Born in Vancouver, Canada, 1949
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 1968-1971
Lives and works in Vancouver, Canada
Solo Exhibitions
2010
Museu Picasso, ‘Possible Abstractions’, Barcelona, Spain
Lisson Gallery, London, England
303 Gallery, New York NY
Hamburger Kunsthalle, ‘Rodney Graham – Through the Forest’, Hamburg, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, ‘Rodney Graham – Through the Forest’, Basel, Switzerland (Travelling Exhibition)
MACBA – Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Rodney Graham – Through the Forest’, Barcelona, Spain (Travelling Exhibition)
2009
Jeu de Paume, ‘Harun Farocki / Rodney Graham’, Paris, France
2008,
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago IL
CAC – Centro de Arte Contemporàneo, ‘Rodney Graham. A Glass of Beer’, Malaga, Spain
303 Gallery, New York NY
2007
Lisson Gallery, ‘Rodney Graham. Wet on Wet – My Late Early Styles’, London, England
Sprengel Museum (Kurt-Schwitters-Preis 2006), Hanover, Germany
BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, Austria
2006
Donald Young Gallery, ‘Awakening’, Chicago IL
Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
Hauser & Wirth, ‘Renaissance Man. Works 1400-1977’, Zurich, Switzerland
Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, ‘A group of literary, musical, sculptural, photographic and film pieces’, Montreal, Canada
2005
Vancouver Art Gallery, ‘Rodney Graham. A Little Thought’, Canada (Travelling Exhibition)
Institute of Contemporary Art, ‘Rodney Graham. A Little Thought’, Philadelphia PA (Travelling Exhibition)
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago IL
Lisson Gallery, ‘A Glass of Beer and Other Works’, London, England
Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Le Magasin, Grenoble, France
2004
Art Gallery of Ontario, ‘Rodney Graham. A Little Thought’, Toronto, Canada (Travelling Exhibition)
Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Rodney Graham. A Little Thought’, Los Angeles CA (Travelling Exhibition)
La Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
303 Gallery, New York NY
Hochschule für Bildende Künste, ‘Rodney Graham. Filme. Witz und Wiederholung’, Dresden, Germany
2003
Madison Art Center, Madison WI
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen K21 Ständehaus, Dusseldorf, Germany
Galeries Contemporaines des Musées de Marseille, France
Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago IL
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, ‘The Phonokinetoscope’, Toronto, Canada
2002
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England
Kunsthalle Zürich, ‘Music and Noise’, Zurich, Switzerland
2001
Milwaukee Art Museum, ‘Currents 29: Rodney Graham’, Milwaukee WI
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
Art Basel Galerie Nelson), Switzerland
Lisson Gallery, ‘What is happy, Baby?’, London, England
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, ‘City Self / Country Self: Edge of a Wood’, Berlin, Germany
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, ‘Solo Concert’, Antwerp, Belgium
303 Gallery, ‘The Phonokinetoscope’, New York NY
Galerie Nelson, ‘The Invention of Kineto-Phonograph’, Paris, France
2000
Dia Center for the Arts, ‘...the nearest faraway place… ‘, New York NY
Kunstverein München, ‘Some works with sound waves, some works with light waves and some other experimental works’, Munich, Germany
Westfälischer Kunstverein, ‘Rodney Graham: Neue Arbeiten’, Munster, Germany
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco CA
Presentation House Gallery, ‘Rodney Graham. Getting it Together in the Country’, North Vancouver, Canada
1999
Kunsthalle Wien, ‘Rodney Graham – Cinema Music Video’, Vienna, Austria
Dia Center for the Arts, ‘Time Traced’, New York NY
Donald Young Gallery, ‘Rodney Graham. How I Became a Ramblin’ Man’, Chicago IL
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Vexation Island’, Miami FL
Belkin Art Gallery, ‘Vexation Island’, Vancouver, Canada
1998
Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
Art Gallery of York University ‘Rodney Graham: Vexation Island and Other Works’, Toronto, Canada
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus OH
Micheline Szwajcer Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
1997
La Biennale di Venezia, ‘Vexation Island’ (Canadian Pavilion), Venice, Italy
303 Gallery, ‘Vexation Island’, New York NY
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica CA
Château d’Harcourt, ‘Parcours autour de la Camera Obscura Mobile’, Harcourt, France
1996
Nicole Klagsbrun, ‘Rodney Graham: Editions’, New York NY
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Lisson Gallery, London, England
FRAC – Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain de Haute Normandie, Rouen, France
1995
The Renaissance Society, ‘School of Velocity & Parsifal’, Chicago IL
Johnen & Schöttle Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Musée départemental de Rochechouart, Haute-Vienne, France
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
303 Gallery, New York NY
1994
Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada
Fundacio Espai Poblenou, Barcelona, Spain
Art Metropole, ‘Rodney Graham: Works from the Permanent Collection’, Ontario, Canada
Office of Bernhard Starkmann, Boston, MA
1993
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, ‘Concordance of the Standard Edition’, Antwerp, Begium
Lisson Gallery, ‘School of Velocity’, London, England
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica CA
1992
Galerie One Five, ‘Adjacent Film Frames’, Antwerp, Belgium
Galerie Nelson, Villeurbanne, France
1991
La Maison de la Culture et de la Communication, ‘Stanley Park Cedars’, Saint Etienne, France
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, ‘Ponderosa Pines’, Munich, Germany
1990
Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, ‘Parsifal’, Cologne, Germany
Lisson Gallery, ‘Books’, London, England
Christine Burgin Gallery, ‘Oxfordshire Trees’, New York NY
1989
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, ‘Flanders Trees’, Antwerp, Belgium
Yves Gevaert, ‘Books and Writings by Rodney Graham’, Brussels, Belgium
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Galería Marga Paz, Madrid, Spain
1988
Christine Burgin Gallery, New York NY
Galerie Nelson, Villeurbanne, France
Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
Johnen & Schöttle Galerie, Cologne, Spain
1987
Art Gallery of Ontario, ‘The System of Landor’s Cottage’, Toronto, Canada
Ydessa Hendeles Gallery, ‘Freud Sculptures’, Toronto, Canada
1986
Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne, Spain
1979
__, ‘Camera Obscura’, Abbotsford, Canada
Simon Fraser University, ‘Illuminated Ravine’, Burnady, Canada
Group Exhibitions
2010
ZKM – Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, ‘fast forward 2. The Power of Motion. Media Art Sammlung Goetz’, Karlsruhe, Germany
Johnen Galerie, ‘Conversation Pieces. A Chamber Play, Act 1’, Berlin, Germany
2009
Sullivan Galleries, SAIC School of the Art Institute of Chicago, ‘Picturing the Studio’, Chicago IL
Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart, ‘Die Kunst ist super!’, Berlin, Germany
Yale University Art Gallery, ‘Continuous Present’, New Haven CT
Lentos Kunstmuseum, ‘See This Sound. Promises in Sound and Vision’, Linz, Austria
Malmö Kunsthall, ‘Little Theatre of Gestures’, Malmo, Sweden (Travelling Exhibition)
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, ‘Little Theatre of Gestures’, Basel, Switzerland (Travelling Exhibition)
Zacheta National Art Gallery, ‘Invasion of Sound’, Warsaw, Poland
Schaulager Basel, ‘Holbein to Tillmans. Prominent Guests from the Kunstmuseum Basel’, Switzerland
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, ‘Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix’, Dusseldorf, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
