- Rodney Graham
Born in
Abbotsford, British Columbia , in 1949, Rodney Graham is an artist frequently linked with 'photoconceptualism', the brand ofconceptual art that has madeVancouver, British Columbia an important city for global art since the mid-to-late 1980s.Early career
A former student of Ian Wallace at the city's Simon Fraser University, Graham joined both his teacher and classmate
Jeff Wall in forming Vancouver's short-lived no-wave bandUJ3RK5 . Unlike many of his colleagues, most notably Wall andKen Lum , Graham's career was only established in the mid-1990s, after having representedCanada at the 1997Venice Biennale .Work
He is widely known for his
costume drama s, his interest in the "pathology of the loop" Fact|date=April 2007 and the aesthetics of duration.External links
* [http://www.303gallery.com/artists/rodney_graham/ Rodney Graham at 303 Gallery]
* [http://www.hauserwirth.com/artists/portrait.php?findexisting=1&artist_id=38 Rodney Graham at Hauser & Wirth Zürich London]
* [http://www.johnen-schoettle.de/Artists/GrahamR.html Rodney Graham at Johnen + Schöttle]
* [http://www.donaldyoung.com/graham/rodney_graham_index.html Rodney Graham at Donald Young Gallery]
* [http://www.lissongallery.com/ Rodney Graham at Lisson Gallery]
*" [http://archive.cbcradio3.com/issues/2005_02_04/index.cfm?Page=11 Greatest Hits: Rodney Graham's Little Thought] "CBC Radio 3 Magazine; article by Lee Henderson
* [http://x-traonline.org/vol6_3/vancouverart.html Graham's work is discussed in "What is it About Vancouver Art?"]
*" [http://archive.cbcradio3.com/issues/2003_02_21/index.cfm?Page=18 The Vancouver School: A City's Place in the Realm of Ideas] " Article discussing Vancouver's photo-conceptual art scene with Daine Augaitus of theVancouver Art Gallery . Some of Graham's work is also featured.
* [http://blogsareaboutego.blogspot.com/2008/02/rheinmetallvictoria-8.html An analysis of Graham's Rheinmetall/Victoria 8]
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