About Ashly

Ashly Stohl was born and raised in the City of Angels. She earned a BS in chemistry from UCSB, but spent more time with the creative crowd from Brooks Institute of Photography. After college, she returned to L.A. and put her science education to use, creating award-winning educational websites for NASA’s Mars Program Office.

She embraced photography as an escape from the demands of being a mother, yet motherhood is the inescapable lens through which she views her subjects. She examines community as an extension of the family, and believes that the families and people create for themselves can be as revealing as the ones to which they were born.

A founding member of Six Shooters, her work has been shown across the country. She was awarded the Dealer’s Choice honorable mention at Center Awards. She lives in L.A. with her husband and three kids.

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Awards
2011 Center Awards, Dealer’s Choice, Honorable Mention, Juror: Dianne Vanderlip

Selected Exhibitions
2012 Simply, Center for Fine Art Photography, Curator: Louise Clements
2012 Harmonious Tableau, ADC Contemporary Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, California
2012 Looking for Home, Brewery Artwalk, Los Angeles, California
2011 ¡Patina O Muerte! (Skate or Die), solo show, f/9 Gallery, Culver City, California
2011 Dreams, Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft. Collins, Colorado, Curator: Aline Smithson
2011 Off The Hook, PSZask Gallery, Rolling Hills Estates, California
2011 Summertime, Duncan Miller Projects Gallery, Santa Monica, California, Curator: Aline Smithson
2011 Language of Light, Vermont PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont Curator: Paul Paletti
2011 The Next 2011: Los Angeles Photographers, Julia Dean Studio, Hollywood, California
2011 First Exposure, f/9 Gallery, Culver City, California
2010 Ten x Ten, Center Gallery, Wichita, Kansas

Publications
2012 ¡Patina O Muerte!, F8 Magazine
2011 Pose and Gesture Exhibition Catalog, Vermont PhotoPlace Gallery
2010 Family, LENSCRATCH, ed. Aline Smithson
2010 Showcase #8, PhotographyBlogger.net
2009 Beautiful Creatures Book Trailer, Hachette/Little, Brown, still photography

Education
2011 The Next Step 1&2, instructor: Aline Smithson
2011 The Narrative Portrait, instructor: Amy Arbus
2010 Street Shooting, instructor: Julia Dean
2010 BAU Institute Artist Residency, Puglia, Italy, director: Marthe Keller
1996 BS Chemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara