BIO


ASHLEY HUNT is an artist and activist based in Los Angeles, working with experimental video, forms of mapping, documentary and multi-media installation. Primarily interested in questions of power, language, structures of political possibility and their representation, Hunt's main work of the past five years has been developing the Corrections Documentary Project (www.correctionsproject.com), which investigates these questions through the framework of the rapid growth and commercialization of the U.S. prison system.

Select exhibitions and screenings have included the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Non-Violent Social Change in Atlanta, the Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies (LACPS); screenings include the Oberhausen Film & Video Festival, the Impakt Festival, the Slamdance Film & Video Festival and the New York Underground Film & Video Festival. Hunt was a participant in the Whitney Independent Studio Program in 2000, received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1998, and his Bachelor's Degree from the University of California at Irvine in 1994.

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URLs:
www.ashleyhuntwork.net
www.correctionsproject.com
www.aworldmap.com
www.iwontdrown.com
www.criticalresistance.org/katrina
www.prisonmaps.com
www.closetallulah.org