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Education
2026
MFA in Creative Writing, Pacific Northwest College of Arts, Portland, OR
2025
The Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, Poetry
2023
MFA in Art & Social Practice, Portland State University, Portland, OR. GPA: 4.0
2015
Bachelor of Arts with Honors and Distinction in Studio Art, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH. GPA: 3.33
Books
2025
Still Worm, Bateau Press
2021
2020
SkyMall, by Mikko Harvey and Ashley Yang-Thompson, above/ground press
Selected Solo & Two Person Shows
November-December 2025
Step into the tender, confessional world of Ash Yang- Thompson,
A retrospective curated by Joaquin Golez
Fans Only, Portland, OR
A retrospective curated by Joaquin Golez
Fans Only, Portland, OR
February-
April
2024
April
2024
FUCK: An Asian Narrative
(Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize Exhibition)
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University
(Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize Exhibition)
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University
January
2020
2020
50 Years
Graham Gund Gallery, Gambier, OH
Graham Gund Gallery, Gambier, OH
September-
October
2017
October
2017
DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE
Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY
Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions/Screenings/Performances
2026
Constellation, McCormack Writing Center + Bishop & Wilde, Portland, OR
2026
CRINGE, Portland Art Museum’s Tomorrow Theater, Portland, OR
2024
Screen Play, Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, NY
2023
After Hope, Essex Peabody Museum, Salem, MA
2022
Gender, Humor, Solidarity, ruruHaus, Kassel, Germany
2020
After Hope, The Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
2020
REGRESS, Bullet Space/292 Gallery, New York City, NY
2019
Changing the Picture, Museum of Moving Image, Astoria, NY
2019
Garden of Earthly Delights, The Re Institute, Millerton, MA
2019
RUB at Printed Matter, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, LA
2018
Casheesh, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2018
Lunch Poems screening at Die Erste Vertikale International Film Festival
2018
Spectacular Atrophy 01803, Taipei, Taiwan
2018
RUB at Freedom School, SPRING/BREAK Art Fair, New York, NY
2018
Art Across Archives: Postcards from Chinatown (selected works from the Asian American Artists Archive), THINK!CHINATOWN, New York, NY
2018
Magic Image Lab, Venue B1, Taipei, Taiwan
2017
Biennial of New Media Arts (featured artist), Santiago, Chile
2017
Architecture of Care, Project Art Space, New York, NY
Awards & Honors
2026
Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies Full Tuition Scholarship
2023
Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize (1st Prize)
2023
Boston Writers of Color Literary Support Stipend Recipient
2022
PSU College of the Arts Scholarship
2020
Mass MoCA Assets for Artists Grantee
2019
National Endowment for Arts Creative Equity Fellowship
2017
Pushcart Prize Nomination for White Fur Rug
2015
The Peterson Prize in Art, Kenyon College
2015
Distinction in Senior Exercise for Studio Art
2011-2015
Kenyon Merit List Scholar
Lectures & Presentations
Ash Yang-Thompson has given readings and lectures both formally and informally at many of the institutions with which she has been affiliated such as the Portland Art Museum (Tomorrow Theater), Powell’s City of Books, Literary Arts, Amherst College, Kenyon College, Gund Gallery Museum, Portland State University, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Museum of Moving Image, Turn Park Art Space, Tin House and Maine College of the Atlantic.
Features
2025
fck yr bookclub, Loser Bitch by Sister Yang, Dave Brennan
2024
Write What You Want, Two Questions with Ashley Yang-Thompson, Dennis James Sweeney
2022
Poetry Northwest, Abject Uncertainty, Jeff Alessandrelli
2022
fck yr bookclub, Flamin’ Hot Fuckboy, David Brennan
2021
periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics, About SkyMall, Rob Mclennan
2021
The Harvard Advocate, artwork featured in the Summer 2021 issue
2020
The Artful Mind, Miss Expanding Universe, Geoffrey Young
2017
Banana Magazine, Issue 3, Ashley Yang-Thompson, Michael D. Nguyen
Poems in Journals
2026
An Uncle’s Job is Never Done, Hobart’s Fucked Up Modern Love Essays
2026
CRAZED FAN LETTER: Stendhal Syndrome & Pipilotti Rist, Initial Magazine
2021
Unreliable Memoir: Clothes, Litro Magazine
2019
Worm House, a weekly self-published graphic haiku, Worm House Times
2018
Portable Jacuzzi, Inflatable Pool Slide, and Burt Reynolds: My Life, Bateau Press
2017
White Fur Rug and White Pogo Stick, The Journal
2017
Spicy Village Break-up Anthem, Anomalous Press
Selected Residencies
2026
Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellow
2025
Kenyon Review Writer’s Workshop
2016,18,19
Vermont Studio Center (full fellowship), Johnson, VT
2018
Ox-Bow Artists’ Residency (full fellowship and stipend), Saugatuck, MI
2018
Salem Art Works Young Artist Fellowship, Salem, NY
2017, 2018
Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY
2016-2018
The Wassaic Project (art education fellowship), Wassaic, NY