Ashton Burton

Ashton Burton is an artist from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Burton’s work describes the Black American experience by referencing symbols, and iconography often shared through various media. He mainly uses the figure, landscape and motifs in his work. Burton primarily uses acrylic paint, oil paint, and drawing mediums like charcoal, conté and graphite to create vivid images, familiar spaces, and intimate compositions. Burton is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting at the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA), Cleveland, Ohio. His work has been exhibited at the Kent State University Downtown Gallery in Kent, Ohio, The Transformer Station in association with The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio and 2 West Ypsi in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Burton was awarded a 1st place prize in the 2024 exhibition, Aggregate II: The Revenge of the Rock, SIE 79’ The Douglas Dibble Creativity Award, Reinberger Gallery, Cleveland Institute of Art Cleveland, OH, and the Carl Gaertner '24 Memorial Prize, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH.