STEPHEN WADDELL - BIOGRAPHY

MFA University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
BA Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada

 

Individual exhibitions

2008
Stephen Waddell, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto
Stephen Waddell, 1998-2006, curated by Roy Arden, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver

2006
Talents, C/O Berlin, Curated by Felix Hoffman, Berlin
Mostly Unforeseen Encounters, Kunstforum Baloise, Basel, curated by Martin Schwander

2005
Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver

2004
Ten Photographs, Schirmer/Mosel Showroom, Munich
Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto

2003
Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver

2002
Consigned to the Street, Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin
New Pictures, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver

2001
Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto
Galerie Tanit, Munich

2000
IL Killer, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver
Conspirators, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart

1998
Galerie K&S, Berlin

1997
Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart

1992
Subdivisions, Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008
Portraits, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto

2006
Contact Photography Festival, Toronto

2005
Temporary Import, Berlin Art Forum, Curated by Susanne Titz
Emotion Pictures, MUHKA, Curated by Dieter Roelstraete, Antwerp.
Real Pictures, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver

2004
Direkte Malerei/Direct Painting, Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim
PILOT:1, Limehouse Hall, London
Looking at Painting II, Galerie Tanit, Munich

2003
Vacant Community, Curated by Marianna Vecellio, Fondazione Adriano Olivetti,
Rome
Quartieri Milano - Stephen Waddell + Gruppo A12, Openspace, Milan

2002
Proposal for an Exhibition, Curated by C.Beck/A.Gruft, Monte Clark Gallery,
Vancouver

2001
Arden, McFarland, Ursuliak, Waddell, Wall, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto
Solitude au Musée, Musée d'art Moderne, St.Etienne

2000
Solitude im Museum, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

1999
Pictures of Pictures, Arnolfini, Bristol & The Norwich Gallery, Norwich
After Photography, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver

1997
Next to the City, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart

1995
EAST international, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich Gallery

1994
U.B.C. MFA Graduate Show, U.B.C. Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver

 

Selected Bibliography

Published work

Stephen Waddell Photographs, text by Michael Fried, forthcoming by Schirmer Mosel Verlag, Munich 2007
Talents, C/O Berlin, exhibition catalogue, interview/text by Katrin Blum
The Contemplation of Sight Itself, The Photographs of Stephen Waddell, by Jeff Wall, in Art on Paper Magazine, New York, 2004.
USE - Multiplicites; Uncertain States of Europe, Skira, Milan, 2003.
Gruppo A12 + Stephen Waddell, Openspace, Milan, 2003.
A Plot Unfolding: Stephen Waddell by Shepherd Steiner, in Solitude im Museum,
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart / Musée d'art Moderne, St.Etienne France, Edition Solitude 2000.
Pictures of Pictures, Lynda Morris, Norwich Gallery, Norwich / The Arnolfini, Bristol, 1999.
Glance and Landscape / Blick und Landschaft, Daniel Kurajovic, Stuttgart / Berlin 1998.
East International 1995, Norwich School of Art & Design, Lynda Morris, Norwich, 1995.
U.B.C. MFA Graduate Show, U.B.C. Fine Arts Gallery, Jeff Wall, Vancouver, 1994.

 

Reviews

“Postmark Berlin” by Sascha Hastings, in Canadian Art, Spring 2006 [cover].
“Lost of privacy” By Clint Burnham, in the Vancouver Sun, December 2005
“Relentlessly frigid images of solitude”, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, July 10, 2004.
“Gesicht in der Masse” (Face in the Crowd) by Anne Erfle in Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich,
October 5, 2001.
“The Killer in the Photograph” by Cori Howard, National Post Newspaper November 13, 2000.
“After photography” by Roy Arden, in Canadian Art, Winter 2000 [cover].

 

Collections

The Armand Hammer Collection, Los Angeles
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa
Collection Bâloise, Basel
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Schirmer / Mosel Collection, Munich

 

Awards

2004
Canada Council Production Grant

2000
Canada Council Production Grant

1997/98
Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship, Stuttgart

 

Lectures

2006
Contact Photography Festival, Toronto

2005
Art Basel 36, Basel
Kunsthalle Mannheim

2004
Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary

2003
School of Art, Photography Department, Venice, Italy

2002
Centre for Advanced Study/Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin

2000
Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee, Berlin

1999
Norwich School of Art and Design, Norwich, UK

 

Teaching

1996
Dept. of Fine Arts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

1995
Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC