Education
MFA Photography, Minor Intermedia, Texas Woman’s University
BFA Photography, Savannah College of Art and Design, Cum Laude
Savannah College of Art and Design, Study Abroad Program, Lacoste, France
Curatorial Projects
Present - August 2012, Founding Editor, Light Leaked
A bi-monthly online photography magazine that creates dialogue and community through exhibitions, interviews, features, articles and tutorials. Have hosted 6 exhibitions and conducted over 60 interviews and features with artists such as Lori Nix and Brenton Hamilton. www.lightleaked.com
Alternative Reality, Curator, Float Photo Magazine, June 2, 2017. http://www.floatmagazine.us/alternativereality
The Female Gaze, Curator, Don't Smile, April 11, 2017. http://dont-smile.com/exhibitions-1/2017/4/11/the-female-gaze-portraits
Direct Positive: Polaroids, co-curated with Jen Ervin, September 10, 2016. http://www.lightleaked.com/exhibition-direct-positive.html
Tall Tales: an investigative look into the surreal, co-curated with Caitie Moore and Erica Durham, physical and online exhibition, Canopy Collective, Cleveland, OH and www.lightleaked.com, December 3, 2015. http://lightleaked.blogspot.com/2015/12/tall-tales-investigative-look-into.html
The Poetic Narrative, co-curated with Ethan Fogus, Oranbeg Press (online), November 21, 2014. http://oranbegpress.com/11
Selected Exhibitions
2017
Collective Experiences, Chiang Mai Art Museum in conjunction with the Chiang Mai Photography Festival, Chiang Mai, Thailand (Curator: Patricia Lois Nuss, artist, Orlando, FL)
2016
Two Person, Private Lives of Women: Handmade Artist’s Books by Ashley Kauschinger and Sheryl Anaya, 500X, Dallas, TX
Vanitas, Loosen Art, Cagliari, Italy
Annual 8, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC (Juror: Anna Walker Skillman, Gallery Owner, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA)
Combined Caucus Exhibition, Society for Photographic Education, Red Rock Resort, Las Vegas, NV and Living Arts, Tulsa, OK (Juror: Aline Smithson, artist, Los Angeles, CA)
Where We Are Going, Where We Have Been, MINT Gallery, Atlanta, GA (Jurors: Micah and Whitney Stansell, artists, Atlanta, GA)
Family Ties: South Carolina Women Photographers, McKissick Museum, Columbia, SC
2015
National Photography Fellowship Developed Work, Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, KS
Sensuous Worlds, Eastfield College Gallery, Mesquite, TX (Curator: Iris Betchtol, Gallery Director, Eastfield College)
Southeast Regional Juried Photographic Exhibit, Lee Gallery, Clemson, SC and Center for Visual Art, Greenville, SC (Juror: Byron Wolfe, artist and Associate Professor and the Program Director of Photography at the Tyler School of Art)
Solo Questions of Origin, Slow Exposures, Concord, GA
Rural Impressions, New York Center for Photography, New York, New York (Juror: Frank Meo, Founder of The Photo Closer)
SELECT 2015: Washington Project for the Arts 34th Annual Art Auction Exhibition & Gala, Artisphere, Arlington, Virginia (Curator: Sarah Kennel, Associate Curator, Department of Photographs, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C)
2014
Breaking Ground: Contemporary Photography at the College of William and Mary,
Williamsburg, Virginia (Curator: Eliot Dudik, artist and Visiting Professor, the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia)
USC Faculty Exhibition, Tapp’s Art Center, Columbia, SC
The American South, Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Atlanta, GA and Morris Museum, Augusta, GA (Curators: Aint-Bad Magazine Editors, Savannah, GA)
Photography of the Rural South, Slow Exposures, Concord, GA (Jurors: Aline Smithson, artist, Los Angeles, CA and Alexa Dilworth, Director, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University)
9/50 Southeast Presenter's Summit, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA (Curators: Aint-Bad Magazine Editors Savannah, GA)
Solo Questions of Origin, MFA Thesis, Jenette Kennedy Gallery, South Side on Lamar, Dallas, TX,
May 14 - May 29
Three Person Master of Fine Art Graduating Exhibition, East Gallery, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX
Of Memory, Bone, and Myth, the Rourke Art Museum, Moorhead, MN (Juror: Maggie Taylor, artist, Gainesville, FL)
