Museo Ambulante Sebasián, Galeria Progreso, Mexico City, May – June 2018

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We Only Want the Earth! Mark Curran, Michaële Cutaya, Ella de Burca, Catherine Delaney, Doireann ni Ghrioghair, Sean Lynch, and Tom Molloy Curated by Jim Ricks Adobe Backroom Gallery, San Francisco, Feb 8 – Apr 5, 2018

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Alien Invader Super Baby (Synchromaterialism VI) by Jim Ricks, published by Onomatopee

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Irish language SRT file for 'Cyrus's Speech' in The Warriors, from the This is What Democracy Looks Like series, 2018

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From the 5th Ghetto Biennale, Port au Prince, Haiti, December 2017.

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Daydreamers (www.daydreamers.biz), curated by Elisa Rusca and Stephen Kent, Germany, September 2017 –

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From Public Sessions with LASA, San Augustín, La Lisa, La Habana, Cuba, August 2017.

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Ricks – Richter, 2017, Oil on canvas

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From States of Emergency, including Ai Weiwei, Grayson Perry, Gerhard Richter, Jenny Holzer, Mona Hatoum, Alfredo Jaar, Coco Fusco and Jake & Dinos Chapman, Imperial War Museum, London, October 2017 – May 2018

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Detail of Carpet Bombing, handmade in Afghanistan, 2015.

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

Jim Ricks is an Irish and American conceptual artist. He has had solo shows at Casa Maauad (Mexico City, Mexico), Pallas Projects (Dublin, IRL), the Hugh Lane Gallery (Dublin, IRL), Onomatopee (Eindhoven, NL), and shown in a number of group shows including at the Imperial War Museum (London, UK), Jack Shainman Gallery (NYC, USA), Ulster Museum (Belfast, NI), Temple Bar Gallery & Studios (Dublin, IRL), Royal Hibernian Academy (Dublin, IRL), Galway Arts Festival (Galway, IRL), Art Basel Miami Art Public (Miami), The Limerick City Gallery of Art (Limerick, IRL), Shunt (London, UK),  Stattbad (Berlin, Germany), and the Cranbrook Art Museum (Detroit, USA). Residencies include LASA (Havana, Cuba), Casa Maauad (Mexico City, Mexico), Nerve Centre Fab Lab Residency (Derry, NI), A.M. Qattan Foundation (Ramallah, Palestine), Heinrich Böll Residency, Achill Island (IRL), Ard Bia (Berlin), and Áras Éanna, Inis Oírr (IRL). Ricks has also curated projects with Culture Ireland, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, the Hugh Lane Gallery, Sluice Art Fair, and Just Mad Art Fair.

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In Search of the Truth, with Hank Willis Thomas and other members of Cause Collective, collaborative public art project travelling the world, 2011 – present.

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Tortas, Don't get it Twisted, Oil on canvas, 2016. Part of Centro Ontologia Nacional, Casa Maauad, Mexico City, 2016 – 17

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Part of the 'We Don't Know' series, 2016. Shown at Centro Ontologia Nacional, Casa Maauad, Mexico City, 2016 – 17

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Future Artist-Maker, Derry, NI, Limerick, Ireland, and Madrid, Spain, November 2016 – May 2017

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Life's a Beach, gable end mural in Derry, Northern Ireland, April 2016 –

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Afghanistan Given a Voice, The Irish Times, 17 February 2014

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Poulnabrone Bouncy Dolmen, 2010, first supported by the Galway County Council