Vivienne Griffin
b. 1975, Dublin, Ireland Lives and works in London, UK
EDUCATION
| 2024 | PhD candidate, Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen's University Belfast, Ireland |
| 2009 | MFA, Hunter College, with the support of a Fulbright Scholarship, New York, NY |
| 2004 | BFA, Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork, Ireland |
SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
| 2024 | Open Tabs, Vivienne Griffin & Cian McConn, Centrum, Berlin, Germany |
| The Song of Lies, Bureau, New York, NY | |
| 2017 | I should be doing something else right now (featuring Jenny Carson, Cian McConn, Kristen Jensen), Grand Army Collective, Brooklyn, NY |
| I As In Us, Vivienne Griffin & Cian McConn, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania | |
| 2015 | She Said, Bureau, New York |
| 2014 | The Nostalgia of an Object and the Pain of Glass, Vilnius, Lithuania |
| Like Nature But Not, Four to Seven, Riga, Latvia | |
| 2013 | The Me Song For Now Here, Bureau, New York, NY |
| 2008 | Vivienne Griffin and Kate V. Robertson, Subletters Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2007 | The Possibilities are Endless, Four Gallery, Dublin, Ireland |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES & SCREENINGS
| 2024 | Performance with Zach Toppin on Montez Press Radio at Ormside Projects, London, United Kingdom |
| Mercy screening, organized by Doyenne Books, London, and Current Plans, Hong Kong | |
| Performance with Josh Woolford, A-Z,, Always Coming Home - Chapter 3, Matt's Gallery, London, United Kingdom | |
| Performance with Úna Monaghan for Assembly 2024, Somerset House Studios, London, United Kingdom | |
| Montez Press Radio at The Penarth Centre, London, United Kingdom | |
| 2023 | Mercy (screening), Transmediale Film Festival, Berlin, Germany |
| 2022 | Mercy (screening), King’s x Somerset House Studios, research fund with law researcher Cari Hyde-Vaamonde, London, United Kingdom |
| Latent Joy (performance), with Paul Purgas and invited guests, St Mary Le Strand, commissioned by Somerset House Studios, London, United Kingdom | |
| 2021 | Poet Slash Artist, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist & Lemn Sissay, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Poet Slash Artist, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist & Lemn Sissay, Manchester International Festival, Manchester, United Kingdom | |
| 2020 | Until tomorrow: Ten Years of Bureau, Bureau, New York, NY |
| On the Face of it, At the Heart of it., South Kiosk, London, United Kingdom | |
| I Should Be Doing Something Else Right Now, Somerset House, London, United Kingdom | |
| 2019 | AGM, Somerset House, London, United Kingdom |
| Hyphen-Labs, Tate Exchange, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom | |
| La triennale des 50JPG, Centre de la Photographie Genève, Geneva, Switzerland | |
| 2018 | Montez Press Radio at Mathew Gallery, New York, NY |
| Condo London, Southard Reid hosting Bureau (New York) and Park View (Los Angeles), London, United Kingdom | |
| 2017 | Daybreak, School of Fine Art Research Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London, UK |
| 2016 | Survival Kit 8, Latvian Center for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia |
| 2015 | Artists’ Voices, Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Exit, Stuttering & Nebula, kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia | |
| Pangrammar, P!, New York, NY | |
| DAY MOON, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY | |
| Two Different Ways to do Two Different Things cur. by Susanna Callegari, Kristen Lorello | |
| Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 2014 | Lina Lapelyte's Hunky Bluff (feat. costumes by Vivienne Griffin & Cian McConn), Serpentine Galleries, London, UK |
| Tin Type, with Cian McConn, EC1&WC1 Galleries, London, UK | |
| Drop Everything, with Cian McConn, Inish Oirr, Ireland | |
| 2013 | An Annotated Exhibition, Hilary Crisp, London, UK |
| No Sorries in the Circle, Coleman Projects, London, UK | |
| Bureau at LISTE 18, Basel, Switzerland | |
| Desire, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Performance with Cian McConn & Kaspars Groshevs, Tintype Gallery, London, UK | |
| Monsalvat, Bureau, New York, NY | |
| 2012 | Performance with Cian McConn, Cafe Oto, London, UK |
| Performance with Cian McConn & Kaspars Groshevs, Chisenhale Studios, London, UK | |
| The Show House, The Show House (temporary project space), London, UK | |
| Bureau at NADA, Miami, FL | |
| Day of the Dead, The Old Vic Tunnels, London, UK | |
| Drop everything, Inish Oirr, Ireland | |
| A Performance with Cian McConn The Sculpture Building, RCA, London, UK | |
| Open Book, cur. Nigel Rolfe, Testbed, Battersea, London, UK | |
| 2011 | Tropical Heat, cur. Mette Kjaergaard Praest, Henry Moore Gallery, RCA, London, UK |
| 2010 | Solid State, Bureau, New York, NY |
| 2009 | Everything Must Go, Century Plaza Shopping Mall, Birmingham, AL |
| 2008 | Altered States, Francis Lewis Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2007 | House Projects, Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, NY |
| Chashama, With Art Collective Dos Pestaneos, New York, NY | |
| Group Show with Dos Pestaneos, Go Go Gallery, Miami, FL | |
| 2006 | X-MASS the spot, Draíocht Arts Centre, Blanchardstown, Dublin, Ireland |
| The Vaults, The Fenton Gallery, Cork, Ireland | |
| 2005 | The Concourse, Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown Civic Office, Dublin, Ireland |
| Passing Through, Glucksman Gallery, UCC, Cork, Ireland |
AWARDS & GRANTS
| 2021 | The Oram Award |
| 2014 | Artist in Residence, SIM, Iceland |
| 2011 | Artist in Residence, Summer Academy, Žagarė, Lithuania |
| 2009 | Fulbright Scholarship |
| Artist in Residence, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA | |
| 2008 | Travel and Mobility Award, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA |
| 2006 | Artist in Residence, Carlow Arts Festival, Eigse, Ireland |
| Irish Arts Council Professional Development and Training Award | |
| 2005 | Irish Arts Council Award Travel Award |
| Bank of Ireland Arts Centre Millennium Scholars Award | |
| Artist in Residence, Artconnexion, Lille, France |
SELECTED PRESS & WRITINGS
| 2023 | Christopher Michael, 'VIVIENNE GRIFFIN, on deconstructing traditional approaches to multimedia art, CLOT Magazine, July 12 |
| 2021 | ‘The Fake Haven,’ Roehampton Journal for Academic and Creative Writing, Vol. III, Issue 1, Summer |
| 2016 | Anna Kudron & Eszter Boklov, ‘The Dead Beat Poet,’ Philosophy No. 7, Spring/Summer 2016, pp. 24-29 |
| Darren Jones, ‘The Good, the Fad, and the Ugly: Writing the Wrongs in Text-Based Art,’ Artslant, February 18 | |
| 2015 | Blake Gopnik, ‘THE DAILY PIC (#1395): i’ Blakegopnik.com, September 22 |
| Orit Gat, ‘Vivienne Griffin,’ Frieze Magazine No. 171, p. 221, May | |
| Emmalea Russo, 'Darkly Iridescent: Vivienne Griffin at Bureau,' artcritical.com, March 25 | |
| 2013 | Will Heinrich, 'Vivienne Griffin: The Me Song for Now Here at Bureau,' GalleristNY, March 12 |
| Georgia Wells,' Everything Goes: Vivienne Griffin's all-consuming art,' Modern Painters, p.27 March | |
| 'Vivienne Griffin,' Goings on About Town, The New Yorker, March |
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland