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Ryan Gander    (British, 1976)

 Ryan Gander - As it presents itself - Somewhere Vague (Installations)
Ryan Gander
As it presents itself - Somewhere Vague 2008
 
  

Biography
1976 Born in Chester, United Kingdom
1996 - 1999 First Class Degree, BA (Hons) Interactive Art - Manchester Metropolitan, University, Manchester, United Kingedom
1999 - 2000 Post-Graduate Fine Art Research Participant - Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, Netherlands
2001 - 2002 Post-Graduate Fine Art Participant - Rijksakedemie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2001 - 2003 Arts Council of England International Fellowship, UK (catalogue)
2003 Prix De Rome for Sculpture, Netherlands (catalogue)
2004 Cocheme Fellowship, Byam Shaw School of Art, London, UK
2005 Beck’s Futures Shortlist, ICA, London, UK (catalogue)
2006 ABN AMRO Art Price, ABN AMRO head office Amsterdam, Netherlands (catalogue)
2006 Baloise Art Statements Prize, Art Basel, Switzerland
2007 DENA Foundation Art Award, France (catalogue)
2008 Paul Hamlyn Award, UK
2009 Nominee for The Times, South Bank Breakthrough Award, UK
2009 Zurich Art Prize, Haus Konstruktiv, Switzerland
Lives and works in London and Amsterdam

Exhibitions
2009 Radical Autonomy, Centre D’Art Contemporain, Saint-Nazaire, France
2009 Space as Medium, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida, USA
2009 Pete and Repeat, works from Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
2009 The die is cast, Villa Arson, Nice, France (solo)
2009 Eleanor Antin, Marcel Broodthaers, Peter Friedl, Ryan Gander, Erna Hecey Gallery Temporary Space, Cologne, Germany (solo)
2009 Forms of Enquiry, Architects Association, London, UK
2009 Talk Show, ICA, London, UK
2009 The Happy Interval, Tulips & Roses, Vilnius, Lithuania
2009 Fax, The Drawing Center, New York, US
2009 Natural Wonders, Baibakov Art Projects, Moscow, Russia
2009 Lisson presents 4, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
2009 Contested Ground, 176 Gallery, London UK
2009 Trying to cope with things that aren’t human, David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, US
2009 The Malady of Writing, MACBA, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
2009 Younger than Jesus, New Museum, New York, US
2009 Mirrors, MARCO, Vigo, Spain
2009 Several Silences, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, US
2009 British Subjects, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, US
2009 Trying to cope with things that aren’t human, AirSpace Gallery, Stoke on Trent, UK
2009 Forms of Enquiry, Architects Association, London, UK
2009 Natural Wonders, Baibakov Art Projects, Moscow, Russia
2009 Places To Be. New York – Shanghai – Tel Aviv – Texas – Zagreb, video program The Bakery, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2009 Desiring Necessities, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK
2009 Videotheque, Annet Gelink Gallery
2009 The Story Teller, ICI, New York, USA (group)
2009 As it presents itself, Picture This, Bristol, UK (group)
2009 The Space of Words, MUDAM Grand Duc Jean, Luxembourg (group)
2009 Desire Acquire, Galerie Bob van Orsouw gmbh, Zürich, Switzerland (group)
2009 The Making of Art, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany (group)
2009 I let somebody get under my skin, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)
2009 It’s a right Heath Robinson affair (a stuttering exhibition in two parts), Kadist Art Foundation and gb Agency, Paris, France (solo)
2009 Heralded as the new black / Forward, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL (solo)
2008 Something Vague, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany (solo)
2008 Heralded as the new black / Forward, IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK (solo)
2008 Heralded as the new black / Forward, South London Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2008 Something Vague, Sankt Gallen Kunstverein, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland (solo)
2008 Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL (solo)
2008 Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, US (solo)
2008 Is this guilt in you too – (Cinema Verso), STORE, London, UK (solo)
2008 One of these things is not like other things, Galleria 1/9 unosunove, Rome, Italy
2008 The flight of the Dodo, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
2008 AWOL – Biennale of Young Artists, META Cultural Foundation, Bucharest, Rumania
2008 Wouldn’t it be nice, Centre d’Art Contemporain pt 2, Geneva, Switzerland
2008 Wouldn’t it be nice, Somerset House, London, UK
2008 Inaugural Show, Marz Galleria, Lisbon, Portugal
2008 This is not a void, Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paolo, Brasil
2008 Self Storage, Curatorial Industries, San Francisco, USA
2008 I desired what you were, I need what you are, Galleria Maze, Torino, Italy
2008 Within the big structure, Berlin-Mitte, Berlin, Germany
2008 Life on Mars, Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, USA
2008 As It Presents Itself – Somewhere Vague, Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable, UK
2008 MARCO, Museo Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
2008 Somebody’s playing me 1998 – 2008, Taro Nasu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
2008 And it came to life, Marz Galleria, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
2008 Championed by Rigour, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, US (solo)
2008 Basquiat, Store Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2008 Never let the truth get in the way of a good story, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK (group)
2008 Future Landscape, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (group)
2008 A Recent History of Drawing & Writing, ICA, London, UK (group)
2008 Playtime, Betasalon, Paris, France (group)
2008 Out of sight, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico (group)
2008 Delirious Beijing, PKM Gallery, Beijing, China (group)
2008 Revolutions – forms that turn, 16th Biennale of Sydney, Australia (group)
2008 Art Now Curate, Tate Modern, London, UK (group)
2008 Featuring, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France (group)
2007 Performa 07, New York, US (group)
2007 Ghostwriter Subtext, Taro Nasu Galley, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
2007 More than the weight of your shadow, Diawa Factory, Hiroshima, Japan (solo)
2007 Passengers, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, US (solo)
2007 Phantom of Appropriation, In the stream of life Betonsalon, Paris, France (solo)
2007 Short Cut through the trees, MUMOK, Vienna, Australia (solo)
2007 The Last Work, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)
2007 Of Any Actual Person, Living or Dead, STORE, London, UK (solo)
2007 Mumok, Vienna, Austria (solo)
2007 The Last Show, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)
2007 Gallery Cover, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)
2007 How soon is now?, Fundación Luís Seoane, Coruna, Spain
2006 Objet a Part, Centre d’art Contemporain, Noisy le sec, France
2006 Cohen and Leslie, New York, USA
2006 In touchable, Villa Arson, Nice, France
2006 Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom
2006 Constellations, Tanya Bonakdar, New York, USA
2006 Curating the Library, de Singel, Antwerp, Belgium
2006 Projection, Museum of Art Lucerne, Switzerland
2006 Wrong, Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany
2006 The show will be open when the show will be closed, Store, London, United Kingdom
2006 Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable, United Kingdom
2006 Le Spectre des Armatures, Glassbox, Paris, France
2006 Trial Balloons, Musac, Leon, Spain
2006 Don Quijote, Witte de Witte, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2006 Nine Projects for the Pavilion de l’Esprit Nouveau, GAM, Bologna, Italy (solo)
2006 Art Positions with STORE, Miami Basel, USA (solo)
2006 Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
2006 ABN AMRO Kunstprijs, ABN AMRO head quarter, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)
2006 Templates for… Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy (solo)
2006 Is this guilt in you too - (Cinema Verso), STORE/Whitechapel East Wing, London, United Kingdom (solo)
2006 Spencer Forget About Good Art Basel Unlimited with Annet Gelink Gallery, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
2006 The title taken from reading that book (with George Henry Longly), Elisabeth Kaufmann, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2006 Is this guilt in you too – (The study of a car in a field), MUMOK, Vienna, Austria (solo)
2006 Your clumsiness is the next man’s stealth, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)
2006 Ghostwriter Subtext, Premier container, Art Basel Premier with STORE, Miami Basel, USA (solo)
2006 Didactease, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
2005 But it was all green, Artists Space, New York, USA (solo)
2005 Of Any Actual Person, Living or Dead, with Aurélien Froment, Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers, Paris, France (solo)
2005 Art Basel Statements with Annet Gelink Gallery, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
2005 Is This Guilt in You Too – (The Study of a Car in a Field), Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)
2005 Somewhere between 1886 and 2030 (2005), Store, London, United Kingdom (solo)
2005 Spectator T, Sheffield, United Kingdom
2005 T1 Triennial, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
2005 Free Library, M + R Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2005 Romance – A Novel, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
2005 Jaybird, Zero... Milan, Italy
2005 Post No Bills, White Columns, New York, USA
2005 Petites Compositions Entre Amis, GB Agency, Paris, France
2005 Invisible Script, W139, Amsterdam, Netherlandds
2005 Beck’s Futures, CCA, Glasgow, United Kingdom
2005 In This Colony, Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen, Netherlands
2005 Beck’s Futures, ICA, London, United Kingdom
2005 A Show Without Works, Project Room, Spazio Lima, Milan, Italy
2005 The World, Abridged, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, United Kingdom
2005 Timeline, The Store & Window 32, Paris, France
2004 An Incomplete History of Ideas, Cornerhouse, Manchester, United Kingdom (solo)
2004 But it was all green, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)
2004 La Galerie dans ma Poche, Leeds and London, United Kingdom (solo)
2004 Romantic Detachment, PS1, New York, USA
2004 Romantic Detachment, Chapter Arts, Cardiff, United Kingdom
2004 Romantic Detachment, Q Arts, Derby, United Kingdom
2004 Romantic Detachment, Folly Gallery, Lancaster, United Kingdom
2004 Making Public, CBK, Dordrecht, Netherlands
2004 Summer Pursuits, STORE, London, United Kingdom
2004 Loose Associations, Centre Pompidou, Beaubourg, Paris, France
2004 Loose Associations, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2004 Artist House, The Round Foundry, Leeds, United Kingdom
2003 But it was all green, Store, London, United Kngdom (solo)
2003 The Death of Abbé Faria, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)
2003 Catch Me, Onufri, National Gallery of Albania, Albania
2003 Tourette's, W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2003 RDV, Résonance, Galerie des Terreaux, Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France
2003 Prix de Rome Winner, Gem, Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Den Haag, Netherlands
2003 Grizedale Artist in Residence, Cumbria, United Kingdom
2002 Unloaded, (Disused Military Bunkers), Oberschan, Switzerland
2002 Marie Aurore Sorry, The International 3, Manchester, United Kingdom (solo)
2002 In Return, with Shahryar Nashat, Centre Pasquart, Bienne, Switzerland (solo)
2001 Record Collection, Forde Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
2001 In a language…, Project ruimte zuid en oost, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2001 Year of the Artist Residency, The Lowry, Manchester, United Kingdom
2000 The Oriel Mostyn Open, Llandudno, United Kingdom
2000 Square City, Holden Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom
2000 Goethe’s Oak Has Woodworm, Static Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom
2000 Unfortunately Last Sunday, Museum Het Domain, Sittard, Netherlands
2000 Free Space, Nieuw Internationaal Cultureel Centrum, Antwerpen, Belgium

