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Ryan Gander

Biography

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Ryan Gander Born 1976, Chester, UK Lives and works in London, UK

Blurring the boundaries between reality and fiction, Ryan Gander assembles seemingly disparate objects, actions and texts to develop his own narrative systems. Characterized by conceptual rigor, visual simplicity and allusive text, Ryan Gander's works probe the processes of emergence and the mechanisms of perception entailed by the work of art. Installations, photographs, performances, publications and press inserts are his means of following up a train of thought concerning art's discursive potential and its transmission systems. His practice, which makes extensive use of language and work with other artists, aims at “making the invisible visible” and providing the “possibility and preconditions for things to happen”.

Biography

Ryan Gander Born in 1976 in Chester, UK Lives and works in London, UK

Education

2001 – 2002

Post-Graduate Fine Art Participant, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL

1999-2000

Post-Graduate Fine Art Research Participant, Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, NL

1996-1999

First Class Degree, BA (Hons) Interactive Art

Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK

Solo Exhibitions

(* denotes catalogue)

2010

Aurélien Froment and Ryan Gander, Khastoo Gallery, Los Angeles, Etats-Unis

Ryan Gander, Lisson Gallery, Londres, Angleterre

Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, Suisse, juillet 2010

2009

The Die is cast, Villa Arson, Nice, F*

It's a right Heath Robinson affair (A stuttering exhibition in two parts), gb agency, Paris & Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, F

As it presents itself, Picture This, Bristol, UK

Heralded as the new black, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL*

I let somebody get under my skin, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL

2008

Heralded as the new black, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK*

Heralded as the new black, South London Gallery, London, UK*

Something Vague, St Gallen Kunstverein, Switzerland, CH

Something Vague, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, GE

Somebody’s playing me 1998 – 2008, Taro Nasu Gallery, Tokyo, JP

Championed by Rigour, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, US

And it came to life, Lisbon, PT

Basquiat, STORE Gallery, London, UK

2007

How I learnt to use my senses, how I learnt to think and how I learnt to feel, Taro Nasu Gallery, Tokyo, JP

More than the weight of your shadow, Daiwa Press Viewing Room, Hiroshima, JP

Passengers, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, US

Short cut through the trees, MUMOK, Vienna, AU*

The Last Work, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL

Of Any Actual Person, Living or Dead, (with Aurélien Froment) STORE, London, UK

2006

Ryan Gander, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, IT

Ghostwriter Subtext, Premier Container, Art Basel Premier with STORE, Miami, USA

Didactease, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, US

Cinema Verso, Whitechapel East Wing, London, UK

Spencer, forget about good, Art Basel Unlimited with Annet Gelink Gallery, Basel, CH

The title taken from reading that book (with George Henry Longly), Elisabeth Kauffman, Zurich, CH

Is This Guilt In You Too – (The study of a car in a field), MUMOK, Vienna, AU

Your clumsiness is the next man’s stealth, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL

Nine Projects for the Pavilion de l’Esprit Nouveau, MAMbo, GAM, Bologna, IT

2005

But it was all green, Artists Space, New York, UK

Of Any Actual Person, Living or Dead, Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers, (with Aurélien Froment) F*

Is This Guilt in You Too – (The Study of a Car in a Field), Art Basel Statements with Annet Gelink Gallery, Basel, CH

Is This Guilt in You Too – (The Study of a Car in a Field), Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL

Somewhere between 1886 and 2030, Store, London, UK*

2004

An Incomplete History of Ideas, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK*

But it was all green, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL

La Galerie dans ma Poche, Leeds and London, UK

2003

But it was all green, STORE, London, UK

The Death of Abbé Faria, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, NL*

2002

Marie Aurore Sorry, The International 3, Manchester, UK*

In Return, (with Shahryar Nashat), Centre Pasquart, Bienne, CH

Group Exhibitions

(* denotes catalogue)

2010

The Storyteller, Anna-Maria and Stephen Keller Gallery, New York, Etat-Unis

The Crystal Hypothesis, GAMeC, Bergamo, Italie (upcoming)

Double Bind, Villa Arson, Nice, France

Che Cosa Sono Le Nuvole, Museion, Bolzano, Italie

2009

The Store, Artissma, Italy, (cur: Adam Carr)

Mille et Tre, Musée du Louvre, Paris, (cur : Marie-Laure Bernadac & Pascal Torres-Guardiola)

Gallery, Galleria, Gallerie, Norma Mangone Gallery, Turin

British Subjects, Neuberger Museum, Westchester, NY

TV, Mercer Union, Toronto

We are constant, Frieze Projects, Frieze Art Fair, London

Lisson Presents 6, Lisson Gallery, London

Project in collaboration with J. Monk, Yvon Lambert Project Space, Paris

Chasing Napolean, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Mirrors, Marco Vigo, Vigo, Spain, (cur: Gyonata Bonvicini)

ICI Touring Show, Bordeaux, France

Space Sculpture, David Roberts Foundation, London

Mercosur Biennale, Porto Alegre, Brazil, (cur: Victoria Noorthoorn)

