Ayshia Muezzin

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.

2023// “The Great Sublime”, Fox Yard Studio, Suffolk, UK “Lighting”, TAPIIAL Virtual, Online “The Terrible Power of MRU”, The Vega Collective, Online “Homelike”, Residency, Kyrenia, Cyprus “States Of The Metaverse“, Searclight NFT, CryptoVoxels “projektado“, Projektado Collective, Online “Open Space Vol.2”, SUPH Art Space, Bangkok Design Week, Bangkok, Thailand “Seven Deadly Sins”, Accrete Art Collective, Indiana, USA “Avatar.gif”, :iidrr x RaidenINST, New York, USA “Community Collection”, MOCA, Virtual “The Future is Now“, Open Door Gallery, New York, USA 2022// “The People’s Art Fair”, PRSC, Bristol, UK “Betwixt and Between”, Project Gallery V, Virtual/New York, USA “nocturns”, Fullscreen Blackbox, Virtual “Tezos Exhibition“, MOWNA & OBJKT.com, New York, USA “Fem Garage”, Highbrow Institute, Garage Grande, Wien, Austria “Geometry & Colour“, Ubique Art, Virtual “Eine Feministische Intervention”, Galerie Asterisk*, Berlin, Germany “ALIM: A Sense of Movement”, Gallery Different, NBA, London, UK “Scope Showcase”, Scope Renfrewshire, Paisley, UK “5th Open”, Art Show International Gallery, Los Angeles, USA “Holes In The Wall”, Residency, New York, USA/Virtual “The Future Is Decentralized”, The Next Museum, Berlin, Germany “STRATOSPHERE”, Spatial/Sabet, NFT NYC 2022, New York, USA “Metaverse Biennale”, Biennale.io, Virtual, UK “r/place”, Reddit, Social Media, International “NFT Festival”, connect.club, Virtual, London/Cyprus “The MOWNA Show”, Museum of Wild and New-fangled Art, New York, USA “CTRL+”, Zhongjie Museum of Art, Zhongjie, China 2021// “Rombak”, MMU, Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, Malaysia “Plug-In”, Arebyte Gallery, AoS, London, UK “Crypto Socialites”, Whitehot Magazine, Cryptovoxels, New York, USA “Orbiting The Glitch”, New Art City + Glitch[dot]Cool, Virtual, Metaverse + Canal180 “Art In Motion“, AIM-NYC , OpenSea & Plug-Talk Media, Penn Station, Manhattan, New York, USA “e/den+“, The Wrong Biennale, Metaverse “Open Screen”, Taos Centre for the Arts, New Mexico “International İKÇÜ ART FESTIVAL“, IKCU Art Gallery, Izmir, Turkey

MFA Contemporary Art Practice, Edinburgh College of Art, 2018-2020 BA (Hons) Intermedia Art, Edinburgh College of Art, 2014-2018