Ryan Gander

Ryan

Gander

Born in 1976 in Chester
Lives and works in London, United Kingdom

Through associative thought processes that connect the everyday and the esoteric, the overlooked and the commonplace, Ryan 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.

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, 2025

portfolio

2024

"Stories Written", Musée Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Suisse

"Ryan Gander : Three Young American Artists" Mennour, Paris

2023

"PUNTO!", Lisson Gallery, London

"Feelin" everythin', whilst doin' nothin"', Little House, Los Angeles, USA

"I'm at 4%", Annet Gelink, Amsterdam

"The Find", Manchester International Festival, UK

Biography

Portfolio

Artworks

Ryan Gander

Your Nostalgia, 2014

Ryan Gander

Two hundred and sixty eight degrees below every kind of zero, 2014

exhibitions

Ryan Gander & Camille Henrot

We Are Me

Oct 30, 2025 - Feb 2, 2026

Keelung Museum of Art

Ryan Gander

Ryan Gander X Edgar Degas - Pas de deux

Jul 3, 2025 - Jan 4, 2026

Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague

Ryan Gander

Summer Exhibition 2025

Jun 17 - Aug 17, 2025

Royal Academy of Arts

Animal !?

Jun 14 - Nov 2, 2025

Fonds Hélène & Édouard Leclerc, Landerneau, France

More exhibitions

Available publications

Ryan Gander

Artists at 5

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More publications

Solo show (selection)

2024

"Stories Written", Musée Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Suisse

"Ryan Gander : Three Young American Artists" Mennour, Paris

2023

"PUNTO!", Lisson Gallery, London

"Feelin" everythin', whilst doin' nothin"', Little House, Los Angeles, USA

"I'm at 4%", Annet Gelink, Amsterdam

"The Find", Manchester International Festival, UK

"Beginning Registers, Disneyland Paris, Perth, Australia

"The Origins of Choice", Gallery Hyundai, Seoul

"I'm just resting my eyes", Fondation Culturelle Ishikawa, Okayama, Japan

2022

"Killing Time", TARO NASU, Tokyo

"Days of Temporal Passing", RICOH, Tokyo

"We are only human (incomplete sculpture for Scarborough to be finished by snow)", commande publique, Scarborough, Yorkshire, UK

"The Gift", Houghton Hall, King's Lynn, UK

"The Markers of Our Time", Tokyo Opera City Gallery, Tokyo

"The Gift", East Gallery, Norwich, UK

"Ghost Shop", Glass Exchange, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK

2021

"Other People Place", Galeria Nuno Centeno, Porto, Portugal

"Wrong Time Paradigm", gb agency, Paris

"Natural and Conventional Signs", Princeton University, New York

"Waiting (An interval by Ryan Gander)", David Roberts Foundation (online)

"The Rates of Change", SPACE K, Seoul

"Things just happen to me", Lisson Gallery, Hamptons, New York

2020

"These are the markers of our time", Lisson Gallery, New York

"Nick Lodgers invites Ryan Gander", Museum of Contemporary Art, Anvers, Belgium

2019

"Ghostwriter Subtext - (Towards a significantly more plausible interrobang)", Sala Diaz, Texas, USA

"The 500 Million Year Collaboration", Kunsthalle Bern, Berne

"Het Spel (My neotonic ovoid contribution to Modernism)", Présentation de sculpture publique - Armory Art Fair, New York

"Some Other Life", Esther Schipper, Berlin

"I see you’re making progress", Présentation de sculpture publique - Lisson Gallery, Shanghai, China

"To employ the mistress.... It's a French toff thing", 2015, Eden Project, Cornouailles, UK

"The Green and the Gardens", commande publique - Cambridge Biomedical Park, Cambridge, UK

"One-twelfth", Merivale Model Village, Great Yarmouth, UK

"To Give Light (Northern Aspirational Charms)", 2018, Snape Maltings, Suffolk, UK

2018

"Old Languages in very Modern Styles", gb agency, Paris

"The Self Righting of All Things", Lisson Gallery, London

"Other Places", 21st Biennale of Sydney, Sydney

To Give Light (Northern Aspirational Charms)", Great Exhibition of the North, BALTIC, Gateshead, UK

"From five minds of great vision (The Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King disassembled and reassembled to conjure resting places in the public realm)", Beautiful world, where are you?, The Metropolitan Cathedral, Liverpool Biennial, UK

"Good Heart", BASE / Progetti per l’arte, Florence, Italy

"Ryan Gander: Chinese Whispers #1", Meessen De Clerq, Brussels

"Time moves quickly", The Bluecoat, Liverpool Biennial, UK

"Moonlighting", TARO NASU, Tokyo

2017

"These wings aren’t for flying", National Museum of Art Osaka, Osaka, Japan

"Human / non Human / Broken / non Broken", Cc Foundation, Shanghai, China

"Soft modernism", Hyundai Gallery, Seoul

"Dazaifu Tenmangu Collection works by Ryan Gander", Dazaifu Shrine, Fukuoka, Japan

"Ryan Gander & Jonathan Monk: I speak to people on the telephone", Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon

2016

"Heterotopias. Avant-Gardes in Contemporary Art", commissariat par Camille Giertler, Café Aubette, Strasbourg, France

"To stand amongst the elements and to interpret what one knows", Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Duerle, Belgique

"Make every show like it's your last", Musee d'art Contemporain de Montreal, Montréal, Canada

"In practice simplicity has never been a problem", TARO NASU, Tokyo

"I can see straight through you", Lisson Gallery, New York

"An exhibition of early works by Ryan Gander at Joe's Gallery to coincide with The Liverpool Biennial", Cactus, Liverpool, UK

"Connectivity Suite (and Other Places)", Esther Schipper, Berlin

2015

"Fieldwork", Lisson Gallery, Londres

"Make every show like it's your last", Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA

"Nobody Walks Away from True Collaboration Triumphant or Un-bruised", collaboration avec Mario Garcia Torres, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City

"Make every show like it's your last", OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Autriche

"Portrait of a blind artist obscured by flowers", Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapour

"The Canter of Edward De Bono - An exhibition of new works by Spencer Anthony", David Risley Gallery, Copenhague

"Make every show like it's your last", Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

"Jolly Grown Up", in collaboration with Olive May Gander, Quartz Studio, Turin, Italie

"READ ONLY", Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australie

2014

"Chance Everything", Mostyn, Llandudno, UK

"Make every show like it's your last", Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK

"Make every show like it's your last", Derry, UK

"Retinal Accounts", gb agency, Paris

"Explorers v's Pioneers", TARO NASU, Tokyo

"Art Park Odrupgaard", Ordrupgaard Museum, Copenhague

2013

"Once upon a bicycle, not so long ago", Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam

"Incredibly shiny stuff that doesn't mean anything", Okayama Kyokuto Hospital, Okayama, Japon

"The artists have the keys", 2 Willow Road, Londres

"Make every show like it's your last", FRAC île-de-France, Le Plateau, Paris

"Associative Photographs, 2004", Zabludowicz Collection, New York

"Desktop Residency", www.desktopresidency.com

2012

"Boing boing squirt", Museo Tamayo, Mexico

"These are the things that I don’t understand", Daiwa Press Viewing Room, Hiroshima, Japon

"Ryan Gander: An Exhibition of Recent Paintings", David Risley Gallery, Copenhague

"Esperluette", Palais de Tokyo, Paris

"Lost in my own recursive narrative", Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italie

"An exercise in cultural semaphore", gb agency, Paris

"The Fallout of Living", Lisson Gallery, Londres

2011

"Ftt, Ft, Ftt, Ftt, Ffttt, Ftt, or somewhere between........, TARO NASU, Tokyo

"Really Shiny Things That Don't Mean Anything", Trybuna Honorowa, Plac Defilad, Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie, Varsovie

Ryan Gander", Billboard for Edinburgh: Year 4, Ingleby Gallery, Édimbourg, UK

"Icarus Falling – An Exhibition Lost", Maison Hermès, Le Forum, Tokyo

"New Collisions in Culturefield", Johnen Galerie, Berlin

"Locked Room Scenario", The Depot, Commissioned by Artangel, Londres

"Meaning…surrounds me now", 1223 Gendaikaiga, Tokyo

"Now there’s not enough of it to go around", Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Pays-Bas

