Kate Groobey
Kate Groobey (born 1979) is a British artist based in South Yorkshire and the South of France.
Kate Groobey

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- Name
- Kate Groobey
- Born
- 1979
- Birthplace
- Leeds, Yorkshire, England
- Field
- Painting and performance
- Training
- Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art (University of Oxford); Royal College of Art (London)
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Kate Groobey (born 1979) is a British artist based in South Yorkshire and the South of France.
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Key facts
• Name — Kate Groobey • Born — 1979 • Birthplace — Leeds, Yorkshire, England • Field — Painting and performance • Training — Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art (University of Oxford); Royal College of Art (London) • Patrons — Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, Saatchi Gallery Stanley Smith Scholarship, Royal College of Art, Daiwa Foundation Art Prize, Arts Council England. • Website — www.kategroobey.com • Illustration — Groobey with one of her paintings 'Female Stallion' in her studio, 2022. Kate Groobey (born 1979) is a British artist based in South Yorkshire and the South of France.
Early life and education
Early life and education
Groobey was born in Leeds, Yorkshire. She was educated at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford receiving a BFA degree in 2000. She then studied at the Royal College of Art in London, receiving an MA degree in 2010.
Career
Career
Groobey exhibited in Newspeak: British Art Now Part 2 at the Saatchi Gallery in 2010, the Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2011 at the ICA, in London and Surrreal at König Galerie, Berlin. In 2014, Groobey was selected as one of a hundred artists for the book 100 Painters of Tomorrow. Groobey was the first woman to win the Daiwa Foundation Art Prize in 2018. Groobey's work has been covered in publications and essays including The Brooklyn Rail, NYC, by Alfred Mac Adam, 2017 and the Daiwa Foundation Art Prize catalogue essay by Jonathan Watkins, Ikon Gallery, 2018.
Solo exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
• Female Stallion, Sim Smith, London, United Kingdom (2022) • Assholes Of Ambition, RIBOT, Milan, Italy (2019) • Pure Pleasure, Atopos + Ikon Gallery, Venice, Italy (2019) • Pure Pleasure, Ikon Gallery Tower Room, Birmingham, UK (2018) • Daiwa Foundation Exhibition: Pure Pleasure, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2018) • I'm Made Of Milk, Horton Gallery, New York, United States (2017) • The Good Life, Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco, California, United States (2017) • Perfect Potatoes, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, California, United States (2016) • Perfect | Parfait, David Lynch Club Silencio, Paris, France (2015)

The artist Kate Groobey with one of her paintings at the Daiwa Foundation Japan House, Regent's Park, London, England, 2018.
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- 1.Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation. Daiwa Foundation Art Prize 2018. 2018.
- 2.Saatchi Gallery. Saatchi Gallery: Kate Groobey. 2010.
- 3.New Contemporaries. 2011 / Artists: Kate Groobey. www.newcontemporaries.org.uk. 2018.
- 4.Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation. Daiwa Foundation Art Prize 2018 winner: Kate Groobey. April 2025.
- 5.Cowan, Katy. Kate Groobey becomes the first woman to scoop the Daiwa Foundation Art Prize. www.creativeboom.com. Creative Boom. 2018.
- 6.Arts Council England. 2018.
- 7.Kate Groobey: Press Release. 2018.
- 8.Ruskin alumni. Ruskin School of Art. 2018.
- 9.Royal College of Art. Kate Groobey.
- 10.Royal College of Art alumni. Royal College of Art. 2010.
- 11.NEWSPEAK: BRITISH ART NOW. Saatchi Gallery. 2010.
- 12.Surrreal. König Galerie. April 2025.
- 13.Beers, Kurt. 100 Painters of Tomorrow. Thames & Hudson. 2014. 978-0500239230.
- 14.Beers, Kurt. The 100 PAINTERS included in '100 Painters of Tomorrow' are…. 2014.
- 15.Kate Groobey becomes the first woman to scoop the Daiwa Foundation Art Prize. Creative Boom. 2018.
- 16.Adam, Alfred Mac. KATE GROOBEY: I'm Made of Milk. The Brooklyn Rail. 2017.
- 17.Ikon Pure Pleasure: Documents: Press release. www.ikon-gallery.org. April 2025.
- 18.Female Stallion. Sim Smith. 8 October 2022.
- 19.RIBOT KATE GROOBEY. ribot-art-gallery. April 2025.
- 20.Ikon Gallery- Venice Biennale 2019 Kate Groobey. www.ikon-gallery.org. 2019.
- 21.Ikon Gallery Tower Room: Pure Pleasure. www.ikon-gallery.org. 2018.
- 22.Mizuma Gallery: Kate Groobey. 2018.
- 23.Kate Goobey: I'm Made Of Milk. Sean Horton (presents). April 2025.
- 24.Kate Groobey / The Good Life, Ever Gold [Projects]. 2017.
- 25.Redling Fine Art: Perfect Potatoes. www.redlingfineart.com. April 2025.
- 26.Kate Groobey C.V. Kate Groobey.
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