Born in Oakland, CA and raised in Atlanta, Georgia as the daughter to music industry icons Perri “Pebbles” Reid and Antonio “L.A.” Reid, Ashley was no stranger to photo and music video sets. A regular feature of everyday life, Ashley often played “photo shoot” with her friends, and mixed and mingled with some of entertainment’s top brass, even before recognizing her own talent and passion for the
arts. Years later, after moving to New York City to attend the School of Visual Arts, where she graduated with a BFA in 2005, Ashley’s unconventional and deeply moving personal approach to image-making was embraced by The Nowhere Gallery of Contemporary Art in Milan, who immediately signed on to represent the then burgeoning artist and her work. In 2006, her first solo exhibition, Devastatingly Good Times, which featured self-portrait tableaux vivants, received wide critical acclaim and paved the way for her continued work in solo and group art shows worldwide. In 2009, Ashley moved back to her hometown of Atlanta, GA, where she represented various editorial photographers and visual media producers as a Production Executive at the Emmy-award winning production house United Front Media. Simultaneously, The Sandler Hudson Gallery also took notice and became Ashley’s secondary representative for her fine art works. But Ashley’s longings to be on set and direct her own productions continued to grow. As a result, she launched Ashley Reid Photo, a multimedia production house that ironically pays homage to her days growing up on the frontline of the music business, while acting as a central hub to all of her creative ideas. The decision earned her editorial shoots with Billboard, Respect!, Creative Loafing, Uptown, Jones and STARK magazines (the latter of which she also serves as Creative Director); cover art and packaging shoots for Def Jam, Universal Motown and Twelve Music Group; and earlier this year, Ashley directed her first music video for “Crazy Luv” by Aaron Alexander. In a constant state of creative directing and image making, Ashley Reid is back in New York City, and is seeking representation for her editorial, advertising and fine art work.
