The Internet Was a Mistake / El Internet Fue un Error, oil on canvas, 2017.

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G, Mural in Gort, Co. Galway, Ireland, 2025. Ogham is an ancient Irish alphabet, also known as the "Celtic Tree Alphabet," where letters are represented by lines and notches along a stemline, and it was primarily used to write the early Irish language on stone monuments. In Ogham the letter "G" is represented by two diagonal lines across the edge of the post, and its corresponding name is "gort" which means "field".

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'Most Minimal Potential Infinite Column' for Unfixed Concrete Ideal, with Andy Graydon, Anssi Taulu Ben Sloat, Brian Unwin, Candice Ivy, Gabo Camnitzer, Isaiah “Prophet” Raines, Jennifer Barrows & Brendan Mcguirl, Jerry Mischak, Jia-jen Lin, Jim Ricks, Katarina Burin, Maria Lalou & Skafte Aymo-boot, Ron Lambert, Tracey Snelling & Arthur Debert, and Trisomy 9. Curated by Allyson Vieira and Ben Sloat, this exhibition explores the generative contradictions of concrete’s material qualities and use: its formless fluidity and rigid fixity, as well as its use in building agendas ranging from idealistic, modernist, social spaces, to oppressive and divisive realities. The exhibition was first installed in Boston's Government Center and then in Fall River Government Center, another Brutalist building of the same era in Massachusetts, for the Fabric Arts Festival 2023.

Government Center, Boston, 3 June – 14 July 2023
Fabric Arts Festival, Fall River, Massachisetts, 14 October – 18 November 2023
3S Artspace, Portsmouth, New Hampshire,, April 5 – June 2, 2024

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Maiz Guyz, hand woven carpet, 2022. Corn, or maiz, is of course man made. It is an early cultivated food in the Americas dating back 6 or 7 thousand years to what is now the state of Oaxaca in Mexico. Corn is and was a staple diet for native peoples in the Americas, traded and migrated well into what is now the Midwest of the USA and south into today's Peru. This tapete, a hand made Mexican carpet, is based on an anthropomorphic corn signpainting photographed by Annie De la Riva in Mexico City. It was fabricated by Juan Montano textiles in Oaxaca and organised by and for the artist in 2022.

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Trofeo Para Tod_s, Rancho El Ameyal, Queretero, Mexico, April 2022

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View from El camino a París y Londres pasa por las aldeas de Afganistán, Museo Casa de León Trotsky, Mexico City, December 2021 – March 2022.

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Carpet Bombing, Kabul, Afghanistan, 2015. Commissioned by Rua Red, Tallaght, Ireland. Original graphic designed by Ruben Pater, used in accordance with Creative Commons license. Special thanks to Paul McAree and Amir Shah.

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Can you dig it? Irish language SRT file for 'Cyrus's Speech' in The Warriors, from Así Luce la Democracia | This is What Democracy Looks Like, 2018 – 20

The origin of the phrase "Can you dig it?" lies in the Irish language. In Irish, to ask: "Do you understand?" is "'An dtuigeann tú?'" (pronounced like: On diggin two?). Some hypothesise the phrase was cross-pollinated between the then recent Irish immigrants, still speaking in the Irish language, Descendants of Former African Slaves, and other immigrants in cities like New York.

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Views from Así Luce la Democracia | This is What Democracy Looks Like, Galería Daniela Elbahara, Mexico City, January – April 2020.

Máscara de Guy Fawkes, oil on canvas, 2019, with Tom Molloy.

http://gastv.mx/entrevista-jim-ricks/
https://www.art-agenda.com/features/319866/mexico-city-roundup
https://revistacodigo.com/arte/exposicion-galeria-daniela-elbahara/

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"Jim Ricks is as likely to make something as to break something" – Mark O'Kelly, artist

"Californian Jim Ricks is perhaps best known for his Bouncy Dolmen, a typically jokey and iconoclastic project" – Aidan Dunne, Irish Times critic

"With a similar intent to subvert ideological standpoints, Jim Ricks’ work highlighted issues relating to capitalism and world politics, in particular, those of his native America" – Niall Moore, Circa magazine

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Um..., mural, part of the 'How do we know?' series, Santa Maria la Ribera, Mexico City, 2016.

