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Ryan Gander is a disabled English

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. He is a native of Chester

Chester

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Personal background

Ryan Gander is a wheelchair

Wheelchair

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user with a long-term physical disability

Physical disability

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, however, he is reluctant to discuss his physical limitations in interviews with the press.. Some of his work makes reference to the fact of his disability (i.e. 2011 Venice Biennale exhibit). The exhibit at Venice Biennale featured an action-figure sized sculpture of himself lying on his side with a toppled wheelchair nearby. In 2006, his installation at the old Whitechapel Library, 'Is this guilt in you too?', was part of the Art Council's 'Adjustments' exhibitions whose aim was 'to address transitional thinking on disability equality and inclusion'.

Education/Awards

Gander trained in Interactive Art at Manchester Metropolitan University receiving a First Class Degree in 1999. He then spent a year at the Jan van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht, The Netherlands as a Fine Art Research Participant before completing his post graduate studies in 2002, at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Ryan Gander was awarded the prix de rome in 2003. He was nominated for the Beck's Futures

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prize in 2005.

Practice

Gander's work is formally diverse and has included, "a chess set, a new word, a children's book, jewellery, customised sportswear, glass orb paperweights and maps," as well as photography, films, and drawings. Considering Gander’s work, "Appendix", art critic Mark Beasley said: "It’s an unwieldy yet fascinatingly open account, somewhat like lucid dreaming, which shows the artist at his most arch, open and revealing ... an attempt to discuss practice in a form sympathetic to the work in discussion."

Exhibitions

From 2002 - 2003, early presentations of Ryan Gander's work were in the form of lectures which he delivered to the public in many venues: 'Loose Associations Lecture 1.1' and 'Loose Associations Lecture 2.1'. These encapsulated his position as an interactive artist.
Gander's recent solo exhibitions include The Happy Prince for the Public Art Fund in New York, USA in 2010 and more recently Now there’s not enough of it to go around, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Ftt, Ft, Ftt, Ftt, Ffttt, Ftt, or somewhere between a modern representation of how a contemporary gesture came into being, an illustration of the physicality of an argument between Theo and Piet regarding the dynamic aspect of the diagonal line and attempting to produce a chroma-key set for a hundred cinematic scenes at Taro Nasu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan in 2011.

Works

Loose Associations Lecture 1.1, 2002
Loose Associations Lecture 2.1, 2003
This Consequence, 2005
A Future Lorem Ipsum, 2006
Didactease Necklace, 2006
My Family Before Me, 2006
The Neon Series, several neon works, 2006–2011
As it presents itself – Somewhere Vague, 2008
A sheet of paper on which I was about to draw, as it slipped form my table and fell to the floor, 2008
Degas Ballerina Series, several bronze sculptures, 2008–2011
Man on a bridge - (A study of David Lange), 2008
The New New Alphabet, 2008
Associative Templates Series, #1 – #31, 2009
The Happy Prince, 2010
The book of ‘The Sitting’, 2009
Ftt, Ft, Ftt, Ftt, Ffttt, Ftt, or somewhere between a modern representation of how a contemporary gesture came into being, an illustration of the physicality of an argument, 2010

Public collections

Gander’s works are included in both international public and private collections including Tate Collection, London

London

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; Museum of Contemporary Art

Museum of Contemporary Art

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, Chicago

Chicago

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; Museum Modern Kunst, Wien

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; Le Fonds régional d'art contemporain du Nord Pas-de-Calais; FNAC, Paris, France; Kadist Foundation, Paris, France; MaMBO, Bologna

Bologna

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; The Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam

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; Arts Council

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, London

London

; Welsh Museum, Cardiff

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; Government Art Collection, London

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