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Ryan Gander(Suffolk/London)

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Leporello N° 04 by Ryan Gander, published by LL’Editions in 2021.

Ryan Gander is an artist living and working in Suffolk and London in the UK. Over the past two decades, Gander has established an international reputation through a vast and pluralistic body of artworks that materialise in many different forms, ranging from sculpture, apparel and writing to architecture, painting, typefaces, publications and performance. As well as curating exhibitions, he is a committed educator, having taught at international art institutions and universities, and has written and presented television programmes on and about contemporary art and culture for the BBC.

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, a reinvention of the modes of appearance and creation of an artwork. His work can be reminiscent of a puzzle, a network with multiple connections, the fragments of an embedded story, a huge set of hidden clues to be deciphered, encouraging viewers to make their own connections and invent their own narrative in order to solve the charade with its many solutions, staged by the artist.

Gander is typically described as a conceptual artist, but this is a term he has refuted, referring instead to himself as ‘a sort of neo-conceptualist, Proper-“Gander”-ist, amateur philosopher’. Through creative and associative thought processes that connect everyday life and the esoteric, the overlooked and the commonplace, Gander’s work involves a questioning of language and knowledge, a reinvention of the modes of appearance and creation of an artwork.

Ryan Gander studied at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL and the Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, NL. He was awarded the 2007 Paul Hamlyn Award for Visual Arts, in 2006 won the ABN AMRO prize of the Netherlands, in 2005 he was short listed for the British art Prize ‘Becks Futures’ at the ICA in London and won the Baloise Art Statement Prize at Art Basel, in 2009 he was awarded the Zürich Art Prize.

Alongside his artistic production, Gander is a visiting lecturer at a selection of art schools within Europe, previously being a Professor of Fine Arts at Huddersfield University, and has been presented the award of Doctor of Arts of the Manchester Metropolitan University, Honoris Causa, and at the University of Suffolk. In 2017 he was awarded an OBE for services to contemporary arts. In 2019 he was awarded the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University and the Pommery Prize at Armory, New York, US.

Recent solo shows have been held at Lisson Gallery, New York, US; Kunsthalle Bern, CH; Esther Schipper, Berlin, DE; BASE / Progetti per l’arte, Florence, IT, gb Agency, Paris, FR, TARO NASU, Tokyo, JP Lisson Gallery, London, UK; The National Museum of Art, Osaka, JP; Hyundai Gallery, Seoul, SK; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, AU; Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore, SG; Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK.

Major projects include Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art 2018, Liverpool, UK; Sydney Biennale 2018, Sydney, AU; Performa 15, New York, US; British Art Show 8, Leeds, UK; Panorama, High Line, New York, US; Imagineering, Okayama Castle, Okayama, JP; The artists have the keys, 2 Willow Road, London, UK; Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, CH; Parcours, Art Basel, Basel, CH; Esperluette, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR; dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, G; Locked Room Scenario, commissioned by Artangel, London, UK; ILLUMInations at the 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale; Intervals at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC, US and The Happy Prince, Public Art Fund, Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park, NYC, US.

Recent publications include The Annotated Reader, Picasso and I, rRemai mModern, Fieldwork, the Complete Reader, Bedford Press; a monograph by the artist, entitled Culturefield, published by Koenig Books; Artist’s Cocktails, Dente-de-Leone; The boy that always looked up, Lisson Gallery; Ampersand, Dente-de-Leone; Catalogue Raisonnable Vol: 1, co-published by JRP Ringier and Westreich/Wagner Publications.

In 2021, LL’Editions published limited edition artist’s book Leporello N° 04 by Ryan Gander.

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Editions

Artist's Book

Leporello N° 04 by Ryan Gander

Tomlinson(Leicester)

Engraving House

One Edition (01)

Norrmalms Kartongfabrik(Stockholm)

Packaging Specialist

One Edition (01)

Jakob Ojanen(Stockholm)

Artist

Two Editions (02)

Nadén Arkitektur & Snickeri(Gothenburg)

Architect and Carpenter

One Edition (01)

Spazio ORR(Brescia)

Gallery

One Edition (01)

Henrik Björck Wigartz(Gothenburg)

Writer

Two Editions (02)

Edition Taube(Munich)

Publisher

One Edition (01)

David Horvitz(Los Angeles)

Artist

One Edition (01)

Nina Bondeson(Mölndal)

Artist, Writer

Two Editions (02)

Alejandro Cesarco(Madrid)

Artist and Curator

Kay Rosen(New York/Gary)

Artist

Pieter Laurens Mol(Brussels)

Artist

One Edition (01)

Endre Tót(Berlin)

Artist

Four Editions (04)

Amila Puzić(Gothenburg)

Art Historian, Curator

Four Editions (04)

Bengt af Klintberg(Stockholm)

Folklorist, author and Swedish Fluxus pioneer

Four Editions (04)

Simon Iurino(Vienna)

Artist

One Edition (01)

Jonathan Monk(Berlin)

Artist

One Edition (01)

Joakim Ojanen(Stockholm)

Artist

One Edition (01)

Karl Holmqvist(Berlin)

Artist

One Edition (01)

Igor Ponosov(Moscow)

Artist

One Edition (01)

Brad Downey(Berlin)

Artist

One Edition (01)

Maurizio Nannucci(Florence)

Artist

One Edition (01)

Shannon Ebner(New York)

Artist

One Edition (01)

Jonas Liveröd(Ågårdskvarn)

Artist

One Edition (01)

Micah Lexier(Toronto)

Artist

One Edition (01)

A-FL(Gothenburg)

Artist and Designer

Six Editions (06)

Heimo Zobernig(Vienna)

Artist

Two Editions (02)

Fiona Banner AKA The Vanity Press(London)

Artist

One Edition (01)

Olivia Vander Tuig(New York)

Artist

One Edition (01)

Carl Ander(Gothenburg)

Photographer and Artist

Ten Editions (10)

Erik Berglin(Stockholm)

Artist and Photographer

Four Editions (04)

Blackbook Publications(Gothenburg)

Artist's Book Publisher

Four Editions (04)

Henrik Bromander(Malmö)

Writer, Dramatist and Cartoonist

One Edition (01)

Krister Flodstrand(Gothenburg)

Bookbinder

Four Editions (04)

By Wind (f.k.a. Göteborgstryckeriet)(Gothenburg)

Printhouse

Eleven Editions (11)

EKTA (Daniel Götesson)(Gothenburg)

Artist

Four Editions (04)

Lundgren+Lindqvist(Gothenburg)

Design Studio

Thirteen Editions (13)

Dan Mather(London)

Screen Printer, Graphic Designer and Lecturer

One Edition (01)

Namban(Lisbon)

Stationery Maker

One Edition (01)

O/O Brewing(Gothenburg)

Craft Brewery

One Edition (01)

Karl Palmås(Gothenburg)

Associate Professor, Researcher and Writer

Four Editions (04)

Kalle Sanner(Gothenburg)

Photographer, Artist and Publisher

Four Editions (04)

Alina Vergnano & Mattia Lullini(Gothenburg)

Artists and Gallerists(Nevven Gallery)

One Edition (01)

Jonas Wettre(Gothenburg)

Photographer, Prepress and Retouch

One Edition (01)