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ASHA ZERO
 
Qualifications

1994 - 1997

National Diploma (Fine Art) Technikon Pretoria, now Tshwane University of Technology (TUT). Majors: Drawing, Printmaking, Photography
 
Experience

1997

Assistant, Purple and green, curated by Abrie Fourie, Pretoria Art Museum
  

2003

Assistant, Willem Boshoff`s (B)reachings project, Museum Africa, Newtown, Johannesburg 
Assistant, OUTLET art space/project room, TUT, Pretoria
  
Solo Exhibitions
2004 Winner in Hawaii, OUTLET, TUT 
 
2005 Pet names in reverse, 26 A Gallery,  New Muckleneuk, Pretoria
 
2008 say for me, 34 Long Fine Art,  Cape Town, South Africa
 
2009 macro soda text hits, Solo Exhibition 34 Long Fine Art,  Cape Town, South Africa
 


Scheduled  

2011 micro cluster picnic,  Solo Exhibition 34FineArt, Cape Town in collaboration with Rooke Gallery, Johannesburg

micro cluster picnic, 
Solo Exhibition Rooke Gallery, Johannesburg in collaboration with 34FineArt, Cape Town
 
2012 Solo Exhibition : Pertwee, Anderson & Gold
15 Bateman Street
London, W1D 3AQ
UK  -  8 November 2012

 

Group Exhibitions
2004 Far and wide,curated by Gordon Froud, Absa Towers, Johannesburg
 
2005 The specialist included in top 100, Ekhuruleni Metropolitan Council Arts Award, Kempton Park

Venture into the tinfoil shadow, body of work included on  Resonance,show, VOIR Gallery, Brooklyn, Pretoria

OUTLET at Aardklop, curated by Abrie Fourie includes The Imposter, Dot Matrix and the blanket thief, and 6-piece sets of Roadkillvisiontoiletries booklets,Snowflake Building, Potchefsroom
 

2006 Beeldspraak, project curated by Gordon Froud and Chris Diedericks includes The imposter, University of Johannesburg 

New Suburbia, curated by Love and Hate, includes Insolvent, Platform on 18th, Rietondale, Pretoria

Asha Zero + Shane de Lange,The A Gallery, Graskop Hotel, Graskop

SA arts emerging group show,The Bag Factory, Johannesburg

The inevitable, curated by Love and Hate includes November Special, Moja Modern, Parktown, Johannesburg

The collage show, curated by Michael Taylor,Whatiftheworld, 
Woodstock, Cape Town 
 

2007 Twogether , 34LONG FINE ART, Long Street, Cape Town

INGOZI DISCO, collaboration with Shane de Lange, CAPE 07 fringe. VEGA, Greenpoint, Cape Town www.ingozidisco.co.za

FACE, 34 LONG FINE ART, Cape Town

REVEAL, 34 LONG FINE ART, Cape Town

AWAY, MAP ZAR, Richmond, Northern Cape
 

2008 REAL IS ME 08, Art fair, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Face 08
, 34 LONG FINE ART, Cape Town
 
Scope Art Fair, London
 
White Noise, Black Rat Press, London
 
FOUR, 34 LONG FINE ART, Cape Town 

URBAN ART, Bonhams, London 
 
2009 London Art Fair, UK
 
Decade: Highlights from 10 years of Collecting for the Sanlam Art Collection, Cape Town, Bloemfontein, Port Elizabeth, George, Durban
 
Dada South?, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
 
Group 09, 34 LONG FINE ART, Cape Town
 
2010 COOLSTUFF, 34FineArt, Cape Town, South Africa

NEW, 34FineArt, Cape Town, South Africa
 
2011 THEN : NOW,  34FineArt, Cape Town, South Africa

SALON / locale, Bertram House,  Cape Town

Modern Art Projects (MAP), University of Johannesburg Art Gallery
 
ARTMONACO'11, Salon d'Art Contemporian | Côte d'Azur 
30 March - 3 April

ADDICTION, a collaboration - Open Books exhibition, iART Gallery/BLANK Projects, Cape Town

ENSEMBLE, 34FineArt, Cape Town

Joburg ArtFair, 
Rooke Gallery, Johannesburg


Projects
Ongoing since 1998   Roadkillvisiontoiletries, company/blanket operation by characters Asha Zero, Whatsnibble, Broop Nook and Zandu Flinker trading as mobilediscoetcetera producing art works, projects, t-shirts, sticker campaigns, booklets
 
2000 - 2002 Cybervaseline, self published punk style zine curated by Sjaka Septembir, 16 editions of 300
 
2004 You can't play mas and fraid powder, collaboration between Roadkillvisiontoiletries and Marlon Griffith (from Trinidad), the 
Bag Factory, Fordsburg, Johannesburg 
 

CAMP ZERO : the great indoors 19 June 2004 Camp out in OUTLET project room TUT arts campus, Pretoria . Overnight event : Graffiti by LOVE AND HATE, Classic films on show, exhibition of participating artist's work
 

Winner in Hawaii: Part 2 Intervention by Ruth Sacks during Winner in Hawaii ( Outlet, November 2004 )
 
2006 A 5 : social.logical.art – intrigue Issue 1, 2006. Asha Zero graphic work featured in this publication by LOVE AND HATE
 

WHO AM IS Outlet, TUT Arts Campus Pretoria
 
2007 Mini Decoy, Blank projects, Bo-Kaap, Cape Town
The Walls curated by Love and Hate, includes Ingozi Disco printed canvas, Canned Applause records, Melville, Johannesburg
 
Press

Zero defies definition: artist plays with issues of identity and reality Pretoria News, 26 October 2004 ( Winner in Hawaii )

Three artists and some heat Pretoria News, 24 November 2005 
( Venture into the tinfoil shadow )

Die drie skilder met die moed van hul oortuiging Beeld, 29 November 2005 ( Resonance )

Die wêreld deur die oë van Asha Zero Beeld , Beeldspraak insert in Plus section of Beeld Newspaper. 14 February 2006. Asha Zero selected as the 51 st artist in Beeldspraak project .

Bubbling Under : Up – and – coming South African artists Profiles on ten established and emerging artists. Asha Zero Page 21, Contempo Magazine, Edition 1, April / May 2006 (www.contempo.co.za )

MAP ZAR booklet - Asha Zero, ( mapzar@mweb.co.za ) 2006

Feature: Asha Zero : www.saartsemerging.org, 2006

Small can be smart Cape Times, 23 November 2006 ( The collage show )

Lost in the post Asha Zero, A look away magazine Issue 4 First Quarter 2007. Article by Shane De Lange

Say for me, Exhibition Catalogue
ISBN 978-0-620-40475-4
2008, 34 LONG FINE ART, Cape Town

macro soda text hits, Exhibition Catalogue
ISBN 978-0-620-44699-0
2009, 34 LONG FINE ART, Cape Town

Graphic manifesto by Asha Zero :  A Look Away, Issue 14 Quarter 1 2010

Micro Cluster Picnic, Exhibition Catalogue text by Shane de Lange
2011, Rooke Gallery, Johannesburg
 

Collections

Sanlam Art Collection 
Graskop Hotel Art Collection
Jack Ginsberg Collection
and other key private collections in the UK, Europe and USA