Jim Ricks

• Poulnabrone Bouncy Dolmen is a large inflatable sculpture designed for people to interact with and play on.[20][8] It is a twice-the-size replica of a 6,000-year-old megalithic portal tomb, the Poulnabrone Dolmen situated in the Burren , Co. Clare. It traveled to venues around the Aughty Region of county Galway in June 2011 and was a Galway County Council project.[21][22] Cristin Leach of The Sunday Times wrote:

  "We need to start thinking more creatively about public art. Jim Ricks has. Poulnabrone Bouncy Dolmen... is a commentary on our past, our present, the concept of “brand Ireland” and the very idea of public art; and everyone is invited to bounce. A temporary, movable, witty, interactive, contemporary public artwork we are all invited to play with? [Alice] Maher has endorsed it as “the best public art piece...ever”. She might just be right."[23]

  The piece was also shown alongside Jeremy Deller's 2012 inflatable Stonehenge, Sacrilege, in Belfast,[22][24] and was featured in the Royal Hibernian Academy exhibition Futures 12.[5][25][6]
• Ricks is working on the long-term, global public art project In Search of the Truth (or En Busca de la Verdad ). Also known as "The Truth Booth", it is a collaboration with Ryan Alexiev, Hank Willis Thomas .[26][27][28] The New York Times writes: "The “Truth Booth,” [is] a roving, inflatable creation by a group of artists calling itself the Cause Collective. The booth, in the shape of a cartoon word bubble with "TRUTH" in bold letters on its side, serves as a video confessional. Visitors are asked to sit inside and finish the politically and metaphysically loaded sentence that begins, "The truth is …"".[29] To date, the project has travelled Ireland, Afghanistan, South Africa, Australia, the United States, and Mexico.[30][31] The goal of this project is to try to capture as many definitions, confessions and thoughts on The Truth as possible, creating a diverse ‘portrait’ of people across the globe.[32][33][34]
• Life's a Beach (Art imitates life), Gable end mural responding to the political Murals in Northern Ireland, Abercorn Rd., Derry, Northern Ireland, April 2016[35]
• Sesiones Publicas, San Agustín, La Lisa, Cuba, a LASA project, August 2017.[36]

Ricks was invited to participate in a 2 year project called Sleepwalkers (2012–15) at the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin. He was one of six artists invited to use the museum's resources, in an "unusual experiment in exhibition production".[37] Ricks's contributions included a tribute to Richard Hamilton (artist), unauthorized exhibitions, his solo show: Bubblewrap Game: Hugh Lane, 2013 – 14, and a closing event which included James Barry in 2014.[38][39] Aidan Dunne of the Irish Times describes Ricks's participation as a "curatorial process of selection and validation, making a museum within the museum comprising works from the real collection, artworks borrowed from elsewhere, non-art objects from flea markets and a commissioned copy of an Ed Ruscha painting."[10]

• 2010 – Synchromaterialism, Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin, Ireland[15][3]
• 2013–2014 – Bubble Wrap Game: The Hugh Lane, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland[8][10]
• 2015 – Alien Invader Super Baby (Synchromaterialism IV) Onomatopee, Eindhoven, The Netherlands[16]
• 2016–2017 – Centro de Ontología Nacional, Casa Maauad, Mexico City, Mexico[40]
• 2018 – Museo Ambulante Sebastián, Mexico City, Mexico[41]
• 2020 – Así Luce la Democracia | This is What Democracy Looks Like, Galeria Daniela Elbahara, Mexico City, Mexico[2][42]