Friends Indeed Gallery Ryan Gander 1976 Chester, UK. Ryan Gander is an artist living and working in Suffolk and London. He has established an international reputation through artworks that materialise in many different forms from sculpture to film, writing, graphic design, installation, performance and more besides. Through associative thought processes that connect the everyday and the esoteric, the overlooked and the commonplace, Gander’s work involves a questioning of language and knowledge, a reinvention of the modes of appearance and creation of an artwork. His work can be reminiscent of a puzzle, a network with multiple connections, the fragments of an embedded story, a huge set of hidden clues to be deciphered, encouraging viewers to make their own connections and invent their own narrative in order to solve the charade with its many solutions, staged by the artist. Gander studied at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL and the Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, NL. He was awarded the 2007 Paul Hamlyn Award for Visual Arts, in 2006 won the ABN AMRO prize of the Netherlands, in 2005 he was short listed for the British art Prize ‘Becks Futures’ at the ICA in London and won the Baloise Art Statement Prize at Art Basel, in 2009 he was awarded the Zürich Art Prize. Alongside his artistic production, Gander is a visiting lecturer at a selection of art schools within Europe, previously being a Professor of Fine Arts at Huddersfield University, and has been presented the award of Doctor of Arts of the Manchester Metropolitan University, Honoris Causa, and at the University of Suffolk. In 2017 he was awarded an OBE for services to contemporary arts. In 2019 he was awarded the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University. Recent solo shows have been held at Esther Schipper, Berlin, DE; BASE / Progetti per l’arte, Florence, IT, gb Agency, Paris, FR, TARO NASU, Tokyo, JP Lisson Gallery, London, UK; The National Museum of Art, Osaka, JP; Hyundai Gallery, Seoul, SK; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, AU; Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore, SG; Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK. Major projects include Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art 2018, Liverpool, UK; Sydney Biennale 2018, Sydney, AU; Performa 15, New York, US; British Art Show 8, Leeds, UK; Panorama, High Line, New York, US; Gallery address: Mailing address: 213-369-0646 716 Sacramento St. 2458 Great Hwy [email protected] San Francisco, CA 94108 San Francisco, CA 94116 friendsindeed.art Friends Indeed Gallery Imagineering, Okayama Castle, Okayama, JP; The artists have the keys, 2 Willow Road, London, UK; Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, CH; Parcours, Art Basel, Basel, CH; Esperluette, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR; dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, G; Locked Room Scenario, commissioned by Artangel, London, UK; ILLUMInations at the 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale; Intervals at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC, US and The Happy Prince, Public Art Fund, Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park, NYC, US. Recent publications include The Annotated Reader, Picasso and I, rRemai mModern, Fieldwork, the Complete Reader, Bedford Press; a monograph by the artist, entitled Culturefield, published by Koenig Books; Artist’s Cocktails, Dente-de-Leone; The boy that always looked up, Lisson Gallery; Ampersand, Dente-de-Leone; Catalogue Raisonnable Vol: 1, co- published by JRP Ringier and Westreich/Wagner Publications. Public Collections: Arts Council Collection, London, UK The Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam NL British Council, London, UK Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, US Carré d’art, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Nimes Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine, Fukuoka, JP Fnac, Paris, FR Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, MX FRAC du Nord Pas-de-Calais, Calais, FR Frac Haute Normandie, Rouen, FR Frac Ile de France, Paris, FR Government Art Collection, London, UK Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart , DE Kulturbesitz, DE Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, CH Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, F MacBA, Barcelona MaMBO, Bologna IT MCA Chicago, US MUMOK, Wien, AT Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, MX Museum of Modern Art, New York, US Musée D’Art Contemporain De Montréal, Montréal, CA Muzeum Sztuki Gallery address: Mailing address: 213-369-0646 716 Sacramento St. 2458 Great Hwy [email protected] San Francisco, CA 94108 San Francisco, CA 94116 friendsindeed.art Friends Indeed Gallery Nowoczesnej w Warszawie The National Museum of Art, Osaka, JP Tate Collection, London, UK Welsh Museum, Cardiff, UK Gallery address: Mailing address: 213-369-0646 716 Sacramento St. 2458 Great Hwy [email protected] San Francisco, CA 94108 San