VTO, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art; Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery; Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art; Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Rodney Graham: A Little Thought, 31 March 2004 - 23 December 2005, pp. 102-103, 193, 199, 206 (another example illustrated and exhibited, pp. 102-103)
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Klang und Stille, Resonance and Silence, 13 April - 9 September, pp. 54-61 (another example illustrated and exhibited, pp. 55, 58-60)
Olafur Eliasson, Tom Friedman, Rodney Graham, ‘Rodney Graham’, Parkett, vol. 64, 2002, pp. 94 - 95
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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