2008
LiFE, ‘Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix’, St. Nazaire, France (Travelling Exhibition)
Museion, ‘Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix’, Bolzano, Italy (Travelling Exhibition)
Museo Nacional de Arte, ‘The Practice of Everyday Life. Fundación / Colección Jumex’, Mexico City, Mexico
Haus der Kunst, ‘Made in Munich’, Munich, Germany
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, ‘Blickmaschinen’, Siegen, Germany
ScheiblerMitte, ‘Malcolm McLaren – Musical Paintings’, Berlin, Germany
Domus Artium 02, ‘Crossroads. Interfaces Between Rock Music and Contemporary Art’, Salamanca, Spain
Generali Foundation, ‘Un coup de dés. Bild gewordene Schrift. Ein ABC der nachdenklichen Sprache’, Vienna, Austria
Gladstone Gallery, ‘Idle Youth’, New York NY
Santander Central Hispano Foundation, ‘On History’, Madrid, Spain
Malmö Art Museum, ‘Archeology of Mind. Morra Greco Collection’, Malmo, Sweden
Städel Museum, ‘Real. Fotografien aus der Sammlung der DZ Bank’, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Museum Morsbroich,‘Kavalierstart 1978-1982’, Leverkusen, Germany
Museion, ‘Solo 24 Ore 24 Stunden’, Bolzano, Italy
de Appel, ‘To Burn Oneself with Oneself: the Romanti Damage Show’, Amsterdam, Holland
Biennale of Sydney, ‘Revolutions – Forms That Turn’, Australia
Kunstmuseum Luzern, ‘Blasted Allegories. Works from the Ringier Collection’, Lucerne, Switzerland
Matthew Marks Gallery / Greene Naftali Gallery, ‘Painting Now and Forever, Part II’, New York NY
Museum der Moderne Salzburg, ‘Sound of Art. Zur Musik in der bildenden Kunst’, Salzburg, Austria
Statens Museum for Kunst, ‘Reality Check’, Copenhagen, Denmark
2007
Frankfurter Kunstverein, ‘MACBA im Frankfurter Kunstverein’, Frankfurt, Germany
The Power Plant, ‘Auto Emotion’, Toronto, Canada
Athens Biennal, ‘Destroy Athens’, Greece
Galerie Frank Elbaz, ‘From the Audible to the Visible’ (cur. by Peter Coffin), Paris, France
Villa Merkel, ‘Brave Lonesome Cowboy’, Esslingen, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, ‘Brave Lonesome Cowboy’, Switzerland (Travelling Exhibition)
Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967’, Chicago IL
Centro José Guerrero, ‘The Invisible Show’, Granada, Spain
University of South Florida CAM, ‘Elsewhere’, Tampa FL
Patio Herreriano, ‘Intocable’, Valladolid, Spain
Museum of Cycladic Art, ‘Her(his)tory’, Athens, Greece
CESAC – Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, ‘Collezione La Gaia’, Caraglio, Italy
Kunsthalle Nürnberg, ‘Romantischer Konzeptionalismus’, Nuremberg (Travelling Exhibition)
BAWAG Foundation, , ‘Romantischer Konzeptionalismus’, Vienna, Austria (Travelling Exhibition)
CGAC – Centro Galego de Arte Contemporànea, ‘Mapas, Cosmogonias e Puntos de Referencia’, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Mori Art Museum, ‘All About Laughter: Humor in Contemporary Art’, Tokyo, Japan
Tate St. Ives, ‘If Everybody had an Ocean: Brian Wilson and Art’, England
Salina Art Center, ‘Situation Comedy: Humor in RecentArt’, Salina KS (Travelling Exhibition)
Museum of Art, ‘Situation Comedy: Humor in RecentArt’, Fort Lauderdale FL (Travelling Exhibition)
2006
Museu Serralves. Museu de Arte Contemporanea, ‘Anos 80 uma topologia’, Porto, Portugal
Hamburger Bahnhof, ‘Beyond Cinema: The Art of Projection’, Berlin, Germany
Les Abattoirs / FRAC – Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Midi-Pyrénées, ‘Le Printemps de Septembre’, Toulouse, France
Museum of Contemporary Art Vigo, ‘The Invisible Show’, Spain
Galerie Thomas Schulte, ‘Moving On: Motion’, Berlin, Germany
Villa Arson, ‘Intouchable. L’idéal transparence’, Nice, France
Exhibition Centre of Centro Cultural de Belém, ‘Helga de Alvear. Concepts for a collection’, Belem, Brazil
BAWAG Foundation, ‘Nothing But Pleasure’, Vienna, Austria
