Roy arden biography

Roy Arden (born 1957) is.
Roy Arden (born 1957) is an artist who is a member of the Vancouver School.
Roy Arden is an artist who is a member of the Vancouver School.

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Vancouver, BC, Canada b. 1957

Education

1982 — Emily Carr College of Art & Design

1990 — MFA, University of British Columbia

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024 — What the Jellyfish Wants, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2018 — The Mole King, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2017 — Roy Arden, Studio for Propositional Cinema, Dusseldorf

2016 — Roy Arden, Monte Clark Gallery, VancouverBC

2014 — Modern Times, Richard Telles Gallery, Los Angeles CA

2013 — Modern Times, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC

2013 — Procession, CSA Space, Vancouver BC

2012 — rag & bone, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto ON

2011 — Vox, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC

2011 — The Homosexual Who Wrecked an Empire, Brancolini Grimaldi Gallery, London UK

2011 — UNDERTHESUN, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver BC

2010 — I Can Only Give You Everything, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles CA

2009 — People of British Columbia, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC

2008 — The World etc…, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto ON

2008 — The World etc…, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC

2007 — Roy Arden –

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Roy Arden

Roy Arden has been active as an internationally exhibiting artist since the late 70s. He has played a major part in the development of Vancouver as an internationally recognized centre for the production of contemporary photo art. Regularly seen in significant local, national and international exhibitions, Arden's work is included in important museum collections in Canada, Europe and the U.S.A., including The Art Gallery of Ontario, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart.

From 1981 to 1985, Arden produced a body of photographs entitled Fragments. These were small colour (cibachrome) photographs of a lyrical nature, which recorded live experience in the form of portraits and studies of urban details. These photographs were made in the artist's home of Vancouver as well as in various European cities. Balancing a personal lyricism and a dispassionate view of the everyday, Fragments can now be seen as a record of the Zeitgeist of the early 1980s. Like much art of the time, Fragments looked to m

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Roy Arden

Roy Arden was born in Vancouver in 1957. He completed a diploma from the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in 1982 and received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia in 1990. Since the early 1980s Arden has been exhibiting nationally and internationally. He remains very active in the Vancouver art scene, curating, writing, and showing his own work locally and globally. Arden has taught at the University of British Columbia, Emily Carr College of Art and Design, University of Art and Design in Helsinki, and the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB) or Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig.

Arden is one of Canada’s most respected artists. Along with Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, Rodney Graham, and Stan Douglas, his work has contributed to Vancouver’s reputation as a vital centre for contemporary photographic art. The city of Vancouver is often the subject of his work. In his “the landscape of the economy” themed work he focuses on the constant transformations of urban Vancouver, documenting the social and economic history of his city.