Blair Zaye
Blair Zaye is an artist/curator originally from New Zealand with a Bachelor of Visual Arts from Auckland University, New Zealand and a Masters in Fine Art at Chelsea College Of Arts, based in London since 2008. Exhibited extensively all over the world from the UK to the US, Germany, Russia and New Zealand.
As multidisciplinary artist working in painting, video, performance and immersive installation and interactive technologies, Blair’s work attempts to interrogate a wide range of contexts; art history, counter culture, urban art and post-graffiti, technology, consciousness, phenomenology, the transcendental and the nature of realities.
Website – www.blairzaye.com
Email – exhibit@blairzaye.com
Facebook – www.facebook.com/BlairZayeArtist
Instagram – www.instagram.com/blairzaye
YouTube – www.youtube.com/user/BlairZaye
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/blair1
Education:
Chelsea College Of Arts – 2017-2018
Master of Fine Arts
Auckland University – 2003-2005
Bachelor of Visual Arts
Manukau School of Visual Arts – 2002
Certificate of Visual Arts
Short Courses:
LinkedIn Learning – 2020
Learning TouchDesigner
CityLit – 2019
Max/MSP: interactive music performance software
CityLit – 2019
Adobe After Effects: Beginning motion graphics
CityLit – 2018
Adobe After Effects Taster
London Sculpture Workshop – February 2017
Pewter Casting/Lost Wax
Central Saint Martins – February 2017
Drawing Short Course
The ‘At Work’ Jewellery School – November 2016
Lost Wax Casting
Print Club London – 2015
Print Workshop
Residencies:
Berlin Rising, Berlin, Germany, March 2015
Heat Reactive Mural, London, April – September 2014
Speed Of Colour, Long Stories, Perm, Russia, May 2011
North By North Western Festival, Wigan, UK August 2009
Awards:
Square Mile Magazine Art Prize, April, 2014
Street Art Oakland, Eyepril Fools Award, April, 2015
Gallery Representation:
The Underdog Gallery, London, UK – Original paintings
Well Hung Gallery, London, UK – Original drawings and prints
Stopwatch Gallery, London, UK – Prints
Ben Oakley Gallery, London, UK – Prints
Street Prints New Zealand, Mount Maunganui, New Zealand – Prints
Talks:
EVA London 2019, British Computer Society BCS, London, 8 July – 11 July 2019
FLUX Events: FLUX: Social The Library, London, 19 February 2019
FLUX Events: New Social Sculpture, The Library, London, 2 May 2018
Performances:
Fountayne Road Open Warehouse Day Festival 2018, Fountayne Road, London, 18th August 2018
Shapeshifter: Years of Denial, Blackmoon1348, Hi-iD, De-UV, The Depot, London, 9th June 2018
ART IN FLUX: Experiments in Media Arts Now, Ugly Duck, London 3 June 2018
SC&P x Proteus w/ Uncanny Valley, Blackmoon1348, Circuit Breaker, Rye Wax, London, 24 May 2018
IED DK, BlackMoon1348, New River Studios, London, 17 November 2017
Future Exhibitions:
TBC, 2020
Selected Exhibitions:
Hack and Scratch, Newspeak House, London, July 27 2019
Window71, London, 4 April – 14 May 2019
Re-Textured Festival, The Silver Building, London, 30 – 31 March 2019
In Transition- Tinderdust: The Ether, Ugly Duck, London 8 – 9 March 2019
Pixelized, MAFA Gallery, UAL Chelsea College of Arts, London, 31 May 2018
Re: Artist’s – Agents of change, MAFA Gallery, UAL Chelsea College of Arts, London, 3 – 4 May 2018
Embracing the Underdog, Q Park, London 18 February 2018
FRIDGE, The Fridge, London, 12 December 2017
CLASH, Siger Gallery, London, 9 – 20 November 2017
PATH, UAL Chelsea College of Arts, London, 19 October 2017
Division, Ben Oakley Gallery, London, 30 June – 23 July 2017
TEDxTottenham, ADA, London, 25 March 2017
Big Deal No 7, Q Park, London 2 – 10 December 2016
Christmas Show, Well Hung Gallery, London, 24 November – 7 December 2016
Wear Your Art On Your Sleeve Charity Exhibition, Ragyard, London 25 November – 1 December 2016
One Year Underground, BSMT Space, London, 8 October – 22 October 2016
Exposed, Ben Oakley Gallery, London, 11 – 14 August 2016
FRESH Mini, Ben Oakley Gallery, London ,4 -7 August 2016
Yami-Ichi, Tate Modern, London, May 20 – 22 2016
Star Wars “The ARTIST Awakens”, Underdog Gallery, London, 17 December, 2015 – 10 January 2016
FRESH, The Vaults, London, 8 – 13 December 2015
DEATH IN DALSTON, BSMT Space, London, 28 October – 2 November 2015
UNDERHAND , BSMT Space, London, 10 – 25 September 2015
12 x 12, ArtFix, London, 24 – 27 April 2015
Chinese Open – Year Of Sheep, Q Park, London, 23 – 29 February 2015
Phing Thing Charity Exhibition, Ben Oakley Gallery, London, December 2014
Projekt, STS Space, London, 20 November – 1 December 2014
Christmas Show, Well Hung Gallery, London, 12 – 31 December 2014
The Meeting Point, Well Hung Gallery, London, 6 November – 2 December 2014
Self, Museum of New Art, Detroit, USA, 21 September – 21 October 2014