Palazzo delle Papesse, ‘Good Vibrations. Visual arts and rock music’, Siena, Italy
Centre Georges Pompidou, ‘Le mouvement des images’, Paris, France
Le Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, ‘Vidéo – Collection Pierre Huber’, Grenoble, France
Klosterfelde Berlin, ‘WRONG’, Berlin, Germany
Jack Shainmang Gallery, ‘Faking Death: Canadian Art Phototgraphy and the Canadian Imagination’, New York NY
Whitney Museum, ‘Whitney Biennal 2006. Day for Night’, New York NY
CAPC – Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux Entrepôt, ‘Dormir, rêver… et autres nuits’, France
MACBA – Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Espai públic / Dues audiènces, obres i documents de la Collecció Herbert’, Barcelona, Spain
P.S.1 MoMA, ‘Music is a better Noise’, Long Island NY
Institute of Contemporary Art, ‘Surprise, Surprise’, London, England
IAC / FRAC – Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Rhône-Alpes, ‘Distorsions (1)’, Villeurbanne, France
Art Basel, Switzerland
Chicago Cultural Center, ‘Situation Comedy: Humor in RecentArt’, Chicago IL (Travelling Exhibition)
Winnipeg Art Gallery, ‘Situation Comedy: Humor in RecentArt’, Manitoba, Canada (Travelling Exhibition)
MacKenzie Art Gallery, ‘Situation Comedy: Humor in RecentArt’, Saskatchewan, Canada (Travelling Exhibition)
Domus Artium, ’50 Jahre documenta’, Salamanca, Spain (Travelling Exhibition)
2005
Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, ‘Multiple Spaces (3) – Film – Imagination and Illusion In Art’, Germany
Musée Rath, ‘Richard Wagner. Vision d’artistes’, Geneva, Switzerland
Contemporary Museum, ‘Situation Comedy: Humor in RecentArt’, Honolulu HI (Travelling Exhibition)
Kunst-Werke, ‘The Imaginary Number’, Berlin, Germany
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, ‘Intertidal. Vancouver Art and Artists’, Antwerp, Belgium
Kunsthalle Wien, ‘Superstars. Das Prinzip Prominenz in der Kunst’, Vienna, Austria
Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Ecstasy: In and About Altered States’ (cur. Paul Schimmel), Los Angeles CA
Dazibao, Centre de Photographies actuelles, ‘Offwhite: Carte grise à Geneviève Cadieux’, Montreal, Canada
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, ‘Kontexte der Fotografie’, Germany
Landesmuseum Oberösterreich, ‘Police’, Linz, Austria
Camden Arts Centre, ‘An Aside’, (cur. Tacita Dean), London, England
Angel Row Gallery, ‘Pass the Time of Day’ (cur. Paul Rooney), Nottingham, England
Thyssen-Bornomisza Art Contemporary, ‘Puppets & Heavenly Creatures’, Vienna, Austria
Wiener Festwochen, ‘Don’t trust anyone over thirty. Enterntainment by Dan Graham and Tony Oursler with Rodney Graham’, Vienna, Austria
303 Gallery, ‘Passport to Painting’, New York NY
MAC – Musée d’Art Contemporain, ‘La Collection en trois temps et qutre actes’, Marseille, France
Kunsthalle Fridericianum, ’50 Jahre documenta’, Kassel, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
White Columns, ‘Post No Bills’, New York NY
Barbara Krakow Gallery, ‘Long Playing’, Boston IL
2004
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, ‘Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof’, Hamburg, Germany
Centre Georges Pompidou, ‘Sons et Lumières’, Paris, France
57th International Film Festival Locarno, Section ‘In Progress’, Switzerland
MuHKA – Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, ‘All under Heaven’, Antwerp, Belgium
Le Consortium, ‘Before the end’, Dijon, France
Centre culturel canadienne, ‘Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver’, Paris, France
Kunsthaus Graz, ‘Videodreams: between the cinema and the theatrical’, Austria
Musée d’Evreux, ‘Portraits d’arbes’, France
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims, ‘Rêves de Grandeur’, France
Gasworks, ‘Pass the time of day’, London, England
Mendel Art Gallery, ‘Reality check’, Saskatchewan, Canada
Galerie Jan Mot, ‘What did you expect?’, Brussels, Belgium
