Ash Huse (They/Them)
Lives and works in Chicago, IL
Contact Information – Email: ashhusethatsme@gmail.com | Website: www.ashhuse.com
EDUCATION
Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
Master of Fine Art (MFA) in Photography, 2024
Bachelor of Art (BA) in Photography, 2019
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Education Coordinator and Lab Technician, Latitude Chicago – Chicago, IL | 2025–2026
Interim Deputy Director, Latitude Chicago – Chicago, IL | 2024–2025
Curatorial and Education Assistant, Museum of Contemporary Photography – Chicago, IL | 2022–2024
Freelance Teacher & Lab Assistant, Latitude Chicago – Chicago, IL | 2018–2020
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 – Now You’re Here, Stuart Abelson Research Fellowship Exhibition, Arcade Gallery, Chicago, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 – SNOW PIX 26, Museum of Cold, Buffalo, NY
2026 – I LOVE FURRY, Tommy Bruce, Bunker Projects, Pittsburgh, PA
2025 – LATITUDE Chicago Annual Fundraiser, Soccer Club Club, Chicago, IL
2025 – Lost and Found: Open Call, Los Angeles Center of Photography, Los Angeles, CA
2025 – Politics of Viewing, Cherry Knot, California Clipper, Chicago, IL
2025 – FotoFika: 5 Year Anniversary, RVA Capital One Campus, VA
2025 – Room Party, Bunker Projects, Pittsburgh, PA 2024 – MFA Graduate Exhibition, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
2023 – Filter Photo Festival MFA Exhibition, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
2023 – Art or Algorithm?, Studio XYZ, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
2023 – We Learn The Rules In Order To Break Them: The 2nd Quanzhou International Image Biannual, Huaguang Photography Art Museum, Quanzhou, Fujian
2020 – Focus on Identity, One River School of Art + Design, Chicago, IL
2019 – Manifest Senior Exhibition, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
2019 – Infinite Bodies and Their Aftermath, FLXST CO., Chicago, IL
2019 – SPE Juried Exhibition, MIAD, Milwaukee, WI
2019 – Context 2019, Filter Space, Chicago, IL
2017 – Student Photographic Society Pop-up Show, Chicago, IL
2017 – Best in Show Annual Exhibition, Gallery 350, Chicago, IL
2016 – Student Photographic Society Pop-up Show, Chicago, IL
2016 – Spring Exhibition, Beauty and Brawn Gallery, Chicago, IL
ONLINE EXHIBITIONS
2024 – 2023 Favorite Photograph Exhibition, Lenscratch (Group)
2023 – Art or Algorithm? 3D Exhibition, Studio XYZ, Vortic Art (Group)
2023 – The 2023 Love Exhibition, Lenscratch (Group)
2023 – 2022 Favorite Photograph Exhibition, Lenscratch (Group)
2022 – 2021 Favorite Photograph Exhibition, Lenscratch (Group)
2019 – Love, Actually, Humble Arts Foundation (Group)
LECTURES
2026 – Photo book Show and Tell, LATITUDE Chicago, Chicago, IL
2026 – Abstract Photography Critique Group, LATITUDE Chicago, Chicago, IL
2025 - 2026 – Intro to Scanning, Overhead reflective media and Film Photographs, LATITUDE Chicago, Chicago, IL
2025 - 2026 – Intro to Inkjet Transfer, LATITUDE Chicago, Chicago, IL
2025 - 2026 – Intro to Film Photography, LATITUDE Chicago, Chicago, IL
2025 - 2026 – Intro to Print, LATITUDE Chicago, Chicago, IL
2024 – DEADNAME: Queer Reclamation Through Digital Corruptions, SPE National Conference, St. Louis, MO
2023 – Stuart Abelson Research Fellowship Artist Talk with Ash Huse, J and Tommy Bruce
2023 – Examining Cultural Expectations, Columbia College Chicago
INTERVIEWS
2023 – Ash Huse – Queer Digital Transformations, The Comp Magazine
2021 – Photographers on Photographers with Richard Renaldi, Lenscratch
2021 – Creative Quarantine: Photographer Harrison Huse, Esthetic Lens
PUBLICATIONS
2021 – 2020 All Stars, FotoFika
2021 – A Labor of Love, Soft Lighting Studios
2021 – PRIMAL SIGHT, Gnomic Books
SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS
2024 – The Lenscratch Top 25 Artists to Watch, Lenscratch
2023 – Stuart Abelson Research Fellowship, Chicago, IL
2023 – Columbia Scholar Award, Columbia College Chicago
2020 – The Lenscratch Top 25 to Watch, Lenscratch
2019 – Columbia Scholar Award, Columbia College Chicago
2018 – Dream Center Education Holdings Scholarship, Chicago, IL
2017 – Best in Show, Gallery 350, Chicago, IL
2016 – Art Grant, Chicago, IL