Born in Dublin, based in London and New York, Vivienne Griffin constructs sculptures, drawings and audio works in their interdisciplinary practice. The voice, its vernacular dialect and noise are used in text works (2D and aural) and free poetic form is applied to mass collages of objects (found, recovered and human-made). They are currently focussing and tackling the problematics of hyper-individualism in a new body of work and the use of sound and/or silence, dance music, meditation, singing and podcasts as means of transcendence or removal from the self. Their work strives for liberation from the lethargic nature of unoriginality: intertwined with everyday life as it implicates the ordinary as rare.
Griffin completed their MFA at Hunter, New York supported by a Fulbright Scholarship. In 2016 they exhibited at Frieze, New York and 427 in Latvia. They also performed at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Romania in 2017, as well as in 2018 at both CONDO with Bureau in Southard Reid and The Centre de la Photographie Genève (CPG) in 2019. Currently represented by Gallery Bureau in New York, Vivienne and the group are currently working on a video game that functions as both a music interface and a space/program specialised in writing poetry. Their upcoming album ‘Music For Dead People’ (or requiem) was released in 2021. Griffin also currently possess a residency studio space in Somerset House (new wing).