2013
Survey of the Plains, The Art & Design Gallery, University of Kansas (Juror: Terry Evans, artist, Kansas City, KA)
SPE South Central Members Show, College of the Mainland, Galveston, Texas
19th Juried Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA (Juror: Kathy Ryan, Photo Editor, New York Times Magazine, New York, NY)
Two Person Borderlands, Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX (with Adam Neese)
Joyce Elaine Grant Exhibition, Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX (Juror: Sarah Kennel, Associate Curator, Department of Photographs, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C)
What We Photograph, Mpls Photo Center, Minneapolis, MN (Juror: Cig Harvey, artist, Rockland, ME)
2012
New Crop, 500X, Dallas, TX (Jurors: Barry Whistler, Gallery Owner, Barry Whistler Gallery and Allison V. Smith, artist, Dallas, TX)
re:NOUN, an exhibition of persons, places, and things, Westobou Festival, Old Academy of
Richmond County, Augusta, GA (Curator: Nancy Solomon, Independent Curator, New York, NY)
Portfolio Showcase, The Kiernan Gallery, Lexington, VA (Juror: Dan Estabrook, artist, Chicago, IL)
Plastic Fantastic III, LightBox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, OR (Juror: Susan Burnstine, artist, Los Angeles, CA)
PhotoPlace Open, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT (Juror: Kyohei Abe, Director,
Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography, Detroit, MI)
Intimacy and Voyeurism, in conjunction with Society for Photographic Education, RayKo Gallery, San Francisco, CA (Juror: Todd Hido, artist, San Francisco, CA)
ONWARD Compe, Basho Projects, Philadelphia, PA (Juror: Todd Hido, artist, San Francisco, CA)
2011
Echoes of the Sublime, in conjunction with Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Emily Amy Gallery, Atlanta, GA (Curator: Stephanie Dowda, artist, Atlanta, GA)
2010
Vernissage et Exposition, Savannah College of Art and Design, Lacoste, France
Selected Publications
2017
"Publishing to the Public: Several Case Studies Regarding Contemporary Photobook Publishing in America," Chinese Photography Magazine, April 2017. 121.
2016
Ryan Sparks, “Ashley Kauschinger,” Southern Glossary, November 11, 2016.
http://southernglossary.com/index/2016/11/11/ashley-kauschinger
“Daily: (3) Curators’ Picks,” Happenings CLT, September 21, 2016.
https://happeningsclt.com/2016/09/21/daily-3-curators-picks/
Rachel Jump, “Ashley Kauschinger,” Aint-Bad (blog), May 17, 2016.
https://www.aint-bad.com/article/2016/05/17/ashley-kauschinger/
2015
Kory Jean Kingsley, “Photographer Ashley Kauschinger,” Booooooom (blog), July 6, 2015.
http://www.booooooom.com/2015/06/17/photographer-ashley-kauschinger/#more-65998
“Ashley Kauschinger Interview,” 365 Artists 365 Days (blog), July 2, 2015.
http://365artists365days.com/2015/07/02/ashley-kauschinger-columbia-south-carolina/
“Ashley Kauschinger,” FotoFilmic, June 28, 2015.
http://fotofilmic.com/?portfolio=ashley-kauschinger-columbia-sc-united-states
2014
Tom Griggs, “Editing with Ashley Kauschinger,” Fototazo, August 19, 2014. http://www.fototazo.com/2014/08/editing-with-ashley-kauschinger.html
Grant Gill, “Interview with Ashley Kauschinger: Questions of Origin,” Lenscratch, June 2, 2014. http://lenscratch.com/2014/06/ashley-kauschinger-questions-origin/
Michal Fanta, “Interview: fotografka Ashley Kauschinger,” Odcloneno, June 16, 2014. http://www.odcloneno.com/blog/2014/6/16/interview-fotografka-ashley-kauschinger-mym-dlouhodobym-cile.html
2013
Andy Adams, “The Collection: Ashley Kauschinger,” Flak Photo (blog), May 22, 2013. http://flakphoto.com/photo/ashley-kauschinger-hour-hand
Christy Karpinski, “Open Theme Issue # 58,” F-Stop Magazine, April-May, 2013. http://www.fstopmagazine.com/pastissues/58/index.html
Allison Zavos, “Texture Group Show,” Feature Shoot, March 4, 2013. http://www.featureshoot.com/2013/03/feature-shoot-group-show-photos-showing-texture/
Ashley Kauschinger, “Guest Writer: Ashley Kauschinger,” The Kiernan Gallery (blog), January 7, 2013. http://kiernangallery.blogspot.com/2013/01/guest-writer-ashley-kauschinger.html
2012
“Photo Annual,” Photo District News, June, 2012. 155.
