D O M I N I Q U E C R O
A B O U T
Dominique Cro
New media artist
Living and working in London
EDUCATION
2024 Contemporary Art Practice,
Royal College of Art
2015 First Class BA Fine Art degree,
Kingston University
EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2024 THIS CITY WAS A FOREST, curated by PAI_32, Kupfer Project, London
2024 Contemporary Art Practice Degree Show, RCA Battersea, Studio building, London
2024 Future Archaeologies : Sculpture Park, Camden Art Centre, London
2024 Tate Modern Lates : Sonic Disruption, Tate Modern, London
2024 CAP Cinema, Genesis Cinema, London
2024 Everything Must Go, The Cookhouse Gallery, London
2022 - 2023 Futures Past, arebyte Gallery, London
2022 Orbit: Ridley Road Digital Winter Series commission and screening, Ridley Road Market Bar, London + online, supported by Arts Council
2022 Kammerflimmern, Heizhaus, Nuremberg, outdoor projection map + online screening
2021 Xi-Clone Drēmzü: Dominique Cro x Ben Coiacetto, design and build by Typeone, hosted by ArtSect Gallery, online exhibition
https://xi-clone-dremzu.artsect.xyz
2021 Routes: ReA! Art Prize Winners, Scalo Lambrate, Milan
2021 Correspondance x The Photographers' Gallery, online show
2020 Tits & Co, online exhibition
2020 660sqft, Affrica Studio, online exhibition
2020 Running Time, Frigg Studio, London
2020 Depictions of Living, The Art Pavilion, London
2020 Art Fritter, Art Fritter Van Gallery, travelling exhibition, London
2019 London Group Open 2019, The Cello Factory, London
2019 People Just Watch TV screening, It’s Her Factory, The Victoria, London
2018 Green Fingers screening with Faultress, BBC Music Introducing Live, London
2018 Wearing a Stranger’s Genes screening, It’s Her Factory, The Victoria, London
2017 TEDxTottenham, ADA College, London
2016 IN-RESIDENCE, Kitsch Studio, London
2015 Associates, Five Years Gallery, London
2015 Kingston University Fine Art Degree Show, Kingston University, London
2015 Bodmin, Kingston University, London
2015 Us and Things, Art Lacuna Gallery, London
2015 Pasteurized Prepared Cheese Product, Cavendish Gallery, London
2014 12 Hour Cell, Lilford Gallery, Canterbury
2014 12 Hour Cell, The Kave Gallery,
St Leonards –on– Sea
ART FAIRS
2023 ReA! Art Fair, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan
2021 Art Basel Miami: ArtSect Gallery OVR plots, Miami
2021 DCentral, Miami
2020 ReA! Art Fair, Fabricca del Vapore, Milan, awarded the ReA! Art Prize 2020
GRANTS
2023 Vice Chancellor's Achievement Scholarship, Royal College of Art
2023 Developing Your Creative Practice, Arts Council
2022 Orbit: Ridley Road Digital Winter Series commission and screening, Ridley Road Market Bar, supported by Arts Council
2018 Fr33dom Road, Bernie Grant Art Centre, supported by Arts Council
2013 2 Hour Cell, Stanley Picker Travel Award, Kingston University
COLLECTIONS
2023 Deep Sea, private collection, Milan
2022 Orbit: Ridley Road Digital Winter Series commission and screening, Ridley Road Market Bar, London, supported by Arts Council
2014 ID Me, Kingston University Printmaking Collection, Kingston University, London
PUBLICATIONS
2022 Futures Past, arebyte Gallery
2020 Issue 8: The Environmental Issue, Haus a Rest Zine, online feature
2016 Power House, Standard, edition 1
PRESS/INTERVIEWS
2023 RED-EYE
2023 ReA!
2022 Interview with arebyte Gallery on Futures Past
2021 Como Mag
2021 Dare Clan, issue 41
RESIDENCIES
2019 - 2020 Artist at Cyclic Matter Arts Organisation
2015 Doug Fishbone Residency, Kingston University, London
2014 Bodmin Residency, Bodmin, Cornwall, funded by the Stanley Picker Travel Award
RADIO
2020 Podcast Radio Marten, Creasing Patterns in Image-led Societies, Cyclic Matter, Olho Marinho, Portugal
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2022 I knock on your skin, SET Woolwich, group show
2021 - 2022 ArtSect Gallery, Head of Arts and Exhibitions
2018 Fr33dom Road, The Bernie Grant Art Centre, London, supported by Arts Council England
2016 - 2018 Interfaces Monthly, Barbican x The Trampery
WORK
Institutions I've worked with include Sadie Coles HQ, White Cube, Tate, David Zwirner, Barbican, Hayward Gallery, Auto Italia Gallery, ICA, Christie's, Perimeter Gallery, V.O Curations, SET Studios, The Trampery, Bernie Grant Art Centre, Convergence, Five Years Gallery, Stanley Picker Gallery and Dorich House Museum.
Dominique Cro is a new media artist living and working in London. Cro utilises the concept of time travel to observe phenomena that continue to change the course of humankind, such as digitisation and capitalism. The lens in which she approaches these themes is influenced by Donna Haraway’s theory - the Chthulucene, which poses making-with instead of self-making, and centres interspecies collaboration with the hope of creating a more habitable future. Cro works in CGI animation, video, installation, sculpture, game design and photography. Her practice combines documentary of the current socio-ecological environment with speculative fiction. She applies worldbuilding as a tool to explore alternative realities, with a focus on more-than-human perspectives.
Cro’s recent works centre symbiosis and interactivity. For example she is currently developing a video game installation, which explores the mutually beneficial relationship between termites and Termitomyces fungus. The player navigates the game as a termite, whilst the screen is installed within a termite mound sculpture. Cro encourages education through audience participation to promote inter-species care. Furthermore, Cro creates functional artworks which support the survival of other organisms, such as Bee House, which is an outdoor sculpture designed to accommodate solitary bees with nesting holes.
Cro recently completed an MA in Contemporary Art Practice at Royal College of Art. Recent exhibitions include Tate, Camden Art Centre, arebyte Gallery, Ridley Road Market Bar and The Photographers’ Gallery.
