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
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
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
2009 London Art Fair, UK
Solo Exhibition 15 October 2009, Black Rat Press, London
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
Collections
Sanlam Art Collection
Graskop Hotel Art Collection
Jack Ginsberg Collection
and other key private collections in the UK, Europe and USA