Ayshia Müezzin
b. 1986
Ayshia Müezzin a.k.a [ a y s h ] b.1986 is a British-Cypriot Intermedia artist graduated in 2014-2018 with a BA(Hons) in Intermedia Art and continued her studies in 2018-2020 to complete her MFA in Contemporary Art Practice at Edinburgh College of Art. Ayshia was awarded the 2017: SCOTRAIL ART & CULTURE FUND – ScotRail/Foundation Scotland, 2018: UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH/EUSA IMPACT AWARD, 2018: TRAVEL TO ITALY AWARD from The Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust – Awarded to show performance art in Italy during the Venice Architecture Biennale as well as the 2020: CONTEMPORARY ART PRACTICE AWARD. She is also a member of the Society for Scottish Artists and the Artist Collecting Society. Ayshia encompasses the concept of Meta-Archaeology based on her diverse background. She focuses on the forgotten and strange Cypriot bird-faced goddesses which are found in Cyprus, Egypt and the Levant areas and resemble humanoid robots. Her practice spans a multitude of techniques like building performative sculptures, expressive abstract and figurative mixed-media pieces using paint, pastels and pen, digital art, moving image, VR world-building, printmaking, installation, web-based and Livestream/VR/Crypto-performance art and Blockchain NFT culture. Within her pieces Ayshia uses techniques like ‘aesthetic corruption’, glitch, 2D, 3D modelling software, AI and data-bending which interplay with both sides of technology through mixing digital with analogue to create the artefacts of the future through archaeological extension. Ayshia’s works have been shown in Konnektor, Forum für Künste, Hannover, Germany; Zhongjie Museum of Art, Zhongjie, China; Highbrow Institute, Wien, Austria; SUPH Art Space, Bangkok Design Week, Bangkok, Thailand; Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand; ADAF17, Athens; Edinburgh Festival; Venice [Surfaces Festival]; The Festival of Contemporary Art in Athens; Ely Centre for Contemporary Art, USA; Screen-print Biennial, USA; Transcultural Exchange in Boston; Dfbrll8r Gallery at Zhou B Art Centre in Chicago; Taos Centre for the Arts, New Mexico; Hidden Door Festival, Edinburgh; Glasgow International Art Festival; Performance Køkkenet, Copenhagen; Zembla Gallery, Scotland; Noemata/#biennale.no; Bangkok Biennial, Thailand; Galerie XY, Olomouc, Czech Republic; MoWNA Biennial, New York and many virtual exhibitions.
