Ryan Gander
Ryan Gander was born in 1976 in Chester , England . He received his First Class Degree , BA ( Hons ) in Interactive Art at Manchester Metropolitan University and was a Post-Graduate Fine Art Participant at Jan van Eyck Academie Maastricht and Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam . The artist lives and works between Suffolk and London .
Gander has been invited to teach and lecture at numerous institutions , such as the AA School of Architecture , London ; Barbican , London ; Barnard College , New York , and École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts , Lyon .
In 2003 Gander was awarded the Dutch Prix de Rome for sculpture . In 2006 , he received the ABN Amro Art Prize and in 2009 , the Zürich Art Prize . In 2015 , he was awarded the honorary degree Doctor of Arts of the Manchester Metropolitan University . In 2017 , Gander was honored Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) for services to contemporary art . Ryan Gander has been awarded the Hodder Fellowship for 2019-20 at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University , Princeton .
Ryan Gander ’ s œuvre evokes fictional spaces , institutions and figures . His work is extremely varied , unified more by a conceptual vision than by formal appearance . It often combines fictional presence and absences , creating objects that refer to events , other absent objects , art works or persons , both real and imaginary . The voids or absences , evoked by the suggestion of missing items either named , delineated or circumscribed by traces , act as witty , sometimes lyrical invocations of the power of imagination . His attention is often focused on the playfulness and imagination of children , which is often more expansive and less restrictive than adult behavior , less encumbered by “ reality ”, facts and appearances .
The artist has had numerous solo exhibitions , among them : Good Heart , Base / Progetti per l ’ arte , Florence ( 2018 ); The day to day accumulation of hope , failure , and ecstasy , Laguna Gloria , The Contemporary Austin , Austin ( 2017 ); Faces of Picasso : The collection selected by Ryan Gander , Remai Modern , Saskatoon ( 2017 ); These wings aren ’ t for flying , The National Museum of Art , Osaka ( 2017 ); Human / non Human / Broke / non Broken , CC Foundation , Shanghai ( 2017 ); Works by Ryan Gander , Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine , Fukuoka ( 2017 ); Make every show like it ’ s your last , Musée d ’ art contemporain de Montréal ( 2016 ), Esperluette , Palais de Tokyo , Paris ( 2013 ); and Intervals : Ryan Gander , Solomon R . Guggenheim Museum , New York ( 2010 ).
Gander ’ s work is held in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art , Chicago ; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig , Vienna ; Carnegie Museum of Art , Pittsburgh ; Museum of Contemporary Art , Chicago ; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen , Rotterdam ; Arts Council Collection , London ; British Council Collection , London ; Carré d ’ art , Musée d ’ Art Contemporain , Nimes ; The Contemporary Austin , Austin , Texas ; Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine Museum , Fukuoka ; Fnac , Paris ; FRAC Haute Normandie , Rouen ; FRAC Ile de France , Paris ; FRAC Nord Pas-de-Calais , Calais ; Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo , Mexico City ; Government Art Collection , London ; Haus Konstruktiv , Zurich ; Ishikawa Museum , Okayama ; Kadist Art Foundation , Paris ; Louis Vuitton Foundation ; Paris ; Museo d ’ Arte Moderna di Bologna , Bologna ; Musée d ’ art contemporain de Montréal , Montreal ; Museu d ’ Art Contemporani de Barcelona , Barcelona ; Museo Tamayo Art Contemporaneo , Mexico City ; Museum of Modern Art , New York ; Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie , Warsaw ; National Gallery of Art , Osaka ; National Museum Wales , Cardiff ; Remain Modern , Saskatoon ; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , San Francisco ; and Tate Collection , London .
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