Rodney Graham

25 October - 20 December 2003

Zurich

Rodney Graham, born in Vancouver in 1949, has just had a major retrospective touring Europe (Whitechapel Art Gallery London, K21 Kunstsammlung NRW Düsseldorf) and which is about to close at the MAC Marseille. The wider public took note of him when he was included in the 1997 Venice Biennale, where he showed his Robinsonade “Vexation Island” in the Canadian pavilion. Spanning a broad range of media, Graham manages to bring his versatility and virtuoso manner to works of photography, sculpture and video while composing classical music and recording pop records.

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About the Artist

Rodney Graham

With a practice spanning five decades, Canadian artist Rodney Graham (1949 – 2022) operated through systems of quotation, reference and adaptation. From the 1980s, Graham expanded his diverse oeuvre to encompass photography, painting, sculpture, film, video and music. As actor, performer, producer, historian, writer, poet, sound engineer and musician, Graham’s...

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