Geboren 1949 in Vancouver, Kanada / born 1949 in Vancouver, Canada
| 1968-1971 | Kunstgeschichtsstudium an der Universität British Columbia, Kanada / studied Art History at the University of British Columbia, Canada |
Lebt und arbeitet in Vancouver, Kanada / lives and works in Vancouver, Canada
Auszeichnungen / Awards and Grants
| 2004 | Gershon Iskowitz Prize, Gershon Iskowitz Foundation, Toronto, Canada |
| 2001 | DAAD-scholarship in Munich and Berlin, Germany |
Einzelausstellungen / Solo Exhibitions
2011
Rodney Graham, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, US
2010
Rodney Graham – Through the Forest, hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, DE
Rodney Graham – Through the Forest, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, CH
Rodney Graham – Through the Forest, MACBA – Museum of Contemporary Ar, Barcelona, ES
Possible Abstractions, Museu Picasso, Barcelona, ES
Lisson Gallery, London, UK
2009
Harun Farocki / Rodney Graham, Jeu de Paume, Paris, FR
2008
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, US
A Glass of Beer, CAC Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Malaga, ES
303 Gallery, New York, US
It’s all Black and White, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, DE
2007
Lobbing Potatoes at a Gong, 1969, BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, AT
Wet on Wet – My late early styles, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
2006
How I became a Ramblin' Man, Kurt Schwitters-Preis-Verleihung der Niedersächsischen Sparkassenstiftung, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, DE
Rodney Graham, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal, CA
Renaissance Man, Works 1400 – 1977, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, CH
Awakening, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, US
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, US
Art Unlimited, Art Basel 37, Basel, CH
2005
Rodney Graham: Picasso, My Master, Johnen Galerie, Berlin, DE
Rodney Graham: Picasso, My Master, Johnen Galerie at Galeria Raster, Warsaw, PL
Rodney Graham: A Little Thought; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancover, CA
Rodney Graham: A Little Thought Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, US
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, US
Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Rodney Graham, Le Magasin, Grenoble, FR
2004
Oakville Galleries, Toronto, Ontario, CA
Rodney Graham. A Little Thought, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CA
Rodney Graham. A Little Thought, MoCA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
La Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City, MX
303 Gallery, New York, US
Rodney Graham. Filme. Witze und Wiederholung, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Dresden, DE
2003
(mac), galeries contemporaines des musées de Marseille, Marseille, FR
K21, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duesseldorf, DE
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, US
Galerie Hauser and Wirth, Zurich, CH
Rodney Graham: Millennial Time Machine, Morris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, CA
Madison Arts Center, Madison, Wisconsin, US
2002
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
Music and noise, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, CH
2001
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, US
Art Gallery of Calgary, Toronto, CA
What is happy,baby?, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE
Galerie Nelson, Art Basel, Basel, CH
303 Gallery, New York, US
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, US
What is happy, Baby?, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Solo Concert, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, BE
2000
…the nearst farway place…, Dia Center for the Art, New York, US
Some works with sound waves, some works with light waves, and other experimental works, Kunstverein, Munich, DE
Rodney Graham. Neue Arbeiten, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, DE
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, US
Rodney Graham. Getting it Together in the Country, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, CA
Gruppenausstellungen / Group Exhibitions
2012
Marxism, 303 Gallery, New York, US
Canadian Humorist, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA
Art Histories, VOX Centre de l'image contemporaine, Montreal, CA
C.1983 Part II, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, CA
Resonance and Silence – Goetz Collection at Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE
Sound + Vision: Crossroads, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, CA
La matérialité de l'oeuvre, Collège Eugénie de Pomey salle audiovisuelle, Amplepuis, FR
Volume! Works from the collections of "la Caixa" Foundation and MACBA, MACBA, Barcelona, ES
101 Collection: Route 3, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, US
Ha Ha Road, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, UK
2011
Locus Solus. Impressions of Raymond Roussel, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, ES
Big Picture (Orte/Projektionen), K21 Ständehaus, Düsseldorf, DE
Ha Ha Road, QUAD Gallery, Derby, GB
Time and Place, Kunsthalle Detroit, Detroit, US
Jeff Wall. The Crooked Path, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, BE; Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, ES
Contour 2011 - 5th Biennial of Moving Image, Mechelen, BE
Round and Round and Round (Part2), La collection du Frac Île-de-France, Marne-la-Valée, FR
Faces. Works from the permanent Collection, Morris and Helen Birkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA
