Kate Groobey | |
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 Artist Kate Groobey | |
| Born | 1979 |
| Education | Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art (University of Oxford); Royal College of Art (London) |
| Known for | Painting and performance |
| Patron(s) | Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, [1] Saatchi Gallery [2] Stanley Smith Scholarship, Royal College of Art, [3] Daiwa Foundation Art Prize, [4] [5] Arts Council England. [6] |
| Website | www.kategroobey.com |
Kate Groobey (born 1979) is a British artist based in South Yorkshire and the South of France. [7]
Groobey was born in Leeds, Yorkshire. She was educated at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford [7] [8] receiving a BFA degree in 2000. She then studied at the Royal College of Art in London, receiving an MA degree in 2010. [9] [10]
Groobey exhibited in Newspeak: British Art Now Part 2 at the Saatchi Gallery in 2010, [11] the Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2011 at the ICA, in London [3] and Surrreal at König Galerie, Berlin. [12]
In 2014, Groobey was selected as one of a hundred artists for the book 100 Painters of Tomorrow. [13] [14]
Groobey was the first woman to win the Daiwa Foundation Art Prize in 2018. [15] [5]
Groobey's work has been covered in publications and essays including The Brooklyn Rail, NYC, by Alfred Mac Adam, 2017 [16] and the Daiwa Foundation Art Prize catalogue essay by Jonathan Watkins, Ikon Gallery, 2018. [17]
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