Ari Zed

Ari Zed is a contemporary painter working with figuration and abstraction. His paintings reference art history, especially romanticism and symbolism, along with allegorical paintings since the 16th century. Allegory has a connection to myth making, and Zed uses this as a device to squeeze out conceptual underpinnings from figurative compositions

2021 Honours, Fine Art, VCA

2017 Bachelor Fine Art Painting, VCA

2014 Advanced Diploma of Visual Art at RMIT Carlton

2010 Bachelor Fine Art RMIT (Drawing)

Individual Shows
2024 ODD I SEE, Earlywork Gallery, South Fremantle WA

2021 There Is No Spoon, Polaris Gallery, South Yarra

2018 THE MACFARLANE FUND 2018, Stockroom Gallery, Kyneton

2017 Romantic Site, Seventh Gallery

2017 Walpurgis Nebula, Red Gallery

2017 Ice Cream Apocalypse, Little drop of Poison

2017 Everything merges with the night, piccolo Meccanico

2015 Peripheral Luminosity, Balkon Art Incubator

2015 February Studio Residency. 2015 First Site Gallery

2014 The Singularity, ArtLand in the Fringe Festival

2014 Allegory Of Space, First Site gallery

2014 Scroll, White Night

2013 Fabricate, ArtLand, and Fringe Festival

2013 Lava flow, Gertrude St projection festival

2010 Pop-up exhibition, DuckMan Gallery, Gunma Prefecture, Japan.

Group Shows
2023 Bone and Boundary, Earlyworks Gallery, South Fremantle, WA

2021 Every Artist Ever, Stockroom Gallery, Kyneton, VIC

2017 became; becoming; becomes, Gertrude Contemporary, VIC

2016 Winter 1706, abandoned building art show, VIC

2016 Worlding, exhibited and curated, VCA Art Space, VIC

2016 Dragonfly, House of Bricks, VIC

2016 Proud, Margret Laurence, VIC

2015 Two Fields of Thought, VCA Art Space, VIC

2015 Cosmic Inter-planetary Trans-existent Observation Tunnel Compl...