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Born
in Dublin, Ireland. Studied Photography
and Media at New York University and the International Center Of Photography, New York. 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 lectures in the School of Communications at Dublin City University and also collaborates on sculpture and media programmes at Brooklyn College (CUNY), New York. His recent art & science projects include imaging, text and video collaborations with: American Museum of Natural History, New York; Mütter Museum, Philadelphia; La Specola Museum & Caregi Hospital, Florence, Italy; Hubrecht Laboratory, Netherlands; Tornblad Institute, Sweden and the National Museum of Ireland (Natural History). He is a PhD researcher and a research Fellow at the Mütter
Museum and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. The artist lives and works in Dublin and New York.
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ARTIST'S MONOGRAPH
Karl Grimes - Dignified Kings Play Chess On Fine Green Silk. Texts by Martin Kemp, David Norris, Nigel Monaghan and Stephanie McBride. National Museum of 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 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 - 2012 Net art, Online Exhibitions, Political Campaigns, Animal Rights Campaigns, Stop Animal Abuse Campaigns, AIDS Memorial International Exhibitions & Campaigns.
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SELECTED
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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
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SELECTED
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2011 ISEA 2011. Proceedings - International Symposium on Electronic Art. Istanbul, Turkey.
2011 People, Places, Stories. Conference Proceedings - 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'. Sunday Times, May 17, Culture/Arts, pp.22-23.
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 Mulvihill, Mary. 'Left Brain, Right Brain - Dignified Kings'. RTE 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 '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 Artciencia online journal. “The Trouble with Dead Bodies” Artciencia.com No1.
2006 International Symposium Of Interactive Media Design. Istanbul. ‘Imaging the Archive’.
2003 Baker, Steve. 'Animality: Cultural Constructions of the Animal'. Catalogue. Blue Oyster Gallery, NZ.
2002 Rochester Institute of Technology. 'Images From Science'. Cary Graphics
Arts Press.
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 Armstrong, James. 'Karl Grimes : Pathology Works'. Art Juxtapoz.
No 22.
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 Armstrong, James. 'Still Life'. Source, Vol # 4, p.34.
1998 Lovett, Marian. 'Karl Grimes: Still Life', The Sunday Times, April
5, p.23.
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. '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 Nickard, Gary. 'Ireland ; A Troubled Mirror'. Aperture, No 135, Spring,
cover.
1993 Morris, Barbra. 'Travels in Amira'. exhibition catalogue introduction.
1993 Moroney, Mic .'Fabled zone where kitsch is reality'.
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'. IrishTimes,
July25,P.10.
1991 Kiang, Tanya . ' Photo Graphic Constructs', exhibition catalogue
introduction.
1991 Pyle, Hilary. 'Photographic collages at Triskel'. Irish Times, April
16, p.10.
1991 Sheehan, Donal. 'Karl Gimes:Triskel Arts Center', Circa. July/August
No 58.
1990 Giusto, Jean P. 'Private Life & Public Space', exhibition catalogue
interview.
1990 Nice Matin, 'Images dans la ville'. Nice Matin, September 10, pp.5-6.
1990 Martinetti, Jean. 'Septembre De La Photo', Nice-Audiovisuel catalogue.
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COLLECTIONS
Arts
Council of Ireland
National Museum of Ireland
Bibliotheque
National De Paris, France
Paris
Audiovisuel Collection, France
Musee
de la Photographie, Nice, France
Rudin
Collection, New York
Dublin
Community Photographic Archive
National
Self-Portrait Collection, Limerick
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
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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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