14th Biennale of Sydney, ‘On Reason and Emotion’, Australia
Loop, ‘I wanna be a Popstar’, Berlin, Germany
Art Basel, Switzerland
Ottawa Art Gallery, ‘Re-play’, Ottawa, Canada
MOT, ‘I am the Wrath of God’, London, England
2003
La Biennale di Venezia, ‘L Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte’, International Pavillion, Venice, Italy
ZKM – Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, ‘Fast Forward: Media Works from the Goetz Collection’, Karlsruhe, Germany
__, ‘Outlook: International Art Exhibition Athens 2003’, Athens, Greece
La Biennale d’Art contemporain de Lyon, France
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, ‘Extended Play: Art Remixing Music’, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Museum of Modern Art, ‘Golden Oldies of Music Video’, New York NY
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, ‘Liam Gillick, Rodney Graham, Joao Penalva’, Toronto, Canada
Australian Center for Contemporary Art, ‘The Labyrinthine Effect’, Victoria, Australia
Musée du Québec, ‘Doublures /Body Doubles’, Canada
Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, ‘Music / Video’, Strasbourg, France
The RISD Museum, ‘On the Wall: Wallpaper by Contemporary Artists’, Providence RI
MAC’s, Grand-Hornu, ‘Le Beau Corps de la Mémoire’, Hornu, Belgium
Donald Young Gallery, ‘Drawings’, Chicago IL
Christine Burgin, New York NY
Centre national d’art et du paysage, ‘Regarde, il neige’, Vassivière, France
Kunsthalle Wien, ‘Go Johnny Go! / The Electric Guitar – Art & Myth’, Vienna, Austria
Galerien der Stadt Esslingen, ‘On Stage’, Germany
SMAK – Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Gelijk het leven’, Ghent, Belgium
Johnen + Schöttle, ‘MALEREI’, Cologne, Germany
Lisson Gallery, ‘The Distance Between Me and You’, London, England
303 Gallery, ‘Within Hours We Would be in the Middle of Nowhere’, New York NY
Kunstverein Salzburg, ‘Sound Systems’, Austria
2002
MAMCO – Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, ‘French Collection’, Geneva, Switzerand
Galeries contemporaines des Musées de Marseille, ‘Subreél’, France
Kunsthalle Wien, ‘Tableaux Vivants: Living Pictures and Attitudes in Photography, Film and Video’, Vienna, Austria
Athens School of Fine Arts, ‘Conversation, Recent acquisition of the Van Abbemuseum’, Greece
13th Biennale of Sydney, ‘(The World May Be) Fantastic’, Australia
Hauser & Wirth Collection, ‘The House of Fiction’, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Centre d’art contemporain, ‘New Deal’, Geneva, Switzerland
Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, ‘Kunst nach Kunst’, Germany
Pori Taidemuseo, ‘Transformer’, Pori, Finland
California College of Arts and Crafts, ‘Rock My World’, San Francisco CA
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium
Kunsthalle Erfurt, ‘Urbane Sequenzen’, Germany
Kunstverein Hannover, ‘On Stage’, Hanover, Germany
2001-2002
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Kunsthalle München, ‘Loop – Alles auf Anfang’, Munich, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, ‘Loop – Alles auf Anfang’, New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
2001
Centre pour l’image contemporain, in collaboration with Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, ‘9th Biennial of Moving Images’, Geneva, Switzerland
Frankfurter Kunstverein, ‘Neue Welt’, Frankfurt, Germany
Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, ‘Wiederaufnahme’, Aachen, Germany
Henry Art Gallery, ‘Short Stories’, Seattle WA
Kunstmuseum Bern, ‘Black Box’, Berne, Switzerland
Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Art / Music: Rock, Pop, Techno’, Sydney, Australia
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, ’010101: Art in Technological Times’, San Francisco CA
Bellevue Art Museum, ‘Luminous’, Bellevue WA
Vancouver Art Gallery, ‘These Days’, Canada
Galerie Kienzle & Gmeiner, ‘Schaufenster mit Licht’, Berlin, Germany
