Born: Vancouver, 1957

 

Education

Emily Carr College of Art & Design, Diploma, 1982
University of British Columbia, Master of Fine Arts, 1990

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008
The World etc..., Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto
The World etc..., Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver

2007
Roy Arden (Mid-career survey exhibition) Vancouver Art Gallery (catalogue) guest curated by Dieter Roelsraete, Antwerp Museum of Contemporary Art (MuHKA), Belgium
Supernatural, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles

2006
Aways the Sun, Galerie Tanit, Munich
75 Years of Collecting: Portrait of a Citizen, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Against the Day, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Against the Day, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto
Against the Day, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver
Roy Arden Retrospective - IKON Gallery, Birmingham (catalogue)

2005
Roy Arden - Fragments, Galerie Tanit, Munich

2004
Citizen, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Fragments - photographs 1981-85, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto
Monster House, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver

2002
Video, Belkin Satellite, Vancouver
Photographs, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver
Photographs, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto
Selected Works 1985-2000, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario, (catalogue)
Selected Works 1985-2000, Vox, Montréal (catalogue)
Fragments - photographs 1981-85, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario, (catalogue)

2001
Dee/Glasoe, New York
Gilles Peyroulet & cie, Paris
L'Aquarium, galerie d'école, Valenciennes

2000
Gilles Peyroulet & cie., Paris
Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica
Terminal City Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver
Fragments - Photographs 1981-85, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, (catalogue)

1999
Terminal City, Centro de Fotografia, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca

1998
Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary,(catalogue)
Patrick Painter, Inc., Santa Monica

1997
Art Gallery of York University, Toronto (catalogue)
Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (catalogue)

1996
American Fine Arts Co., New York

1993
Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (catalogue)

1990
Galerie Giovanna Minelli, Paris
OR Gallery, Vancouver
Services Culturels de LAmbassade du Canada, Paris

1989
Hippolyte Gallery, Helsinki
OR Gallery, Vancouver

1988
West, Artspeak, Vancouver (catalogue)

1987
YYZ Artists Outlet, Toronto
Dazibao, Montreal

1986
Mission/Black Sun, Western Front Gallery, Vancouver

1985
Fragments, Halle Sud, Geneva
Rupture, OR Gallery, Vancouver
Abjection, Coburg Gallery, Vancouver

1983
Fragments, Coburg Gallery, Vancouver
Photographs, OR Gallery, Vancouver

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009
Bowie, Clark & Faria, Toronto, Ontario
Clark & Faria Presents:, Clark & Faria, Toronto, Ontario
Aspect Ratio, tent., Rotterdam, in conjunction with the Rotterdam Film Festival

2008
The Order of Things, Antwerp Museum of Contemporary Art (MuHKA) curated by Dieter Roelsraete, Belgium
Idle Youth, curated by Russell Ferguson, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Portraits, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2007
Sharjah Biennial 8, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (catalogue)
Re-Envisioning Habitat, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario
Naturalezas silenciosas, Centro de Arte y Naturaleza - Fundación Beulas, Huesca, Spain
The Backlot, Belkin Satellite, Vancouver
Private/Public, Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam
Is There a There There? Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario (catalogue)
Rouge baiser, Biennale Estuaire Nantes, Saint Nazare
History, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2006
Artist’s Choice: Herzog & de Meuron, Perception Restrained, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Faking Death, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Portrait of a Citizen, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Territory, Artspeak & Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver (catalogue)

2005
Intertidal: Vancouver Art and Artists - MuKha, Antwerp, Belgium
Covering the Real – Art and the Press Picture from Warhol to Tillmans, Kunstmuseum Basel (catalogue)
Roy Arden, Michael Krebber, John Miller, Richard Telles Gallery, Los Angeles
Citizens, Art Circuit Touring Exhibitions, London
Pitzhanger Manor Museum, London
The City Gallery, Leicester
Oriel Davies, Powys, Wales
The Ormeau Baths, Belfast
Pinacotheque Sao Paulo
Real Pictures -Photographs from the Collection of Claudia Beck and Andrew Gruft, Vancouver Art Gallery (catalogue)

2004
Jede Fotografie ein Bild - Siemens Fotosammlung
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, (catalogue)
Busan Biennale, Busan Korea (catalogue)
Likeness – Portraits of Artists by other Artists, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (catalogue)
Future Cities, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario (catalogue)
Nowhere Home, Art Gallery of Ontario
Paysages Invisibles, Musee departmental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart.
Mouvements de fonds, MAC – galleries contemporaines des musée de Marseille, Marseille
Busan Biennale, Busan Korea (catalogue)
The Shadow of Production, Vancouver Art Gallery

2003
À mains nues, Frac Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-les Rouen
Paradise Lost, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto
Various Properties, Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Supermarché, Gilles Peyroulet & cie., Paris
A Proposal for an Exhibition (curated by Claudia Beck and Andrew Gruft) Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto
Boarding Pass, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto

