ashley ortiz-diaz

Ashley Ortiz-Diaz (she/her) b. 1991, St. Petersburg, FL. Living in Sacramento, Ca.
aka Ashley Tattersall-Diaz 

Ashley is a mixed media artist working primarily in paper, powdered charcoal, and themes of death. She is influenced by abstraction, science fiction, historical Black cemeteries, and poetry. Formally trained in printmaking, Ashley has an MFA from the University of Florida and a BFA from the University of South Florida. She has attended residencies in Ottawa, Ontario; Willapa Bay, Washington; Calusa, California, amongst others. Ashley now continues to make art out of Sunrider Studios and works as a legal assistant at an employee-side labor law firm in Sacramento, CA. Ashley is Puerto Rican with mixed African, Filipino, and Indigenous Caribbean ancestry.

Ashley's collaboration with Florida Prisoner Solidarity (FPS, formerly IWOC Gainesville) contributed to her receipt of the Gainesville 2019 Individual Arts Award. For more on the collaborative exhibition, click this link. For more on FPS, click this link.