Ali Lilley is a writer, photographer and visual artist from Astoria, Oregon.

Graduate of University of Oregon, Bachelors of Arts in Comparative Literature & English. Studied at the Gage Academy of Art in Seattle, WA and The Red Barn Art Studio in Gearhart, OR. Personal instruction by watercolorist Sally Bailey, Dots and Doodles studio sessions, and countless art classes.

Author of “Humanity at the Hands of Humbert Humbert: an analysis of the chaotic perception of beauty” essay, NOMAD Comparative Literature Undergraduate Journal, “CHAOS” edition, 2017. Her poetry appeared in Genre Urban Arts’s Femme Literati: A Mixtape, 2021.

Her paintings were included in the Cannon Beach Gallery show, ‘Beauty Deconstructed’, 2021 and as the principal artist of ‘tender are the hearts raised in desolation’ , a film photography & mixed media painting exhibition. August 8/1 -8/3, 8/7 2025, Portland OR.

Visual Art influences: Frank Kozik, Bill Steidel, Claude Monet, Sidney Sime, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Berthe Morisot, David Lynch, Sofia Coppola, Stanley Kubrick & Sally Bailey

Photography influences: Ellen von Unwerth, Eve Arnold, William Helburn, Robert Mapplethorpe, Bert Stern, Walter Chappel, Terry O’Neil, Helmut Newton, Dennis Stock, Woodrow Lilley, Stan Lilley & Steve Lilley

Writing influences: Vladimir Nabokov, Sylvia Plath, Aldous Huxley, Judith Butler, Charles Bukowski, Walter Benjamin, Gloria Anzaldúa, bell hooks, Roland Barthes & Susan Sontag

Textile influences: Ceil Chapman, Bob Mackie, Jack Hanson, Granny Takes A Trip, Betsey Johnson, John Galiano, Ossie Clark, Thea Porter, Jessica McClintock, Jean Louis, Christian Dior, Emma Domb, Norman Norell, Emilio Pucci, William Travilla, Edith Head, Rudi Gernreich & Pierre Cardin

Artist is accepting commissions, please detail your proposed project below.