Ashley Bickerton (b. 1959, Barbados, West Indies; d. 2022, Bali, Indonesia) received a BFA from the California Institute of the Arts and continued his education in the independent studies program at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Recent solo exhibitions of his work have been organized at Lehmann Maupin, New York; Newport Street Gallery, London, United Kingdom; The FLAG Art Foundation, New York; and Palacete del Embarcadero, Autoridad Portuaria de Santander, Spain. Select group exhibitions include FLAG Art Foundation, New York, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York; Le Consortium, Dijon, France; Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; Tate St Ives, Cornwall, United Kingdom; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom; New Museum, New York, New York; Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom; Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin; and the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. His works are in numerous international public and private collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan; Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and the Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom.