Art, Academic and Honorary Awards
2020 Turner Prize Bursary ( replacing the Turner Prize 2020 due to pandemic)
2017 Winner of the 10th Jarman Film Award
2017 -ongoing Associate Professor of art at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford
2017-ongoing Fellow, Exeter College, University of Oxford
2016-2017 Practitioner in Residence award, Chelsea College of Arts, UAL
2014-2016 Fine Art Fellow Stanley Picker Gallery
2013-2015 Visiting Professor, Royal College of Art, Painting Department
2011-2013 Honorary Research Fellow, School of English and Drama, Queen Mary University London
2007-2010 Arts and Humanities Research Council Creative Research Fellow, Drama Department, QMUL
Education
2019-2020 PhD, Reading School of Art, University of Reading
1998–2000 MA, Fine Art, Central St Martins College of Art & Design, London
1989–1992 BA (distinction), Fine Art, Sheffield Hallam University
Solo Performances
Misbehaving Bodies: Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, Live art Program, Wellcome Collection, May 2019 – January 2020
Passing through Metal, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK, fig-futures, September 2018
Passing through Metal, Donaufestival, Austria, May, 2018
NoNothing Salons in the Dark, Double Fiction, Res., January 2018
NoNothing Reading and the Gathering Cloud, Whitechapel Gallery as part of the Jarman Award Weekend, October 2017
Landscape for Sharing, Muros Blandos, Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chile, 2017
NoNothing Salons in the Dark, 6th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, 2017
Passing through Metal, Lilith Performance Studio, Malmo, April 2017
Monkey Bum Factory III, La Movida, HOME, Manchester, 2017
NoNothing Salons in the Dark, Chelsea College of Arts, 2016-17
NoNothing Salons, a series of seven salons in the dark in Chelsea College of Art, 2016
Prayer, Johnny Parry, Revisiting Genesis, Stanley Picker Gallery, June 2016
Metal Band Anoxide+ New Noveta, Fig-2, ICA, August 2015
Cómo matar a un cerdo, (How to Kill a Pig), part of the group show Axolotlism,noguerasblanchard gallery, curated by Sabel Gavaldon, Madrid, 23rd May 2015
21st Century Carpet Sale! A Legendary Collection. Swedenborg House,October 16th, 2014.
The World is Flooding, group performance, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, Spring 2014
Party for Freedom, AV Album 3 live concerts, Hippolyte Gallery, Helsinki, October 2013
Party for Freedom, AV Album live concert, Millbank Tower, May 1st, 2013
Party for Freedom, Party for Hire, Artangel commission ( 25 location including private homes, offices, art schools, galleries) London, Spring 2013
Party for Freedom, #1, #2, #6/10, Liverpool Biennial 2012, November 2012
Party for Freedom work in progress, New Performance Festival, Turku, May 2012
Security First, Den Frie, Copenhagen, April, 2012
Monkey Bum Factory, Le Transpalette Centre d’Art Contemporain, Bourges, France, part of the program Immunity, November 2011
Raging Balls, Other Gallery, Beijing, 2010; ICA, London, 2010; HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2010; Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, 2010; Brooklyn Museum, New York, 2010; Tate Modern, London, 2009; The Arches, Glasgow, 2009; Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Hesperides II, Lausanne, 2009; Radar, Loughborough University, 2008
Hairoism, Trouble Festival, Brussels, 2011; 30 years of the National Review of Live Art, The Arches, Glasgow, 2010; City of Women Festival, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, 2010; Tate Modern, London, 2009
Semitic Score Teatru-spalatorie, Chișinău, 2012; La Porta, Barcelona, 2011; Slovenian Pavilion, Venice Biennial, 2011; Trouble Festival, Brussels, 2011; Modern Art Oxford, Night & Day, 2010; Studio 303, commissioned by Kris Nelson, Montreal, 2010; Live@8, Galway, Ireland, 2010
Children of the Future, Hollybush Gardens Gallery, with Edd Hobbs, as part of Eline McGeorge exhibition, 2009
Scratch Performance: Golani Varanasi, 198 Gallery, London, 2010; Tate Modern, London, 2009; Brooklyn Museum, New York, 2010; Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, 2010; HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2010; The Arches, Glasgow, 2009; Betsey’s Salon, London, 2008
The Saint/s of Whitstable, commissioned by the Whitstable Biennial, re-enactments, interventions, participatory play, durational performance, installation, 2008
The Great Recession, Duckie, London, with Owen Parry, hobo intervention after Shabbtai Zevi, 2008
Here He Comes, intervention outside the Church of Scientology, Blackfriars Bridge Road, London, part of the Plastique Fantastique and Bughouse event, FA Projects Gallery, 2008
Welcome Home, De Balie, Amsterdam, 2007
Right, Left, Freud Museum, London, 2007
Will You Let Me Join You Just This Once? intervention, Lincoln Inn Fields, London, Neturai Karta Free Palestine demonstration, 2007
Territories of Belonging, Tou Art Centre, Stavanger, Norway, 2006
Back in 5 Minutes, Schwules Museum, Berlin, 2006; Hoxton Distillery, London, 2001
Three Sons, Ben Uri Gallery, London and APT Gallery, London, 2006
Women’s Love, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2006
Welcome Home, meal for 400 participants, performance, video and a political gathering event, Great Hall, Queen Mary University, PSi #12, London, 2006
Sarmad the Saint, Khoj, New Delhi, 2006
Portrait Sketch, intervention, Dili Haat, New Delhi, 2006
Some Things Change Some Remain the Same, Herzliya Museum, Israel, 2005
What is Your Current Address? Kunstbanken, Hamar, Norway, 2005
7 Acts of Love, Centro Cultural Telemar, Rio de Janeiro, ME electronic art show, 2005; Transevasilties conference, University of Reading, 2005; Great Eastern Hotel, 2004
Bentornato – Welcome Home, Turin, More Fools in Town, A Constructed World, 2005
Will You Cook For Me?, with Daniel Ashery, Home, London, 2004
It’s Been a Long Time, Apex travel agent, Dublin, part of Project Art Space, No Respect, 2004
Property from the 3rd Floor Royal Opera House, Royal Opera House, London, 2004
No Vitrines, No Museums, No Artists, Just a Lot of People, with Rirkrit Tiravanija, telecom tower, Venice, 2004
Score by Ken Friedman (Fluxes), Centre of Attention, London, 2004
Central Location/Treatment, 291 Gallery, London, 2004
Occupation I, II, The Case of the Rabbit, Galerija Matice Hrvatske, Zagreb, 2003; Hull Time Based Arts, Hull, 2003; 291 Gallery, London, 2003
Central Location, NGBK, Berlin, part of Wonder Years exhibition, 2003; Windows Gallery, Central St Martins College of Art & Design, London, 2000
Say Cheese, OK Centre for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria, 2003; Arnolfini, In Between Time Festival, Bristol, 2003; Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool Biennial, 2003; Foxy Production Gallery, New York, 2002; Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2002; NGBK, Berlin, 2002; Home, London, 2001
Colored Folks, with Shaheen Merali, National Review of Live Art, Glasgow, 2002; Toynbee Hall, London, 2001
Marcus Fisher, interventions and performances: dancing with orthodox men, north of Israel, 2003; Centre of Attention at Notting Hill Arts Club, London, 2001; OMSK, London 2001; National Review of Live Art, Glasgow, 2001; The Fridge, London, 2000; Akademia, Brighton, 2000; Duckie, London, 2000; Turkish Men’s cafe, Berlin, 2000; Soho, London, 2000; Beach, Tel Aviv, 2000; East End Collaborations Festival, London, 2000; eXpo Live Art Festival, Nottingham, 2000; 3rd International Transgender Film Festival, Lux, London, 1999
Open Surgery, with Svar Simpson, FADO Toronto, 2001
Mixed Up, Void Gallery, London, 2000
RKD, Brixton Arcade, London 2000
Trans-Kulturwohnung, domestic residency programme, invited by Leif Erich Christensen and Janine Rostron, Berlin, 1999
Moot Point, camping intervention, Bobo Gallery, South London, 1999
50 Years to Hiroshima, intervention, Leather Lane Market, London, 1995
Magnum Opus I, Showroom Gallery, London, 1994
Solo Exhibitions
How we die is how we live only more so, the Centre of Contemporary Art, Prague, curated by Edith Jarabkova, September – October, 2019
Misbehaving Bodies: Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, Wellcome Collection, May 2019 – January 2020
Revisiting Genesis, Rennes Biennial, A Cris Auverts, 6th edition, 29 September 2018 – 2 December 2018
Oreet Ashery, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK, September 2018
Revisiting Genesis, 6th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, 2017-2018
Revisiting Genesis, solo exhibition, Tyneside Cinema October – December, 2016
Revisiting Genesis single screen, Deptfort Cinema, with Echo Chambers by Duncan Louden and a Q & A, July 2016, White Building, LADA screens, in conversation with David Falkner, May 2016, Home Manchester Artist Weekender, September 2016, UnionDocs, NY, May 2017
Revisiting Genesis, solo exhibition, Stanley Picker Gallery, April – June, 2016
Revisiting Genesis, 12 episodes web series hosted on revisitinggenesis.net, Vimeo, Utube, Ibraaz Channel, AQNB Web and LADA Screens
Oreet Ashery, Revisiting Genesis, fig-2, ICA, London, August 2015
Animal with a Language, solo exhibition, Champagne Premiere, Berlin, February 2015
Animal with a Language, solo exhibition, Waterside Contemporary, London, September 2014
Party for Freedom, photographic gallery Hippolythe, Helsinki, October 2013
Party for Freedom, Overgaden, Copenhagen, September- October 2013
Party for Freedom, people V freedom, Artangel commission. Spring 2013
Oreet Ashery, Pristine Gallery, Mexico 2012
Oreet Ashery and Nicole Ahland, c. wichtendahl. Galerie, 5th European Month of Photography, Berlin, 2012
Falafel Road, with Larissa Sansour, DEPO, Istanbul, 2011
The Beautiful Jew, Other Gallery, Shanghai, 2010
Raging Balls, Other Gallery, Beijing, 2010
Back in 5 Minutes and Scratch Performance: Golani Varanasi, The Arches, Glasgow, 2009
Dancing with Men, Sherwell Centre, Plymouth University, 2008
What You See, Letchworth Art Centre Gallery, 2007
Performance 2003, Foxy Production Gallery, New York, 2003
Say Cheese, Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool, 2003
Oreet Ashery, Foxy Production Gallery, New York, 2002
7 Acts of Love, Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2002; Stil und Bruch, Berlin, 2002
Magnum Opus III, with Daniel Rubinstein, Jerusalem Artists’ House Gallery, Jerusalem, 1998
Magnum Opus II, with Daniel Rubinstein, 68elf Gallery, Cologne, 1996
Group Exhibitions
Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway, Who Want to Live Forever, September – October 2020
Tenerife Photo Biennial, fotonoviembre, Myths of the near future, curated by Mette Kjærgaard Præst and Laura Vílchez, November 2019- March 2020
Transpersonal, Instructions, Jorge B. Vargas Museum, Manila, December 18- February 19
White Anxieties, White Box, Group exhibition, NYC,September – October 2018
DRAG, Hayward Project Space, August- October 2018
Forbidden to Forbid, Balice Hertling Gallery, Paris, May 2018 -July 2018
Revisiting Genesis, 10 years ofJarman Film award winners, Whitechapel Gallery, May 2018- June 2018
We do not know this to be so, Galeri’nev, Istanbul, May 2018 – June 2018
Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chile, September 2017
La Movida, group show, HOME, Manchester, April 2017
Rolling exhibition, waterside contemporary, 2016- 2017
Redemption Jokes, group show, Bad Company, NGBK, Berlin, September-November, 2015
Graphics Interchange Format, Focal Point Gallery, July-September, 2015
Out of Chaos Ben Uri; 100 years in London, Somerset House, July- December 2015
Axolotlism, noguerasblanchard gallery, curated by Sabel Gavaldon, Madrid, May-July 2015
Utopian Pulse – Flares in the Darkroom, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, April – August, 2015, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, 2016
Re-action Genealogy and Countercanon, Barjola Musuem, Gijon, April, 2015
Nascent States, Waterside Contemporary, London, April 2015
Requiem (For VZT), Artr,Trafico de Arte, Mecixo, February 2015
Utopian Pulse – Flares in the Darkroom, Urgent Alternatives: Utopian Moments, Vienna, Succession, Curated by Ines Doujak and Oliver Ressler, Spring 2014
Golden Age Problems, Auto Italia, June 2014
TIME::CODE, Whitebox Art Center, NYC, March 2014
Your Body is a Battleground, Pristine Gallery, Mexico, March-May 2013
Hetero q.b, National Museum of Contemporay Art , Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal, April- June 2013
Performance/ Audience /Film, John Hansard Gallery, March 2013
Whole Milk, Lentos Museum, Linz, Austria, October 2012
Body Snatchers, White Box, NYC, 2012
Life is Eleswhere, Körnerpark Galerie, 5th European Month of Photography, Berlin 2012
re.act.feminism#2, Instytut Sztuki Wyspa, Gdansk, Poland, march 2012
Counterpoint, A foundation, 2011
Show me your Hair, Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea, 2011
Shanghai Art Fair, ART SAN DIEGO Contemporary Art Fair, 2011
How to Philosophize With A Hammer, White Box, NYC, 2011
re.act.feminism#2, Montehermoso Art Centre, Spain
Obra en video, EDS Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico, 2011
29th Biennial of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, 2011
Identity II, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, 2010
A Thousand Endless Tales – Dancing the Line of Flight, White Space, Zurich, 2010
Reinventing Ritual, Jewish Museum, New York and San Francisco, 2010
Arts of Memory, Material, Media, Mythologies, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, 2010
The Metamorphosis, Other Gallery, Shanghai, 2010
Progress Report, Iniva, London, 2010
Fall Out, Gl Holtegaard, Denmark, 2010
Theatre of Peace, NGBK, Berlin, 2010
On Rage, HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2010
That Obscure Object of Desire, Pristine Galerie, Monterey, Mexico, 2010
Becoming Intense, Becoming Animal, Becoming… Heidelberger Kunstverein and other locations in the city, 2009
Queer/SCHäG, Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Chiasso, Switzerland, 2009
re.act.feminism, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 2008; Kunsthaus Erfurt, Germany, 2009
Medium Religion, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, 2008; Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo, 2009
Redrawn Boundaries, Goldsmiths Gallery, London, 2009
Crime and Punishment, Kortil Gallery, Strossmayerova, Rijeka, Croatia, 2009; 198 Gallery, London, curated by Predrag Pajdic, 2008
Looking at Others, Art Pavilion, Umjetnicki Paviljon, Zagreb, 2009
Performance and Mimicry, Bodhi Gallery, New York, 2008
FEMACO Art Fair, Mexico, EDS Gallery, Mexico City, 2008
Biography of a Traveller, Living Gallery, Lecca, Italy, 2008
April Meetings Festival, VIP Art Gallery of Students Cultural Center, Belgrade, Serbia, 2008
Unbound, Contemporary Art Platform, London, 2007
The Oubliettes of Wolstenholme, 11 Wolstenholme Square, Liverpool, 2007
Theatre of Cruelty, White Box Gallery, New York, 2007
The Space Between, Petach Tikva Museum, Israel, 2007
Bound, Open Eye Gallery, Tate Liverpool and FACT, 2007
In Focus, Contemporary Art Platform, Dazed Gallery, London, 2007
Normal Love, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2007
Make it a Better Place, Holden Gallery, Manchester, 2007
Global Feminisms, Brooklyn Museum, New York, 2007
Paranoia, Freud Museum, London, Leeds City Art Gallery, Focal Point Gallery, Southend, 2006
Body Double, Elzbieta Koscielak Gallery, Zamek, Lesnica Castle, Wrocaw, Poland, curated by Raul Zamudio, 2006
Recent Acquisitions, The London Jewish Museum of Art, 2006
Summer Show, Ben Uri Gallery, London, 2006
Monstrous Tales, APT Gallery, London, 2006
Now, More Than Ever, Foxy Production Gallery, New York, 2006
Concrete, Sausage and Other Team Ghosts, Spittastrasse 25, Berlin, 2006
Animal Magnetism, Cuchifritos gallery, New York, curated by Raul Zamudio, 2006
Biography /Autobiography, Herzliya Museum, Israel, 2005
On-Demand, Centre of Attention, London, 2005
Los Retratos de Dorian Gray, Galeria de Arte Mexicano, 2005
anthro/socio, Artist: network Gallery, New York, 2004
No Respect, Project Arts Space, Dublin, 2004
X-travagant, Century Gallery, London, 2003
Intervention, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, 2003
Wonder Years, NGBK, Berlin, 2003
The Promise, the Land, OK Centre for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria, 2003
Private Views, London Print Studios Gallery, London, 2002
Over Dressed, Monica Bobinska, London, 2002
Like Gold Dust, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, 2002
Dalston Underground, London, 2001
Jews, Blacks, Gypsies and Other Free Radicals, Centre of Attention at Notting Hill Arts Club, London, 2001
A Man, A Woman, A Machine, Centre of Attention, London, 2001
John, I’m Only Dancing, Margaret Harvey Gallery, St Albans, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, 2000
Sexmutant, Nunnery Gallery, London, 2000
London Post-Colonial City, Architectural Association, London, 2000
The Kindness of Strangers, W139 Gallery, Amsterdam, 1998
Outfit / International Photoszene, Cologne, 1998
Publications
Sounds of Crisis, CCA Prague with Sadie Cole HQ and Rodeo London, Curated and written by Edith Jerabkove, 2020
Artists Moving Image in Britain since 1989, ed Erika Balsom, Lucy Reynolds and Sarah Perks. Yale University Press, 2019
How we die is how we live only more so, Oreet Ashery, Mousse Publishing, 2019 co-edited with George Vasey, with new writing commissions by Rizvana Bradley, T.J. Demos, Mason Leaver- Yap, Imani Robinson and Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz, ISBN 978-88-6749-391-3
Performance Works, a chapter with Korina Giaxoglou, Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Warsaw and Mousse Publishing, 2020
Dark Habits, Home Publication, a chapter of 17 short poems, 978-0-9935912-3-5, 2017
NoNothing Salons in the Dark, self- publishedzine, B&W, A4, 20 pages, 2017
The World is Flooding, zine, B&W, A4, 77 pages, Tate commission, free on request
Party for Freedom DVD+ Booklet, Oreet Ashery, published by Crossovers, ISBN 978-0-9570149-7-8
Oreet Ashery; The Beautiful Jew, Raging Balls (Other Gallery, China, 2011)
Staying: Dream, Bin, Soft Stud and Other Stories, by Oreet Ashery (Artangel, 2010)
The Novel of Nonel and Vovel, graphic novel by Oreet Ashery and Larissa Sansour (Charta, 2009)
Dancing With Men: Interventions, Interactions and Other Artworks, monograph by Oreet Ashery (Live Art Development Agency, 2009)
Public events, community
Misbehaving Bodies: Jo Spence & Oreet Ashery, public events and workshops series, Wellcome Collection, May 2019- January 2020
Eastside Projects, Birmingham, seminar and Artist Talk with Ultras, February 2019
NoNothing Salons in the Dark and Practitioner in Residence on the MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art, 2016- 18
The Art Curriculum – Memory or Imagination, residential notional workshop in collaboration with Anna Colin, at The National Art Educational Archive, Yorkshire Sculpture park, 2016
The World is Flooding, workshops and performance at Tate Modern with Freedom from Torture and UKlgig, Portugal Prints (Mind), Spring- summer 2014
Insight Arts Trust, video and photography artist, assistant director, workshop facilitator, arts and drama tutor, working with the probation services on site-specific multiarts productions, rolling prevention programme and in prisons, 1996–2005
Art is Great Academy, pilot project of teaching art to excluded young people from Pupil Referral Units in Byam Shaw School of Art, London, 2005
Childeric Primary School, Lewisham, commissioned by Creating Success, producing films and photographic collages for two publications and a public event, 2004
King’s Cross Project, London, Speak Out, photography and sound project with young people resulting in a photographic exhibition and video, 2003
Peabody Trust, setting up a video diary room on the Pembury Estate, Hackney, resulting in a video work relating to regeneration and sustained video training, 2003
Mencap Islington, Ordinary Lives, public art project celebrating 50 years of Mencap, resulting in an exhibition at Islington museum’s gallery, 2002
Peabody Trust, Crossing, large-scale public arts project at the Marquess Estate, Islington, produced a photographic image bank from 100 households, 11 billboards, bus tours and a publication, 2000
Peabody Trust, Time Capsule, digital video project with young people in Islington, Hackney and Tower Hamlets, London, resulting in six short films, 2000
1st Framework Productions, Between the Lines, project at Jewish Care old people’s home in London, resulting in a slideshow and performance event based on Isaac Bashevis Singer’s short story The Bitter Truth, 1997
Camerawork, East End Fictions based on Jack London’s book, The People of the Abyss, residency at Morpeth Secondary School, resulting in photographic work, psychogeographical tagging, 1998
1A Community Centre, London, Under Exposure, photographic project with refugees in Hampstead Hostel, Coram Centre for homeless women and Bengali women’s group in Holborn, 1996
1A Community Centre, London, running communal darkroom with classes and community-related projects, 1992–1997
Reviews
Hyperallergic, Two Artists Stare into the Face of Death, Andrew Stooke, January 9, 2020
Wellcome Collection, Death and our digital ghosts, Chris Mugan, January 15, 2020
Studio International, Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery: Misbehaving Bodies, Beth Williamson, September 10, 2019
Artmonthly, Jo Spense and Oreet Ashery: Misbehaving bodies, Maria Walsh, November 1, 2019
Artforum, Critic’s Pick London, Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, Alex Davidson, November 2019
Elephant Magazine, Why We Need to Talk About Death in Art, Emily Gosling, July 29, 2019
Architecture Today, Misbehaving Bodies, Will Pryce, June 27, 2019
Lancet, Exhibition Misbehaving Bodies, Petra Boynton, Vol 394, July 13, 2019
Studio International, Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery: Misbehaving Bodies, Beth Williamson, September 10, 2019
Wellcome Collection, Inside the mind of George Vasey, co-curator of Misbaheving Bodies, November 2019
Guardian, Death, digital wills and cremation jewellery, Hettie Judah, May 31, 2019
Burlington Contemporary, Jo Spence, Oreet Ashery and Life Limiting Illness, Jareh Das, August 6, 2019
Aesthetica, 10 to see summer shows UK, June 18, 2019
Art Monthly, Misbehaving Bodies: Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, Maria Walsh, November 1, 2019
Art Agenda, Misbehaving Bodies: Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, Philomena Epps & Patrick Langley, July 29, 2019
Guardian, Death, Digital Wills and Cremation Jewellery- Misbehaving Bodies Review, Hettie Judah, May 31, 2019
Artrrabit, Art and Pride, LGBTQ+ artists who made an impact, Sandy Di Yu, July 2018
DRAG: Self Portraits and Body Politics, PDF of reviews available, 2018
The Wire, Oreet Ashery Passing through Metal, by Katarina, Dixon, November 18
Art Review, Artist, Heal Thyself!, Nina Power, September 2018
Art Monthly, including cover image, Health v Wealth, Giulia Smiths, July-August 2018
The Art Newspaper, Passing through Metal, 15thSeptember, 2018
Artforum, Oreet Ashery wins 10th Film Jarman Award, November 27, 2017
Guardian, Jews of Death: the Jarman Prize Winner on her excruciating look at dying in the digital age, Adrian Searle, 20 November, 2017
It’s Nice That, Oreet Ashery wins 10th Film Jarman Award, Lucy Bourton, 21November, 2017
Film London, Oreet Ashery wins 10th Film London Jarman Award, 20 November, 2017
FAD, Oreet Ashery wins 10th Film Jarman Award, Mark Westall, 20 November, 2017
Guardian, What is the biggest question Facing Artists Today, Guardian, 5 October, 2017
La Tercera, by Soledad García-Huidobro, Haitian Workers Participate in Work About Art and Migration, 18th of September 2017, Santiego Chile,
Mas Deco, by Pablo Andulce, Very Personal – Oreet Ashery, September 2017, Santiego Chile
Guardian, from bullets to botox, watch the 2017 Jarman Award shortlist, Tim Jonaz, June 2017
This is Tomorrow, Revisiting Genesis, by Mette Kjærgaard Præst, 10th of January, 2017
Afterall, The Death of Death: Oreet Ashery’s Revisiting Genesis, TJ Demos, October 2016
Sleek, The Visual Contemporary, review of the exhibition Animal with a Language, by Tenny Victoria Rafferty, Minorities Have Their Own Language, 6th February, 2015
This is Tomorrow, review of the exhibition Animal with a Language, by Will Gresson, 10th of November, 2014
Frieze, Oreet Ashery, review of the exhibition Animal with a Language, by Matthew McLean, November 2014, issue 167
Hyperallergic, The Psychedelic and Porcine Provocations of Oreet Ashery, by Nark Sheerin, 30th November, 2014
The Wire, Unfinished revolutions: Oreet Ashery’s Party For Freedom, Nathan Budzinski, March 2014
Hufvudstadsbladet, highest-circulation Swedish-language newspaper in Finland, Party for Freedom, exhibition review, Synnove Rabb, October 2013
Ny Tid, Green Left weekly magazine in Swedish in Finland, Party for Freedom exhibition review, Emma Ronnholm, October, 2013
Guardian Guide, Party for Freedom preview, Skye Sherwin, May 2013
Time Out, Party for Freedom, Performance review, Freire Barnes, May 2013
Kunsten.nu, Ashery and reflection on musical threesomes, Peter Van Knude, November, 2013
Artangel website commission, Narcissus Revolts, Maria Walsh, June 2013
Party for Freedom, Artmonthly, Colin Perry, with magazine cover image, 2013
Art Monthly, Performance Matters, Morgan Quaintance, February 2012
The National (Arab Emirate), The art of hospitality at the UK’s Liverpool Biennial, Ben East, Sep 18, 2012
Turun Sanomat, Kulttuuri, Perfomanssia on Kaikkiala, Mattias Mattila, 27th January, 2012
Times, HE, Tales of the Unexpected, Matthew Reisz, No.1,990, 17th March, 2011
Al Jazeera, 14 March 2011, Sousan Hammad, Israeli’s Falafel Food Fight; A project examining the ‘Israelisation’ of falafel raises some questions about the boycott movement.
Cumhuriyet, Turkey, 1 February 2011, Evrim Altuğ, Tophane’de nohutlu intifad, An Intifada with Pea at Tophane
Star, Istanbul, 15 January 2011, Alin Taşçıyan, Felafel Yolu: İşgale direnen sanat, Falafel Road: An Art Resisting the Occupation
Radikal, Hayat supplement, Istanbul, 17 January 2011, Pınar Öğünç, İki Süper Kahramanın Çözemediği Mesele, A Problem That Two Super Heroes Cannot Solve
Agos, Istanbul, 21 January 2011, Aslı Seven, Vovel ile Novel Filistin’i Kurtarıyor, Vovel and Novel are Saving Palestine
The National, English-language paper in the Middle East, 14 January 2011, Graphic Depictions, Hamja Ahsan
International Arts Magazine, China, 2010/10, The Beautiful Jew
The Beautiful Jew exhibition in Shanghai was also featured in numerous art websites, including: art.china.cn, artinasia.com, gophotos.cn, ArtsBj.com, trueart.com, shanghai.artron.net, show.artintern.net
Art Guide, China, No. 7/8, 2010, Soft Ball and the Abyss of Violence, and an interview with Oreet Ashery
Raging Balls exhibition in Beijing was also featured in numerous art websites, including: artlinkart, ionly.com.cn, artohe.com, mosh.cn, exhibit.artron.net, artspy, art.china.cn
The Times, 14 January 2010, Artangel Gives African Lesbians a Voice in Britain, Jane Czyzselska
Delo, Slovenia, 14 October 2010, Vstop v preteklost s praga prihodnosti, Mojca Kumerdej
Delo, Slovenia, 19 October 2010, Feminizem je zabaven, toda ne brez (varnostne) maske na obrazu, Performansi treh umetnic: Oreet Ashery, Kire O’Reilly in Judith Witteman, Mojca Kumerdej
Dnevnik, Slovenia, 19 October 2010, Štiri ure kotaljenja z glavo navzdol in še kaj, Militantne kosmate pošasti, Iva Kosmos
Time Out, 17–21 January 2010, Lesbian Refugee Art, Alexie Duggins
Jewish Quarterly, January 2010, The Novel of Nonel and Vovel, Avi Pitchon
Trikster # 3, Nordic web magazine, April 2009, Dismantling the Serious Machine: An Interview with Gavin Butt, Mathias Danbolt
Bidoun, No. 19, 2009, Noise issue, The Novel of Nonel and Vovel
Jewish Chronicle, 17 September 2009, Can Our Heroes Save the Middle East? Julia Weiner
New York Times, 14 September 2009, Plotzing Over, The Reinventing Ritual Show, Andy Port
Sandwich, Issue 5, 2009, published by Sandwich Artists Management, New York, text and images by Oreet Ashery
Information, 20 November 2009, Danish newspaper, Superhelte forsøger at redde Palæstina, Michael Irving Jensen
The List, 11–25 June 2009, Glasgow and Edinburgh, Oreet Ashery: Raging Balls and Golani Varanasi, Steve Cramer
Hurriyet, Turkey, 18 April 2009, Practicing Art from Jew to Arab, Johabbes Hillje
Jewish Chronicle, June 2008, The Fishy Case of Whitstable’s Cross-dressing False Messiah, Julia Weiner
Artists Newsletter, 6 July 2008, Playing with Re-enactment, Nikki Russell
Art Monthly, No. 317, May 2008, London Performs
Feminist Studies, Vol. 34, No. 3, Fall 2008, Recent Feminist Art, Josephine Withers
ArtLuk, 1 July 2008, Marcus Fisher, Artur Kamczycki
Map, Issue 13, Spring 2008, Oreet Ashery, Barry Schwabsky
ArtPress 2, October 2007, Performing London, Louise Gray
Yediot Aharonot, Israel, 3 August 2007, Be Right Back, Ruti Director
NYFA, May 2007, In Conversation with Oreet Ashery, Carie Moyer
Stavanger Aftenblad, Norway, 31 October 2006, Interactive Art, Performance, Sigrun Hodne
Stavanger Aftenblad, Norway, 19 October 2006, Performance Perfect for Reality Folk, Solveig Grodem Sandelson
N.paradoxa, Vol. 18, 2006, International Feminist Art Journal, Helena Reckitt
NY Arts, Vol. 11, No.7/8, July/August 2006, Venus or Penis Envy, Raul Zamudio
Visit #8, New Zealand, March 2006, One-to-One Distance and Proximity, Charlotte Huddleston
Bidoun, Spring 2006, Necessary Journeys travel diary, Emily Speers Mears
Frieze, November/December 2005, On Demand/Welcome Home, Kim Dhilon
Contemporary Magazine, October 2005, Reflections on Clapping
Flash Art, January 2004, Performance 2003, Christopher K. Ho
Western Daily Press, Bristol, February 2003, Unorthodox Art Gets Live Airing, Emma Smith
Rundschau, March 2003, The Promise, The Land, OK Centre for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
Profil, March 2003, Begrenzte identitaten, The Promise, The Land, OK Centre for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
Jewish Quarterly, Summer 2002, Transgressing the Sacred, Rachel Garfield
Time Out, June 2002, Over Dressed, Sarah Kent
Sleazenation, June 2002, Over Dressed
Freitag 10, Berlin, March 2002, Marcus Fisher
Taz, Berlin, January 2002, Marcus Fisher
Circa, Spring 2002, Marcus Fisher, Say Cheese, Cherry Smyth
Village Voice, Literary supplement, November 2001, Fantastic Voyeurs, Fred Vermorel
Toronto Star, September 2001, Open Surgery
She’s My Baby, Amsterdam, May 2001, Self-Portrait as Marcus Fisher
Ha’heer, Jerusalem, July 1998, Magnum Opus III
Rising East, Vol. 2, 1998, interview, Richard McKeever
Essays and interviews
Auto Italia, Collective Document, May 2020
The Harun Farocki Institut, We’ve been preparing for this our whole lives, Oreet Ashery, March 2020
Performing Borders, conversations on live art, Alessandra Cianetti and Oreet Ashery, February 2020
How we die is how we live only more so, interviews with George Vasey, Mousse Publishing, 2019
Why We Need to Talk About Death in Art, Elephant Magazine, Emily Gosling, July 29, 2019
Paper Visual Art Journal, Having A Kiki, Genesis’s Slideshow, October 2016
A Conversation with Oreet Ashery, Stephanie Baily, Ocula, October 2016
Art Monthly Interviews, Talking Art Vol 2, an interview with Larne, Abse Gogarty, co-published with Ridinghouse, 2016
The Live Art Almanac, Volume 4, an interview with Nathan Budzinki, Unresolved Revolutions; Oreet Ashery’s Party for Freedom, Ed. Harriet Curits, Lois Keidan and Aaron Wright, Oberon Books, 2016
Role Play, Oreet Ashery in conversation with Amal Khalaf, Ibraaz, 29th October, 2015
Moving Image, Edited by Omar Kholeif, text by TJ Demos on Party for Freedom, MIT press, October 2015
Redemption Jokes, group show, Bad Company, NGBK, Berlin, catalogue interview and images, September-November, 2015
Utpian Pulse, Flares in the Darkroom, 80pp, The World is Flooding by Oreet Ashery, PlutoPress, April 2015
Esse, arts+opinion, 83, Boris Groys, Religion in the Digital Age essay, pp3-13, 2015
ROOMS 16: Superluminal, A Mission to Inspire, by Ralph Barker and Tatyana Wolfman on Oreet Ashery and Andrzej Klimowski as teachers and artists, p120-130, December 2014
Ibraaz, Semitic Score, text, interviews and visual material by Oreet Ashery, 2015
Catalouge, Degree Show Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design MA Fine Art/ MA Art and Science/ MA Photography, Swedenborg Granfalloon, text by Oreet Ashery, 2015
Artmonthly, Oreet Ashery interviewed by Larne Abse Gogarty, Irreplaceable, pp.1-4, November 2014, issue 381
The Wire, Valeska Gert/Baby, Inner Sleeve, by Oreet Ashery, The Wire, 84, October 2014
Intellect Limited, A journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance, Mis-appropriation and re-appropriation: An interview with Oreet Ashery, by Eirini Kartsaki, volume &, Number 2, pp.225-240, 2014.
