Project Description
Artist Profile
Ashley Hunt
Ashley Hunt is an artist, writer and educator who has dedicated the last 20 years of his artistic life to documenting the expansion of the U.S. prison system, its effects on communities, and its perpetuation of the racial, colonial and class legacies of the U.S. His works often engage the work of grassroots organizations, including Critical Resistance, the Underground Scholars, No New Jails New York, Mass Liberation Arizona and others. Projects like his Corrections Documentary Project, Degrees of Visibility, and the collaborative School for the Movement of the Technicolor People have been exhibited in venues ranging from the ASU Art Museum, the Coleman Center for the Arts, MoMA, Project Row Houses, the Tate Modern and Documenta 12, grassroots community centers, churches and prisons. He teaches in the Photography and Media program at CalArts.
Artist Profile
Ashley Hunt
Ashley Hunt is an artist, writer and educator who has dedicated the last 20 years of his artistic life to documenting the expansion of the U.S. prison system, its effects on communities, and its perpetuation of the racial, colonial and class legacies of the U.S. His works often engage the work of grassroots organizations, including Critical Resistance, the Underground Scholars, No New Jails New York, Mass Liberation Arizona and others. Projects like his Corrections Documentary Project, Degrees of Visibility, and the collaborative School for the Movement of the Technicolor People have been exhibited in venues ranging from the ASU Art Museum, the Coleman Center for the Arts, MoMA, Project Row Houses, the Tate Modern and Documenta 12, grassroots community centers, churches and prisons. He teaches in the Photography and Media program at CalArts.