Ashley Bickerton

Artworks of Ashley Bickerton.

Self-Portrait as a Desert Island Head – after Neruda.

Ashley Bickerton was born in the West Indies in 1959. He studied at the California Institute of the Arts, graduating in 1983 and continued his education in the Whitney Independent Studies Program. In the early 1980s, Bickerton emerged in the New York art world as part of the Neo-Geo artists, along with Jeff Koons, Peter Halley and Haim Steinbach…

Tormented Self-Portrait (Susie at Arles). MOMA

Fear and suspicion melt away in the face of laughter. When I as a carrier of the virus America arrive on some distant shore, I am received with both dread and wonder. I must strip myself of vanity, lizard and cow. And lay myself naked to reveal the hairless, smelly, horny primate that I am’. Ashley Bickerton