Jim Ricks

Jim Ricks is a US born Irish conceptual artist. He received his education in equal parts: Montessori, activist, Jesuit, 90’s graffiti, Art School, and artist-run gallery. He currently lives and works in Mexico City.

Jim Ricks has multiple practices, is interdisciplinary, and engages with collaboration and curation regularly. He problematises preconceptions about identity and value with a Marxist epistemology. His work is research driven, publicly engaged, and site specific. He believes creolization is beautiful and actively seeks out examples of the everyday. Projects include a Bouncy megalithic tomb, a global search for the Truth, drone-powered war rugs made in Afghanistan, a gable-end mural in Derry, ‘Synchromaterialism’, Art Fair interventions, creator of the Centro de Ontología Nacional (National Ontology Center) in Mexico City, the Museo Ambulante Sebastian, and a giant baseball in Cuba to collect autographs of the local residents.

He has had solo shows at Daniela Elbahara (Mexico City), Casa Maauad (Mexico City), Pallas Projects (Dublin), the Hugh Lane Gallery (Dublin), Onomatopee (Eindhoven), 126 (Galway), and shown in a number of group shows including at the Centre Culturel Irlandais (Paris), Imperial War Museum (London), Jack Shainman Gallery (NYC), The Limerick City Gallery of Art (Limerick), Ulster Museum (Belfast), Temple Bar Gallery & Studios (Dublin), Royal Hibernian Academy (Dublin), and public projects in the Galway International Arts Festival (Galway), Art Basel Miami Art Public (Miami), the Cranbrook Art Museum (Detroit), Museo Tamayo (Mexico City), Museo Anahuacalli (Mexico City), and the Hirshhorn Museum (Washington D.C.).