Born 1949 in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada.
Lives and works in Vancouver.
Education |
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| 1968–1971 | Art History, University of British Columbia, Vancouver |
Awards |
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| 2004 | Gershon Iskowitz Prize, Gershon Iskowitz Foundation, Canada |
| 2001 | DAAD Scholarship, Germany |
Solo Exhibitions (selection) |
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| 2017 | Rodney Graham. Lightboxes, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden |
| That's not me, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead; Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar; IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin | |
| Canadian Impressionist, Canada House, London | |
| 2016 | You should be an artist, Le Consortium, Dijon |
| If you can't go through the door, go through the window, Alt, Instanbul | |
| 2015 | Rodney Graham, Sammlung Goetz, Munich |
| 2014 | Rodney Graham, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver |
| Rodney Graham: Props and Other Paintings, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver | |
| Rodney Graham: Collected Works, Rennie Collection at Wing Sang, Vancouver | |
| 2013 | Rodney Graham: Torqued Chandelier Release, Art Institute, Chicago, IL |
| 2012 | Rodney Graham: Canadian Humourist, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver |
| 2010 | Through the Forest, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Kunstmuseum, Basel; MACBA, Barcelona |
| Possible Abstractions, Museu Picasso, Barcelona | |
| 2008 | A Glass of Beer, CAC Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Malaga |
| 2007 | Lobbing Potatoes at a Gong, 1969, BAWAG Foundation, Vienna |
| 2006 | How I became a Ramblin' Man, Kurt Schwitters-Preis der Niedersächsischen Sparkassenstiftung, Sprengel Museum, Hannover |
| Rodney Graham, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montréal | |
| 2004–2005 | Rodney Graham: A Little Thought, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver |
| 2004 | Rodney Graham: Filme, Witze und Wiederholung, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Dresden |
| Rodney Graham, Museo Jumex, Mexico City | |
| 2003 | Rodney Graham: Millennial Time Machine, Morris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver |
| 2002 | Music and noise, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich |
| 2000 | ...the nearest faraway place..., Dia Center for the Art, New York, NY |
Group Exhibitions (selection) |
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| 2018 | Art and Entertainment, MAMCO Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva |
| 2017 | Field Guide, RemaiModern, Saskatoon |
| Remastered. The Art of Appropriation, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems | |
| Never Ending Stories, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg | |
| Duet with Artist. Participation as Artistic Principle, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen | |
| 2016 | Dancing with Myself, Self-Portrait and Self-Invention, Museum Folkwang, Essen |
| Sound in Motion, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart | |
| Till It's Gone, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul | |
| 2014 | The Dying of the Light: Film as Medium and Metaphor, MASS MoCA, North Adams |
| Propaganda für die Wirklichkeit, Museum Morsbroich, Morsbroich | |
| 2013 | 2013 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
| CONTINENTAL DRIFT: Conceptual Art in Canada: The 1960s and '70s, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe | |
| 2012 | Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver |
| I Wish This Was a Song. Music in Contemporary Art, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo | |
| Atelier + Kitchen = Laboratories of the Senses, Marta Herford, Herford | |
| 2011 | Time and Place, Kunsthalle Detroit, Detroit |
| Locus Solus. Impressions of Raymond Roussel, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid | |
| 2010 | La carte d'après Nature, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco |
| Huckleberry Finn, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco | |
| 17th Biennale of Sydney. The Beauty of Distance, Sydney | |
| 2009 | Holbein to Tillmans. Prominent Guests from the Kunstmuseum Basel, Schaulager Basel |
| Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf | |
| 2008 | Made up. International 08 Exhibition, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool |
| Time Crevasse. Yokohaman Triennale 2008, Yokohama | |
| Revolutions – Forms That Turn, 16th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney | |
| (loverboy), sleep, shatter, handheld bird, CCS Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson | |
| 2007 | PLAYBACK, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris |
| Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to now, Museum of Modern Art, New York | |
| Auto Emotion: Autobiography, Emotion and Self-fashioning, The Power Plant, Toronto | |
| Projections. A major survey of project-based works in Canada, 1964-2007, University of Toronto, Toronto | |
| 2006 | Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
| 1997 | 47th Venice Biennale |
| 1992 | documenta IX, Kassel |
Both as an artist and a musician – he was part of Vancouver post-punk scene – Rodney Graham has created a varied body of work since the late 1970s. Using different media such as photography, film, music, performance and painting, the artist interconnects reality and fiction by exploring everyday life and intellectual history. His works present narratives reflecting on visual arts, literature, as well as historical and cultural events.
