Ash Eliza Williams (they/them) grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains in SW Virginia and makes work about interspecies communication and non-human language. Williams has exhibited widely including at Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver (CO), Hersbruck Museum (Germany), The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder (CO), Bronx Museum Project Space (NY), The New York Hall of Science (NY), and Wasserman Projects in Detroit (MI). William’s work has been featured in many publications including New American Paintings, Hyperallergic, and The Washington Post. Recent residencies include: Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Vermont Studio Center, Shoals Marine Laboratory, The Studios at Mass MoCA, and Shangyuan Art Museum, China. In 2023 Williams was a Lucille Walton Fellow and resident artist at the University of Virginia Mountain Lake Biological Station. In 2025 – 2026 Williams will be an artist-in-residence at The Roswell Foundation (RAiR).
Ash Eliza Williams sometimes works with scientists from institutions such as the Museum of Comparative Zoology in Boston, Massachusetts and the McDonald Observatory in West Texas. Williams lives and works in Western Massachusetts and teaches studio art at Smith College.