Nparadoxa, Volume 33, 2014, Religion, 6 artist pages on Party for Freedom
C.H.O.S.E.N, Should We Take Performance Seriously? An essay by Gavin Butt, editors: Galit Eilat and ANeta Szylak, 2014
re.act.feminism #2 – a performing archive, Cover-Image, Live Art Development Agency and Verlag fur Moderne Kunst, 2013, Bettina Knaup and Beatrice Ellen Stammer
Tochter der Revolution, Till Briegleb, Art Das Kunsmagazin, pp44-47, November 2013
Performing Ground: Space, Identity, and the Art of Blending, a chapter in the book, Laura Levin, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Party for Freedom, Nparadoxa, International Feminist Art Journal, Volume 33 on religion, Pp32-pp38, artist pages, January 2014
Party for Freedom, This is Tomorrow, interview with Ruth Hogan, April, 2013
Narcissus Revolts, Maria Walsh, June 2013, Artangel website commission
The Unfinished Revolution: Oreet Ashery’s Party for Freedom, TJ Demos, May 2013, Artangel
Testing the Limits: Oreet Ashery, In Conversation with Dorothy Rowe, Women, the Arts and Globalization: Eccentric Experience, Edited by Marsha Meskimmon and Dorothy Rowe, Series: Rethinking Arts Histories, Manchester University Press, Manchester, Series Editors: Amelia Jones and Marsha Meskimmon, 2012
Re-enacting Shabbtai Zevi, Performing/Knowing, David Burrows (ed), editorial group: Gavin Butt, Maria Fusco, John Russell (Article Press, 2011)
Artivisme: Art, Action Politique, Résistance Culturelle, Stephanie Lemoine and Samira Ouardi (Alternatives, 2010)
Brothers Keepers: New Perspectives on Jewish Masculinity, Prosthetic Voice by Ashery and Barnaby (The Men’s Studies Press, 2010)
The Many Headed Monster, Joshua Sofaer (Live Art Development Agency, 2009)
Biographies and Space, Placing the Subject in Art and Architecture, Dorothy Rowe, in Biographies and Spatial Experience in Contemporary Diasporic Art in Britain (Routledge London and New York, 2007)
Journeys in the Performance of Sex Art, Libidot and Dr Jacobs, (Maska, 2006)
Blasphemy: Art That Offends, S. Brent Plate (Black Dog Publishing, 2006)
Necessary Journey, Melanie Keen and Eileen Daly (eds) (Arts Council England and BFI, 2005)
Terrible Beauties, Bernadette Buckley, in Art in the Age of Terror, Graham Coulter-Smith, Maurice Owen (eds) (Paul Holberton, 2005)
Performing Difference, Manick Govinda and Rohini Malik Okon (Artsadmin 2005)
Black Pop, Colored Folks, Jean Fisher in Shaheen Merali monograph (Saqui, 2004)
Art Tomorrow, Edward Lucie-Smith (Terrail, 2002)
Exposures, Lois Keidan and Ron Athey (Black Dog Publishing, 2003)
Catalogues
Sounds of Crisis, CCA Prague with Sadie Cole HQ and Rodeo London, Curated and written by Edith Jerabkove, 2020
Fig-2 catalogue, ICA, May 2018
Thessaloniki Biennial Catalogue, January 2018
Dark Habits, group show, La Movida, HOME, April 2017
Redemption Jokes, group show, Bad Company, NGBK, Berlin, catalogue interview and images, September-November, 2015
Otto+1, Materiali Identitari E Imprevisti Queer, Municipality of Venice, 2012
Ljubljana 29th Graphic biennial, 2011
Show me Your Hair, Corena Museum, Seoul, Korea, 2011
MEDIUM RELIGION, Faith. Geopolitics. Art. Boris Groys, Peter Weibel (eds.) Karlsruhe & Köln: ZKM | Center for Art and Media & Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2011
IDENTITY, Fotogalerie Wien, 2011
On Rage, Valerie Smith, Susanne Stemmler, Cordula Hamschmidt (eds), Haus der Kulturen der Welt and Revolver, 2010
A Viewer’s Partial Guide to Nonel and Vovel’s Inferno, Oreet Ashery and Larissa Sansour, 2010
Fall Out, Malmo Konsthall and Gl Holtegaard, 2010
Raging Balls and The Beautiful Jew, Other Gallery, China, 2010
Theatre of Peace, NGBK, Berlin, 2010
The Metamorphosis, Other Gallery, China, 2010
Hespérides, Le Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, 2009
QUEER/SCHRÄG, Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Bellinzona, 2009
Looking at Others, Umjetnicki Paviljon, Zagreb, 2009
Reinventing Ritual, Jewish Museum, 2009
Becoming Intense, Becoming Animal, Becoming …, Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg, 2009
Matrix, Sabine Mostegl und Gudrun Ratzinger, MUSA (Museum auf Abruf) Vienna, 2008
The Space Between, Petach Tikva Museum, 2007
Paranoia, Leeds City Art Gallery, 2006
Prog:me, Centro Cultural, Telemar, 2005
Oreet Ashery, Invasive Autoerotic Performance, Occupation I, II, The Case of the Rabbit,
Project Hospital, K 009, Zagreb, 2003
The Promise, The Land, OK Centre for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria, 2003
Wonder Years, Künstlerhaus Bethanien and NGBK, Berlin, 2003
ArtFan, Serpentine Gallery, 2003
Events, Workshops, Expanded Projects, Collaborative, Commissions
Misbehaving Bodies: Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, Live art Program and workshops, Wellcome Collection, May 2019 – January 2020
Chase, consortium for the Humanities and the Arts Southeast England, The Future of Art Research, workshop on dissemination,February 2019
Eastside Projects, Birmingham, seminars and Artist Talk with the Ultras, February 2019
Time for Success? Turner Prize 2018, workshop, Tate Britain, 27 October2018
Jo Spence & Oreet Ashery: Bodies that Matter live art program + film commission, Wellcome Collection, May 2019 – January 2020
Death Café NYC, using the Jon Underwood’s Death Café format, BGSQD, The Bureau of General Services, Queer Division, November 2017
Death Café Warsaw, using the Jon Underwood’s Death Café format CCA, Warsaw, October 2017
Collaborative Writing Group, Revisiting Genesis, Goldsmiths, 2017
NoNothing salons in the dark, monthly salons in the dark, Chelsea College of Art, 2016-17
The Art Curriculum – Memory or Imagination, residential notional workshop in collaboration with Anna Colin, at The National Art Educational Archive, Yorkshire Sculpture park,
Genesis, Dora, Oreet, event at Dorich House and Stanley Picker Gallery, with Helena Rickett, Prof. Fran Lloyd and Prof. Jonathan Black, May 2016
Bad Company, workshop for the public with Redemption Jokes \\ // \\ Bureau for Paradoxical Relations, NGBK, Berlin, March 2015
Utopian Pulse – Flares in the Darkroom, 9/3 meters banner, Urgent Alternatives: Utopian Moments, Vienna, Succession, Curated by Ines Doujak and Oliver Ressler, Spring 2014
The World is Flooding, re-reading Mayakovsky’s Mystery Bouffe, workshops/performance, Tate Modern, Spring 2014
Documenting Intimacy, Chichester University, Department of Theatre (performing Arts), 2014
Security First, workshops at Funen Art Academy, Denmark, with a performance and public event at Den Frie, Copenhagen, with Mark Harvey and Johannes Blomqvist, April 2012
Party for freedom workshops, on the subject of Liberation and Nakedness, Le Transpalette Centre d’Art Contemporain, Bourges, France, November 2011; Artsadmin, London, 2011; Theatre Academy Finland, Helsinki, 2011; Performance Matters/Trashing Performance, Sussex and London, 2011
On the Agency of Humour, Bad Jokes and Comedy, devising and running an artists and comedian week’s lab, with comedians Simon Nunnery and Shaista Aziz. Also in La Porta, Barcelona for two days.
