303 Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Rodney Graham, October 5, 2006 - January 7, 2007, p. 95 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 57)
Hauser & Wirth Zürich, Rodney Graham. Renaissance Man. Works 1400 - 1977, October 21 - December 20, 2006 (another example exhibited)
Kunsthall Bergen, Rodney Graham, November 10 - December 21, 2006 (another example exhibited)
Villa Merkel, Galerien der Stadt Esslingen am Neckar; Kunstmuseum Sankt Gallen, Brave Lonesome Cowboy, April 15, 2007 - January 27, 2008, pp. 14, 26, 206 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 247)
CAC Málaga, Rodney Graham. A Glass of Beer, April 21 - June 15, 2008, pp. 14, 16-17, 19, 59, 86, 88-89, 92 (another example exhibited and illustrated, pp. 56-57)
Paris, Jeu de Paume, Harun Farocki | Rodney Graham, April 7 - June 7, 2009, p. 203 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 131)
London, Lisson Gallery, Rodney Graham: Painter, Poet, Lighthouse Keeper, June 23 - July 31, 2010 (another example exhibited)
Baden-Baden, Museum Frieder Burda, Rodney Graham: Lightboxes, July 8 - November 26, 2017, p. 124 (another example exhibited and illustrated, pp. 28-29)
Reno, Nevada Museum of Art; Anchorage Museum; Palm Springs Art Museum, Unsettled, August 26, 2017 – February 18, 2019, p. 220 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 85)
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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