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Born
in Dublin, Ireland. Studied at University College Dublin, graduating with a B.Soc.Sc and an M.A in Urban Planning. He later studied Photography
and Media Communications on a Fulbright Award at New York University and the International Center Of Photography, New York, graduating with an M.F.A. His work is exhibited and published in the United States
and Europe and is represented in a number of leading international public and private
collections. He lectured on new media and photography at the School of Communications, Dublin City University and currently collaborates on graduate new media degree programmes in the USA.
Recent museum, archive and art/science projects include imaging, text, and video collaborations with: American Museum of Natural History, New York; Mütter Museum & College of Physicians of Philadelphia; La Specola Museum, Florence, Italy; University of Florence Museum of Pathological Anatomy, Caregi Hospital, Florence, Italy; Hubrecht Laboratory, Netherlands; Tornblad Institute, Sweden; National Museum of Ireland (Natural History); Museum fur Naturkunde, Berlin; Science Gallery Dublin (TCD) and the Comune di Napoli, Italy.
His practice is primarily concerned with the politics and hidden narratives implicit in science, medical, religious and natural history archives, museums and shrines. To this end, his projects address the binaries pertaining to nature/culture, living/dead, beautiful/grotesque, desire/disgust, subject/object and human/nonhuman.
Solo exhibitions and publications include: Photo Graphic Constructs, Travels in Amira, Grid Works, Still Life, Future Nature, Vial Memory, Stuffed Histories, Dignified Kings Play Chess On Fine Green Silk and Charnel House Tales. He is currently completing a major documentary and archive project, Favours From Beyond (Per Grazia Ricevuta), on the material culture of vernacular religious cult praxes in Naples, Italy.
The artist lives and works in Dublin, West Cork and New York.
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ARTIST'S MONOGRAPH
Karl Grimes - Dignified Kings Play Chess On Fine Green Silk.
Texts by Martin Kemp, Stephanie McBride, David Norris, Nigel Monaghan.
National Museum of Ireland/Gallery of Photography Ireland.
ISBN 978-0-9552388-3-3
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 ISEA 2011 Istanbul. The 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art
2011 Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden & ANCO Amsterdam, Netherlands (touring)
2010 Taxum Totem. National Museum, Collins Barracks, Dublin, Ireland
2007 National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland (tour 2008-2009)
2007 Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland (touring)
2006 Mütter Museum, Philadelphia. U.S.A.
2003
Nikolai Fine Art, New York, NY
2002 5th @ Guinness Storehouse, Ireland
2000 Nikolai Fine Art, New York, NY (toured)
1999 Limelight, New York, NY. Projections
1998 Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland
1997 Maclaurin Gallery, Scotland. Fotofeis 1997
1995 Washington Square East Gallery, New York University
1995 Rackham Gallery, University of Michigan
1994 Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Gallery of Photography, Dublin. (toured)
1992 Birmingham Billboard Project. U.K
1991 Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland.(toured)
1990 Le Chanjour Gallery, Nice, France. (toured)
2000 - 2024: Images and Writing: Condé Nast Publications, Environmental Campaigns, Queer Ecology, Animal Rights Campaigns, AIDS Memorial International Exhibitions. |
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SELECTED
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 RHA Annual Exhibition 2024, Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Dublin, Ireland. May-August 2024
2023 Selected Works:National Photography Collection. Glór, Ennis, Ireland. March 2023-April 2023
2022 Selected Works:National Photography Collection. Draíocht, Dublin, Ireland. November 2022-January 2023
2022 National Photography Collection. Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland. January 2022-March 2022
2017 WUNDERCAMERA. Telfair Museum of Art. Savannah, Georgia. USA. February 2017-March 2017
2014 MATERIAL WORLD. Loftoo Art Space. Shanghai. China. March 2014-April 2014
2014 WUNDERCAMERA. The Holden Gallery. Manchester. UK. March 2013-May 2014
2013 WUNDERCAMERA. PM Gallery and House. London. UK. November 2013-January 2014
2013 IRISH WAVE 2013. Festival of Visual Art. Beijing & Shanghai, China. March-April 2013
2013 'Legacy'. Fine Art College of Shanghai University. China. March-April 2013
2013 'A Tale of Two Cities'. Nouart Gallery. Bejing, China. March-April 2013
2013 'Baby, Baby'. Irish Centre Shanghai. Shanghai, China. March-April 2013
2011 '30 Skies at the Cross with Babe'. DUMBO Collective. Brooklyn, New York
2010 'Shop if You Can Look If You Want'. St Patrick's Festival. Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland
2009 INFECTIOUS - Stay Away. Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2009 Irish Contemporary Drawing. The 411 Galleries. Shanghai, China
2008 Nature Fragile. Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris
2008 30 Contemporary Collection. Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland
2007 Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2007 Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin, Ireland
