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Ashley Joi is an American multidisciplinary artist from the the Washington, DC area. The Artist discovered a love for creating as a child, having been introduced to art at four years old by an art teacher in her family, receiving numerous awards in her youth for her visual and performing arts work. She developed an enthusiasm for painting during a Governor’s School residency at the University of Richmond, and while earning college credits and an International Baccalaureate Certificate in painting through Fairfax County Virginia Public Schools in 2001.
Ashley Joi's style incorporates technical design practices that she began learning in her high school graphic design courses, winning a Scholastic Arts award for digital art in 1999 at age 15. Joi further explored the mergence of digital art, graphic art, and traditional painting while pursuing her BFA in fine art with an emphasis in graphic design at Hampton University, and during a graphic design internship at Voice of America in Washington, D.C. in 2004. She continued her fine artist development thereafter, transitioning into a style that fuses painting alongside the use of mixed-media, sometimes merging modern technology with ancient ideologies. Today, within Joi's current art practice the Artist's work is often inspired by African mythology, history, fantasy, nature, and themes of social impact.
Collected internationally, Ashley Joi's work has been on exhibition at events and in galleries in Washington, D.C., Virginia, Maryland, Philadelphia, and New York City. In 2019, Ashley Joi was commissioned by the Georgetown University Law Center, Center on Poverty and Inequality, to create three original works of art in response to their youth study, Girlhood Interrupted. The commissions were presented at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. that year. In 2020 Joi partnered with iCanvas.com to license her imagery for print reproductions internationally. The partnership has made reproductions of her work available through retailers such as Wayfair, Bed, Bath & Beyond, and Nordstrom Rack. In 2021 Ashley Joi partnered with the company Spin Master to create a limited edition series of puzzles featuring her imagery, and the puzzles were sold in Walmart stores Nationwide. In 2023, the Artist was awarded for her piece "Mourning Mothers of Lost Children" in the juried exhibit "FAMILY", and her mixed-media portrait of Harriet Tubman was selected to exhibit at the Kyoto Shibori Museum in Kyoto, Japan.
Joi has also served as coach and consultant in the artist and entrepreneurial communities. With professional experience in luxury sales and marketing, outside of her art practice Ashley Joi has held outreach marketing positions and roles with Optime Realty, Artomatic, and new home builder corporation Pulte Homes, where she also created graphic and print media.
Photograph by Rashad Rodgers
Ashley Joi is a multidisciplinary artist whose work fuses a myriad of techniques and materials to communicate emotion. Often channeling the resilient practices of her African ancestors, Ashley Joi disguises layered meaning within her work through literal symbolism, composition, and subject. The Artist also incorporates found objects, natural materials, and food items as a reference to her African-American heritage and the development of a rich and diverse culture manifested with limited resources.
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