BIOGRAPHY
Ashley Worden is a Detroit-based multimedia artist whose practice explores stories of dissent, self-confrontation, motherhood, grief, and the space between lived experience and memory. With a background spanning science, art, and literature, her work moves between linework, installation, and immersive environments. Equally drawn to making and connecting, she finds a sense of home in collaboration and in creating intentional spaces for shared experience. Her practice is woven in collective imagination, ritual, and the possibilities of transforming overlooked spaces into places of connection.
CV
Founder and producer of The House of Tarot Detroit; recipient of the Knight Foundation Art + Tech Expansion Fund.
Worden has exhibited at MOCAD and with The Music Gallery + MUTEK in Toronto, Satellite Art Show during Art Basel Miami, and Galeria Azure at RED DOT Miami.
Her work with MAD Arts includes the design and realization of an ambitious octagonal installation.
STATEMENT
My child taught me to knit with my fingers. Somewhere along the way, the roles reversed: I learned to hold what they handed me, and to question what I’ve inherited. These works are an act of love and a refusal to leave my child a world I wouldn’t believe in myself. See the mother as softness with an edge less willing to behave.
