Oreet Ashery - Dalston Underground Studios

Oreet Ashery
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Oreet Ashery - interdisciplinary art Represented by Foxy Production Gallery, NYC - www.foxyproduction.com Lives and works in London. Education 1998-2000 MA Fine Art at Central St Martins College of Art and Design. (Practice: A Thesis: B+) 1989-1992 BA Hon's Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University. (1:1) Exhibitions and performances 2006-7 (selected) Bound - solo performance, group show at Tate Liverpool and FACT, August 2007 In Focus - solo performance/video at Tate Modern and Imperial War Museum, April-May 2007 Touching Distance - group show, Petach Tikva Museum, Israel, May 2007 Normal Love - group show, Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin April 2007 Manchester Look 07 Image festival - group show, Holden Gallery, April 2007 Global Feminisms - group show at the Brooklyn Museum, NYC, March 2007 Right, Left - solo performance at the Freud Museum, London January 2007 Back in Five Minutes - solo durational interactive performance, Schwules Museum, Berlin, September 2006 Paranoia - group show at Leeds City Arts Gallery, June- August 2006 Interdisciplinary projects (selected) live art/new media/interactive/ site specific installation Say Cheese - One-to-one live interaction between participants and Alter ego Marcus Fisher in seven hotel, constructed and curators' bedrooms- OK Centre for Contemporary Art; Linz, Arnolfini; Bristol, Bluecoat Arts Centre; Liverpool Biennial, Foxy production Gallery;NYC, Kapelica Gallery; Ljublijana, Home; London, NGBK Gallery Curator; Berlin. 2001-2003 7 Acts of Love online - Interactive live internet project commission by www.e-2. org including Marcus Fisher archives and an on-going interactive therapy session. The commission was launched with a large scale site specific event at the Great Eastern Hotel , London, March 2004. www.7actsoflove.org Welcome Home - Ongoing interdisciplinary site specific project including: gatherings, performances, live digital interaction, installation, video, collaborations at: site specifc;Turin, Kunstebanken; Hammar, Norway, site specific - Ramallah, Herzeliya Museum; Israel, Performing Rights, QMUC; London, Site specific- Dublin, www.welcomehome.org 2004-6 Occupation I, II The Case of The Rabbit - video installation/performance - Galerija Matice Hrvatske, Zagreb, T1&2, London, 291 gallery, London. Hull Time Based Arts, UK. 2004 Colored Folks - Video, durational performance, photographs, workshop -National Review of Live Art; Glasgow, Toynbee Hall; London, ICA; London. 2001-3 Central Location - interactive site specific installation/performance and video - Windows Gallery, Central St Martins College, London. Off site NGBK Gallery Berlin, 291 gallery, London. Exhibitions (selected) Los retratos de Dorian Gray - Galeria de Arte Mexicano 2005 performance 2003 - solo show, Foxy production, Chelsea NYC, October 2003 Monstrous Tales -APT Gallery, London, August 2006 Now, More Than Ever - Foxy Production Gallery, NYC, July 2006 Animal Magnetism - Cuchifritos gallery , NYC, 2005 Like Gold Dust - Angle Row Gallery, Nottingham 2003 Intervention - John Hansard Gallery, Southhampton,UK, 2003 Wonderyears - NGBK, Bethanian, Berlin, 2003 Single screen projections - video works (selected) Hudson Valley Centre for Contemporary Art, Tate Modern, Galeria de Arte Mexicano, Raindance Festival, Trocadero, London, John Hansard Gallery, UK,V.I.D, Bern, Switzerland, 25HR, International Video Art Show, Barcelona, Art in General Gallery NYC, ANTI Festival, Kuopio, Findland, Kino Lab, CCA,Warsaw, Galapagos cinema, NYC, Fix 02; time-based festival, Belfast, Women in the Directors Chair Film