(b. New York) is a New York based artist. Ayres attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, received an MFA from Hunter College, City University of New York, a BFA from Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and an A.A.S from The Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York.
Her first-ever outdoor installation and public art commission is currently on view on the High Line, New York, until July 2027.
Solo exhibitions include though poppies grow, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels (2025); Unrequited Remnants, TANK Shanghai, Shanghai (2025); Articles of the Estranged , Matthew Brown, Los Angeles, CA (2024); Singular Views: 25 Artists , Rubell Museum, Washington, D.C., (2023); Critical Mass , Mendes Wood DM, New York, NY (2023); New Acquisitions, Rubell Museum, Miami, FL (2022); Bound , Matthew Brown Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2021); Control and Constraint, Thesis Exhibition, Hunter College, New York, NY (2018).
Select group exhibitions include Made in Tension, The Soloviev Foundation Gallery, New York (2026); Material Witness, Rubell Museum, D.C. (2025); to ignite our skin, SculptureCenter, Queens, NY (2025); O nce Within a Time: 12th SITE Santa Fe International , SITE, Santa Fe (2025); Infanta with Tiny Bell, Wschód , New York (2025); Invisible Luggage, Historic Hampton House, Miami, FL (2025); PROGRAM , Matthew Brown, New York, NY (2024); Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL (2024); Flesh & Flowers: Made in America , Curated by Lauren Taschen, No Name Creative Projects, Paris, France (2023); Field of Vision , Curated by Tina Pētersone, Zuzeum, Riga, Latvia (2023); House in Motion / New Perspectives, de la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL (2023); Paper Trails , Mendes Wood DM, d'Ouwe Kerke, Retranchement, The Netherlands (2023); The Last Days of a House, Fountainhead Biennial, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL (2023); Full and Pure: Body, Materiality, Gender , Curated by Mara Hassan, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX (2023); Esfingico Frontal, (Frontal Sphinx) , Curated by Germano Dushá, Mendes Wood DM, São Paolo, Brazil (2023); Together, At The Same Time , de la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL (2022); Matter & Form , The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, FL (2022); Some Kind of Monster Roster , Analog Diary, Beacon, NY (2022); Reflections Part 3: Sculpture by Women Artists, Workplace, London, England (2022); Recent Sculpture , Matthew Brown Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2022); This Basic Asymmetry, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, CA (2022); It Seems So Long Ago , Matthew Brown, Los Angeles, CA (2020); Entering A Song, Koenig and Clinton Gallery, New York, NY (2019).
Ayres was an artist-in residence at Dieu Donné, Brooklyn, NY (2022); Shandaken: Storm King Sculpture Park, New Windsor, NY (2022); Fountainhead, Miami, FL (2022); Monira Foundation, Jersey City, NJ (2021); The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY (2019); Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, New York, NY (2020); Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Studio Residency, North Adams, MA (2019).
She is the recipient of UrbanGlass Fellowship, Brooklyn, NY (2023); New York Foundation of the Arts, Artist Fellowship in Craft/Sculpture, Brooklyn, NY (2020); and a nominee for Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant, New York, NY (2019).
Her work is included in the collections of the Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, FL; de la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; Rubell Museum, Miami, FL, Washington, D.C.; Muzeum Susch, Zernez, Switzerland; TANK Shanghai, China; and Zuzeum, Riga, Latvia.
