Ashley Garrett (b. 1984 Dover, NJ) is an abstract painter based in East Chatham, New York. She received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Rooted in direct encounters with the natural world, her paintings and drawings explore perception, memory, emotion, and shifting states of consciousness through luminous color, fluid gestures, and layered, tactile surfaces. 

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Garrett has had exhibitions at SEPTEMBER (Kinderhook, NY/ Hudson, NY), Gold / Scopophilia Gallery (Montclair, NJ), Hood Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Chase Gallery (West Hartford, CT), SRO (Brooklyn, NY), Six Depot (West Stockbridge, MA), and RISD Memorial Hall Gallery (Providence, RI). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Katonah Museum (Katonah, NY), Torrance Art Museum (Los Angeles, CA), COL Gallery (San Francisco, CA), Gallery Ondo (Seoul, Korea), Gallery G (Hiroshima, Japan), Ladies’ Room (Los Angeles, CA), Tappeto Volante (Brooklyn, NY), Louise Nevelson Chapel (New York, NY), Love Apple Art Space (Ghent, NY), The Painting Center (New York, NY), Regina Rex (New York, NY), Planthouse (New York, NY), Orgy Park (Brooklyn, NY), Nurture Art (Brooklyn, NY), Geoffrey Young Gallery (Great Barrington, MA), TSA LA (Los Angeles, CA), Cross Contemporary Art (Saugerties, NY), and Hudson Hall (Hudson, NY), among others. Garrett was awarded the Martha Boschen Porter Grant in 2021 and the Berkshire Taconic Foundation ART Grant in 2025. She is in the collection of the University of Albany Museum.