Thinker in Residence, Spill Festival, Barbican, London, a weeklong programme of public conversations with invited speakers, including John Cussans, Ian White, Patricia MaCcormack and Irene Revell, 2011
South Bank, commission, 60th anniversary of the Festival of Britain 1951
Artangel, Staying: Dream, Bin, Soft Stud and Other Stories commission working with asylum seekers and refugees, charities and immigration lawyers, 2010
English Pen, sound piece event, Staying: Dream, Bin, Soft Stud and Other Stories, part of refugee week, 2010
Falafel Road, DEPO, Istanbul, exhibition and quiz night event, 2011
Falafel Road, 20 meals open to the public as a platform for public debate, Oreet Ashery and Larissa Sansour in association with Artsadmin, Serpentine Gallery, Iniva, Live Art Development Agency, London, 2010
Nonel and Vovel, Oreet Ashery and Larissa Sansour, a programme of videos, performances, discussions, presentations with invited speakers, Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, 2010; Brooklyn Museum, New York, 2010; HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, On Rage and NGBK, Berlin, 2010; Iniva, London, 2010; Tate Modern, 2009
They Never Stop Working Even When You Kiss Them, video commission for the 10th anniversary of Live Art Development Agency, 2010
Spill Tarot, Spill Festival, London, 2009, tarot card and text commission
Single Screen Videos in Dedicated Events or Film Programmes
Dying Under Your Eyes, Sheffield Documentary Film Festival, Sheffield, May 2020
Dying Under Your Eyes, Alchemy film festival, Scotland, May 2020
Dying Under Your Eyes, Tenerife Photo Biennial, fotonoviembre, Myths of the near future, curated by Mette Kjaergaard and Laura Vílchez, November 2019- March 2020
Dying Under Your Eyes and Revisiting Genesis, Misbehaving Bodies: Jo Spence & Oreet Ashery, public events series, Wellcome Collection, May 2019- January 2020
Dying Under Your Eyes, the Centre of Contemporary Art, Prague, curated by Edith Jarabkova, September – October, 2019
Dying Under Your Eyes, preview, ArtReview, July 16, 2019
Revisiting Genesis, 10 years of Jarman Film award winners, Whitechapel Gallery, May 2018- June 2018
Revisiting Genesis, with a Q&A, Union Docs, Brooklyn, November 2017
Revisiting Genesis episode 2, Jarman Touring program, Spike Island, Bristol, October 2017
Revisiting Genesis episode 2, Jarman Touring program, Plymouth Arts Centre, October 2017
Revisiting Genesis, Jill Craigie Cinema, Plymouth, UK, 11-12 September 2017
Marcus Fisher’s Wake, curated by EVBG, Whenever the Heart Skips a Beat Festival, Mehringplatz, Berlin, September 2017
Party for Freedom, AV Album, Rozenstraat, Amsterdam, Q&A with Linda Duits and Leon Kruijswijk, July 2017
Revisiting Genesis single screen, Deptfort Cinema, July 2016, White Building, LADA screens, in conversation with David Falkner, May 2016, HOME Manchester Artist Weekender, September 2016, UnionDocs, NY, May 2017
Party for Freedom, Artists’ Film Biennial, curated by Radcliff Hall, ICA, London, May 2016
Marcus Fisher’s Wake,Fringe! A Strangely Glorious Opportunity, curated by Panos Fourtoulakis, with Pauline Boudry/ Renate Lorenz, Ursula Mayer, Carlos Motta and Wu Tsang. London, November 2015
How to Kill a Pig, 2/10 Party for Freedom, 2014,Time is Love.8, Expressive Arts Institute, San Diego, USA, 2nd January, 2015, Sobering Gallery, Paris, 20th October, 2015, Yokohama Community Design Lab, 21th-22nd November 2015,
Semitic Score, Dancing with Men, Saved Under the Sign, Fluxee, Tehdas Teatteri, Turku, January, 2012
Party for Freedom in progress, XTC, curated by Kisito Assangni, Studio 1.1 gallery, London, November 2011
Raging Balls, curated by Stephen Wilson, Basso, Berlin, March 2011
Necessary Journeys, No-Man’s-Land programme at T2F, Pakistan, curated by Nicole Wolf, 2009; Kisss video programme at Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, curated by Deej Fabyc, 2008; Vid-e-o-phile Festival, Brighton, curated by Victoria Melody, 2008; Paris-Villette Theater, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, 2007; Visions in the Nunnery, Nunnery Gallery, London, 2007; Tate Modern, London, 2005
Back in 5 Minutes, El Aguila, Madrid, Rencontres Internationales, 2008; Pompidou Centre, Paris, Rencontres Internationales, 2007
Why Do You Think I Left? In Focus, Tate Modern, 2007; VID, der Dampfzentrale Bern, Switzerland, 2004; John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, 2004; OK Centre for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria, 2003; Art in General Gallery, New York, 5th Annual Video Marathon, 2003; Home, London, 2001
Marcus Fisher’s Wake, CINEMARGES Festival of Bordeaux, France, 2007; 2nd Festival de Cinema Queer, Paris, 2007; Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Normal Love programme, 2007; The House of World Cultures, curated by Galit Eilat, Berlin, 2005; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, 2004; 25HR, International Video Art Show, Barcelona, 2003; Fix 02, time-based festival, Belfast, 2002; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2002; Green Room, London, 2002; ANTI festival, Kuopio, Finland, 2002; Women in the Director’s Chair Film Festival, Chicago, 2001; X Night, Lux, London, 2001; Olympia Transgender film festival, London, 2001; CCA Warsaw, Watching People Watching You, curated by Lauren Cornell, 2001; Centre of Attention at the Notting Hill Arts Club, 2001; Living in the Material World conference, Brighton, 2001; Roots Festival, Hull, 2001; Open Surgery, Toronto, 2001; Galapagos Cinema, New York, 2001; East End Collaborations, London, 2000; Blowing Up, House of Detention, London, 2000; Sexmutant, Nunnery Gallery, London, 2000; Alma College, Tel Aviv, 2000; eXpo, Live Art Festival, Nottingham, 2000; National Review of Live Art, Glasgow, 2000
Dancing With Men, Fem_11 video and performance festival, Spain, 2011
14th International Performance Conference, Dahlat/Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2007; Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, New York, 2006; Pool Art Fair, New York, 2004; The Pleasure Dome, New York, 2004; Blowing Up Cinema, London, 2004
Shopping List for Live Art, Everything You Wanted to Know About Live Art, EEC, 2004
Occupation I, II, Rain Dance Festival, Trocadero Cinema, London, 2004
What is it Like for You? 291 Gallery, London, 2004; Blowing Up, The Foundry, London, 2000
1970s Art V Art 2000, Clerkenwell Video Festival, Blowing Up Cinema, London, 2003
Colored Folks, Rencontres Internationales, Paris/Berlin, 2003; National Review of Live Art, Glasgow, 2001
Say Cheese, Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool Biennial, 2002
It’s Not About Sex, Sea Saw, Rio Cinema, London, 1998
Sea Saw, Exploding Cinema, London, 1998; Blowing Up, House of Detention, London, 1998
Residencies
Chelsea College of Arts, Practitioner in Residence on the MA n Fine Art, 2016- 17
Funen Art Academy, Odense, Denmark, 2012
Sarri, Finland, 2012
Rogaland Contemporary Art Centre, Stavanger, Norway, 2007
Khoj, New Delhi, India, organised by Gasworks and Triangle Arts Trust, 2006
Teaching and Mentoring
Co-convener MFA, with Katrina Palmer, the Ruskin School of Art, 2019-ongoing
2017- ongoing 0.5 Associate Professor of Art, Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford
2012-17, 0.5 Senior Lecturer, studio practice, Art Department, Goldsmiths University
RCA Summer School 18, July 2018
Co-convener of DPhil seminars, the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford
Open School East, Seminar Revisiting Genesis, March 2016
PhD/MPhil external examiner,Joseph Schneider, David Bomberg, Goldsmiths, July 2015
PhD External examiner, Sheffiedl Hallam Univeristy, Stigmata: Marks of Pain in Body Performance by an Arab Female Artist, Miada Aboud, 2014
Brighton University, Moving Image, Degree show crits with Omar Kholeif
Giessen University, Germany, Performance institute, seminar with Bojana Kunst, Spring 2014
HEAD, Haute école d’art et de design, Geneva, master class and studio visit, Spring 2014
Mentoring, Leah Lovett, Contra Band, Floating Cinema, spring 2014
Mentoring Maria Sideri, spring 2014
No.where Summer school, teaching, Summer 2014
Fresh Performance Festival, Fem Fresh - Feminism, Age and Live Art, mentoring, spring 2014
PhD Supervision, Teresa Calonje, Art Department Goldsmiths, 2013
Goldsmiths Art Department, 0.5 Lecturer in Fine Art Studio Practice, started 2012
Lux mentoring, on the Associated Artists Program, 2012
Goldsmiths College, tutorials, MA Artist Teachers and Contemporary Practices, March 2012
École des Beaux-Arts, Tours, artist talk and tutorials, November 2011
Sheffield University, English and Theatre studies, Sites of Performance, workshop, public interview with Rachel Zerihan, November 2011
Slade, under and postgraduates, workshop, tutorials, presentation, November, 2011
Queen Mary University London, Drama department, MA performance practice, workshop, November 2011
Lux mentoring, on the Associated Artists Programme, 2011
Into the New, mentoring with New Moves and The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
Goldsmiths College, tutorials, MFA Fine Art, May 2011
Queen Mary University London, teaching in the Drama Department, devising and co-teaching the programme for the modules Beyond Acting and Independent Performance Practice, 2009–2011
