David Ashley Kerr (1986, Yarram∗, Australia) is a curator, writer and trained photomedia artist.
Ash has played an active role in arts development in naarm/Melbourne, Australia and in Northern and Eastern Europe. He has an extensive teaching background as an art educator and lecturer, and focuses in his transdisciplinary research on cultural analysis through a media and art historical lens.
In 2013 Ash co-founded curator-led gallery Strange Neighbour with fellow artist-curator Linsey Gosper. He taught at Photography Studies College and Deakin University before relocating to the EU in 2015. In 2018 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and from 2019-20 Visiting Researcher at the Center for Artistic Research of the University of the Arts Helsinki. Ash was a Visiting Assistant Professor at University of Latvia and taught at ISSP Skola from 2021-23, and since late 2021, is the custodian of LOW gallery + projects, an independent art NGO based in Rīga, Latvia. From 2023-24 Ash returned to Australia and worked as senior curator at Latrobe Regional Gallery in Brayakaulung country on Gunai-Kurnai land, Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.
Since 2025 Ash is the Head of Art at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in nipaluna/Hobart, lutruwita/Tasmania, Australia.
CURRENT / Marion Abraham In Conversation with David Ashley Kerr, Sullivan+Strumpf Magazine #32
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∗ Kerr acknowledges the Brataualung people of the Gunaikurnai nation as the traditional owners of his place of birth, Yarrem Yarrem.