A MASSIVE MINIATURES GROUP SHOW, Ben Oakley Gallery, London, July 31 – August 31 2014
Bespoken , Façade, London, 5 March – 7 March 2014
Open Wall, Façade, London, 26 February – Friday 28 February 2014
Middle Distance, Façade, London, 19 February – Friday 21 February 2014
Out Of The Gutter, Façade, London, 12 February – Friday 14 February 2014
NO FLAKES, Ben Oakley Gallery, London, 13 December 2013 – 31 January 2014
Group Show, Cult Mountain, London, 7 November, 2013 – 4 December 2013
Quanta, Breathing Room, London, 13 October, 2013 – 30 December 2013
Memorabilia Charity Art Exhibition, London, 6-14 July 2013
CONTENTIOUS, London, 15 – 17 March 2013
TEN, Cultivate Gallery, London, 14 – 20 February 2013
BACK IN BLACK, Cultivate Gallery, London, 31 January – 12 February 2013
MUSIKA, Breathing Room, London, 13 October 2012
BOX, Breathing Room, London, 9 June 2012
Rips, Splits, Tears And Drips, Breathing Room, London, 21 April 2012
WOMB, Drop Collective, INSIDE, Blank Space, Manchester, 30 March – 29 April 2012
Urban Curations, Netil House, London, 3 December 2011 – 3 January 2012
Affordable Art Fair, Gallery Violet, London 27 – 30 October 2011
ANIMA MUNDI, London 10 – 11 October 2011
Microscopic Culture, Iowa, USA, September 2011
Silhouette Community Project, Fountayne Head, London, August 2011
Terrace 6th Annual, London, 27 of August 2011
Free Install, Breathing Room, London, 23 June 2011
Light Bite, Light Night 2011, Nottingham, 18 February 2011
Rhizomatic, Departure Gallery, London, 1 October – 12 November 2010
Cross My Art, Art And Escape Gallery, London, 30 September – 14 October 2010
Take Away, The Outside World Gallery, London,13-15 August 2010
Interrobang, The Book Club, London, 19 July 2010
Drips, Splits, Tears and Rips, Greenwich Picture House, London, 1 May – 30 June 2010
100Sqft 2, Chomley Boys Club, London, 28 February-6 March 2010
MIRROR/WINDOW at LOUIS V. E.S.P, Brooklyn, New York, USA, 28 January 2010
Tate the Biscuit, Shoreditch Townhall Basement, London, 3-6 December 2009
100Sqft , Chomley Boys Club, London, 22-28 November 2010
Identicons, LCC, London, 2-6 November 2009
Impossible Exchange at Frieze Art Fair, London,15 – 18 October 2009
Private View, Black Lab Manchester, 4 October – 1 November 2009
Showcase at Café 1001, London, 30 September 2009
TimeTimeTime at Terrace Studios, London, 5 September 2009
Noise of Art at East End Arts Club, London, September 3 – 20 2009
The Contemporary 5 at Red Gate Gallery, London, 14 – 27 August 2009
North By North Western Festival, Wigan, 1 – 8 August 2009
Going Under Ground at Village Underground, London, 31 of July 2009
Press and Publications:
Awe, Wonderment and the Ominous: The Crossroad of Art, Science, Technology and the Spiritual. – Eva London 2019
https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=8710f55a-4b0b-455a-8a11-41296fdbed36
Emergent Art Space, January 2019
https://emergentartspace.org/forum/51239/
Smiles 4 Miles Colouring Books, September 2016
http://smiles4milesbooks.wixsite.com/refugeeaid
ARTICULATE Magazine #7, April 2016
https://issuu.com/articulatecontemporarycandy/docs/_7
Yack Magazine, September 2014
http://yackmagazine.com/2014/09/19/fine-art-friday-jenna-jardine-and-the-heat-reactive-mural/
Harringay Online, September 2014
Square Mile Magazine, April 2014
http://www.squaremile.com/magazine/
Shoreditch walls hosed with colour, Shoreditch Street Art Tours Blog, October 2015
shoreditchstreetarttours.co.uk
New Street Art, Febuary 2013
http://www.amazon.co.uk/New-Street-Art-Claude-Crommelin/dp/1908126515/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1352484390&sr=8-1
The Gentlemans Club, March 2011
http://thegentlemensclub.co/o-v-e-r-g-r-o-u-n-d/
Silent City, March 2011
Openned Zine, Issue#3, September 2010
http://opennedpoetry.squarespace.com/epubs/2010/9/4/openned-zine-3.html
EyeLust Magazine, Issue#3, April 2010
Susan Magzine, Issue#1, March 2010
Identicons Magazine, November 2009
LSD (London Street-Art Design) Magazine, Issue#2, September 2009
http://www.londonstreetartdesign.com/
InLondon Magazine, July 2009
Press and Publications(with Drop Collective):
Arhitext Magazine, issue 239, June 2015
http://www.arhitext.com/
Creative Times, April 2012
http://www.creativetimes.co.uk/articles/we-like-inside-blank-media-collective
Creative Tourist, April 2012
http://www.creativetourist.com/news-culture/news-and-blog/event-radar-april-2012
Cultural Shenanigans, April 2012
http://www.culturalshenanigans.co.uk/2012/04/29/inside-at-blankspace/
Manchesters Finest, April, 2012
http://www.manchestersfinest.com/arts/inside-exhibition-at-blank-space/
Mancky, March, 2012
http://www.mancky.co.uk/?p=7548
Tendenzroman, March, 2012
http://tendenzroman.tumblr.com/post/20172828489/inside-exhibition