University of Brighton, Visiting Tutor, teaching in the Faculty of Arts, in the subject area of Performance and Visual Art, 2011
Mentoring MA drama students, Queen Mary University London; East End Collaboration and Fresh Air Festival mentoring emerging artists; Fierce Festival, Birmingham, mentoring artists, mentoring artist independently 2005–2011
Queen Mary University London, Drama Department, seminars and workshops as part of the modules Interventions, Issues in Contemporary Performance, Places of Performance, 2008–2010
Plymouth University, Department of Performance Studies, Faculty of Arts, workshops and seminars, 2008
Royal Academy Schools, London, tutorials, presentation, 2008
Surrey Institute of Art & Design, Farnham, Visiting Tutor, teaching BA photography, 2006
Independent Photography, Greenwich, teaching photography, 2004
Croydon College, teaching BA Art & Design, contextual studies, 2002
Westminster University, London, teaching BA Media, Art & Design, contextual studies, 2002
Royal College of Art, London, teaching photography, MA cross-disciplines, 1998
Camerawork Gallery and Darkrooms and Fotofusion Gallery and Darkrooms, 1a Rosebery Avenue Centre, London, running and teaching photography courses, 1996–1999
Lectures, Talks, Presentations, Keynote
Royal Academy, artist’s talk, Oreet Ashery, February 2020
It’s Just a Matter of Time, conversation with Mason Leaver-Yap and Oreet Ashery, Tate Modern, March 14, 2020
Misbehaving Bodies: Jo Spence & Oreet Ashery, public events series, Wellcome Collection, May 2019- January 2020
Dying Under Your Eyes, preview, Special Screening & Conversation, with Fi Churchman, ArtReview, July 16, 2019
Eastside Projects, Birmingham, Artist Talk, February 2019
Iniva, The Difference that Difference Makes, with Maria Walsh and Rehana Zaman, October 2018
Art / Work Association (A/WA), chair, June 2018
Performance Symposium, Ruskin School of Art, St John’s College, The Demise of Charles Keene College, May 2018
Queering the Map? Activism and the Archive inside and outside the Academy, TORCH, University of Oxford, May 2018
Slade School of Art, artist talk, public, May 2018
Revisiting Genesis, with a Q&A, Union Docs, Brooklyn, November 2017
Jarman Award, screening and Q&A, Plymouth Arts Centre, October 2017
Jarman Award, screening and Q&A, Spike Island, Bristol, October 2017
EDGE: Periphery,Folkestone Triennial and UCL Urban Laboratories, 2017,
The Showroom, conversation as part of the exhibition Everything we see could also be otherwise (My sweet little lamb), September 2017
The 21st International Conference on Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts (DRHA), Key Note,September 2017
The Showroom, Now Showing: Oreet Ashery, by Cinenova, June, 2017
ICA,Technology Now: Automated Emotions, presentation and panel, June, 2017
Ruskin School of Art,Artist talk, February 2017
Royal Academy, Gender Materiality, artist talk, March 2017
Cut Festival of Barbering, Artsadmin, artist talk, February 2017
Haifa University MA Fine Art, artist talk, December 2016
London School of Speech and Drama, artist talk,November 2016
Tyneside cinema, Symposium on Revisiting Genesis, Narrating Life, keynote, December 2016
Chelsea College of Art, artist talk, November 2016
Goldsmiths College, Deep Trash, artist talk, October 2016
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, The Art Curriculum – Memory or Imagination?, October 2016
Something Human, Autograph, artist presentation, September 2016
Frame Dance Festival, artist talk Revisiting Genesis, Rose Theatre, Kinkston, June 2016
Stanley Picker Gallery, Dora, May, Oreet, Revisiting Genesis event day, artist talk, May 2016
Artists’ Film Biennial, Political Identity and the Moving Image ICA, with Zack Blas, Rizvana Bradley and Ahmet Öğüt, May 2016
UCA, Kent, artist talk, March 2016
Against Delivery, Slade Research Centre, with Kristen Kreider, Warren Neidich and Martha Rosler, November 2015
Leighton House Museum, London, Nour Festival, The Space for Freedom, A conversation with Stephanie Bailey, November 2015
Goldsmiths Visual Cultures public program, Fictions and Futures, Revisiting Genesis: The Slideshow, chaired by Simon O’Sullivan, October 2015
ICA, panel and presentation, Symposium: (Dis), 27May, 2015
Outpost, Panel, Unspeakable Freedom, 23, April, 2015
Artsamin, chairing, Bursary Artists in Conversation, February 2015
ICA, London, part of Artists’ Film Club: We Cant Be There, January, 2015
Central Saint Martins, Artist Talk, Departmental, January, 2015
Sheffield Hallam University, part of Transmissions; An unsentimental education: on becoming an artist, artists talk, December, 2014
King’s College London, Art, Conflict and Belief: Taking Sides, Standing By, part of Belief and Conflict in the UK, with Emily Buchanan and Jolyon Mitchell, 26th November, 2014
Kingston University, artist talk as Fine Art Fellow Stanley Picker, November 2014
Royal College of Art performance pathway, artist talk at the gallery, November 2014
Chelsea School of Art, MA Fine Art, artist talk, November 2014
Fresh Performance Festival, Fem Fresh - Feminism, Age and Live Art, artist talk, ,spring 2014
Royal College of Art, Painting Department, artist talk as a Visiting Professor to the department, 2014
Royal College of Art, Painting Department, artist talk as a Visiting Professor to the school of Fine Art, 2014
St Martins, MA Fine Art, artist talk, 2014
Chelsea School of Art, BA Fine Art, artist talk, 2014
Ted X Hackney, re-reading Mystery Bouffe, Ted X Hackney, Yard Theatre, October 2013
IMT Gallery, In the Space of Disparate Ghosts, artist Talk part of Plastique Fantastique, Schizoanalysis and Schizostrategy, July 2013
Overgaden , Party for Freedom, a conversation with Oreet Ashery, Omar Kholief and Mathias Danbolt, Copenhagen, 2013
Hippolythe Gallery, Unfinished Revolutions; Party for Freedom, a conversation with Oreet Ashery and Minna L Henriksoon, Helinki, 2013
Chelsea MA Fine Art, artist talk in conversation Dave Beech, Party for Freedom,2013
Artangel, People vs Freedom in conversation Oreet Ashery in conversation with Tirdad Zolghadr, chaired by T.J. Demos, Friends House, 2013
Chelsea Theatre Sacred Festival, chair a post-show discussion for Dominic Johnson’s Departure, an experiment in Human Salvage, October 2012
Tate staff day away, presentation on the topic of risk, July 2012
Funen Art Academy, artist talk, Odense, Denmark, April 2012
Den Frie, Copenhagen, artist talk, April 2012
Samtalekøkkenet, artist talk, Copenhagen, April 2012
La Porta, Barcelona, artist’s talk, December 2011
Counterpoint exhibition, presentation and panel with TJ Demos, A foundation, November 2011
École des Beaux-Arts, Bourges, artist talk, November 2011
École des Beaux-Arts, Tours, artist talk, November 2011
Performance Matters, Trashing Performance, Keynote Speaker, Outside Actions, 2011
Slade, talk, 2011
University of Sheffield, School of English, 2011
Theatre Academy Helsinki, Keynote, LAPsody, 3rd international festival and conference
Pop-Up Gallery, conversation with the artist Güler Ates, part of the show the It girls 2011, Pop-Up Gallery, London, 2011
Queen Mary University London, Issues in Contemporary Performance, Performing Sexualities, 2011
Queen Mary University London, Fresh Air Festival, On Politics, 2011
Tate Modern, London, David Wojnarowicz and censorship, with Wolfgang Tillmans and Ian White, 2011
Trinity Laban, London, artist’s talk, 2011
Goldsmiths College and Tate Britain, London, MA Artist Teachers and Contemporary Practices, Pedagogies, and Contested Space, artist’s talk, 2011
Hamidrasha School of Art, Israel, artist’s talk, Israel, 2010
Whitechapel Gallery, London, with Lois Keidan and Joshua Sofaer, book launch, 2010
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, with Larissa Sansour, 2010
NGBK, Berlin, HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, On Rage, with Larissa Sansour, 2010
FACT, Liverpool, talk and workshop, Changing Perspectives on Contemporary Conflict, with Samir El-Youssef, Professor Andrew Hoskins, 2010
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, Becoming Nation: Undoing Equations in Contested Zones, The Case of Israel and Palestine, with Larissa Sansour, 2010
Bartlett School of Architecture, London, workshop, Backlash? The Resurgence of Homophobia in Contemporary Cities, 2010
Chelsea College of Art, London, artist’s talk, 2010
Byam Shaw School of Art, London, artist’s talk, 2010
Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, Extreme: Visual Representation and the Body, 2009
London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange, King’s College, London, 2009
Glasgow University, I Confess symposium, 2009
Whitechapel Gallery, London, art writing symposium, organised by Gavin Butt, as part of Performance Matters, 2009
PiST interdisciplinary Project Space, Istanbul, artist presentation, 2009
Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, artist presentation, 2009
Platform Garanti, Istanbul, with Larissa Sansour, 2009
University of Stockholm, Feminist Research Methods conference, 2009
Tate Modern, London, The Politics of Space in the Middle East, symposium, 2009
Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm, Self-Images: Israel as Seen Through the Arts, artist presentation, 2009
