Ari Ralph

Community and Work Experience

2022 - current
Freelance as an archival strategist at WORM Pirate Bay

2022
Internship at WORM and WORM Pirate Bay

2021
Willem de Kooning Academy
Self-started a contracted job that aims to aid in WdKA student homelessness.

2020
Willem de Kooning Academy
Asked by Mariana Fernandes (Fine Art tutor) to teach three classes for Fine Art first year, focusing on the subject of critical dialogue.

2020
WdKASUX
Co-founded the WdKA Student Union X. This is an organisation that focuses on intersectional understanding and activism, a space by and for students. Since starting, we now have 50 members on our WhatsApp group.

2018-2019
SWEAT
Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce
Here I was an intern where I mostly updated the organisation's online presence and wrote and edited pieces for their website.

2018
Permaculture course on cooperative living in South Africa. Here I engaged in a week-long course that dissected the intersections between permaculture, community sustainability, and living in the Global South.

2017
Student Council member at Cedar House High School. While being a student council member, I and a group of other students started a tutorial programme for underfunded schools within our district. We held weekly tutorials for two years at Silverlea Primary School in Cape Town.

Education

2023
BA and Honours in Fine Art at the Willem de Kooning Academy

2017
Graduated from Cedar House School

Exhibitions and Publications

September 2023
A Call for Care
Buitenplaats Brienenoord

July 2023
WdKA Graduation Show
Drempelprijs nomenee

May 2023
Meddling Species
Queer art and performance expo at Poolstraat 6, Den Haag

November 2021
Four poems published in the Queer and Feminist Poetry Anthology
Published by Unwanted Words

November 2021
Dear Shapes and Spaces performance
Performed at WORM