Oreet Ashery (UK)

Oreet Ashery is an interdisciplinary artist whose projects include performances, video, sound, photography and writing. She has be-come an important figure of the british live art scene. In her work, the artist uses her own body, linking it to cultural and social taboos. Oreet Ashery was born in Jerusalem 1966. She lives and works in London. Education: 1989-1992 BA Hon’s Fine Art Sheffield Hallam University; 1998-2000 MA Fine Art, Central St Martins, London. She had numerous solo and group exhibitions and performances in the USA, Poland, Israel, Slovenia, Canada, Great Britain… Her work has been included in the Tate Britain collection and featured in Edward Lucie Smith’s Art Tomorrow.