2006 ICP New York, 20 Years In. NYU/ICP. USA
2006
University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico
2005 Harvard University, Boston, USA
2004 Rijnstate Hospital, Arnhem, Netherlands.
2004 Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
2003 The Nature Museum, Chicago. USA
2003 New York Hall of Science, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2003 Scope New York, Chelsea, New York, NY, USA
2002 R.I.T, New York. Images From Science, USA
2002 Nikolai Fine Art. NY. Retrospective 2002, USA
2000
Hudson River Museum, New York, NY
2000
San Francisco Art Fair/Nikolai Fine Art, USA
2000
Miami Art Fair/Nikolai Fine Art, USA
1999 Rare Gallery, New York. Photo Synthesis, USA
1999
Contemporary Art: Arts Council works, Ireland
1999 Nikolai Fine Art. Art & Artifice, New York, USA
1998 New York Photography Fair/Nikolai Fine Art, New York, USA
1998
EV+A. Limerick, St Mary's Cathedral, Ireland
1998
Art Exchange, Wall Street, New York, USA
1996 Pulse Art, New York, NY, USA
1995 Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1990 Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris. Prix Air France/Ville de Paris. France
1988 Dublin Time Capsule. Dublin Civic Museum. Ireland. May 1988
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SELECTED
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2020 Royal Irish Academy. R.M.Barrington, Ornithologist. Dictionary of Irish Biography, April 14 - online.
2014 Woodward, Daisy. 'Wundercamera' AnOther (UK) January 08 - online.
2013 Petry, Michael. 'Wundercamera' Huffington Post (UK) November 22 - online.
2013 Gosling, Emily. 'Wundercamera' Design Week (UK) November 15 - online.
2013 'Wundercamera' Wall Street International Magazine (UK Arts) November 29 - online.
2011 ISEA 2011. Proceedings - International Symposium on Electronic Art. Istanbul, Turkey.pp.15-18.
2011 Grimes, Karl. People, Places, Stories. Conference - 'Killed Striking'. Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden.
2011 Super Massive Black Hole. 'Death and Ritual: Still Life Series'. Issue 6. 2011. ISSN 2009-2288.
2009 Mc Carthy, Gerry. 'Science that's not to be sneezed at'. The Sunday Times, May 17, Culture, pp.22-23.
2009 Wallace, Marina & Kaniari, Assimina (eds). 'Acts of Seeing'. Artakt & Zidane Press, 2009, pp.106-107.
2009 Dunne, Aidan. 'Where the odds are stacked in favour of contagion'. Irish Times, May 4, Arts, p.14.
2009 Byrne, Ciaran. 'Don't shake hands, it would be safer just to kiss'. Irish Independent, April 16, p.13.
2008 Anker, Susan (ed). 'Visual Culture & Bioscience'. National Academy of Sciences, Washington, pp.86-89.
2008 Grimes, Karl. 'Embryonic Entities as Codes' Visual Culture and Bioscience. National Academy of Sciences. USA
2008 Mulvihill, Mary. 'Left Brain, Right Brain - Dignified Kings'. RTÉ Lyric FM. 30 minutes. No 1/series.
2008 N. Giffney & M.J. Hird (eds) Queering the Non/Human. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2008. Cover & pp.1-4.
2008 d’Anthenaise, Claude & Mauriès, Patrick. Nature Fragile, Le Cabinet Deyrolle. Beaux Arts Editions.
