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ASHA ZERO |
Qualifications
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1994 - 1997
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National Diploma (Fine Art) Technikon Pretoria, now Tshwane University
of Technology (TUT). Majors: Drawing, Printmaking, Photography
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Experience
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1997
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Assistant, Purple and green, curated by Abrie Fourie, Pretoria Art
Museum
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2003
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Assistant, Willem Boshoff`s (B)reachings project, Museum Africa,
Newtown, Johannesburg
Assistant, OUTLET art space/project room, TUT, Pretoria
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Exhibitions
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| 2004 |
Winner in Hawaii,
OUTLET, TUT
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| 2005 |
Pet names in
reverse, 26 A Gallery, New Muckleneuk,
Pretoria
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| 2008 |
say
for me, 34 Long Fine Art, Cape Town, South Africa
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| 2009 |
macro soda text hits,
Solo Exhibition 34 Long Fine Art, Cape Town, South Africa
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| 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
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| 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 |
| Projects |
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| 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 |
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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
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Winner in Hawaii: Part 2
Intervention by Ruth Sacks during Winner in Hawaii ( Outlet, November 2004 )
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| 2006 |
A 5 : social.logical.art – intrigue Issue 1, 2006. Asha Zero graphic
work featured in this publication by LOVE AND HATE
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WHO AM IS Outlet, TUT Arts
Campus Pretoria
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| 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
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| Press |
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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 )
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Lost in the post Asha Zero, A look away magazine Issue 4 First Quarter
2007. Article by Shane De Lange
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| Collections |
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Sanlam Art Collection
Graskop Hotel Art Collection
Jack Ginsberg Collection
and other key private collections in the UK, Europe and USA |
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