Ashleigh Coleman
About the Artist
Ashleigh Coleman was born in the mountains of Virginia, reared in South Carolina, and, for the last decade, has lived in rural Mississippi. Through her work, she seeks out the beauty in the ashes, the wonder hidden in chaos, and the place of a woman in the rural south.
Her photographs have been shown in solo and group exhibitions at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Mississippi Museum of Art, the Bo Barlett Center, the University of Mississippi's Center of Southern Culture, the University of West Virginia, the University of Southern Mississippi, the Griffin Museum of Photography, the Meadows Museum of Art, Fischer Galleries, Claire Elizabeth Gallery, Barrister's Gallery, Soho Gallery, and is currently part of the traveling exhibitions, Looking for Appalachia and A Yellow Rose Project.
Her work is included in a number of private and public collections, including The Do Good Fund, The Mississippi Museum of Art, and The Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University. Ashleigh is the 2020 SouthArts State Fellow for Mississippi, as well as the 2022 photography recipient for Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters.