2007 Boland, Rosita. 'Life in the Dead Zoo', Irish Times, October 4, Feature, p.14.
2007 Murphy, Sherra. 'Dignified Kings Play Chess On Fine Green Silk', Circa, Winter 2007, p.103-105.
2007 Graham, Colin. ' Archival Mania', Source, 52 - Winter 2007. p.66-67.
2007 Gorman, Sophie. 'Creatures of the Dead Zoo', Irish Independent, October 13, Review p.22.
2007 McBride, Stephanie. 'Dignified Kings Play Chess On Fine Green Silk'. Exhibition Catalogue Essay.
2007 'Karl Grimes - Dignified Kings Play Chess On Fine Green Silk'. National Museum of Ireland. ISBN 978-0-9552388-3-3
2006 The Leonardo Electronic Almanac. ‘Wild Nature and the Digital Life’. LEA (Vol 14-No 8).
2006 Close Encounters. SLSA Biannual International. 'Vial Memory and the Scientific Archive’. University of Amsterdam.
2003 Lalor, Brian (ed). 'The Encyclopaedia of Ireland'. Gill & Macmillian. ISBN 0-7171-3000-2. p.461.
2003 Baker, Steve. 'Animality: Cultural Constructions of the Animal'. Catalogue. Blue Oyster Gallery, NZ.
2002 The View. RTÉ One. Panel review of 'Future Nature' at 5th Gallery, Guinness Storehouse, Dublin.
2002 Dunne, Aidan. 'Future Nature: Karl Grimes'. The Irish Times. February 6.
2002 Armstrong, Rachel. 'Future Nature'. Review. GCN (Gay Community News). March 2002. Issue 149.
2002 Rochester Institute of Technology. 'Images From Science'. Cary Graphics Arts Press.
2002 Future Nature: Selected Press. Sunday Times, Sunday Business Post, InDublin, The Dubliner.
2002 Coffey, Edel. 'Between Life and Death'. The Sunday Tribune. Artlife, February 24, p.6.
2001 Bashford, Alison (ed). 'Contagion: Historical & Cultural Studies'. Routledge. London. pp.153-170.
2001 Schildrick, Margrit .'Touching the Monster: Encounters with the Vulnerable Self'. Sage. London.
2001 McBride, Stephanie. 'Glass Menageries: Karl Grimes in focus'. Circa, No 96, cover & pp.30-34.
2000 Adams, Nicholas. 'Karl Grimes - Stuffed Histories'. Source, Issue no 23, pp.23-29.
1999 Lombardi, Dominick. 'Perception of Animals'. New York Times, December 5, P.20.
1999 New York Times 'A Show that Shapes Perception of Animals'. Dominick Lombardi. December 5.
1998 Morrison, Angeline. Review of EV+A 1998'. The Sunday Tribune. Features, October 11.
1998 Mc Keone, Marion. 'An exhibition which courts controversy'. Sunday Business Post. 29/3, p.38.
1998 Ruane, Medb. 'In Conversation'. Still Life exhibition catalogue interview.
1998 Circa. 'No Comment'. Circa, No 84 Summer, pp.6-7.
1998 The Event Guide. 'Karl Grimes : Still Life'. Review. April 1-14.
p22/23.
1998 Armstrong, James. 'Still Life'. Review. Source, Vol # 4, p.34.
1999 RTÉ Radio 1. 'Still Life at the Gallery of Photography'. Arts Show Review. 3.02pm, April 7. 1998.
1998 Fallon, Brian. 'Karl Grimes: Still Life', The Sunday Times, April 5, p.23.
1998 Temple Bar Review. 'The Grimes' Reaper'. Review by Mark Collins. April 1998.
1998 O'Reilly, Ronan. 'Enough to make you weep'. The Sun, March 28, cover, P1/2.
1998 Donaghy, Kathy. 'How low can you sink'. The Sun, March 27, cover, P1/2/8.
1997 Angus, Alice. '(Re)visions of Sex', Fotofeis 1997 writings and catalogue, p10/15.
1997 Woods, Judith. 'Fotofeis - Wanna see some pictures'. The Scotsman, Sept 23,
p.15.
