Ryan Gander
Ryan Gander Cv
Ryan Gander lives and works in London. Recent solo exhibitions include the StedelijkMuseum Bureau, Amsterdam in 2003 and 2007, MUMOK, Vienna, and CCA Wattis Institute
for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco in 2007.
In January 2008 Gander's solo show, 'Heralded as the new black', curated by Nigel Prince,
premiered at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. The exhibition traveled to the South London
Gallery, London, 2008, and to the Boijmans Museum, Rotterdam, 2009. In 2008, new works
were also shown in group exhibitions at the Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, the Sydney
Biennial and the Whitstable Biennale. 'The Die is Cast', Gander's most extensive solo
exhibition to date, is on view at Villa Arson, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Nice, until
18 October 2009. The exhibition includes new work that Gander developed during a three-
month residency at Villa Arson.
In 2003 Gander won the 'Prix de Rome' for sculpture and in 2005 he was short listed for
the British art Prize 'Becks Futures' and won the Baloise Art Statement Prize at Art Basel. In
2006, he won the ABN AMRO prize of the Netherlands and he was awarded the 2007
Paul Hamlyn Award for Visual Arts. He has recently been awarded the prestigious Zurich
Art Prize. In 2010, as part of the prize, Gander's work will be presented at the Haus
Konstruktiv, Zurich. The exhibition will be accompanied by a new extensive monographic
publication.
Ryan Gander's work will be presented as part of 'Lisson Presents 6', 14 October – 14
November 2009, 29 Bell Street. His first solo exhibition at Lisson Gallery will open in May
2010.
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Ryan Gander Exhibitions
Ryan Gander May 5 - June 5, 2010
Ryan Gander Public Exhibitions
El mal d'escripturaMuseu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona
20 November - 25 April 2010
Neuberger Museum
DOUBLE BIND / Arrêtez d'essayer de me comprendre!
Villa Arson, Nice
5 February - 30 May
Villa Arson
The Magnificent Seven
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
September 2009 - July 2012
Ryan Gander is one of seven participating international artists who will, over a three-year period, be integrated into every aspect of CCA Wattis' structure and activities. Each will present a solo exhibition, complete a Capp Street Project artist residency, produce a publication, teach a number of courses as a CCA faculty member, deliver a public lecture, and participate in other aspects of the institution's programming.
CCA Wattis
Ryan Gander Catalogues and Editions
Ryan Gander Images
Ryan Gander Man on a bridge - (A study of David Lange), 2008 16mm film transferred to HD video projection, sound, loop 16' 27". Fifty, ten second takes of the same cinematic sequence. A man whilst walking over a bridge seems to notice something over a railing, as he moves in for a closer inspection, the film cuts which is then followed by another take of the same shot.
Ryan Gander Oh no not again, 2008 Wall drawing in black ink ed.1/3 A large wall drawing in black ink reproduced from the book 'Body Language: How to Read Others Thoughts by Their Gestures' by Allan Pease first published in 1981 by Camel Company Limited, representing a middle aged man frowning and holding his head in despair. Over the top of this wall drawing is hung and framed A% commissioned illustration by Mark Beesley of Suffold, UK depicting a cut-away view through the wall of Ryan Gander's studio at night.
Ryan Gander I don't blame you, or, When we made love you used to cry and I love you like the stars above and I'll love you 'til I die, 2008 Photograph: Louise Hayward A bronze figurine of a young female ballerina resembling Degas model, approx. 60 cm tall, sitting on the floor with her back towards, and leaning on a white empty plinth measuring 80 x 50 x 50cm. She holds a cigarette, her head is poised and her eyes look straight ahead focussed on a ultramarine blue acrylic cube measuring 2 x 2 cm.
Ryan Gander Basquiat or I can't dance to it, one day - but not now, one day I will but that will be it, but you won't know it and that will be it, 2008 Single Channel HD video projection, sound duration: 5:30 Single Channel HD video projection, sound, duration N/A. The video shows gallerist Niru Ratnam riding a bicycle in a park wearing pajamas. The work is a loose reconstruction on a scene from the film 'Basquiat' 1996. The audio element consists of a voice over of Ratnam reading a press release he had written for the work following the production of the visual element of the video. The press release was written with the full knowledge that it would become the voiceover for the final edit.
Ryan Gander Errata tossed back to the horizon, 2008 Black and white photograph 180 x 123cm A black and white photograph of a mirror in a white space, propped up against the wall - as observed in the photographic work 'Steve Martin, 1972, 2004, Chromogenic print, 60 x 48 in. (152.4 x 121.9 cm)' by Tim Lee. This particular photograph is framed in a white framed and lent against the gallery wall.
Ryan Gander Like being balanced on the handlebars of a blind mans bike, 2008 variable A series of balls in differing colours and sizes, that represent the Google logo translated to Braille, the sizes of which represent a corrected view from the perspective of a fixed position on entering the gallery space.
Ryan Gander Corkboard D - While its edges and the walls were lit, 2006 Corkboard 120 x 120 ed.unique Corkboard used for the associative research of the myth of concrete cancer.
Ryan Gander A blood that runs against that kind of blood, 2006 Twenty-four 5cm wooden cubes 60 x 43 cm Twenty-four 5cm wooden cubes to appear in a pile on the floor as a game or puzzle. Twelve screen printed with drawings by three budding novelists showing their impression of Sherlock Holmes living room, in addition to three texts from the 1951 Sherlock Holmes Exhibition at Abbey house, London. The second set of twelve 5cm wooden cubes, each side painted with a differing pastel tones, ('intellectual colours' taken from L'espirit Noveau pavilion by Le Courbusier).
Ryan Gander My family before me, 2006 Black and white photographic print 20 x 15 cm
Ryan Gander Writing my life, 2005 Still from single Channel video, to be played on monitor with headphones or speakers. duration: 7:34 A Sony Cube PVM series monitor placed on a standard plinth made to fit or placed on the floor, with DVD player hidden. Wireless headphones or speakers, depending on the space (curatorial decision). Narrated by Aurelien Froment
Ryan Gander This Consequence, 2005 Tracksuit with embroidery S x 1 / L x 2 / XL x 2 ed.1/5 An 'All White' Adidas tracksuit with golden embroidered logo's. Additionally two small stains are discreetly embroidered on both the top and the trousers in dark red thread. The tracksuit is worn by an arts administrator, curator, gallerist, director or invigilator associated with the institution exhibiting the work whenever they are present in the exhibition space.
Ryan Gander Comic cosmology, 2005 Animation appropriating stars from the graphic logo for the Worlds Fair of 1964 / 1965 at Flushing Meadows, New York City, with sound track by Elmer Bernstein, taken from the film 'IBM at the fair' by Charles and Ray Eames 1964.
Ryan Gander Are we living in (Associative Photograph # 18), 2004 Hand printed photograph, drawing and pins 120 x 120cm
Ryan Gander Bauhaus Revisited, 2003 Bauhaus chess-set from 1924 designed by Josef Hartwig, reproduced in blacklisted Zebrawood from the African rainforest. African Zebrawood (Microberlina Brazzavillensis)
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