Biography
Anita Groener is an artist born in The Netherlands and based in Dublin, Ireland. She makes paintings, monumental site-specific drawings, film and animation that she exhibits internationally. In 2005 she was elected a member of Aosdána. For many years she has complimented her practice as a lecturer teaching fine art in the Dublin Institute of Technology where she was also the was the Head of Fine Art from 2004-2006. She has recently returned full time to her art practice.
The focus in Groener’s work is a consideration of home and displacement as situated within modern geopolitical realities. The dialogue of belonging and estrangement is inextricably situated within collective systems while it is deeply affected by our relationship to time and space. Sometimes these structures corrupt causing conflict and trauma that vary from local to global proportions affecting each individual. The current work engages with the force on the psychological tissue that constitutes the core of this argument. To capture the actuality of this experience she uses strategies and economies of drawing, as well as formal aspects of scale and monochromes.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023/24 To the Edge of Your World, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France; Museum Rijswijk, The Hague, the Netherlands
2019 The Past Is A Foreign Country, The Dock, Carrick-on Shannon, The Lab Gallery, Dublin; and West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Ireland
2018 The Past Is A Foreign Country, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland
2017 Dialogues, curated by Miguel Amado, London Art Fair, London, UK
2016 Citizen, curated by Anna O’Sullivan, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
2014 Somewhere Else, Witteveen Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2014 Becoming / Unbecoming, PARK, Tilburg, the Netherlands (two-person with Simon Benson)
2013 State, drawing installation RHA Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2012 Land, drawing installation, Dublin Contemporary Circle Programme, Rubicon Gallery Dublin, Ireland
2011 Somewhere Else (animated drawing), Sub-Urban Video Lounge Rotterdam,
2010 Province, Drawing Centre Diepenheim, The Netherlands
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021/22 The Narrow Gate of the Here and Now, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2021 Refuge, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2021 RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland
2020/22 Refuge, 21c Bentonville, Arkansas, USA
2019/20 Continuous Regeneration, Columbia Circle, Shanghai, China
2019 Continuous Refle(a)ction, Riverside Art Museum, Beijing, China
2019 Art on Paper, New York City, USA
2019 Drawing Now Paris, France
2018 Art on Paper, New York City, USA
2018 Museum De Buitenplaats, Eelde, The Netherlands
2018 Art Miami, Miami, USA
2018 Volta Basel
2018 PAN Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2018 Coast-Lines, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2018 Seattle Art, Seattle, USA; Istanbul Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey.
2017 Art on Paper, New York City, USA
2017 Art Miami, Miami, USA
2017 Human Chain, Ballina Arts Centre, Ballina, Ireland
2017 PAN Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Coast-Lines, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2016 Taboo, Poggiali & Forconi Gallery, Florence, Italy; Context New York with Gibbons & Nicolas, NYC, USA
2016 Art Miami, Miami, USA
2016 A Knowing Nature, The Dock, Carrick-on Shannon, Ireland
2015 18 x 8, Point B, Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY, USA
2015 Cosmic Dust, Visual Carlow, Ireland
2015 Veldwerk, Drawing Centre Diepenheim, The Netherlands
2015 Amsterdam Drawing, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2015 The Sketchbook Project, Brooklyn, New York, Atalanta, Miami, Austin, Los Angeles, Oakland, San Fransisco, Seattle, Chicago, Toronto
2015 Postscript, The Russell Gallery and The Gallery at Burren College of Art, artists respond to Seamus Heaney’s poem
2014 Amsterdam Drawing Art Fair, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Boyle Arts Festival; TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, Galway, Ireland
2013 The Future Perfect | We Are Here, Rubicon Projects Brussels, Belgium
2013 Art’s Work Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland
2013 Diversity in Drawing, Witteveen Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Awards & Residencies
2018 The Arts Council of Ireland Touring and Dissemination of Work Scheme Award
2016 Culture Ireland Support Grant
2015 Facebook EMEA Headquarters Dublin, Ireland; Aosdána
2014 Point B Artist Residency Award, Brooklyn, New York; Arts Council Travel & Training Award
2010 The Arts Council of Ireland Travel & Training Award; Artist Residency The Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, Connecticut, USA
2007 Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship residency, Ballycastle, Mayo
2006 DIT Special Award for Creative Practice
2005 Elected member of Aosdána; DIT Special Award for Creative Practice; Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annagmakkerrig; Arts Council/Aer Lingus Travel Award; Iontas, Adjudicators Award
2000 Arts Council/Aerlingus Travel Award
1998 Arts Council Materials Grant / Arts Council Bursary Award / Project Exhibition Grant
1985 Independent Artists Award
Collections
The Irish Museum of Modern Art
The Arts Council of Ireland
State Art Collection Ireland Office of Public Works
VU University Medical Centre Amsterdam
C21 Museum Hotels USA
Sun Communities, USA
Irish Contemporary Arts Society
KPMG
Dublin Institute of Technology
Regional Institute of Technology Kerry
First National Building Society
Ulster Bank
AIB Bank
ABN-AMRO Bank
Lease Plan BV The Netherlands
Gemeente Arnhem
Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council
The Law Library Ireland
DELA Insurance
The Netherlands
The National Drawing Archive Ireland
Private collections in USA, The Netherlands, Ireland, Germany, Canada and Belgium