303 Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2013
New York, 303 Gallery, Rodney Graham, 3 May–15 June 2013 (another example exhibited)
London, Lisson Gallery, Rodney Graham, 17 May–29 June 2013 (another example exhibited)
Vancouver, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Rodney Graham, 20 June-17 August 2014 (another example exhibited)
New York, 303 Gallery, 303 Gallery: 40 years, 16 July-9 August 2024 (another example exhibited)
Susanna Legrenzi, 'Rodney Graham', Klat, 21 May 2013, online (another example illustrated)
Claire Hazelton, 'Expanding Conventions: Rodney Graham', Aesthetica: The Art& Culture Magazine, Issue 53, June 2013 (another example illustrated)
Marsha Lederman, 'The summer of Rodney Graham: Three ways Vancouver is feting the hometown artist', The Globe and Mail, 27 June 2014, online (another example illustrated)
Sean O'Hagan, 'Drugged, kidnapped and cast away: the funny, disturbing obsessions of Rodney Graham', The Guardian, 16 March 2017, online (another example illustrated)
Canadian • 1949
Rodney Graham pulls from cultural and intellectual history through photography, film, music, performance and painting. He presents narratives with puns and references to literature and philosophy, including Sigmund Freud and Kurt Cobain, with a sense of humor that contradicts his residence in the post-punk scene of late 1970s Vancouver.
In his film trilogy Vexation Island (1999), How I Became a Ramblin' Man (1999) and City Self/Country Self (2001), the artist plays characters like a castaway and a cowboy caught in repetitive cycles of actions and gestures. Such unconscious dream states are further explored in Graham's series of upside-down photographs of oak trees, which are hung to mimic camera obscura.
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