Ryan Gander has established an international reputation through artworks that materialise in many different forms – from sculpture to film, writing, graphic design, installation, performance and more besides. Through associative thought processes that connect the everyday and the esoteric, the overlooked and the commonplace, Gander’s work involves a questioning of language and knowledge, as well as a reinvention of both the modes of appearance and the creation of an artwork. His work can be reminiscent of a puzzle, or a network with multiple connections and the fragments of an embedded story. It is ultimately a huge set of hidden clues to be deciphered, encouraging viewers to make their own associations and invent their own narrative in order to unravel the complexities staged by the artist.
Ryan Gander RA OBE (born 1976, Chester, UK) lives and works in Suffolk and London. He studied at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK; the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands; and the Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, Netherlands. The artist has been a Professor of Visual Art at the University of Huddersfield and holds an honorary Doctor of the Arts at the Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Suffolk. In 2017 he was awarded an OBE for services to contemporary art. In 2019 he was awarded the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University. In 2022, he was made RA for the category of Sculpture.
26 November 2024 • Paige Miller
Gander probes at what art is, the beauty to be found in new perspectives, and the commodity of attention in THIS IS FEELING ALL OF IT at Esther Schipper, Berlin.
7 September 2023 • Mark Westall
Ryan Gander’s new exhibition for Lisson Gallery explores the relationship between our evolutionary past and the ways in which we live today in societies driven by capitalist growth, speed and progress.
17 August 2023 • Mark Westall
Frieze today unveiled highlights of Frieze Seoul 2023, returning to COEX in the Gangnam district of the city from September 6th – 9th, 2023.
30 June 2023 • Mark Westall
A major exhibition of Yayoi Kusama’s inflatable sculptures forms a centrepiece of the Festival, the first work to be presented at Factory International’s new home, Aviva Studios.
27 January 2022 • Mark Westall
At a recent General Assembly meeting, the Royal Academy of Arts elected three new Royal Academicians: Michael Armitage, in the… Read More
27 July 2021 • Mark Westall
Flat Work is an exhibition by some of my favourite artists, confirmed by the fact that for one reason or another, I’m jealous of them all.
8 October 2020 • Mark Westall
Lisson Gallery has launched a new space on Cork Street with an exhibition titled Horizon, the gallery will be at the heart of London’s Frieze activity.
29 September 2020 • Mark Westall
Lisson Gallery is to open a new space on Cork Street for six months. Launching during Frieze Week 2020
23 September 2020 • Mark Westall
Featuring 100 Art Basel galleries from 28 countries and territories, ‘OVR:2020’ is exclusively dedicated to works made this year below are five artworks that caught our eye.
9 September 2020 • Mark Westall
Ryan Gander will open Lisson Gallery’s new space in New York with an exhibition highlighting time as the new currency, reflecting on how – in an age of identity politics, selfie culture and an incessant need to shout the loudest – the focus of our time should be on the value of time itself.
16 July 2020 • Mark Westall
Our sister publication Art of Conversation has just released a FREE digital sampler you can download. Featuring six conversations from the first four issues of their print newspaper.
24 June 2020 • Mark Westall
This summer sees the launch of Sacred Thing, an online contemporary art concept store and peripatetic gallery that collaborates with artists to create limited edition sculptures.
11 June 2020 • Mark Westall
so with all this stuff going on we decided to ask Ryan some questions and see what he came back with – as ever totally cool..
18 March 2020 • Mark Westall
Lisson Gallery are supplementing Art Basel virtual Rooms by inviting key Asian galleries to join together in a virtual walk-through, to help make the site interactive and appealing to audiences both regionally and globally.
12 July 2019 • Mark Westall
Today, the Eden Project launched its new arts programme with the aim of furthering engagement and understanding of its mission.
7 March 2019 • Mark Westall
We got down to Armory yesterday at 11am and within the first half hr a few of the galleries had already sold out so we think it’s going to be a good year for sales. We had to get to Rose Bakery at Dover Street Market for a late lunch so speed around pretty quickly but we still had time to pick 16 artists we think are worth you checking out our favourite space was probably Platform and the Canard Bar where you can read our sister publication Art of Conversation while drinking Champagne v cool.
7 August 2018 • Mark Westall
The South London Gallery’s new annexe in a former Fire Station will open to the public on Saturday 22nd September with an exhibition titled KNOCK KNOCK. Curated by SLG Director Margot Heller in collaboration with artist Ryan Gander, the exhibition explores humour in contemporary art.
17 June 2018 • Tabish Khan
Feel good, hoodies, a breathing sculpture, lie down, wobbly London, combs, a bustling market and Italian glamour.
12 June 2018 • Staff
I did however spend an unsurprising amount of time in Mayfair as S2 opened the third and final component of Signals Reimagined, Levy Gorvy was irresistible in presenting two of my favourite artists in dialogue and Artangel took over Cork Street’s construction site for an incredible fund raising auction.
6 June 2018 • Mark Westall
Snoopy, Charlie Brown and co. are heading to Somerset House in a cultural celebration of themselves! The world’s most influential comic strip
3 May 2018 • Mark Westall
Internationally acclaimed artists Francis Alÿs, Jeremy Deller, Robert Gober, Antony Gormley, Roni Horn, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Taryn Simon, Wolfgang Tillmans and Rachel Whiteread are among the 37 artists who have given works to create a major new fund ARTISTS FOR ARTANGEL.
1 March 2018 • Mark Westall
Ryan Gander’s sixth exhibition with Lisson Gallery draws on notions of time and its passage. With a philosophical overture and a sharp existential focus, the exhibition illustrates the innate ability of all things, in both physics and the wider human context, to naturally self-right themselves.
19 July 2016 • Mark Westall
For his first solo exhibition in New York since 2008, British conceptual artist Ryan Gander presents a new body of work that considers the psychology of the body and questions the possibilities and limitations of figuration
