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

Career

Arden graduated from Emily Carr College of Art and Design with a bachelor's degree in photography and interdisciplinary studies in 1982 and with an M.A. from the

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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Arden has been exhibiting since the late 1970S. He has had solo exhibitions at the

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, Birmingham (2006); Galerie Tanit, Munich (2005 and 2006); and a mid-career show at the

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(2007). 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

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, New York – it was featured in their inaugural exhibition after their expansion in 2005 - besides being included in the collections of major museums in Canada, Europe and the U.S.A. such as the

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in Paris, the

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in Los Angeles, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo the

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and the

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in Ottawa. He is represented by Monte Clark Gallery in Vancouver. He has been an instructor in the photography studio department at the

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and the

. He has also been a guest teacher at art academies in Finland, Germany, and Switzerland. 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 and published critical texts on contemporary art for catalogues and art magazines.

Selected exhibitions

*2006 - ''Roy Arden'', Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom *2007 - ''Fragments'', Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada *2009 - ''People of British Columbia'', Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, Canada * 2011 - ''From Here On'', Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France *2012 - ''Vox'', Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, Canada *2015 - ''Roy Arden Exhibition'', Le Mois De La Photo, Montreal, Quebec

Publications

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External links

Official website
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Career

Selected exhibitions

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