1997 McBride, Stephanie. 'Karl Grimes: Work in Process'. Circa, No 81, pp.35-42.
1994 Aperture. Nickard, Gary. 'Ireland ; A Troubled Mirror'. Aperture, Winter No 134, cover.
1993 Morris, Barbra. 'Karl Grimes - Travels in Amira'. exhibition catalogue introduction.
1993 The Arts Show. RTÉ Radio 1. Profile interview with Mike Murphy. Broadcast, June 2, 35 mins.
1993 Moroney, Mic .'Fabled zone where kitsch is reality'. Irish Times. 18 June.
1993 Mc Donagh, Jeanne .'Where in the world?'. DropOut Magazine. May 1993. Volume 2, Issue 4.
1993 Johnson, Paddy. 'Karl Grimes/Gallery of Photography'. Circa, Autumn,
No 65.
1992 Fagan, Graham. 'Birmingham Billboard Project', exhibition catalogue.
1991 Meaney, Helen. 'Karl Grimes & his fragmented photographs'. The Irish Times,
July 25,
1991 Kiang, Tanya. 'Photo Graphic Constructs', exhibition catalogue introduction.
1991 Lynn, Brian. 'Photographic Constructs: Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast'. Source, Issue 1.
1991 Sheehan, Donal. 'Karl Grimes:Triskel Arts Center', Circa. July/August No 58.
1990 Zoom on Europe 1990. Catalogue. RHA Gallery, Dublin & Limerick City Gallery.
1989 Biennale Internationale Nice 1989. 'Septembre De La Photo', Nice-Audiovisuel catalogue.
1989 The Irish Times.'Zoom on Europe', Mois de la Photo, Nice. September 5, p.10.
1988 Freitag,Barbara. 'Die Horan - Zeitschrift fur Literaturer, Kunst und Kritik.# Vol 33.pp 207-210
1988 Kiang, Tanya. Review: Dublin Time Capsule. Dublin Civic Museum. Circa. August/September. No 41.
1987
Cecil Beaton Vogue/Sotheby's Award. Vogue Magazine (UK), Dec 1987, No 12, p.74.
1985 Prix Air France-Ville De Paris. Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Sept/Oct 1985.
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COLLECTIONS
Arts
Council of Ireland
National Museum of Ireland
National Photographic Collection Ireland
Berlin Museum of Natural History, Germany
Bibliotheque
National De Paris, France
Paris
Audiovisuel Collection, France
Musee
de la Photographie, Nice, France
Rudin
Collection, New York, USA
Birmingham City University. U.K
Birmingham Billboard Project Collection. U.K
Dublin
Community Photographic Archive
National
Self-Portrait Collection, Limerick, Ireland
University
of Limerick, Ireland
University
of Michigan, USA
New
York University, USA
Dublin
City University. Ireland
Hudson
River Museum, USA
Hubrecht
Laboratory, Utrecht, Netherlands
Tornblad Institute, Lund, Sweden
Comune di Napoli Collection, Italy
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AWARDS
2011 Morris Foundation Research Award. USA.
2009 Visual Arts Bursary. Arts Council of Ireland.
2006 Visual Arts Bursary/Projects Award. Arts Council of Ireland.
2006 Travel & Mobility Award. Arts Council of Ireland
2005 Travel & Mobility Award. Arts Council of Ireland
2004 Wood Fellowship. The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. USA.
2004 Professional Development Award. Arts Council of Ireland
2003
Arts Council of Ireland. Travel & Mobility Award.
2001
Arts Council Projects Award.
1998 Visual Arts Bursary. Arts Council of Ireland
1997 Visual Arts Bursary. The Scottish Arts Council.
1996 Visual Arts Bursary. Arts Council of Ireland.
1995 DHL Artlift Award, Dublin, Ireland.
1995 Arts Award. Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland.
1994 Professional Enhancement Grant. IIE, New York, NY.
1993 Fulbright Award. United States Embassy, Dublin, Ireland.
1991 Visual Arts Bursary. Arts Council of Ireland.
1989 Sunday Times Award. News International, London, UK.
1987 Cecil Beaton Vogue/Sothebys Award for Photography. UK.
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EDUCATION
1995
MFA. New York University, New York.
1978
MA Town/Urban Planning. University College Dublin, Ireland.
1975 B.Soc.Sc (Hons). University College Dublin, Ireland.
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