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Ashlynn Trane (b. Washington D.C. 2001) is currently based in Los Angeles. She received her BFA with honors from The University of Southern California in 2024. Through intertwining painting and sculpture, Trane encapsulates double-consciousness and the refinement/consumption culture of products, animals, and bodies. Trane's meditation on cuteness, beauty, and the packaging they’re presented in serves as analogue to the progressive oppression faced by subjugated bodies. In 2022 she received the Ruth Weisberg Prize for drawing, and held her debut solo show Shock Collar at Lindhurst Gallery (2023). Trane unveiled two portraits of the esteemed twin judges, Inez Smith Reid and George Bundy Smith, at Yale Law School in 2023. Later that year, Trane co-curated and showed work in Me and You and Me and at SADE Gallery (2023). Her recent exhibitions include America (Soy Yo!) at Charlie James Gallery (2025), May Flowers at David Maxwell’s Flower Residency (2025).




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Education

2024   BFA, University of Southern California 


Group/ Collaborative Exhibitions

2023   No Signal, group show - Los Angeles, CA

2023   Me and you and me and, curation/ showing in group show at SADE gallery - Los Angeles, CA

2023   Pin Prick, thesis show at USC - Los Angeles, CA

2023   Three Point Turn, group show - Los Angeles, CA

2022   Other, group show at USC - Los Angeles, CA

2022   5 Leaf Clover, fasion collection in collaborative runway show at New Image Gallery - Los Angeles, CA


Solo Exhibitions

2023   Twins on the Bench, Trane unveiled her portrait of the esteemed twin judges, Inez Smith Reid and George Bundy Smith, at Yale Law School. Reid and Smith are among the first black alumni at the law school. Trane will be the first female artist to contribute a portrait to the law school’s collection. - New Haven, CT

2023   shock collar, debut solo show in Lindhurst Gallery at USC - Los Angeles, CA

2019   Dyslexic, Thesis collection showing at The Center For Transformative Teaching and Learning Conference (CTTL) annual conference - Potomac, MD


Awards

2024  Discovery Scholar Distinction

2022   Weisberg Drawing Prize - Los Angeles, CA

2019   Richard Klemm Boyd, Jr. Art Award, Potomac, MD

︎ ashlynntrane@gmail.com 
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