University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Gender and Body in the Contemporary Arts, international workshop, with Linda Nochlin and Michiko Kasahara, 2009
St Martins School of Art & Design, London, artist’s talk, 2008
Plymouth University, artist’s talk, 2008
Queen Mary University London, London, artist’s talk, 2008
Royal Academy Schools, London, artist’s talk and tutorials, 2008
The Arches, Glasgow, Fear and Vulnerability in Performance Art, panel discussion, 2008
198 Gallery, London, The Psychology of Fear, panel discussion, with Keith Piper and Predrag Pajdic, 2008
Chelsea Theatre, London, Art and Social Engagement, talk and panel discussion, 2008
Queen Mary University London, London, artist’s talk, 2008
Goldsmith College, London, artist’s talk, 2008
Hamidrasha School of Art, Israel, artist’s talk, 2008
Tanzquartier Wien, Austria, text performed by Professor Lois Weaver, 2007
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, artist’s talk, 2007
Rogaland Art School, Stavanger, Norway, artist’s talk, 2007
Khoj, New Delhi, India, artist’s talk, 2006
Queen Mary University London, London, Performing Rights conference, 2007
Surry Institute of Art & Design, Farnham, artist’s talk, 2006
Tate Modern, London, Necessary Journeys, artist’s talk, 2005
Chelsea College of Art, London, artist’s talk, 2005
Gage Festival, Hull, From De-territorialisation to Re-territorialisation, artist’s talk, 2005
Creative Partnerships and Artsadmin, Art Education for Whose Sake, symposium, 2005
Camberwell College of Art, London, Who Needs Interactivity?, 2004
Whitechapel Gallery, London, Crash Course in Performance, artist’s talk and workshop, 2003
ICA, London, Between Performance and Video, artist’s talk, 2003
Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool, artist’s talk, 2003
East London University, London, People of the Abyss: East End Fictions, artist’s talk, 2001
Birkbeck College and Coventry University, Crossing Public Art, artist’s talk, 2001
Coventry University, Living in the Material World, artist’s talk, 2001
ICA, London, Colored Folks with Shaheen Merali, artist’s talk and workshop, 2001
Public, Community, Educational and Participatory Projects
Misbehaving Bodies: Jo Spence & Oreet Ashery, public events and workshops series, Wellcome Collection, May 2019- January 2020
Eastside Projects, Birmingham, seminar and Artist Talk with Ultras, February 2019
NoNothing Salons in the Dark and Practitioner in Residence, 7 salons on the MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts, 2016- 18
The Art Curriculum – Memory or Imagination, residential notional workshop in collaboration with Anna Colin, at The National Art Educational Archive, Yorkshire Sculpture park, 2016
The World is Flooding, workshops and performance at Tate Modern with Freedom from Torture and UKlgig, Portugal Prints (Mind), Spring- summer 2014
Insight Arts Trust, video and photography artist, assistant director, workshop facilitator, arts and drama tutor, working with the probation services on site-specific multiarts productions, rolling prevention programme and in prisons, 1996–2005
Art is Great Academy, pilot project of teaching art to excluded young people from Pupil Referral Units in Byam Shaw School of Art, London, 2005
Childeric Primary School, Lewisham, commissioned by Creating Success, producing films and photographic collages for two publications and a public event, 2004
King’s Cross Project, London, Speak Out, photography and sound project with young people resulting in a photographic exhibition and video, 2003
Peabody Trust, setting up a video diary room on the Pembury Estate, Hackney, resulting in a video work relating to regeneration and sustained video training, 2003
Mencap Islington, Ordinary Lives, public art project celebrating 50 years of Mencap, resulting in an exhibition at Islington museum’s gallery, 2002
Peabody Trust, Crossing, large-scale public arts project at the Marquess Estate, Islington, produced a photographic image bank from 100 households, 11 billboards, bus tours and a publication, 2000
Peabody Trust, Time Capsule, digital video project with young people in Islington, Hackney and Tower Hamlets, London, resulting in six short films, 2000
1st Framework Productions, Between the Lines, project at Jewish Care old people’s home in London, resulting in a slideshow and performance event based on Isaac Bashevis Singer’s short story The Bitter Truth, 1997
Camerawork, East End Fictions based on Jack London’s book, The People of the Abyss, residency at Morpeth Secondary School, resulting in photographic work, psychogeographical tagging, 1998
1A Community Centre, London, Under Exposure, photographic project with refugees in Hampstead Hostel, Coram Centre for homeless women and Bengali women’s group in Holborn, 1996
1A Community Centre, London, running communal darkroom with classes and community-related projects, 1992–1997
Television and Radio
Cambridge Radio 105. Get Heavy, Blazej Mikula, 6th September 2018
Radio Soho, Art Hour, Oreet Ashery and Fatos Ustek, 29thApril 2018
Radio FM4, Krems, Austria, May 5th, 2018
Tamasha TV culture program, BBC Farsi, with David Hodge, July 2018
Radio New Zealand, Oreet Ashery – death in the now, with Simon Morton, January 2018
Resonance FM, Art Monthly, interview between Chris McCormack and Larne Abse Gogarty about Party for Freedom and The World is Flooding, 23 minutes, 10thNovember 2014
CNNTURK News, 16 January 2011
http://video.cnnturk.com/2011/haber/1/16/falafel-israilin-mi-filistinlilerin-mi
TRTTURK Gümüş Hilal, 21 January 2011
http://www.gumushilal.com/arsiv/media/21-ocak-2011-saat1140
Colourful Radio, London, 9 February 2010
Kobra, Sweden, art and culture programme, Israeli Artists Before and After Gaza, April 2009
Safari, Norway, art and culture programme, January 2009
Transfer, Croatia, art programme, 2003 and 2001
Channel 4, Digital Sex, 2000
Awards
Art Council England, Arts Award, How we die is how we live, only more so publication, 2019
John Fell Award, University of Oxford, How we die is how we live, only more so publication, 2019
Jarman Film Award, 2017
Chelsea College of Art & Design, Practitioner in Residence, 2016
Wellcome Trust, Arts award, Revisiting Genesis, July 2015
Art Council England, Grants for the Arts award, Revisiting Genesis, August 2015
Goldsmiths Research & Enterprise Annual Funding Competition, June 2015
Stanley Picker Fine Art Fellowship, 2014
Chichester University, Department of Theatre (Performing Arts), Documenting Intimacy research project
Andy Warhol Foundation, N. Paradoxa artist pages, 2014
RSA Goldsmiths Art, Research Support award, 2013
Art Council England, Party for Freedom, 2013
Kone Foundation, Finland, 2012
AHRC Research Grants, Practice Led and Applied, The im/possibilities of Israeli/Palestinian artistic collaborations investigated through different modes of public engagement, 2010
AHRC Fellowships in the Creative and Performing Arts, Alter egos and fictional characters in performative art practices: configuring enigmatic oriental Jewish narratives, 2007–2010
Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts, Nonel and Vovel, with Larissa Sansour, R&D + production, 2007, 2009
British Council, residency at PiST, Istanbul, to research Shabbtai Zevi and the Dönmeh, 2009
Arts Council Denmark, Grants for the Arts, Nonel and Vovel, with Larissa Sansour, 2008
Iniva, production award for the exhibition Progress Report, 2010
Gl Holtegaard, Denmark, for the exhibition Fall Out, with Larissa Sansour, 2010
British Council, travel award, 2006
Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts, touring exhibitions, 2006
Gasworks/Triangle Arts Trust, Khoj, New Delhi, residency, 2006
Arts Council England, International Fellowship, Khoj, New Delhi, 2006
British Council, Grants for Artists, 2005
Arts Council England, Necessary Journeys, 2005
Arts Council England, Research & Development, 2005
University of Greenwich, Kathy Acker Bursary, 2004
London Arts Board, production award with e-2.org, 2002
Live Art Development Agency, One to One Bursary, 2002
London Arts Board, Research & Development, 2001
Artsadmin, professional development award, 2001
London Arts Board, visual art bursary, 2001
Board Member, Selection Panels, Advisory
Nominator, Film London Touring Program 2018, 2018
Nominator, Deptfort X, 2018
Governing Body Committee, Exeter College, Oxford, 2017
The Women’s Art Library, Goldsmiths,2011-2017
Artsadmin Bursary scheme, Selection Panel, 2014
The Live Art Development Agency Publishing, 2011
East End Collaboration and Fresh Air Festival 2002–2011
Spill Festival, 2011
Home, live art productions, London, 2002–2010
Internet
http://revisitinggenesis.net
www.falafelroad.blogspot.co.uk/
www.artangel.org.uk/projects/2010/staying/
Collections
Norwich Castle Museum, UK
Sundsvall Museum, Sweden
Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía ,Madrid
QiTa Museum, Shanghai
Mario Cader-Frech, Mexico City
EDS Galeria, Mexico City, Elizabeth Díaz Soto
ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
Brooklyn Museum
The London Jewish Museum of Art /Ben Uri Collection
Tate Gallery
Mag Collection, Ferens Art Gallery
Private collections: Laura Godfrey-Isaacs, Thomas Kilpper, Kathy Kenny, Raul Zamudio, Gavin Butt, Dominic Johnson, Stephen Wilson, Margareta Kern