Ainslee Beery is a multimedia artist whose most recent artwork has taken form as screen prints, books, and other objects. Her art practice involves experimentation with objects, language, and processes of production to create meaning.
Much of the work she produces originates from her attraction to outdated and/or insignificant objects, often plastic, that are a kind of cultural litter of (mostly American) capitalism, such as gumball machine rings, cheap souvenirs, and Monopoly pieces. Her manipulations, often laced with humor, expose the gray area and rough edges between desire and disdain.
Rather than being prescriptive, her use of language, often idioms and other common phrases, alters and/or blurs cultural associations.
She is committed to making work that questions and disrupts assumptions about how we position ourselves in relation to the world around us.
Education 1993 MFA, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
1989 BFA, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
Group
Exhibitions 2026 Mega Co-op Show, Celebrating 25 years of Highpoint Artist Cooperative, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN
Carnegie Art Center's 2026 Juried Exhibition, Carnegie Art Center, Mankato, Mn
Pantone Pantsuit, Super Charged Printmakers, Minneapolis, MN
Feminist Power, Love, and Generosity, Creme of the Crop Gallery, Hudson, WI
2025 Prints on Ice, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN
American Color Print Society, The Plastic Club, Philadelphia, PA
New Editions, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Let Me Eat Cake, Please! Shoebox at the Brewery, Los Angeles, CA
2025 Rejected Show, Burl Gallery, St. Paul, MN
Hot Off the Press, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN
2024 Prints on Ice, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN
Peripherie, Faculty Show, Collins C. Diboll Gallery, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA
2023 Miniatures, New Orleans Academy of Fine Art, New Orleans, LA
2003 No Dead Artists, A Juried Exhibition of Art Today, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1998 Lest We Forget: A National Survey of Artists’ Responses to the Persian Gulf War, Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL
1996 Gone with the Wind: The Fabrication and Denial of Southern Identity, City Gallery at Chastain, Atlanta, GA
1995 Food: It’ll Make You Hungry! New Works Gallery, Chiago, IL
1994 Underbelly: Dyke Art, Iconography, and Culture, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Local Sex, Love, and Death, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
1993 Neofest, Performance, Sushi Performance Gallery, San Diego, CA
Solo
Exhibitions 2025 les fleurs, The Tiny Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1995 The Sexy Suzy Serving Set, Wishes Exciting Parlor, Atlanta, GA
Body Trimmings and Paper Scraps: Cutting Up, The Arts Exchange, Atlanta, GA
1993 Let Them Eat Cake, RUSE Theater, San Diego, CA
Publications 1996 Body Trimmings and Paper Scraps: Cutting Up, artist pages, Whitewalls, A Journal of Language and Arts, #38: Play
Body Trimmings and Paper Scraps: Cutting Up, self-published book with the support from the City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs and the Georgia Council for the Arts
Reviews 2003 Doug MacCash, Too Much of a Good Thing, Times Picayune, New Orleans, LA, September 20,2003
1994 Cliff Bostock, What's Love Got to Do with It? Creative Loafing, Atlanta, GA, September 16, 1994
1993 Charles Wilmoth, Neofest, IX-Performance Art at Its Best, Gay and Lesbian Times, San Diego, CA, May 27, 1993
Anne Marie Welsh, Sushi Says Good-bye to Eighth Avenue with a Bang, San Diego Union- Tribune, San Diego, CA, May 1993
Kelly Hankin, The Three Faces of Darla Delish: Drag Queen, Dyke, and Femme Fatale, Gay and Lesbian Times, San Diego, CA, May 13, 1993
Grants 1999 Arts in Education Grant, Florida Arts Council, Tallahassee, FL
Artist Residency Grant, Very Special Arts Florida, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
1995 Artist Project Contract for Arts Funding, City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs and the Geogia Council for the Arts, Atlanta, GA
Individual Artist Grant, Georgia Council for the Arts, Atlanta, GA
Conferences 1995 Textual Bodies, Society for Photographic Education, Atlanta, GA
1994 Imagining Desire, panel participant, Society for Photographic Education, Chicago, IL
Professional 2024 Adjunct Professor, Screen Printing, Design Department, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA
2003-18 Special Education Teacher, grades 1-3, St. Charles, Jefferson, and Orleans Parish School Districts, LA
2002 Artist in Residence, ArtSmart, New Orleans, LA
1999-02 Art Teacher, Belle Vue Middle School, Tallahassee FL
1998 Artist in Residence, Raa Middle School, Tallahassee, FL