7. Istanbul Biennale, Turkey
2000
Hauser & Wirth Collection, ‘Drehmomente’, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Serpentine Gallery, ‘The Greenhouse Effect’, London, England
Walker Art Center, ‘Let’s Entertain: Lifes’s Guilty Pleasures’, Minneapolis MN
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, ‘Drive’, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Donald Young Gallery, ‘Sound Video Film’, Chicago IL
Lux Cinema and Gallery, ‘Halcion Sleep’, London, England
Real Art Ways, ‘@ the Cinema’, Hartford CT
Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Flight Patterns’, Los Angeles CA
VTO Gallery, ‘Oktoberfest 2000’, London, England
Biennale Montreal, ‘Visual Arts’, Canada
1999
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, ‘Millennium My Eye! Head Over Heals A Work of Impertinence’, Montreal, Canada
James Kelly Contemporary, ‘A Puzzling Strategy: Different Views of Landscape Photography’, Santa Fe NM
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, ‘Plain Air’, New York NY
Angles Gallery, ‘Duration and Whenever’, Santa Monica CA
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, ‘Sharon Lockhart, On Kawara, Rodney Graham’, New York NY
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, ‘Regarding Beauty – A View of The Late Twentieth Century’, Washington DC
CCAC Institute, ‘Searchlight: Consciousness at The Millennium’, San Francisco CA
Haus am Waldsee, ‘Private eye. Crimes & Cases’, Berlin, Germany
1998
Foundation Beyeler, ‘The Magic of Trees’, Basel, Switzerland
Norwich Gallery, Norwich School of Art and Design, ‘Single Screen’, England
Wexner Center for the Arts ,‘The Serial Attitude’ , Columbus OH
Contemporary Arts Museum, ‘Projected Allegories’, Houston TX
Fischer Landau Center, ‘Shared Vision: Photographs from the Collection’, Long Island City NY
Photographers Gallery and The Whitechapel Art Gallery, ‘Speed: Visions of An Accelerated Age’, London, England
Angles Gallery, ‘Composed: Rodney Graham, Christian Marclay, David Schäfer’, Santa Monica CA
HMKV – Hartware MedienKunstVerein, ‘Reservate der Sehnsucht’, Dortmund, Germany
1997
Palazzo delle Exposizioni, ‘Città / Natura’, Rome, Italy
Fisher Landau Center, ‘Wood Work’, Long Island City NY
Art Gallery of Windsor, ‘Sites of the Visual’, Ontario, Canada
La Biennale di Venezia, ‘Past, Present, Future’, Venice, Italy
Krefelder Kunstmuseum, ‘Niemandsland’, Krefeld, Germany
1996
Kunsthalle Wien, ‘Die Schrift des Raumes’, Vienna, Austria
Kunsthalle St. Gallen, ‘Lesen!’, Switzerland
Johnen & Schöttle Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Lisson Gallery, ‘Victor Burgin, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, John Hilliard’, London, England
Museo Regional de Guadalajara, ‘The Architecture of Dreams’, Guadalajara, Spain
Vancouver Art Gallery, ‘Topographies’, Canada
1995
Setagaya Art Museum, ‘Spirits at the Crossing’, Tokyo (Travelling Exhibition)
Museum of Modern Art, ‘Spirits at the Crossing’, Kyoto, Japan (Travelling Exhibition)
Museum of Modern Art, ‘Spirits at the Crossing’, Hokkaido, Japan (Travelling Exhibition)
Museum of Modern Art, ‘Spirits at the Crossing’, Sapporo, Japan (Travelling Exhibition)
Art Institute of Chicago, ‘About the Place: Recent Art in the Americas’, Chicago IL
Futur Musée des Instruments, ‘Les fragments du désir’, Brussels, Belgium
Le Nouveau Musée / Institut, ‘Exposition Artistes / Architectes’, Villeurbanne, France
1994
MuHKA – Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, ‘Beeld’, Ghent, Belgium
Nicole Klagsbrun, New York NY
Résidence Secondaire, ‘Des objets sans fondation’, Paris, France
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, ‘Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Jenny Holzer. Fotografien und Multiples’, Munich, Germany
1993
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, ‘Books, Prints & Objects’, Eindhoven, Netherlands
303 Gallery, ‘Hans-Peter Feldman, Rodney Graham, Allen Ruppersberg’, New York NY
Musée Municipal, ‘Canada, une nouvelle génération’, La Roche-sur-Yon, France
Kunsthalle Wien, ‘Binaera: 14 Interaktionen – Kunst und Technologie’, Vienna, Austria
Second Tyne International, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
La Biennale di Venezia, ‘Voyage to Cythera’, Venice, Italy
Johnen & Schöttle Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, ‘Corners filled with what is swept into corners’, Antwerp, Belgium
1992
documenta IX, Kassel, Germany
Centro d’Art Santa Monica, ‘Cameres Indiscretes’, Barcelona, Spain
Casino de la Exposición, ‘Teatrojardin, Bestiarium’, Sevilla, Spain
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, ‘Stars Don’t Stand Still in the Sky – Hommage à Stéphane Mallarmé’, Switzerland
Musée communal d’Ixelles, ‘The Binary Era: New Intersections’, Brussels, Belgium
De Appel, ‘Inscapes’, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, ‘Acquisitions: 1989-1993’, Eindhoven, Netherlands
1991
Art Gallery of York University ‘Crossroads’, Toronto, Canada
Musée des Beaux-Arts et ERSEP-École d’Art, ‘Le Diaphane: une réflexion, une collection, une exposition, un lieu’, Tourcoing, France
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
Galerie Pierre Huber, ‘La revanche de l’image’, Geneva, Switzerland
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, ‘Nieuwe vieugel’, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Vancouver Art Gallery, ‘Lost Illusions’, Canada
1990
Museen Haus Lange und Haus Esters, ‘Weitersehen (1980-1990)’, Krefeld, Germany
Centre International d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, ‘Rodney Graham, Ian Wallace’, Munich, Germany
Galería Marga Paz, ‘Hanne Darboven, Rodney Graham, Antonio Muntadas, Lawrence Weiner’, Madrid, Spain
1989
Jardin-Théâtre Entrepôt-Galerie du Confort, ‘Bestiarium’, Poitiers, France
1988
Gallery Sten Eriksson, ‘Made in Camera’, Stockholm, Sweden
Micheline Szwajcer Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
De Zaak, ‘Facsimile’, Groningen, Netherlands
Studio Casoli, ‘Rodney Graham, Robert Kleyn, Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace’, Milan, Italy
Walter Phillips Gallery, ‘Essential Form’, Banff, Canada
Cable Gallery, ‘Drawings’, New York NY
P.S. 1, ‘Theatregarden Bestiarium’, New York NY
1987
__, ‘Skulptur Projekte in Münster 1987’, Munster, Germany
Galleria Pieroni and The American Academy in Rome, ‘Non in Codice’, Rome, Italy
Christine Burgin Gallery, ‘Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Robert Smithson, Jeff Wall’, New York NY
De Appel, ‘Cinema Objects’, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1986
Cologne International Artfair, ‘Fokus: Canada 1960-1985’, Cologne, Germany
Galeria Sala Uno, ‘Ricochet’, Rome, Italy
1985
Rüdiger Schöttle Galerie, ‘Barbara Ess, Rodney Graham, Ken Lum’, Munich, Germany
49th Parallel Center for Contemporary Canadian Art, ‘Rodney Graham, Ken Lum, Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace’, New York NY
1984
Port Coquitlam Mall, ‘Poco Rococo’, Port Coquitlam, Canada
1980
Hal Bromm Gallery, ‘Critics Choice’, New York NY
1979
Nova Gallery, ‘Local Color’, Vancouver, Canada
1977
Pender Street Gallery, ‘Eight West Coast Artists’, Vancouver, Canada (Travelling Exhibition)
__, ‘Eight West Coast Artists’, Sydney, Australia (Travelling Exhibition)
1976
Pender Street Gallery, ‘Rodney Graham, Robert Kleyn’, Vancouver, Canada
1973
Vancouver Art Gallery, ‘Pacific Vibrations’, Canada
Selected Performance Works
2005
Staatsoper unter den Linden & Wiener Festwochen, ‘Don’t Trust Anyone Over Thirty’, Berlin, Germany and Vienna, Austria
Awards and Grants
2006
Kurt Schwitters-Preis 2006, Niedersächsiche Sparkassenstiftung, Germany
2004
Gershon Iskowitz Prize, Gershon Iskowitz Foundation, Toronto, Canada
2001
DAAD-scholarship in Munich and Berlin, Germany