Ryan Gander

Ryan Gander (b. 1976, Chester, GB) studied at the Jan van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht and the Rijksacademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. In 2002 he gave his first solo exhibition at the International 3 Gallery in Manchester. In 2003 he won the Prix de Rome for sculpture and in 2005 was on the shortlist for the Becks-Futures Prize in London. In the same year he won the Baloise Art Statement Prize in Bazel. His work comprises subtle - partly fictional, partly factual - narrative structures from the archives of everyday life. Gander has had solo exhibitions at Galerie Annet Gelinck, Amsterdam (2006), Les Laboratoires des Aubervilles, Paris (2005), Artist Space, New York (2005), STORE, London (2005), Cornerhouse, Manchester (2005) and the Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam (2003). He has recently taken part in group exhibitions at the Kunstmuseum Luzern (2006), Witte de With, Rotterdam (2006), Torino Trienale ICA, London (2005) and PS1, New York (2004). His monographs include 'From The Alpinist', Fort Vijfhuizen / Artimo (2005), 'It's Like the Spoilt Brat of the Dictionary...', STORE (met Alice Fisher, 2005), 'The Boy that always looked up', Cornerhouse (with Sara De Bondt, 2004), 'Appendix', Artimo (with Stuart Bailey, 2003) and 'In a language you don't understand' (with Sara De Bondt, 2002).

Ryan Gander (born 1976) is a British artist. Since 2003, Gander has produced a body of artworks in different forms, ranging from sculpture, apparel, writing, architecture, painting, typefaces, publications, and performance. Additionally, Gander curates exhibitions, has worked as an educator at art institutions and universities, and has written and presented television programmes on and about contemporary art and culture for the BBC. Gander is typically described as a conceptual artist, but this is a term he has refuted, referring instead to himself as "a sort of neo-conceptualist, Proper-'Gander'-ist, amateur philosopher". He was elected Royal Academician in the category of sculpture. Gander's work has been displayed in several countries.read more on Wikipedia...