Chloë Ashby is an author and award-winning arts critic.

Since graduating from the Courtauld Institute of Art, she has written for publications such as the Times, TLS, Guardian, FT Life & Arts, Spectator and frieze. She has interviewed artists Judy Chicago and Damien Hirst, novelists Sheila Heti and Jeanette Winterson, photographer Tim Walker and fashion designer Christian Louboutin, among others. She frequently reviews exhibitions and books.

She is the author of Look At This If You Love Great Art (Ivy Press; 2021) and Colours of Art: The Story of Art in 80 Palettes (Frances Lincoln; 2022), a Times best book of 2022. She has written texts for exhibitions and artist catalogues, and spoken at many bookshops, literary festivals and museums.

Her first novel, Wet Paint, was published by Trapeze, an imprint of Orion, in April 2022. Her second novel, Second Self, followed in July 2023.