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

She is the author of Wet Paint (2022) and Second Self (2023). Her third novel, Family Friends, will be published by Penguin Fig Tree in 2026.

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.

As well as her novels, she is the author of two non-fiction books on art history: Look At This If You Love Great Art (2021); and Colours of Art: The Story of Art in 80 Palettes (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.