Kate Groobey
Kate Groobey is a British artist based in South Yorkshire and the South of France.
Groobey was educated at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford and
the Royal College of Art in London.
Kate Groobey exhibited in Newspeak: British Art Now Part 2 at the Saatchi Gallery in 2010, the Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2011 at the ICA, in London and Surrreal at , Berlin.
In 2014, Groobey was selected as one of a hundred artists for the book 100 Painters of Tomorrow.
Groobey was the first woman to win the Daiwa Foundation Art Prize in 2018.
Groobey's work has been written about in publications and essays including The Brooklyn Rail, NYC, by Alfred Mac Adam, 2017; The Daiwa Foundation Art Prize catalogue essay by Jonathan Watkins, Ikon Gallery, 2018; The ASSHOLES OF AMBITION publication essay, by Maria Villa,
Groobey's solo exhibitions include:
- Assholes Of Ambition, RIBOT, Milan, Italy
- Pure Pleasure, Atopos + Ikon Gallery, Venice, Italy
- Pure Pleasure, Ikon Gallery Tower Room, Birmingham, UK
- Daiwa Foundation Exhibition: Pure Pleasure, , Tokyo, Japan
- I'm Made Of Milk, Horton Gallery, New York, United States
- The Good Life, Ever Gold , San Francisco, California, United States
- Perfect Potatoes, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, California, United States
- Perfect | Parfait, , Paris, France
