Ashley Rivers is a Contemporary Multidisciplinary Artist living in Gulfport, Florida. Creating unique works of art relating to the natural world and our bodies, Ashley draws inspiration from the earth, our human identities, biology, and ecology. With a background in sculpture and ceramics, her work is centered around the connection we as individuals feel and have towards nature and ourselves. Ashley received her Bachelors of Fine Arts, with a concentration in Ceramics/Sculpture, from the University of South Florida. She is a mixed-raced, female artist whose work cultivates a range of mixed methods and imagery, and aims to embrace strength, wellness, and the phenomena of the physical world collectively.
She has participated in, and curated, numerous exhibitions and large projects within Florida and the Tampa Bay Area. She has received several awards and grants including the 2021 St. Petersburg Arts Alliance Individual Artist Grant, the 2022 Creative Pinellas Emerging Artist Grant, and she was the first recipient of the 2022 Senator Darryl Rouson Artist Grant. She has had artworks exhibited at the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center in Miami during 2022 Art BASEL, won the 2023 Gasparilla of the Arts Emerging Artist Award, won the 2023 Halo Arts Project Fellowship, received the 2024/2025 Arts Impact Fund for Visual Arts from Creative Pinellas, and was one of the Cycle 4 Recipients for the 2024 Gobioff Foundation Microgrants.