Ashley Dequilla, of Negrense, Ilongga, and Tagalog descent, is an artist-filmmaker who uses painting, performance, moving image, installation, and ritual in her research-based practice. In 2023, she obtained her MFA in Moving Image from the University of Illinois at Chicago under the advisorship of legendary horror filmmaker, Jennifer Reeder. Ashley holds a BFA in Studio Art and Art History from the College of William and Mary, and a Post-Baccalaureate in Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has screened films and exhibited artwork in Canada, Spain, the Philippines, and across the United States. As a community organizer, Ashley works in the realm of gender violence survivor advocacy and Philippine cultural production. She is the moving image archivist of the Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago and works in tandem with Chicago Film Society and University of Chicago’s South Side Home Movie Project.
You can view more of Ashley’s visual art on her Instagram page @ashleydequilla or her performance pieces here.
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Art Pairing
Slicing Tomatoes 