The Voyage or Three Years at Sea - Part 1. Rodney Graham - Tacita Dean, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art - Design, Vancouver, CA
Incongruous. When art makes you laugh, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, CH
2010
La carte d'apès Nature, Nouveau Musée de Monaco, MC
Huckleberry Finn, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, US
Kurt, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, US
Fast Forward2. The Power of Motion, Media Art Sammlung Goetz, Karlsruhe, DE
Konversationsstücke, Johnen galerie, Berlin, DE
17th Biennale of Sydney. The Beauty of Distance, Sydney, AU
2009
See This Sound. Promises in Sound and Vision, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, AT
Little Theatre of Gestures, Malmö Kunsthall, Malmo, SE
Little Theatre of Gestures, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, CH
nvasion of Sound, Zacheta National Art Gallery, Warsaw, PL
Holbein to Tillmans. Prominent Guests from the Kunstmuseum Basel, Schaulager Basel, CH
Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Duesseldorf, DE
2008
Notation. Kalkül und Form in den Künsten, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, DE
Revolutions 1968, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL
Made up. International 08 Exhibition, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
The Art of the Real. Vanmoerkerke Collection, Oud Vliegveld, Oostende, NL
Sound of Art. Musik in der Bildenden Kunst, MdM Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, AT
Un coup de Dés. Bild gewordene Schrift, ein ABC der nachdenklichen Sprache, Generali Foundation, Vienna, AT
Time Crevasse. Yokohama Triennale 2008, Yokohama, JP
Made up. International 08 Exhibition, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
Peripherer Blick und kollektiver Körper, Museion, Bozen, IT
Revolutions – Forms That Turn, 16th Biennale of Sydney, AU
REAL – Fotografien aus der Sammlung der DZ Bank, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, DE
Kavalierstart 1978 – 1982. Aufbruch in die Kunst der 80er, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, DE
To Burn Oneself with Oneself: the Romantic Damage Show, Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam, NL
Paraisos Indomitos, MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, ES
(loverboy), sleep, shatter, handheld bird, CCS Galleries at CCS Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, US
You Dig the Tunnel, I’ll Hide the Soil, White Cube Hoxton Square / Shoreditch Town Hall, London, UK
The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image. Part 1: Dreams, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., US
peer to peer, Échanges, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg, LU
2007
PLAYBACK, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, FR
Sympathy for the Devil. Art, Rock and Roll Since 1967, MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to now, MoMA The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Solo24Ore24Stunden, Museion, Bozen, IT
Intocable. El ideal de la transparencia, Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, ES
Romantischer Konzeptionalismus, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, DE
Sobre la Historia – On History, Fundacion Santander Central Hispano, Santander, ES
Elsewhere, Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, US
MACBA im Frankfurter Kunstverein. Eine Werkauswahl aus der Sammlung des Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, DE
All About Laughter, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, JP
Brave Lonesome Cowboy. Der Mythos des Westerns in der Gegenwartskunst, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, DE
Auto Emotion: Autobiography, Emotion And Self-fashioning, The Power Plant, Toronto, CA
If Everybody had an Ocean: Brian Wilson, Tate St. Ives, GB
Schlaf und Traum, Deutsches Hygienemuseum, Dresden, DE
Projections. A major survey of project-based works in Canada, 1964 – 2007, University of Toronto (Blackwood Gallery / Doris McCarthy Gallery / Justina M. Barnicke Gallery / University of Toronto Art Centre), Toronto, CA
2006
Jenseits des Kinos: Die Kunst der Projektion. Filme, Videos und Installationen von 1963 bis 2005. Werke aus der Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, der Kramlich Collection und anderer Sammlungen, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, DE
Music is a Better Noise, P.S.1 MoMA, Long Island City, US
Le Printemps de Septembre, Les Abattoires – FRAC Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, FR
Surprise, Surprise, ICA London, UK
Nothing But Pleasure, BAWAG-Foundation, Vienna, AT
Helga de Alvear – Conceitos para uma colecção, CCB Centro Cultural de Belem, Lissabon, PT
Dormir, rêver .... et autres nuits, CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, FR
Whitney Biennale, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
Good Vibrations – Visual arts and Rock music, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, IT
Video – Collection Pierre Huber, Le Magasin, Grenoble, FR
WRONG, Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin, DE
2005
Fast Nichts – Minimalistische Werke aus der Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE
The Imaginary Number, Kunst-Werke, Berlin, DE
Kontexte der Fotografie, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen, DE
Intertidal. Vancouver Art and Artists, MUHKA Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, BE
Superstars. Das Prinzip Prominenz in der Kunst. Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, AT
Ecstasy: In and About Altered States, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
Offwhite: Carte grise à Geneviève Cadieux, Dazibao, Centre de Photographies actuelles, Montreal, CA
Police, Landesmuseum Oberösterreich, Linz, AT
An Aside, Camden Arts Centre, cur. Tacita Dean, London, UK
Pass the Time of Day, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, GB
Puppets & Heavenly Creatures, Thyssen-Bornomisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, AT
Don’t trust anyone over thirty. Enterntainment by Dan Graham and Tony Oursler with Rodney Graham, Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, AT
Passport to Painting, 303 Gallery, New York, US
fast forward. La Coleccion Goetz, Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid, ES
2004
Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, DE
Sons et Lumières, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
57th International Film Festival Locarno, Section "In Progress", Locarno, CH
All under Heaven, Muhka, Antwerp, BE
Before the end, Le Consortium, Dijon, FR
Malerei, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, DE
Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver, Centre culturel canadienne, Paris, FR
Videodreams: between the cinema and the theatrical, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, AT
Portraits d’arbes, Musée d’Evreux, Evreux, FR
Rêves de Grandeur, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims, Reims, FR
Pass the time of day, Gasworks, London, UK
Reality check, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatchewan, CA
2003
On the Wall: Wallpaper by Contemporary Artists, The RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island, US
Fast Forward. Media Art Sammlung Goetz, ZKM, Karlsruhe, DE
Outlook: International Art Exhibition Athens 2003, Athens, GR
Go Johnny, go, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, AT
C'est Arrive Demain, Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, FR
Utopia Station, Venice Biennale, Venice, IT
within hours we would be in the middle of nowhere, 303 Gallery, New York, US
Soundtracks, The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton; The Power Plant, Toronto; and the Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, CA
Doublures/Body Doubles, Musée du Québec, Quebec, CA
Golden Oldies of Music Video, MoMA, New York, US
Re-producktion 2, Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna, AT
Extended Play: Art Remixing Music, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, NZ
Golden Oldies of Music Video, MoMA, New York, US
The Labyrinthine Effect, Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Victoria, AU
Doublures/Body Doubles, Musée du Québec, Québec, CA
Music/Video, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg, FR
Le Beau Corps de la Mémoire, MAC’s, Hornu, BE
Drawings, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, US
Christine Burgin, New York, US
Regarde, il neige, Centre national d’art et du paysage, Vassivière, FR
2002
Rock My World, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, US
Fantastic, 13th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, AU
New Deal, Cenre d’Art Contemporarin. Geneve, CH
Subreel, MAC, galeries contemporaines des Musées de Marseille, FR
Conversation, Recent acquistions of the Van Abbemuseum, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, GR
The House of Fiction, Sammlung Hauser and Wirth, St. Galen, CH
French Cellection, Mamco, Geneva, CH
Subreél, MAC, Galeries contemporaines des Musées de Marseille, Marseille, FR
Tableaux Vivants: Living Pictures and Attitudes in Photography, Film and Video, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, AT
Kunst nach Kunst, Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen, DE
Transformer, Pori Taidemuseo, Pori, FI
MHKA Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, BE
2001
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, NZ
Loop, Kunsthalle Munich, DE
Centre pour l’image Contemporaine/ Musée d’Art Modern, Genf, CH
Neue Welt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, DE
Wiederaufnahme, Neuer Aachener Kusntverein, Aachen, DE
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, US
Short Stories, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, US
Black Box, Kunstmuseum Bern, CH
Art/Music: Rock, Pop, Techno, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, AU
010101: Art in Technological Times, Museum of Modern Art San Francisco San Francisco, US
Luminous, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, US
These Days, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, US
The Big Show, Antwerpen, BE
Moving Images, Geneva, CH
2000
The Greenhouse Effect, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Drehmomente, Sammlung Hauser & Wirth, St. Gallen, CH
Let’s Entertain: Lifes’s Guilty Pleasures, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
Drive, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, NZ
Sound Video Film, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, US
Private Eye: Crimes and Cases, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, DE
Halcion Sleep, Lux Cinema and Gallery, London, UK
@ the Cinema, Real Art Ways, Hartford, US
Flight Patterns, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
Oktoberfest 2000, VTO Gallery, London, UK
"Rodney Graham - Hauser & Wirth", Artforum, 10.2011
"Die Ballade vom begabten Banker", Die Welt, 20.01.2011
"Es werde Licht im Dickicht", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 30.12.2010
"Der Waldgänger", Artnet, 08.12.2010
"Mietitore concettuale", Arte, 10.2010
"Konzeptkünstler Rodney Graham. Auf dem Rücksitz der Realität", Spiegel online Kultur, 22.10.2010
"Mehr Licht", Hamburger Abendblatt, 22.10.2010
"Rodney Graham", Art Review, 03.2010
"Die Krisen des Bürgers", Tageszeitung, 13.01.2010
"Rodney Graham, mon "vidéodrome" au Canada", Le Figaro, 20.04.2009
"Rodney Graham", Artforum, 03.2009