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Ash, a Black person with her hair parted and slicked back, stands against a grey wall.

Ash Arder

(she/they)Detroit, MI
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Ash Arder is an interdisciplinary artist whose research-based approach works to expose, deconstruct, or reconfigure physical and conceptual systems, especially those related to ecology and/or industry. Arder manipulates physical and virtual environments to explore materials, mark-making, mechanical portraiture, and sound design as tools for complicating dynamics of power between humans, machines, and the lands they occupy.

Residencies include Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Alberta); Michigan Central x Newlab (Detroit); University Musical Society (Ann Arbor); Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (Omaha); Recess (Brooklyn); and A Studio in the Woods (New Orleans). Recent exhibitions include a solo show at the Cranbrook Art Museum and group shows at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles and Swiss Institute in New York. Arder received an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art.