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He is co-founder of the artist initiative by bye, a collaborative project that repurposes soon-to-be-gone spaces in Chicago into provisional sites for artistic intervention. Most recently, he continued his research under Pritzker Director Madeleine Grynsztejn as a Fellow at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago.
He holds an MA (2021) with Distinction from The University of the Arts London and an MFA (2022) from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), along his studies as a LeRoy Neiman Fellow (2023) at Ox-Bow School of Art. From 2017 to 2020, Groth taught Film at the SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences.
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2025 | Museum of Contemporary Art Director's Office Fellowship, Chicago, under Madeleine Grynsztejn |
2024 | founding of the art initiative by bye with Jonas Mueller-Ahlheim |
2023 | LeRoy Neiman Fellowship at Ox Bow School of the Arts and Artist Residency, Saugatuck |
2023 | artist in residence at A4 Museum, Chengdu |
2021- | studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA), United States, with Jan Tichy, Jefferson Pinder, Frederic Moffet |
2023 | solo exhibition Situation als Akt at CON Gallery, Tokyo |
2022 | Dean Prof Development Award 2022 by The School of the Art Institute of Chicago |
2021 | Dean Professional Development Award 2021 by The School of the Art Institute of Chicago |
2020- | studies at the University of Arts London, United Kingdom (MA) |
2018- | visiting professorship at SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences (former Berlin Academy of Design), Berlin |
2018 | founding of the artist group acte berlin |
2011- | studies at the Berlin Academy of Design (BA), Berlin, with Prof. Sebastian Denz |
1993 | born in Saarbruecken, Germany |