Ashleigh Coleman
Ashleigh Coleman (b. 1983) lives in rural Mississippi. Through her work, she explores dichotomies within domesticity, as well as the tension within liminal space— the already but not yet. Her photographs have been shown in solo and group exhibitions at the Fischer Galleries, the University of Mississippi's Center of Southern Culture, the Claire Elizabeth Gallery, the Ogden Museum of Art, the Mississippi Museum of Art, the Griffin Museum of Photography, the Meadows Museum of Art, Looking for Appalachia, the Yellow Rose Project, and the Bo Barlett Center. She is the 2020 SouthArts State Fellow for Mississippi, was the Visiual Artist Fellow through the Mississippi Arts Commission and the National Endowment of the arts in 2021 and was recognized in 2022 by the Mississippi Insitute of Arts and Letters for her series “Hold Nothing Back.”