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↓↓↓↓↓ ↓↓↓↓↓ Trofeo Para Tod_s, Rancho El Ameyal, Queretero, Mexico, April 2022 ↓↓↓↓↓ 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. ↓↓↓↓↓ 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. ↓↓↓↓↓ Xenofobia, various locations in Mexico City, Mexico, 2022
Views from Así Luce la Democracia | This is What Democracy Looks Like, Galería Daniela Elbahara, Mexico City, January – April 2020.
http://gastv.mx/entrevista-jim-ricks/ ↓↓↓↓↓ "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 ↓↓↓↓↓ The Play Show, Galería Daniela Elbahara, Mexico City, 2019. L to R: Conrad Carlson, Jim Ricks, Willie Reed. ↓↓↓↓↓ ↓↓↓↓↓ Third Wave Coffee Troll (oil on canvas, 2019), permanent installation at Camino a Comala, Mexico City. Artist receives free macchiatos for life. ↓↓↓↓↓ Museo Ambulante Sebastián, ongoing project, Mexico City, Mexico, May – June 2018 ↓↓↓↓↓ Centro de Ontología Nacional, Casa Maauad, Mexico City, 2016 – 17.
Um..., mural, part of the 'How do we know?' series, Santa Maria la Ribera, Mexico City, 2016.
↓↓↓↓↓ Alien Invader Super Baby (Synchromaterialism IV) Onomatopee, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, May – June 2015 (https://www.onomatopee.net/exhibition/alien-invader-super-baby-synchromaterialism-iv/) ↓↓↓↓↓ 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) ↓↓↓↓↓ 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/) 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 – ↓↓↓↓↓ 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. ↓↓↓↓↓ |