Trying to cope, Cell Project Space, London

Pete and Repeat, Zabludowicz Collection, London

Nord, Nord-Ouest, gb agency, Paris, F

Forms of Enquiry, Architects Association, London, UK

The Space of Words, MUDAM Grand Duc Jean, LU

Natural Wonders, Baibakov Art Projects, Moscow, RU

Contested Ground, 176 Gallery, London, UK

Trying to cope with things that aren’t human, David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, US

The Malady of Writing: a Project on Texts and Speculative Imagination, MACBA, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, ES

Younger than Jesus, New Museum, New York, US

Mirrors, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo, ES

Several Silences, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, US

I desired what you were, I need what you are, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK

British Subjects, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, US

Trying to cope with things that aren’t human, AirSpace Gallery, Stoke on Trent, UK

Screening, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico, MX

The Making of Art, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, GE

The Storyteller, ICI, New York, US

2008

Les Feuilles, Palais de Tokyo, Paris and Super, Paris, F

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK

A Recent History of Drawing & Writing, ICA, London, UK

Playtime, Betonsalon, Paris, F

Wouldn’t it be nice, Somerset House, London, UK

Out of sight, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico, MX

AWOL – Biennale of Young Artists, META Cultural Foundation, Bucharest, RO

Wouldn’t it be nice, Centre d’art Contemporain, Zurich, CH*

Self Storage, Curatorial Industries, San Francisco, US

I desired what you were, I need what you are, Galleria Maze, Torino, IT

Within the big Structure, Megastructure, Berlin-Mitte, Berlin, GE

Delirious Beijing, PKM Gallery, Beijing, CN

Life on Mars, 55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, US

Revolutions – forms that turn, 16th Biennale of Sydney, AU

As it presents itself, Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable, UK

Wouldn’t it be nice, Somerset House, London, UK*

Featuring, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, F

The flight of the Dodo, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, IE

One of these things is not like other things, Unosunove Gallery, Rome, IT

Art Now Curate, Tate Modern, London, UK

Inaugural Show, Marz Galleria, Lisbon. PT

The show is not a void, Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, BR

Future Landscape, Royal Academy, London, UK

2007

Appendix Appendix Radio Play, Performa 07, New York, USA

In the Stream of Life, Betonsalon, Paris, F

For Sale, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, PT*

Wouldn’t it be nice, Centre d’art contemporain, Geneva, CH*

Words fail me, MoCAD, Detroit, US

Projecktion, Lentos Art Museum, Linz, AT

How soon is now, Luis Seoane Foundation, Coruna, ES

Language of Vision, mima Middlesborough Institute of Modern Art, UK

Without, Yvon Lambert, Paris, F

00S’, Lyon Biennale, Lyon, F

Plankjes, tak, Atelier als Spermedium, Artist Space for Contemporary Art, The Hague, NL

Twice told tales, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris, F

You have not been honest, Museo D’Arte Donnaregina, Naples, IT

Whenever It Starts It Is The Right Time, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, GE

Blackberrying, Christina Wilson Galerie, Copenhagen, DN*

Der Droste Effekt, Esther Schipper, Berlin, GE

Prediction – Exhibition Trouble, Paris, F*

Untouchable, Patio Herrianom - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Valladolid, ES

Some Time Waiting, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, F

Kit Bashing, Western Bridge, Seattle, US

On the Future of Art School, STORE, London, UK

2006

Constellations, Tanya Bonakdar, New York, US

Curating the Library, de Singel, Antwerp, BE

Projektions, Museum of Art Lucerne, CH*

Éclipses du Réel, Centre d’art contemporain, Fribourg, CH*

How soon is now?, Fundación Luís Seoane, Coruna, ES

Wrong, Klosterfelde, Berlin, GE

The show will be open when the show will be closed, STORE, London, UK

Radio Transmitted Time Capsule, with Francesco Manacorda, Radio Gallery, London, UK

Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable, UK

Le Confort Moderne, La Station, Poitiers, F

Le Spectre des Armatures, Glassbox, Paris, F

El Albergue, Holandés, La Station, Nice, F

Trial Balloons, MUSAC,Musei de Arte Contemporáneo de Castillia y León, León, ES*

Don Quijote, Witte de Witte, Rotterdam, NL

Objet a Part, Centre d’art Contemporain, Noisy le sec, F*

Group show: Pierre Bismuth, Ryan Gander, Karl Haendel and T. Kelly Mason, Cohen and Leslie, New York, US

