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Represented by Foxy Production Gallery, NYC
Lives and works in London

Education

• 1998 – 2000 MA Fine Art, Central St Martins, London. (Practice: A Thesis: B+)
• 1989 – 1992 BA Hon’s Fine Art 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 – group show on the Middle East at Tate Modern and Contemporary Art Forum May – June 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 Sep.2006
• Paranoia – group show at Leeds City Arts Gallery, and Focal Point 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.uk 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, Art Monthly, Contemporary, Circa, Art Tomorrow (book), Art in the Age of Terrorism, ( 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

• Arts Council England – Grants for the Arts, Touring, 2006
• 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, Surry 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

Updated Mar 4, 11:48 am

Biography - interdisciplinary practice

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Oreet Ashery is a London based, context- responsive visual artist working across mediums in interactive live art events, video, 2-D image making, objects, text and the Internet.
Her work tends to take the form of an interdisciplinary site -specific event or an installation with audiences as participants. These can be intimate occasions for audiences of one at a time, or large -scale events with audiences of up to 500 people; they can last for an hour or weeks.

Gallery based work includes prints, objects and videos.
Oreet is interested in the conceptual and process based side of art practice and hence research and every day life are an integral part of her work. The practice looks at personal politics and its complex relationship to social realities, at identity and cultural politics, and at the nature of an art practice. Oreet has an ongoing interest in the intersections between Jewishness, race, gender and the Arab and Muslim world.

Ashery’s work tends to be complex and relational, but at the same time humorous and accessible to a wide variety of audiences and communities.

Frequently Ashery will produce work as a character. Her characters include a rabbit, a black man, a Norwegian postman, a fat farmer and an Arab man, among others. Marcus Fisher, an orthodox Jewish man is Ashery’s most consistent character, for information about Marcus Fisher’s interventions, interactions, videos, and stills, go to 7actsoflove. The interactive Internet project was commissioned by e-2.org launched as a large-scale interactive event at the Great Eastern Hotel 2004.

Ashery is currently engaged with the on-going project Welcome Home , an umbrella term for various investigations into the notion of (non)Returning and disappearance from political, psychological, and domestic perspectives. During 2006 WH focused on the Palestinian Right to Return.
Ashery’s work has been shown extensively internationally and in the UK in a variety of contexts including museums, cinemas, festivals, galleries, the streets, the internet, and site specific locations. Please see CV

Ashery’s work has been reviewed in various publications including book chapters, academic writings, art and cultural journals, catalogues and reviews, attitude and life style magazines. Please see library

Oreet has been working as an art educationalist since 1992 with a strong commitment to work with specific communities including; young people excluded from schools, offenders and ex-offenders, children refugees, people over 80, homeless women, Bengali women’s group, adults with learning difficulties. Please see educational section

Oreet is currently employed by Central Saint Martin School of Art & Design in the Widening Participation scheme, supporting young people from diverse backgrounds to enter the BA course in Fine Art.

Oreet also works as a mentor in the area of performance art and as a visiting lecturer at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design, Farnham.

Updated Jan 12, 12:43 pm