
"NY Art Now: The Saatchi Collection", London (exhibition catalogue)
"Currents: Simulations, New American Conceptualism", Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
"FACTURE", Laurie Ruben Gallery, New York
"The Beauty of Circumstance", Josh Baer Gallery, New York
1986 "Signs of Painting", Metro Pictures, New York
"Sings of Painting", Donald Young Gallery, Chicago; Cable Gallery, New York
"Art and It's Double", Barcelona/Madrid, Curator: Dan Cameron, Loughelton Gallery, New York
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
"Surfboards", Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
1985 Metro Pictures, New York
"Seven Young Painters", Holly Solomon, New York
"Objects in Collision", The Kitchen, New York
1982 "Films", Artists Space, New York
"Experimentelle Kurzfilme aus USA"
"Stadtkino Oberhausen", Oberhausen, West Germany
"Houdini Kinotheater Walche", Zurich
"Freier Film", Aarau, Switzerland
