I am a photographer living in Jackson, Mississippi.
Email: ashleygates@gmail.com
Instagram: @cosmopsis
Exhibitions
2024 Human Experience, New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2024 The Open, Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville, SC
2023 The Curious World of Unusual Portraits, Arabi Visual Arts, New Orleans, LA
2022-2023 Tell Her Nothing / She Tells All, HEY Coffee Co., New Orleans, LA
2022 The Portrait, Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville, SC
2022 Still Life, New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2021 58th Annual Juried Competition, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
2020 Stories of the South, Ground Floor Gallery, Nashville, TN
2020 17th Annual Joyce Elaine Grant Exhibition, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX
2019 Vision: Color Photography, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR
2019 Mississippi Heritage Trust: 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Morris Ice Company, Jackson, MS
2019 Slow Exposures, Strickland’s, Concord, GA
2019 Time Zero and Beyond: Instant Photography, Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI
2019 The Arc: Illumination, Ritual, Reflection, Redux Contemporary Art Center, Charleston, SC
2018-2019 DocuFlorida II: Projections and Prints, T.T. Wentworth, Jr. Florida State Museum, Pensacola, FL
2018 Slow Exposures, Strickland's, Concord, GA
2018 24th Annual Juried Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
2018 Politico Pop-Up 3, Art Space 3116, New Orleans, LA
2018 This American Landscape, New England School of Photography, Waltham, MA
2018 Celebrating the Americana Music Triangle, New Orleans Jazz Museum, New Orleans, LA
2018 Instant Gratification, Redux Contemporary Art Center, Charleston, SC
2017 Currents, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
2017 Instant Gratification, Atlanta School of Photography, Atlanta, GA
2017 Aperture Summer Open: On Freedom, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY
2017 Recollections, New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2017 The Color of Light, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2017 Small Works, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Southern Landscapes, Brickworks Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2017 Histories and Memories, Indiana University East, Tom Thomas Gallery, Richmond, IN
2016 INFOCUS Self-Published Photobooks, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
2016 Politico Pop-Up 2, New Orleans Art Center, New Orleans, LA
2016 The Curated Fridge, Photoville, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Slow Exposures, Cochran Gallery, LaGrange, GA & Strickland's, Concord, GA
2016 Celebrating the Americana Music Triangle, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, New Orleans, LA
2016 Taking Pictures, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR
2016 Eudora Welty Pop-Up Exhibition, Eudora Welty House and Garden, Jackson, MS
2015 Black and White, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR
2015 Taking Pictures, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR
2015 Best Before: Instant Photography by Southern Artists, Ron Blaylock Fine Art Photography, Jackson, MS (Co-curated)
2015 Politico Pop-Up, New Orleans Art Center, New Orleans, LA
2014 The Perpetual Instant, Zeitgeist Multi-disciplinary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
2014 Half Hours on Earth, Light + Glass Studio and Gallery, Jackson, MS
Print / Online
2024 Density Press, Volume Two, “Walk on Water”
2024 Density Press, Personally Yours
2019 Oxford American, Eyes on the South
2019 Humble Arts Foundation, Loss
2018 The Boston Globe
2017 Aint-Bad Feature, September 28
2017 Lucky Peach, The Suburbs Issue
2017 Pack/Peel/Pour interview
2017 Curbed, Usonia Now
2017 Lenscratch, Women's March Exhibition
2016 Southern Glossary, Issue 3
2016 Photo-eye, Best Photobooks of 2016
2016 Curbed, 10 Streets That Define America, Jackson
2016 Southern Glossary interview
2016 Light Leaked, Direct Positive / Polaroid Exhibition
2016 Don't Take Pictures, Photo of the Day