Vivienne Griffin
BUREAU, NYC
STUDIO AT SOMERSET HOUSE
Editions
UPCOMING & CURRENT︎︎︎
Montez Radio 2025
160 dl
Dallas Invitational April 10 - 12, 2025
SHOWS + WORK + PERFORMANCES + OTHER︎︎︎
The New Note, with Úna Monaghan, closing performance at HKW auditorium for Transmediale Festival, Berlin
Open Tabs, with Cian McConn, Centrum, Berlin 2024
Montez Press Radio End of Year Party, performance with Zach Toppin, 2024
Associate Lecturer at The Royal College of Art, Contemporary Art Practice
2024 The Song of Lies, solo show at Bureau, New York
2024 Song of Lies Press - Una Mullally, ‘What’s Next For...?: Vivienne Griffin,’ The Irish Times,
2024 A---Z, Always Coming Home, performance with Josh Woolford at Matt's Gallery
2024 Coalescence, Showroom, curated by Paul O'Neil and Harold Offeh, performance feat. Alexandra Achillea, Lydia Samuels, Rosalie Warner
2024 Assembly, Somerset House, performance with Úna Monaghan
2024 Nothing Compares to Nothing Compares to You, Montez Press Radio, radio shows
2024 MERCY: Exploring the experience of justice through AI with Cari Hyde-Vaamonde, King's Festival of Artificial Intelligence
2023 Slugg, Leipzig, performance
2023 IMRAM, Féile Litríochta Gaeilge, feat. in Úna Monaghan’s performance
2023 Northern Lights, Belfast and Derry, performances
2023 Critical Listening, workshop, Coventry, UK with Matt Williams (Camden Arts Centre)
2023 MERCY, Kings Festival of Ai, screening and exhibition with Turing Institute Researcher Cari Hyde-Vaamonde
2023 Quantum Listening, Camden Arts Center, launch of Pauline Oliveros book, listening session
2023 Pembury Synth Project, funded by Arts Council England and Chelsea Arts Trust
2023 MERCY Screening, Transmediale, Berlin,
2023 Screening With Flora Yin Wong, The Jazz Café
2022 On Paper, Echo, Cologne, drawings
2022 Somerset House and Kings Culture Collaboration, R + D funding
2022 M E R C Y, Somerset House and Kings Culture talk
2022 IKLECTIKA, The Oram Awards Panel
2022 Latent Joy, with Paul Purgas and guests for Somerset House
2021 The Fake Haven, text published in Roehampton Roundtable journal
2021 The Fake Haven, Manchester International Festival, exhibition
2020 I LEAF, Somerset House, London, screening
2020 Until Tomorrow, Bureau, NYC, exhibition
2020 I should be doing something else right now, Gallery 31, Somerset House, London, exhibition
2020 THE UNNOW NOW, Somerset House, London
2020 The Crisis of Now, South Kiosk, London, exhibition
2019 OSMOSCOSMOS, photographie triennale 50JPG, The Centre de la Photographie Genève (CPG),
2019 Awarded studio space at Somerset House Studios
2018 The Agony, Montez Press Radio, New York City
2018 Here Now, SPACE Art and Tech residency and show, London
2018 Condo, showing with Bureau at Southard Reid, London
2018 How to get out of your head, Café Oto, workshop, London
2017 I should be doing something else right now, Grand Army Collective in Brooklyn
2017 I As In Us, Museum of Contemporary Art, Romania
2016 Survival Kit, Performance art festival, Latvia
2016 I As In Us, Drop Everything, Ireland
2016 Mono, Performance and Video Screening
2015 Artists Voices, exhibition and vinyl record, Center D’Edition Contemporaine, Genève
2015 Exit, Stuttering & Nebula, KIM?, Center for Contemporary art, Latvia
2015 Pangrammer, P!, New York NY
2015 She Said, Bureau, New York
2014 The Nostalgia of an Object and the Pain of Glass, Vilnius, Lithuania
2013 Like Nature But Not, Four to Seven, Riga, Latvia
2013 The Me Song For Now Here, Bureau, New York, NY
2014 Lina Lapelyte's Hunky Bluff (feat. costumes by Vivienne Griffin & Cian McConn), Serpentine Galleries, London, UK
2014 Tin Type, with Cian McConn, EC1&WC1 Galleries, London, UK
2014 Drop Everything, with Pratique Actuelle, Inish Oirr, Ireland
2013 An Annotated Exhibition, Hilary Crisp, London, UK
2013 No Sorries in the Circle, Coleman Projects, London, UK2013
2013 Bureau at LISTE 18, Basel, Switzerland
2013 Desire, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Performance with Cian McConn & Kaspars Groshevs, Tintype Gallery, London, UK
2013 Monsalvat, Bureau, New York, NY
2012 Performance with Cian McConn, Cafe Oto, London, UK
2012 Performance with Cian McConn & Kaspars Groshevs, Chisenhale Studios, London, UK
2012 The Show House, The Show House (temporary project space), London, UK
2012 Bureau at NADA, Miami, FL
2012 Day of the Dead, The Old Vic Tunnels, London, UK
2012 Drop everything, Inish Oirr, Ireland
2012 A Performance with Cian McConn, The Sculpture Building, RCA, London, UK
2012 Open Book, curated by Nigel Rolfe, Testbed, Battersea, London, UK
2011 Tropical Heat, curated by 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
2007 Chashama, With Art Collective Dos Pestaneos, New York, NY
2007 Group Show with Dos Pestaneos, Go Go Gallery, Miami, FL
2006 X-MASS the spot, Draíocht Arts Centre, Blanchardstown, Dublin, Ireland
2006 The Vaults, The Fenton Gallery, Cork, Ireland
2005 The Concourse, Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown Civic Office, Dublin, Ireland
2005 Passing Through, Glucksman Gallery, UCC, Cork, Ireland
AWARDS & GRANTS︎︎︎
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
2008Travel and Mobility Award, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA
2006 Artist in Residence, Carlow Arts Festival, Eigse, Ireland
2006 Irish Arts Council Professional Development and Training Award
2005 Irish Arts Council Award Travel Award
2005 Bank of Ireland Arts Centre Millennium Scholars Award
2005 Artist in Residence, Artconnexion, Lille, France
PRESS︎︎︎
Una Mullally, ‘What’s Next For...?: Vivienne Griffin,’ The Irish Times, 2024
Vivienne Griffin at Bureau New York, Contemporary Art Daily, 2024
Christopher Michael, 'VIVIENNE GRIFFIN, on deconstructing traditional approaches to multimedia art, CLOT Magazine, 2023
Museum of Non-visible Art - Vivienne Griffin interview
Space Studios - Interview with Vivienne Griffin
Anna Kudron & Eszter Boklov, ‘The Dead Beat Poet,’ Philosophy No. 7, 2016
Orit Gat, ‘Vivienne Griffin,’ Frieze Magazine, 2015
Emmalea Russo, 'Darkly Iridescent: Vivienne Griffin at Bureau,' Artcritical.com, 2015
Will Heinrich, 'Vivienne Griffin: The Me Song for Now Here at Bureau,' GalleristNY, 2013
Georgia Wells, ‘Everything Goes: Vivienne Griffin's all-consuming art,' Modern Painters, 2013
'Vivienne Griffin,' The New Yorker, 2013
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