Rodney Graham
Artist Cv
Rodney Graham is recognized for a rigorously intellectual art, which ranges from photography, film, video and music to sculpture, painting and books. Graham's work examines social and philosophical systems of thought, in particular those derived from the transition of the Enlightenment into Modernism. Underlying each work is an historical context, through which a complex narrative incorporates literary and philosophic references and visual puns.
The work is essentially circular in structure and moves in seamless and infinite loops, such as the film trilogy Vexation Island (1997), How I Became a Ramblin' Man (1999), and City Self/Country Self (2001), where Graham impersonates fictional characters - respectively a castaway, a cowboy and a city dandy as well as its opposite, a country man – who are engaged in the endless repetition of fruitless actions and gestures, caught in the impossibility of reaching any meaningful conclusion. Borrowing from existing models, Graham constructs his own system, whose operating logic, often based in disorientation, the humorous and the absurd, deflects rather than reveals the key to their interpretation.
Rodney Graham lives and works in Vancouver.
Artist Contact
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Artist News
International 08 - Made Up
Liverpool Biennal, Tate Liverpool
20 September – 30 November 2008
Rodney Graham will present a new photographic work especially commissioned by the Liverpool Biennal.
Liverpool Biennal
Time Crevasse
Yokohama Triennale 2008
Curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Hu Fang, Miyake Akiko, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Beatrix Ruf.
13 September - 30 November 2008
Yokohama Triennale
Revolutions - Forms that Turn
16 Biennale of Sydney
8 June – 7 September 2008
Biennale of Sydney
Peripheral vision and collective body
MUSEION - Museo d'arte moderna e contemporanea, Bolzano
24 May – 21 September 2008
Museion
Artist Exhibitions
RODNEY GRAHAM, Wet on Wet - My Late Early Styles October 10 - November 17, 2007View Exhibition
Rodney Graham October 19 - November 23, 2005
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"The distance between me and you." July 9 - September 6, 2003
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Rodney Graham December 7, 2000 - January 27, 2001
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A Shot in the Head July 14 - September 9, 2000
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Then and Now July 18 - September 12, 1998
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Rodney Graham November 23, 1996 - January 11, 1997
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Victor Burgin, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, John Hillard July 20 - September 6, 1996
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Rodney Graham & Juan Muñoz October 22 - December 4, 1993
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Rodney Graham September 13 - October 13, 1990
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Real Allegories July 20 - September 8, 1990
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Artist Images
Rotary Psycho-Opticon, 2008 AV & Multimedia 120 x 144 inches
Paradoxical Western Scene, 2006 Painted aluminium lightbox with transmounted chromogenic transparency 147.3 x 121.9 x 17.8 cm
Allegory of Folly: Study for an Equestrian Monument in the Form of a Wind Vane, 2005 C-Prints mounted on lightboxes
Screen Door, 2005 Solid silver 203 x 82 x 12 cm
Tourqued Chandelier Release, 2004 35mm silent colour film (5min), purpose built projector screen Screen 305 x 183 cm
Continuous Transformation of the Form of a Child's Sledge into that of Another, 2000 Child's sledge, slide projector, 80 slides Dimensions variable