Festival, Chicago, X night; Pool Art Fair, NYC. Recent publications S. Brent Plate, Blasphemy: Art that Offends, Blackdog Publishing 2006, contributors include: Andres Serrano, Chris Ofili, Theo Van Gogh, Robert Mapplethorpe, Max Ernst, Martin Scorsese, Oreet Ashery, Maurizio Cattelan, Monty Python, Jasper Johns, Sam Taylor-Wood, Oleg Kulik. Helena Reckitt, n.paradoxa - international feminist art journal, volume 18 2006, p34-42. Raul Zamudio, Venus or Penis Envy, NY ARTS, May/June 2006, Vol. 11, No.5/6. Speers Mears Emily, Oreet Ashery, Bidoun, Middle East Magazine for Art and Culture, spring 2006, pp25. Dhillon, Kim - On Demand/ Welcome Home Frieze Magazine Dec 2005 pp 137-8. Art in the Age of Terrorism, Book edited by Graham Coulter-Smith and Maurice Owen, PH Publishing 2005, 'Terrible Beauties', pp 14-15, 21, 26. Govinda, Manick and Malik, Rohini Okon, Performing Difference - 'Oreet Ashery' published by ArtsAdmin 2005, pp 9-10. Also reviews and articles in: Flash Art, Time Out, Village Voice, Dazed & Confused, Circa, Art Tomorrow (book). Employment since 1992 Self-employed educationalist- Lecturing, tutoring, mentoring, community education work, public arts projects, including: Property from the 3rd Floor - Lead Artist. Video and live installation with ex-prisoners at the Royal Opera House, with Insight Arts, London 2005. Weekend Academy - Lead tutor. Teaching art to excluded teenagers at Byam Shaw School of Art, including publication and training packs for teachers. 2005. Residencies 2006 Khoj -New Delhi, Rogaland Art Centre, Stavanger, Norway. Grants/Bursaries Triangle Arts/Gasworks - Khoj residency, Delhi, Bursary, 2006 Arts Council England - International fellowship, 2006 British Council - Grants for artists 2005, 2004, 2002,1998, 1996 Arts Council England - Necessary Journey bursary 2005 Arts Council England - Research & Development grant, 2005 Kathy Acker bursary - University of Greenwich, 2004 London Arts Board - Combined Arts, internet based commission by e-2.org 2004 Live Arts Development Agency - One to One Bursary 2002-3 London Arts Board - Combined Arts Grant 2001 Artsadmin Bursary - Bursary, 2001 London Arts Board - Visual Art Grant 2001 Published texts by the artist (selected) Predrag Pajdic, Paranoia catalogue, June 2006, email interview with Oreet Ashery Huddleston, Charlotte email interview with Oreet Ashery 'One-to-One Distance and Proximity' Visit #8 Govett-Brewster, New Zealand, March 2006 pp.14-16 Necessary Journeys - book edited and Published by Arts Council England, 2005 pp Ashery, Oreet - 'Reflections on Clapping' Contemporary Magazine , 2005, pp44 - 45 'De/Territorialized Practices '- paper by Oreet Ashery - Living in the Material World conference and publication by Coventry University. June 1999 Talks by the artist (selected) Artist's talk - Rogaland School of Art, Stavanger. Norway October 2006 Artist's talk - MA Fine Art, Surrey Institute of Art & Design, June 2006 Live art Production and Race - Live Art Development Agency, November 2005 Necessary Journey - Tate Modern, November 2005 The Works, artist's talk - MA Fine Art Chelsea College of Art, May 2005 From De-Territorialisation to Re-Territorialisation - Gage Festival, Hull Time Based Arts 2005 Who Needs Interactivity? - Artivism, organized by Camberwell College of Art, May 2004 Crash Course in Performance - Whitechapel Gallery, the History of Performance II Nov. 2003 Between Performance and Video - ICA, London, August 2003 Marcus Fisher, the work - Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool, January 2003 Colored Folks - presentation and workshop ICA, London. 2002 People of the Abyss- East End Fictions - East London University. 1999
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