Michael Ashkin

Discipline: Visual Arts

Based In: Ithaca, NY

Year at Millay: 2012

Fellowship: The Bay and Paul Foundations Fellowship

Awards/Honors: Artist-in-Residence, Visual Arts, Hambidge Creative Residency Program, The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA (2021, 2017); Fellow, MacDowell, Peterborough, NH (2016, 2014, 2012, 2011); Artist-in-Residence, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY (2015, 2013); Grant Recipient, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY (2012, 1998); Fellow, Fine Arts, Guggenheim Fellowship, The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, NY (2009); Fellow, Lannan Residency Fellowship, Lannan Foundation, Marfa, TX (2000); Fellow, Sculpture, NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY (1999).

Website: http://michaelashkin.com

Michael Ashkin is an artist working in photography, sculpture, and painting. His work has been shown at the Whitney Biennial, Greater New York, Documenta 11, Vienna Secession, MUDAM in Luxembourg, Artsonje Center in Seoul, and Kolumba in Köln. Ashkin has published five photobooks: Garden State (Workroom G in 2000), Long Branch (A-Jump Books in 2014), Horizont (TIS Books in 2018), were it not for (Fw:Books in 2019), and There will be two of you (Fw:Books in 2023). He has been awarded two Pollock–Krasner Fellowships and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has taught at Cornell University since 2006.