Kate Groobey


Kate Groobey is a British artist based in South Yorkshire and the South of France.

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

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