Oreet Ashery is an artist working with bio and political-fiction, gender materiality and potential communities, in local and internationals contexts. Oreet’s practice involves distinct multiplatform projects, spanning live situations and performances, moving image, photography, workshops, writing and assemblages. The work turns to areas such as music, costume, research and activism. Oreet’s current work is an artist web-series titled Revisiting Genesis reflects on digital afterlife industry and legacy, withdrawal, friendships and feminist art reincarnations.
Oreet’s recent works have included solo exhibitions at Stanley Picker Gallery 2016, Tyneside Cinema 2016, Thessaloniki Biennale, 2017, The World is Flooding, A Tate Modern Turbine Hall performance project 2014, and Party for Freedom, an Artangel commission 2013. Ashery is a Visiting Professor at the Royal College of Art Painting Department, a Fine Art Fellow at the Stanley Picker Gallery and a Practitioner in Residence at Chelsea College of Art, Fine Art. Ashery’s work has been published in many languages in art, cultural and academic publications, her work is in public and private collections.