Ashley Bickerton (1959–2022) used painting, sculpture and assemblage to explore consumerism, identity, value and the art market with humor and irony. He rose to prominence in New York following a 1986 exhibition at Sonnabend Gallery and became associated with Neo-Geo, a loosely defined movement that examined commercialization through the visual languages of advertising, corporate identity and mass production. Bickerton’s early wall-mounted assemblages incorporated logos and fabricated corporate identities, extending Conceptual art’s critique of art world and institutional systems. After moving permanently to Bali in 1993, Bickerton exchanged the cool, industrial aesthetic of his early work for an increasingly exuberant visual language shaped by tropical life and his connection to the sea as a lifelong surfer. His paintings and sculptures combined grotesque humanoid figures, marine imagery, polluted environments and densely layered assemblages. Following an ALS diagnosis in 2020, Bickerton revisited his early wall-mounted forms, transforming them with saturated color and aquatic imagery—a striking return to his beginnings before his death in 2022.