Roy Arden

Roy Arden (born 1957) is an artist who is a member of the Vancouver School.^[1] He creates sculpture from found objects, oil paintings, graphite drawings and collage, and curates and writes on contemporary art.

Roy Arden
Born	1957 (age 66–67) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Education	BA Emily Carr College of Art and Design (1982); MA University of British Columbia (1990)

Career

Arden graduated from Emily Carr College of Art and Design with a bachelor's degree in photography and interdisciplinary studies in 1982^[1] and with an M.A. from the University of British Columbia in 1990. In the early part of his career, Arden made straightforward Cibachrome images of the contemporary urban scene which he called "Fragments", then made what he called "meta-photography", archival image diptychs.^[2] In the 1990s, he made colour photographs of what he termed the "landscape of economy" that depicted the city of Vancouver and its rapid growth.^[3]

Around 1999, Arden changed from colour to black-and-white photography, focusing again on the urban wasteland in Vancouver. In 2000, he began to produce videos.^[4]

His videos, Juggernaut (2000), Citizen (2000), and Supernatural (2006), were shown at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham in 2006 in his solo exhibition there, along with his photographs from 1985 on.^[5] His project "The World as Will and Representation – Archive (2007)", a slide show of his archive of 28,000 images Internet-based, can be viewed at www.royarden.com.^[4]

Arden has been exhibiting since the late 1970S. He has had solo exhibitions at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2006);^[5] Galerie Tanit, Munich (2005 and 2006); and a mid-career show at the Vancouver Art Gallery (2007).^[6][1] His work has also had been included in exhibitions at the Kunstmuseum Basel, and the Museum of Modern Art, Antwerp (Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst). It is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York – it was featured in their inaugural exhibition after their expansion in 2005 ^[1][7] - besides being included in the collections of major museums in Canada, Europe and the U.S.A. such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo^[8] the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.^[9] He is represented by Monte Clark Gallery in Vancouver.^[9]

He has been an instructor in the photography studio department at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design and the University of British Columbia. He has also been a guest teacher at art academies in Finland, Germany, and Switzerland.^[10] Arden has also been involved in curating as a curator - he curated a show on photography at Monte Clark Gallery in 1999 - and as a collaborator^[11] and published critical texts on contemporary art for catalogues and art magazines.^[12][13]

Selected exhibitions

• 2006 - Roy Arden, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom^[5]
• 2007 - Fragments, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada^[6]
• 2009 - People of British Columbia, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, Canada^[14]
• 2011 - From Here On, Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France^[15]
• 2012 - Vox, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, Canada^[16]
• 2015 - Roy Arden Exhibition, Le Mois De La Photo, Montreal, Quebec^[9]

Publications

• Arden, Roy; Roelstraete, Dieter; Ferguson, Russell (2007). Roy Arden: Against The Day. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre and Vancouver Art Gallery. Retrieved 22 July 2021.

References

1. . Artspeak. Archived from the original on 4 February 2012. Retrieved 27 June 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
2. Alberro, Alexander (January 1997). "BETWEEN THE TIDES: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF ROY ARDEN". Artforum. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
3. Langford, Martha (2010). ""A Short History of Photography, 1900-2000".". The Visual Arts in Canada: The Twentieth Century. Foss, Brian, Paikowsky, Sandra, Whitelaw, Anne (eds.). Canada: Oxford. p. 307. ISBN 978-0-19-542125-5. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
4. "Roy Arden". www.scotiabank.com. Scotia Bank. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
5. "Roy Arden". www.ikon-gallery.org. Ikon Gallery. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
6. "Roy Arden: Fragments, photographs of installation". ccca.concordia.ca. Concordia University, Montreal. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
7. "Collection". www.moma.org. Museum of Modern Art, New York. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
8. "Collection". www.albrightknox.org. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
9. "THE WORLD AS WILL AND REPRESENTATION". moisdelaphoto.com. OPTICA, CENTRE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN, 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
10. "Roy Arden". /www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
11. "Collaborators: Roy Arden". curatorsintl.org. Curators International. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
12. Arden, Roy (2000). "After Photography". Canadian Art. 17 (4): 48–56. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
13. "Roy Arden". centrevox.ca. VOX. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
14. . Monte Clark Gallery. Archived from the original on 12 February 2017. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
15. "LES RENCONTRES D'ARLES 2011". www.claudinecolin.com. Claudine Colin. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
16. . Monte Clark Gallery. Archived from the original on 12 February 2017. Retrieved 27 June 2016.

Further reading

• Culley, Peter, Miller, John and Watson, Scott. "Roy Arden." Vancouver: Art Gallery of York University, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, 1997. ISBN 0-921972-18-0
• Culley, Peter and Arden, Roy. "Roy Arden Fragments." North Vancouver: Presentation House Gallery, 2002. ISBN 0-920293-53-0
• Fleming, Marnie and Steiner, Shep. "Roy Arden, Selected Works 1985-2000." Oakville: Oakville Galleries, 2002. ISBN 1-894707-07-9
• Roelstraete, Dieter and Tousley, Nancy. "Roy Arden." Birmingham: Ikon Gallery, 2006. ISBN 1-904864-17-1
• Arden, Roy; Roelstraete, Dieter; Ferguson, Russell (2007). Roy Arden: Against The Day. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre and Vancouver Art Gallery. Retrieved 22 July 2021.

External links

• Official website