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The Bush Bazaar, video, filmed in Kabul, 2016

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Alien Invader Super Baby (Synchromaterialism IV) Onomatopee, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, May – June 2015 (https://www.onomatopee.net/exhibition/alien-invader-super-baby-synchromaterialism-iv/)

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'Additional Seating' for Temple Bar Gallery + Studios are Dead, curated by Chris Fite-Wassilak, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin, November 2013 – January 2014 (https://www.templebargallery.com/exhibitions/temple-bar-gallery-studios-are-dead#:~:text=Under%20the%20proclamatory%20title%20Temple,real%2C%20across%20a%20range%20of)

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OTHER SHOWS & PROJECTS

• Manifesto: Art x Agency, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, DC, June 2019 – January 2020 (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/globe-trotting-truth-seeking-art-project-looks-answers-dc-180972407/) featuring In Search of the Truth, a global public art project, 2011 –
• Surveillé(e)(s), Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, September – December 2018; Solstice, Nevan, Ireland, January – March 2019 (https://www.centreculturelirlandais.com/en/agenda/surveillees)
• States of Emergency, including Ai Weiwei, Gerhard Richter, Jenny Holzer, Mona Hatoum, Alfredo Jaar, Coco Fusco, Jake & Dinos Chapman, etc. Imperial War Museum, London, October 2017 – May 2018 (http://www.designcurial.com/news/age-of-terror-art-since-911-is-a-timely-reflection-6062170/)
• Daydreamers (http://www.daydreamers.biz), curated by Elisa Rusca and Stephen Kent, Germany, September 2017 –
• The Future is Self-Organised – Artist-Run Spaces, Limerick City Gallery of Art, November 2015 – January 2016 (https://pallasprojects.org/project/the-future-is-self-organisedlimerick-city-gallery-of-art)
• For Freedoms 2, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, June – July 2016 (https://jackshainman.com/exhibitions/june_7_august_30_2016)
• Telling Lies, with Terry Atkinson, Alan Butler, Cliona Harmey, Eva & Franco Mattes, Theresa Nanigian, Jane Queally, Martha Rosler, Sean Synder, Suzanne Treister, curated by Paul McAree, Rua Red, Tallaght, April – May 2015 (https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/ez5wwk/handmade-afghan-rug-drone-survival-guide)
• Everything must go now: One day of tastes, sights, and sounds, with James Barry, Jeremy Deller, Robin Hoshino and Kevin Powell of Gruel Guerilla, David Eager Maher, Padraic E. Moore, and Jim Ricks. Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane. Saturday, January 18th, 2014, 1 — 4pm
• Bubble Wrap Game: Hugh Lane, part of the Sleepalkers project, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Ireland, September 2013 – January 2014 (https://hughlane.ie/whats_on/sleepwalkers-jim-ricks-bubblewrap-game-hugh-lane/)
• Futures 12, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, September – October 2012 (https://rhagallery.ie/events/exhibitions/1669/) which featured the Poulnabrone Bouncy Dolmen.
• Poulnabrone Bouncy Dolmen, a touring public art project, first supported by Galway County Council, 2010 – (https://publicart.ie/main/directory/directory/view/the-poulnabrone-bouncy-dolmen/eaf04daaf5767eda45cc86e7e4278954/)

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Artist-run democracy: sustaining a model, 15 years of 126 gallery, Jim Ricks (editor and compiler), Eindhoven: Onomatopee, 2022. ISBN 9789493148734. Supported by the Arts Council, Galway City Council, and GMIT.
• de Búrca, Ella, Michaële Cutaya, Jim Ricks. IRLDADA: 201916. Mexico City: Black Crown Press, 2019. ISBN 9780578546940
• Ricks, Jim. Alien Invader Super Baby (Synchromaterialism VI). Eindhoven: Onomatopee, 2018. ISBN 9789491677755
• Packer, Matt, Declan Long, and Jim Ricks. "Here Comes The Summer", Derry: Centre for Contemporary Art Derry~Londonderry, 2017
• Edited by Michael Dempsey and Logan Sisley. Sleepwalkers. Dublin: Hugh Lane Gallery and Ridinghouse, 2015. ISBN 9781905464982

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