Canadian Conceptualist Rodney Graham at 303 Gallery in NYC

303 Gallery is proud to present our eleventh solo exhibition dedicated to the work of Canadian conceptualist Rodney Graham (1949-2022), and the gallery’s first presentation of the artist’s output since his passing. Graham rose to prominence in the 1970s, considered part of the so-called “Vancouver School”for his conceptual approach to lens-based media, alongside peers Jeff Wall and Stan Douglas. Graham became well known for starring in his absurdist films and lightbox photographs, portraying himself as various archetypes in fictitious scenes often involving elaborately detailed sets and props. His practice came to encompass nearly every creative medium: photography, film, painting, sculpture, performance, writing, and music, which befit his equally wide ranging interests in the realms of art, Hollywood film, music, history, and psychology. The works on view span the last twenty-five years of his career and emphasize Graham’s virtuosity, from his early looping film Vexation Island, which was exhibited in the Canadian Pavilion at the 1997 Venice Biennale, to several of his signature photographic light boxes, and the series of sculptures and paintings that emerged out of his fictional selves.

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