Oreet Ashery
Oreet Ashery is Professor of Contemporary Art, Director of the MFA programme at the Ruskin and Director of Studies in Fine Art at Exeter College.
Oreet Ashery is a visual artist whose practice navigates art institutions and grassroots contexts. The work engages with bodies - human and others, fiction, gender, and technology. Ashery’s practice unfolds through distinct, multiplatform projects, characterised by speculative fiction, collaboration, and humour. The work often occupies utopian, discursive, and incongruous spaces, and takes form across situated performance, video, textiles, image-making, writing, and assemblage. Ashery is currently engaged in the project Edge Detection, working with forward thinking bee farmers to interrogate the spectrums of cross-species interventions.
Ashery was a Turner Bursary recipient in 2020 (replacing the Turner Prize during the pandemic) and won the prestigious Jarman Film Award in 2017 for her web series Revisiting Genesis, which interfaces documentary and fiction while exploring the emergent field of digital death and legacy, care and friendships. In this context, Ashery published the book How We Die Is How We Live Only More So (Mousse Publishing, 2019), which includes new writing by T.J. Demos, Rizvana Bradley, Mason Leaver-Yap, Imani Robinson, George Vasey, and Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz.
Recent film commissions include Selfish Road (KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 2022), a vertiginous journey, seeking belonging between sites of infrastructural nation-building. Dying Under Your Eyes (Wellcome Collection, 2019) is an intimate surveillance grief project documenting the passing of the artist’s father. The film formed part of the long-duration exhibition Misbehaving Bodies: Jo Spence & Oreet Ashery (May 2019–January 2020).
Oreet Ashery (she/they) is available for DPhil supervision.
Email oreet.ashery@rsa.ox.ac.uk
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