Education
1997 - 2000
BFA Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, Oxford University, Pembroke College
2008 - 2010
MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London
Awards
2018
Creative Development Funding, Arts Council England
2018
Daiwa Foundation Art Prize, London/Tokyo
2008
Stanley Smith Scholarship, Royal College of Art
Exhibitions
Solo
2020 Start Again, SIM SMITH, London
2019 Assholes Of Ambition, RIBOT, Milan
2019 Pure Pleasure, Atopos with Ikon Gallery, Venice
2018 Pure Pleasure, Ikon Gallery, UK
2018 Pure Pleasure, Mizuma Gallery, Tokyo
2017 I'm Made of Milk, Horton Gallery, New York
2017 The Good Life, Ever Gold Projects, San Francisco
2016 Perfect Potatoes, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles
2015 Perfect | Parfait performance, David Lynch Club Silencio, Paris
2014 Ofr. Invites Kate Groobey, Paris.
Selected group exhibitions
2020 Super Flatland, White Conduit Projects, London, curated by Paul Carey-Kent
2020 Untitled (online), SIM SMITH
2019 What Kind Of Spirit Is This? SIM SMITH, London
2019 L.A Art Show, Mizuma Gallery, Los Angeles
2018 Daiwa Foundation Art Prize, London
2018 Played, Ebensperger Galerie, Salzburg
2018 Desires, GNYP Gallery, Berlin
2017 UNTITLED, Horton Gallery, Miami
2016 NADA, Ever Gold Projects, NYC
2016 The Classical, Transition Gallery, London, curated by Kris Day
2016 Performance Night & Party, Code South Way, Marseille, curated by Emmanuelle Luciani
2016 SURRREAL, König Galerie, Berlin
2016 Art16, Villa Lena Foundation, London
2015 Figuratively Speaking, Marcelle Joseph Projects at Heike Moras, London.
2014 100 Painters of Tomorrow, Beers Contemporary, London
2013 I did did I, ASC Gallery, London, curated by Kes Richardson.
2012 The Perfect Place To Grow: 175 Years of the Royal College of Art
2012 Making Waves: International Contemporary Art from the Saatchi Gallery
2012 Backwards Man, CGP London, Cafe Gallery
2011 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2011, ICA (London), Site Gallery, S1 Artspace (Sheffield)
2010 Newspeak: British Art Now Part II, Saatchi Gallery, London
Articles and Publications
SIM SMITH, Start Again, essay by Charlotte Jansen, 2020
RIBOT, Assholes of Ambition, catalogue essay/ edited by Maria Villa, 2019
Bijutsu Techo, Kate Groobey by Yuko Harada, 2018
Metropolis, Pure Pleasure, interview with Julia Mascetti, 2018
Mizuma Gallery, Pure Pleasure, catalogue essay by Jonathan Watkins, 2018
Outsideleft, Kate Groovy! by Ancient Champion, 2018
Metropolis, Pure Pleasure by Kate Groobey, Julia Mascetti, 2018
Aesthetica Magazine, Daiwa Foundation Art Prize, 2018
The Brooklyn Rail, I’m Made of Milk, review by Alfred Mac Adam, 2017
Novembre Magazine, Story: Kate Groobey, by Jean-Salomé Rochat, 2017
Dinaburgarts, Three Women Refashion Figuration, essay by Alfred Mac Adam, 2017
Printed Matter, Painting Regarding The Present, by André Hemer, 2016
ID-Vice, British Artist Kate Groobey Paints The Body The Way We Feel It, Zsuzsanna Toth
Dapper Dan Magazine, Opinions and Inspirations, Pants down!
Thames & Hudson, 100 Painters of Tomorrow, 2014
Metro, London, Bloomberg New Contemporaries ICA, review by Fisun Güner, 2012
New York Arts Magazine, Groobey Dismembers, Then Reassembles by Madeleine Jones, 2011
Artlyst, The ICA Finds Its Legs, Bloomberg New Contemporaries, by Alison Seligman, 2011
Bloomberg New Contemporaries Catalogue Text, Heather Phillipson, 2011
Newspeak: British Art Now Part II Catalogue Text, Paticia Ellis, 2010
Electronic Beats Magazine, Modern Painting: Canvasing New Truth, Emer Grant, 2010
Mare Street Biennale catalogue Text, Douglas Park, 2010