Aly Ogasian is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. Her practice is research driven and typically site responsive, sparking conversations about everyday life and survival in a rapidly changing environment. Recent projects critique notions of expedition in the 21st century and play with the idea of an island as a metaphor, exploring notions of adaptation and survival, community and individualism, terrestrial and extraterrestrial, nature and technology. She has two separate longstanding collaborative practices with artist, designer and educator Shona Kitchen and artist and educator Claudia O'Steen.
She has a BFA in Sculpture from Queen’s University and an MFA in Digital + Media from RISD. She has been awarded residencies at Rabbit Island, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, The Schmidt Ocean Institute and The Arctic Circle, amongst others. In 2018, Ogasian and Kitchen were awarded the first ever artist residency at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge in Cape Canaveral, Florida, supported by a NASA Space Grant. She has exhibited internationally at venues such as The Russian State Arctic & Antarctic Museum; The Salamanca Arts Center Tasmania; Watkins College of Art, Design & Film and ISEA, amongst others. In June 2021 Ogasian and Kitchen exhibited a large public artwork on Governors Island at Mary Mattingly's Swale House.
She is an Assistant Professor of Art at Scripps College and core faculty in Intercollegiate Media Studies at The Claremont Consortium.
Photo courtesy of Greg Lock.