Aline Smithson, “Ashley Kauschinger: Hot Skin,” Lenscratch (blog), April 6, 2012. http://lenscratch.com/2012/04/ashley-kauschinger/
Kat Kiernan, “Portfolio Showcase Artist: Ashley Kauschinger,” The Kiernan Gallery (blog), June 26, 2012. http://kiernangallery.blogspot.com/2012/06/portfolio-showcase-artists-ashley.html
“Go Indie Photo Contest,” Emerging Photographer, Spring 2012. 43.
2011
“Photo Contest 2011,” Editor’s Pick, National Geographic, http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/photo-contest/2011/entries/gallery/people-week-1/#/4
South Atlantic Review, Summer 2011. Cover.
“Man As Object, Reversing the Gaze,” SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
Awards
2015
SPESE Adjunct Instructor Scholarship Award
Shortlist ’15, FotoFilmic
2014
Paul Conlan First Prize, Slow Exposures, Concord, GA
Critical Mass Finalist, Photolucida, Portland, OR
2013
Third Place Winner, Lenscratch Student Prize
Grady's Barger Gardner Endowment, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX
2012
Critical Mass Finalist, Photolucida, Portland, OR
Student Winner, Photo Annual, Photo District News
Second Place, Self-Portraiture, International Photography Awards (IPA), Los Angeles, CA
Marie Delleney Endowed Memorial Scholarship in Art, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX
Helen Haddix Deiker and Robert W. Deiker Endowment Fund, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX
Lifestyle Winner, Go Indie Photo Contest, Photo District News
2011
Joyce Elaine Grant Scholarship, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX
2010
New York trip recipient, The Alcott Foundation, SCAD, Atlanta, GA
Lectures/Presentations/Radio
2017
Panelist, Business Practices, Soda City Photo Squad, Columbia, SC
2016
“Ashley Kauschinger Artist Talk,” The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
2015
“Questions of Origin”, Imagemaker Presentation, Society for Photographic Education, Southeast Regional Conference, Greenville, SC
“Questions of Origin”, Panel with Karen Lacey and Celeste Headlee, Slow Exposures, Concord, GA
2014
“Editing an Online Magazine,” Invited Speaker, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
2013
“Effective Titling,” Invited Speaker, Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX
“Symbols, Mythology and the Photograph,” Creative Arts and Sciences Symposium,
Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX
“After Ground Glass,” Graduate Research Summit, Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX
Undergraduate Critiques, The Art Institute of Dallas, Dallas, TX
2011
“Echoes of the Sublime,” Artist Talk, Emily Amy Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Teaching Experience
Present - August 2014, Adjunct Faculty, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
ARTS 260 Photo for Non-majors
ARTS 261 Introduction to Photography (Darkroom)
ARTS 360 Advanced Black and White Photography (Darkroom)
ARTS 361 Digital Photography
ARTS 564 Photography Workshop: Introduction to Book Arts
ARTS 564 Photography Workshop: Advanced Photographic Printing & Hybrid Workflow
ARTS 564 Photography Workshop: Studio Lighting
ENGL 101 Critical Reading and Composition
April - January 2017, Adjunct Faculty, Columbia College, Columbia, SC
ART 285/385 Beginning and Intermediate Photography
May 2013 - August 2012, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX
Instructor of record, ART 1603 Introduction to Photography (Digital)
August 2012 - May 2011, Graduate Assistant, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX
Assistant to Professor Susan kae Grant, ART 5673 Portfolio Photography and ART 5053
Typographic Bookmaking
Representation
Vamp and Tramp, Birmingham, AL
Collections
Sir Elton John Collection, Atlanta, GA
Vanderbilt University, Heard Library, Special Collections
Private Collections
Memberships
Art Photo Index by Photo-eye
Society for Photographic Education