Aphra Shemza

Exhibitions:

Exhibitions:

2017
Illusions, Menier Gallery, London, UK
It’s Art Call 2017, D Contemporary, London, UK
Xi’an Maker Faire, Xi’an, China (with support from the British Council and Maker Faire Xi’an)
EVA, British Computer Society, London, UK
Love Scenes, Lights of Soho, London, UK
The Engine Room: International Sound Art Exhibition, Morley College Gallery, London, UK
Illuminating Geometry, Gallery 286, London, UK
The Other Art Fair, Victoria House, London UK
Light Bites, Off Quay, London UK
Winter Lights, Canary Wharf, London, UK

2016
Seeing the Unseen, Four Corners Gallery, London, UK
Cannes Film Festival, premier of Neon Demon with Lights of Soho, Cannes, France
Lights of Soho at The Other Art Fair, London, UK
Chroma Red Edition, Safehouse 1, London, UK
Zealous X, Rich Mix, London, UK

2015
Gravity, Kinetica Museum at the Hospital Club, London, UK
Signs that Say What You Want Them to Say, Lights of Soho, London, UK
Art of Burning Man, Lights of Soho, London, UK
City Lights, Lights of Soho, London, UK
PHI, Squat the Sun, London, UK

2014
Cosmophilia, Print House, London, UK

2013
‘The Doors of Perception: The Thin Veil, Kinetica Art Fair 2013: Kinetica Museum, Feature Show, London, UK
Transition, Red Gallery, London, UK

2012
Kinetica Auction Exhibition, Mother, London, UK
RAW MMXII: Art and Design Degree Show 2012, The Truman Brewery, London, UK
The Final Broadcast, The Russet Gallery, London, UK

2011
The Laws of Nature, Subway Gallery, London, UK
New Matter, Red Gate Gallery, London, UK

2007
NADFAS exhibition, Thebes Gallery, Lewes, UK

Public Commissions:

2017
Post Truth and Beauty, in collaboration with Tim Murray-Browne, commissioned on the occasion of The Engine Room: International Sound Art Exhibition, Morley College, London, UK.

2016
Heart Beats of Cristal, Louis Roederer, Shangri’La Hotel, The Shard, London, UK
Composition XV, Canary Wharf Group, Level 39, One Canada Square, London, UK

Awards:

2017
Finalist for the Artists’ Pool Illusions open call
Finalist in the Its Art Call 2017 open call

2016
Shortlisted for the Blooom Award by Warsteiner
Finalist in the Zealous X Competition
Finalist in the Chroma Red Edition open Call

2015
Finalist in the Lights of Soho ‘Signs that Say What you Want Them to Say’ open call

2009
Student of the year at Chesterfield College
2007
Shortlisted for the NADFAS award

Artist Talks

2017
Artist Talk, ARUP, London, UK, 27th July
Artist Talk, Anwar Jalal Shemza and I, Courtuald Institute, London, UK, 20th July
Talk, Public Interactive Art: Environmental Challenges, EVA Research Workshop, British Computer Society, 11th July
Artist Panel, Zealous X Meetup, Waterstones, London, UK, 1st June
Artist Talk and Host, Public Media Art, FLUX event, Lights of Soho, London, UK, 31st May
Artist Talk, WITCiH Salon, The Bargehouse, London, UK, 10th May
Artist Talk, Illuminating Geometry, Be Smart About Art, Gallery 286, London, UK, 28th April

2016
Artist Talk and Host, Light, FLUX event, Lights of Soho, London, UK, 21st November
Panel Discussion, Anwar Shemza, Tate Modern, London, UK, 11th March

2015
Artist Talk, ‘Graduates in Art’ talk with Aphra Shemza and Sarah Barnes, No-one Artist, Lights of Soho, London, UK, 13th July


Academic Papers

Shemza, A., ‘Public Interactive Art: Environmental Challenges,’ in P.Bowen, J, Diprose, G & Lambert, N (eds), EVA London 2017, British Computer Society, London, 2017, pp. 91-93. (Link)


Publications:

2015
Published in Tate Etc Magazine, Autumn Edition
Composition XI, featured in GQ Magazine, October edition
Composition X featured in Time Out, October edition