Francisco, CA 94116 friendsindeed.art Friends Indeed Gallery Ryan Gander Born 1976, Chester, UK Lives and works in London and Suffolk, UK Education 2001- 2002 Post-Graduate Fine Art Participant Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL 1999 - 2000 Post-Graduate Fine Art Research Participant Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, NL 1996 - 1999 First Class Degree, BA (Hons) Interactive Art Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK Awards and Prizes (* denotes catalogue) 2019 Pommery Prize Winner Hodder Fellowship, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA 2017 OBE, UK Award of Doctor of the University, University of Suffolk, UK 2015 Award of Doctor of Arts of the Manchester Metropolitan University, Honoris Causa, UK 2009 Nominee for The Times / South Bank Show Breakthrough Award, UK Winner of the Zurich Art Prize, Haus Konstruktiv, CH* 2008 Paul Hamlyn Award, UK 2007 DENA Foundation Art Award, FR* 2006 ABN AMRO Prize, NL* Baloise Art Statements Prize, Basel Art Fair, CH 2005 Beck’s Futures Shortlist, ICA, London, UK* 2004 Cocheme Fellowship, Byam Shaw School of Art, London, UK 2003 Prix De Rome for Sculpture, NL* 2001-2003 Arts Council of England International Fellowship, UK* Solo Exhibitions (* denotes catalogue) 2019 ‘To employ the mistress.... It's a French toff thing’, 2015, Eden Project, Cornwall, UK ‘Ghostwriter Subtext - (Towards a significantly more plausible interrobang)’, Sala Diaz, Texas, USA Public commission - ‘The Green and the Gardens’, Cambridge Biomedical Park, Cambridge, UK ‘The Annotated Reader’, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK ‘To Give Light (Northern Aspirational Charms)’, 2018, Snape Maltings, Suffolk, UK ‘I see you’re making progress’, Lisson Gallery, Shanghai, CN ‘One-twelfth’, Merivale Model Village, Great Yarmouth, UK ‘Some other life’, Esther Schipper, Berlin, DE Gallery address: Mailing address: 213-369-0646 716 Sacramento St. 2458 Great Hwy [email protected] San Francisco, CA 94108 San Francisco, CA 94116 friendsindeed.art Friends Indeed Gallery Public sculpture presentation - ‘Het Spel (My neotonic ovoid contribution to Modernism)’, Armory Art Fair, New York, USA 2018 ‘Good Heart', BASE / Progetti per l’arte, Florence, IT ‘Old Languages in very Modern Styles’, gb agency, Paris, FR ‘Moonlighting’, TARO NASU, Tokyo, JP* ‘From five minds of great vision (The Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King disassembled and reassembled to conjure resting places in the public realm)’, Beautiful world, where are you?, The Metropolitan Cathedral, Liverpool Biennial, UK* ‘Time moves quickly’, The Bluecoat, Liverpool Biennial, UK* ‘Other Places’, 21st Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, AU* ‘The Self Righting of All Things’, Lisson Gallery, London, UK 2017 ‘Dazaifu Tenmangu Collection works by Ryan Gander’, Dazaifu Shrine, Fukuoka, JP ‘These wings aren’t for flying’, National Museum of Art Osaka, Osaka, JP* ‘Soft modernism’, Hyundai Gallery, Seoul, SKR* ‘Human / non Human / Broken / non Broken’, Cc Foundation, Shanghai, CN 2016 ‘Heterotopias. Avant-Gardes in Contemporary Art’, curated by Camille Giertler, Café Aubette, Strasbourg, FR* ‘I can see straight through you’, Lisson Gallery, New York, US ‘An exhibition of early works by Ryan Gander at Joe's Gallery to coincide with The Liverpool Biennial', Cactus, Liverpool, UK ‘In practice simplicity has never been a problem’, TARO NASU, Tokyo, JP ‘Connectivity Suite (and Other Places)’, Esther Schipper, Berlin, DE ‘Make every show like it's your last’, Musee d'art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, CA ‘Creative play entails some risk taking’, curated by Rui Amaral, Scrap Metal Gallery, Toronto, CA ‘To stand amongst the elements and to interpret what one knows’, Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Duerle, BE 2015 ‘Make every show like it's your last’, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, US ‘Jolly Grown Up’, in collaboration with Olive May Gander, Quartz Studio, Turin, IT ‘Fieldwork’, Lisson Gallery, London, UK ‘Make every show like it's your last’, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA ‘The Canter of Edward De Bono - An exhibition of new works by Spencer Anthony’, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen, DK ‘READ ONLY’, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, AU ‘Portrait of a blind artist obscured by flowers’, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore, SG ‘Make every show like it's your last’, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, AT ‘Nobody Walks Away from True Collaboration Triumphant or Un-bruised’, collaboration with Mario Garcia Torres, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, MX 2014 ‘Make every show like it's your last’, Derry, UK ‘Retinal Accounts’, gb agency, Paris, FR ‘Make every show like it's your last’, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK ‘Explorers v's Pioneers’, TARO NASU, Tokyo, JP ‘Art Park Odrupgaard’, Ordrupgaard Museum, Copenhagen, DK ‘Chance Everything’,