Literature
2008 Heralded as the new black, artist book published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Ikon gallery, Birmingham, South London gallery, London, and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
2008 The Viewing Room, Daiwa Press Co. Ltd (with Taro Nasu)
2007 Intellectual Colours, book published on the ocassion of the presentation the Dena Foundation Art Award 2006, Dena Foundation of Contemporary Art and Silvana Editoriale
2007 Parallel Cards, a project by Ryan Gander (with Mia Frostner, Robert Sollis, Paul Tisdell, Rasmus Troelsen), ISBN 978-3-902490-31-5
2007 Loose Associations and other Lectures, One Star Press, Paris
2007 Appendix Appendix, Christoph Keller Editions/JRP Ringier (with Stuart Bailey)
2006 Pure Associations, ABN AMRO, Amsterdam
2005 From The Alpinist, Fort Vijfhuizen / Artimo, 90-8546-042-5
2005 It’s Like the Spoilt Brat of the Dictionary... STORE, 0-9550142-0-4 (with Alice Fisher)
2004 The Boy that always looked up, Cornerhouse, 0-948797-44-4 (with Sara De Bondt)
2003 Appendix, Artimo, 90-75380-60-7 (with Stuart Bailey)
2002 In a language, i3, 0-9542058-1-2 (with Sara De Bondt)
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