Career
Ashery received her Bachelor (distinction) in Fine Art from Sheffield Hallam University in 1992, followed by her Master of Arts from Central Saint Martins in 2000. Her work explores ideological, social and gender constructions through an interdisciplinary practice, spanning installation, video, live art and 2-Doctorate image making. Ashery"s earlier work was often produced as a male character of her own creation, exploring gender relationships and those between woman and cultural identity.
Ashery"s most consistent character is Marcus Fisher, an orthodox Jewish man found in works such as Dancing with Men and Marcus Fisher | Say Cheese, but she has produced as other male characters, including an Arab man, a Norwegian postman and a black manitoba
Ashery"s more recent work has been based on Mayakovsky"s 1921 play Mystery-Bouffe. This work confronts social and class biases alongside issues of political power and agency.
Her performance at the Tate Modern The World is Flooding in 2014 was followed by an exhibition Animal with a Language at Waterside Contemporary, both of which saw Ashery work with participants from Freedom from Torture, United Kingdom Lesbian and Gay Immigration Group, Portugal Prints, and others, to explore these themes. Ashery has exhibited and performed at various international venues, such as Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe.
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.
Brooklyn Museum, New New York Overgaden, Copenhagen. DEPO, Istanbul; Whitstable Biennale.
Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Auto Italia South East, London. And Freud Museum, London, producing works that explore her personal politics and identity in relation to wider social and cultural contexts.
2014
Animal with a Language. Waterside Contemporary, London, United Kingdom
2013
Party for Freedom.
Hippolythe, Helsinki, Finland
Party for Freedom.
Overgaden, Copenhagen, Denmark
2012
Monkey Bum Prints Factory. Pristine Gallery, Mexico
Oreet Ashery, with Nicole Ahland. C. Wichtendahl. Galerie, 5th European Month of Photography, Berlin, Germany
2011
Falafel Road, with Larissa Sansour.
DEPO, Istanbul, Turkey
2010
The Beautiful Jew.
Other Gallery, Shanghai, China
Raging Balls. Other Gallery, Beijing, China
The Arches, Glasgow, United Kingdom
2008
Dancing with Men.
Sherwell Centre, Plymouth University, Plymouth, United Kingdom
2007
What You See, Letchworth Art Centre Gallery, Letchworth, United Kingdom
2003
Performance 2003. Foxy Production Gallery, New York, United States
Say Cheese.
Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom
2002
Oreet Ashery.
Foxy Production Gallery, New York, United States
7 Acts of Love. Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
7 Acts of Love. Stil und Bruch, Berlin, Germany
1998
Magnum Opus III, with Daniel Rubinstein.
Jerusalem Artists’ House Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
1996
Magnum Opus II, with Daniel Rubinstein.
68elf Gallery, Cologne, Germany.