Untouchable, Villa Arson, Nice, F

Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London, UK*

The Standard Hotel, The Standard Hotel, Miami, US

2005

Spectator T, Sheffield, UK*

T1 Triennial, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, IT*

Free Library, M + R Gallery, London, UK

Romance – A Novel, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, PT

Jaybird, ZERO... Milan, IT

Post No Bills, White Columns, New York, US

An Exhibition Amongst Friends, gb agency, Paris, F

Invisible Script, W139, Amsterdam, NL

Beck’s Futures, CCA, Glasgow, UK*

In This Colony, Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen, NL*

Beck’s Futures, ICA, London, UK*

A Show Without Works, Project Room, Spazio Lima, Milan, IT*

The World, Abridged, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK*

Timeline, The Store & Window 32, Paris, F

2004

Romantic Detachment, PS1, New York, US*

Romantic Detachment, Chapter Arts, Cardiff, UK*

Romantic Detachment, Q Arts, Derby, UK*

Romantic Detachment, Folly Gallery, Lancaster, UK*

Making Public, CBK, Dordrecht, NL

Summer Pursuits, Store, London, UK

Loose Associations, Centre Pompidou, Paris, F

Loose Associations, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, PL

Artist House, The Round Foundry, Leeds, UK

2003

Catch Me, Onufri, National Gallery of Albania, AL

Tourette's, W139, Amsterdam, NL*

RDV, Résonance, Galerie des Terreaux, Lyon Biennale, Lyon, F

Prix de Rome, (Winner), Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Den Haag, NL*

Grizedale Artist in Residence, Grizdale, Cumbria, UK

2002

Unloaded, (Disused Military Bunkers), Oberschan, CH*

2001

Record Collection, Forde Gallery, Geneva, CH

In a language, Project ruimte zuid en oost, Amsterdam, NL

On the trams, The Lowry, Manchester, UK

2000

The Oriel Mostyn Open, Llandudno, UK

Square City, Holden Gallery, Manchester, UK

Goethe’s Oak Has Woodworm, Static Gallery, Liverpool, UK

Unfortunately Last Sunday, Museum Het Domain, Sittard, NL*

Free Space, Nieuw Internationaal Cultureel Centrum, Antwerpen, BE*

Awards and Prizes

(* denotes catalogue)

2009

Nominee for The Times / South Bank Show Breakthrough Award, UK

2008

Paul Hamlyn Award, UK

2007

DENA Foundation Art Award, F*

2006

ABN AMRO Prize, NL*

Baloise Art Statements Prize, Basel Art Fair, CH

2005

Beck’s Futures Shortlist, ICA, London, UK*

2004

Cocheme Fellowship, Byam Shaw School of Art, London, UK

2003

Prix De Rome for Sculpture, NL*

2001-2003

Arts Council of England International Fellowship, UK*

Teaching / Lectures

AA School of Architecture, London, UK

Barbican, London, UK

Barnard College, New York City, US

Byam Shaw School of Art, London, UK

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, US

Chelsea School of Art, The London Institute, London, UK

Coventry School of Art and Design, Coventry, UK

De Appel, Amsterdam, NL

East Street Arts, Leeds, UK

École nationale des beaux-arts, Lyon, F

Gerrit Rietveld Akademie, Amsterdam, NL

Goldsmiths College, London, UK

Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK

Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, NL

Proto-Academy, Edinburgh, UK

Roski School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, US

Royal College of Art, London, UK

Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford, UK

Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK

Slade School of Art, London, UK

The Royal Danish Academy of Art, School of Architecture, Copenhagen, NL

UNIDEE Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, IT

University of Brighton, Brighton, UK

University of East London, London, UK

University of South Florida, Florida, US

University of West England, Bristol, UK

Wimbledon School of Art, University of Central St Martins, London, UK

Curating

2008

‘The way in which it landed’, Art Now, Tate Britain, London, UK

(Artists: Lucy Clout, Nathaniel Mellors, Aurelien Froment, David Renggli, Carol Bove)

2007

Associates Gallery, Project space directed with Rebecca May Marston, London, UK

(Artists: Matthew Smith, Stella Capes, Kim Coleman & Jenny Hogarth, Matthew

Harrison, Josephine Flynn, Tom Gidley, Sean Edwards, Lucy Clout, Alice Channer,

Adria Julia, Ben Cain, Adam Thomas)

‘Took my hands off your eyes too soon’, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

(Artists: Jesse Ash, Justin Beal, Alice Channer, Sean Edwards, Jack Strange)

2004

‘Now then now then’, International 3 Gallery, Manchester, UK

(Artists: Josephine Flynn, Harrison & Hughes, Lucy Skaer, Bedwyr Williams)

Bibliography

Bibliography

Artist's Publications / Monographs

2008

The Viewing Room, Volume, 5, Daiwa Press Co. Ltd (with Taro Nasu)

Heralded as the new black, Ikon Gallery 978-1904864370 (with Ikon Gallery)

2007

Appendix Appendix - A Proposal for a TV Series, JRP Ringier (with Stuart Bailey and Christophe Keller)

Intellectual Colours, Silvana Editoriale and Dena Foundation of Contemporary (with Will Holder), ABN AMRO Award.

Parallel Cards, (with Mia Frostner, Robert Sollis, Paul Tisdell, Rasmus Spanggaard Troelsen)

Loose Associations and other lectures, One Star Press, Paris (with EUROPA)

New New Alphabet, poster, (with Rasmus Spanggaard Troelsen)

2005

From The Alpinist, Fort Vijfhuizen / Artimo, 90-8546-042-5

It’s Like the Spoilt Brat of the Dictionary... STORE (with Alice Fisher)

2004

The Boy that always looked up, Cornerhouse (with Sara De Bondt)

2003

Appendix, Artimo (with Stuart Bailey)

2002

In a language (with Sara De Bondt)