"You have my word", Dazaifu Tenmangu, Fukuoka, Japon

"Attempting to remain light on ones feet: Work from Daiwa Collection", Okinawa Prefectural Museum, Okinawa, Japon

2010

"Saying something is made of something when it is actually made of something else", YU-UN, Tokyo

"The Happy Prince", Public Art Fund, Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park, New York

"Intervals: Ryan Gander", Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

"Approach it slowly from the left", Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Suisse

"You walk into a space, any space", Lisson Gallery, Londres

"I am an Aurefilian", TARO NASU, Tokyo

"A Whole Hole", G-Tokyo, Tokyo

2009

"The die is cast", Villa Arson, Nice, France

"We Are Constant", Frieze Art Fair Projects, Londres

"It’s a right Heath Robinson affair", gb agency, Paris

"It’s a right Heath Robinson affair", Kadist Art Foundation, Paris

"As it presents itself", Picture This, Bristol, UK

"Heralded as the new black", Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Pays-Bas

"I let somebody get under my skin", Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam

2008

"Heralded as the new black", Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

"Heralded as the new black", South London Gallery, Londres

"Something Vague", St Gallen Kunstverein, Suisse

"Something Vague", Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Allemagne

"How I learnt to use my senses, how I learnt to think and how I learnt to feel", TARO NASU, Tokyo

"Championed by Rigour", Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

"And it came to life", Marz Galleria, Lisbonne

"Basquiat", STORE Gallery, Londres

2007

"Ghostwriter subtext (Towards a significantly more plausible interrobang)", TARO NASU, Tokyo

"More than the weight of your shadow", Daiwa Press Viewing Room, Hiroshima, Japon

"Passengers", CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA

"Short cut through the trees", MUMOK, Vienne

"The Last Work", Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

"Of Any Actual Person, Living or Dead" (avec Aurélien Froment), STORE, Londres

2006

"Cinema Verso", Whitechapel East Wing, Londres

"Spencer, forget about good", Art Basel Unlimited avec Annet Gelink Gallery, Basel, Suisse

"The title taken from reading that book" (avec George Henry Longly), Elisabeth Kauffman, Zurich, Suisse

"Your clumsiness is the next man’s stealth", Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam

"Is This Guilt In You Too – (The study of a car in a field)", MUMOK, Vienne

"Nine Projects for the Pavilion de l’Esprit Nouveau", MAMbo, GAM, Bologne, Italie

"Ryan Gander", Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italie

"Ghostwriter Subtext (Towards a significantly more plausible interrobang)", Premier Container, Art Basel Premier avec STORE, Miami, USA

"Didactease", Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, USA

2005

"But it was all green", Artists Space, New York

"Of Any Actual Person, Living or Dead", Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers (avec Aurélien Froment), France

"Is This Guilt in You Too – (The Study of a Car in a Field)", Art Basel Statements avec Annet Gelink Gallery, Bâle, Suisse

"Is This Guilt in You Too – (The Study of a Car in a Field)", Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam

"Somewhere between 1886 and 2030 (2005)", Store, Londres

2004

"An Incomplete History of Ideas", Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK

"But it was all green", Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam

"La Galerie dans ma Poche", Leeds et Londres

2003

"But it was all green", STORE, Londres

"The Death of Abbé Faria", Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam

2002

"Marie Aurore Sorry", The International 3, Manchester, UK

"In Return" (avec Shahryar Nashat), Centre Pasquart, Bienne, Suisse

Ryan Gender

Two hundred and sixty eight degrees below every kind of zero, 2014

I...I...I..., 2019

Ryan Gander

Your Nostalgia, 2014

Ryan Gander

I be... (lxv), 2023

Ryan Gander

A Biography (They will only encourage you to perform the script), 2024

Ryan Gander

Basel, 2024

Ryan Gender

Two hundred and sixty eight degrees below every kind of zero, 2014