Biography

Doug Ashford is Associate Professor teaching design, sculpture and theory at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York. His principal art practice from 1982 to 1996 was as a member of Group Material whose collective work has recently been published as Show and Tell: A Chronicle of Group Material (Four Corners Books, 2010).  Since then he has gone on to paint, write, and produce public projects which engage with the social imagination. His most recent project was Who Cares (Creative Time, 2006).