2002
A Proposal for an Exhibition (curated by Claudia Beck and Andrew Gruft) Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver
Shopping - Art & Consumer Culture, Tate Liverpool (catalogue)
Shopping - Art & Consumer Culture, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (catalogue)
Politics, Gilles Peyroulet & cie., Paris
Prophets of Boom - Werke aus der Sammlung Schürmann, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
Citizen, Gilles Peyroulet & cie., Paris
This Place, Vancouver Art Gallery
Mouvements de fonds Acquisitions 2002 du Fonds national d’art contemporain, Centre de la Vieille charité, Marseille

2001
Roy Arden / Scott McFarland / Howard Ursuliak / Stephen Waddell / Jeff Wall, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto
Pictures, Positions and Places, Vancouver Art Gallery
Surprises, Gilles Peyroulet & cie, Paris
Superman in Bed, Kunst der Gegenwart und Fotografie ( Sammlung Schuermann), Museum am Ostwald, Dortmund.
Urban Landscapes, Gilles Peyroulet & cie, Paris
Processo Documentals, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Commandes photographiques du Groupe Lhoist: Roy Arden, Bernd et Hilla Becher, Elliot Erwitt, Rodney Graham, Jan Henle, Josef Koudelka, Centre national de la photographie, Paris
Vancouver Collects, Vancouver Art Gallery (catalogue)
Imagining Places and Travelling Spaces, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina

2000
Deep Distance, Kunsthalle Basel (catalogue)
The City, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York
Contaminated Symptoms, Oakville Galleries, Oakville
Image & Light, History and Influence, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver
Out of This Century, Vancouver Art Gallery

1999
Views from the Edge of the World, Marlborough Chelsea, New York
Objects In The Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Nanaimo B.C. to National City CA, Portland Art Museum

1998
Everyday, 11th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney (catalogue)
Entropie Zu Hause, Suermondt Ludwig Museum, Aachen
A Sense of Place, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles
New Works: Roy Arden, Glenn Brown, Roni Horn, Mike Kelley, Mark Lewis, Paul McCarthy, Jorge Pardo, Diana Thater, Patrick Painter, Inc., Santa Monica

1997
Tableaux, Vaknin Schwartz Gallery, Atlanta
Panique Au Faubourg, Quartiere Ephémère, Montreal
Landmarks, John Weber, New York
Track Records, Canadian Centre for Contemporary Photography (catalogue)

1996
Roy Arden/Dan Graham/Ed Ruscha/Christopher Williams, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
The Culture of Nature, Kamloops Art Gallery, BC
d'une main...l'autre, Galerie Municipale du Chateau d'Eau, Toulouse, France

1995
The Friendly Village, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (catalogue)
Roy Arden/Gaylen Gerber, American Fine Art Co., New York
Roy Arden/Paul McCarthy/Richard Prince/ Juan Munoz, Jack Hanley
Gallery, San Francisco

1994
Roy Arden/Candida Hofer, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
In the Field, Landscape in Recent Photography, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

1993
Canada, Une nouvelle génération, Musee Municipal de La Roche- sur- Yon, and Musee des Beaux-Arts et FRAC Franche-Comte, Dole, France (catalogue)
Patrick Painter Editions, Galerie Johnen & Schottle, Cologne
Beneath the Paving Stones, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver (catalogue)

1992
Huitiemes Ateliers Internationaux, Pays de la Loire, Garenne Lemot,
Clisson, France (catalogue)

1991
Peuples En Image: Weegee, Bill Henson, Roy Arden, Raymonde April and AnneFavrat, Le Lieu Galerie de Photographies, Lorient, France
VAN - 7 Vancouver Artists, Wilkey Fine Arts, Seattle
Dismember, Museum of Traditional Values - Simon Watson,
New York

1990
Fotographie Biennale Rotterdam, Perspektief (catalogue)
Prive/Public - Art et Discours Social, La Galerie dart Essai and La
Galerie du Cloitre, Rennes and Winnipeg Art Gallery (catalogue)
150 ans de Photographie, Musee des beaux - arts, Nantes

1989
Taking Pictures, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver (catalogue)
Perspective 89 - Roy Arden and Dominique Blain, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (catalogue)
Photo Kunst, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart (catalogue)
Selections from the Ann & Marshall Webb Collection
Art Gallery of York University, Toronto

1988
The Discursive Field of Recent Photography, Artculture Resources
Centre, Toronto (catalogue)
Behind the Sign, (in collaboration with Jeff Derksen), Artspeak,
Vancouver (catalogue)
Made in Camera, Galleri Sten Eriksson, VAVD, Stockholm (catalogue)

1987
Roy Arden and Janice Gurney, Coburg Gallery, Vancouver
Reconnaissance - Vikky Alexander, Roy Arden, Jamelie Hassan,
Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta

1986
Three Points, Twelve Views, Surrey Art Gallery, Seattle Art Museum,
Portland Art Museum (catalogue)
Making History - Recent Art of the Pacific West, Vancouver Art Gallery
Wordworks, 911 Gallery, Seattle
Broken Muse, Vancouver Art Gallery (catalogue)
Camera Works, OR Gallery, Vancouver

1984
Art and Photography, Vancouver Art Gallery (catalogue)

1983
Vancouver: Art and Artists 1931 - 1983, Vancouver Art Gallery (catalogue)

1979
Twenty Photo Artists, Pumps Gallery, Vancouver (catalogue)

 

Selected Bibliography

Artist's Project, Blind Spot, Issue 7, New York (1996)
Artist's Project, Blind Spot, Issue 34, New York (2007)
Artist's Project, C Magazine 7, Toronto (Fall 1985)
Artist's Project, Parachute 50, Montreal (Spring 1988)
Artist's Project, (with Jeff Derksen), Raddle Moon 8, Vancouver (1989)
Artist's Project, West Coast Line 1, Vancouver (1990)
Artist's Project, West Coast Line 11, Vancouver (1993)
Alberro, Alex, "Between the Tides", Artforum, New York (January, 1997)
Ardenne, Paul, "Canada, une nouvelle génération", Artpress #182, Paris
(July-August, 1993)
Baker, Kenneth, “Photography With an Eye For Social Relevance”, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco (Wednesday, January 9, 2008)
Bedard, Catherine, "Pour une approche excentrique de la question territoriale dans l'art
Canadien contemporain", in Canada, une nouvelle génération, Frac Pay de la Loire,
Nante, (1993)
Bérard, Serge, "Archeologie du cuiver: LOuest de Roy Arden", Parachute 53, Montreal,(December, January, March, 1988-89). Revised english version: Frame of Mind, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta (1993)
Bianchi, Paolo, Äesthetik der Fotographie, in Photo Art – Fotografie Im 21 Jahrhundert, Uta Grosenick & Thomas Seelig editors, Dumont Buchverlag, Köln, (2008)
Birnie Danzker, Jo-anne, "Making Memories", Vancouver Magazine , vol. 22, 9
(September, 1989)
Boddy, Trevor, “Borrowed Places, Borrowed Times”, in Vertical Cities exhibition catalogue, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, (1999)
Boddy, Trevor, “Landscapes Transformed Within Living Memory”, The Globe and Mail, Toronto (Friday, October 26)
Brayshaw, Christopher, "Mourning Becomes Eclectic", Borderlines, issue #66, Winnipeg
(May 1998)
Brayshaw, Christopher, "Arden's Images Akin to a Crime Scene", The Vancouver Courier,
Vancouver (Feb.23, 2000)
Chevrier, Jean-François, "Die Abenteuer der Tableau-Form in der Geschichte der
Photographie/Les aventures de la forme tableau dans l'histoire de la photographie", in
Photo Kunst , Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart (1989)
Chevrier, Jean-François, "Illustration, Figuration", Galeries Magazine, #38, Paris
(August-September,1990)
Coleman, A.D., "Roy Arden", The Promise of Photography, Prestel, Munich (1998)
Cousineau-Levine, Penny, “Canadian Art Photography and the Canadian Imagination, in Faking Death, ” McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal (2003)
Cragg, Randy, "Well Shaped Words", The Weekly, Seattle (August 27, 1986)
Culley, Peter, "A Note on Tree Stump, Nanaimo, BC, 1991 and Three Others", Roy Arden,
Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery and Art Gallery of York University (1997)
Culley, Peter, "Out of the Blue, Three Works on Vancouver", Border Crossings, Issue # 78,
Vol.20 #2, Winnipeg (May, 2001)
Culley, Peter, "A Poem Containing History" in Fragments exhibition catalogue, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, (2002)
Culley, Peter, “Crow” in Roy Arden – Against the Day, exhibition catalogue for mid-career survey at Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery and Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, (2007)
Dault, Gary Michael, “A Rare Burst of Beauty Amid Banality”, The Globe & Mail, Toronto (Saturday, July 29, 2006)
DeBaere, Bart & Roelstraete,Dieter, “Introducing Intertidal”, in Intertidal – Vancouver Art & Artists, exhibition catalogue, MuHKA, Antwerp (2005)
Ferguson, Russell, “From Fragments”, in Roy Arden – Against the Day, exhibition catalogue for mid-career survey at Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery and Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, (2007)
Fischer, Hartwig, “Untitled” in Covering the Real, Art and the Press Picture from Warhol to Tillmans, Kunstmuseum Basel (2005)
Fleming, Marnie, "Roy Arden, Selected Works 1985-2000" in Roy Arden, Selected Works 1985-2000, exhibition catalogue, Oakville Galleries, Oakville (2002)
Folland, Tom, The Discursive Field of Recent Photography, exhibition catalogue, Artculture Resource Centre, Toronto (1989)
Galassi, Peter, “End of the Line”, in Roy Arden – Against the Day, exhibition catalogue for mid-career survey at Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery and Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, (2007)
Gagnon, Monika, "Ruptures in the Landscape of the Photograph", Thirteen Essays on
Photography, Canadian Museum of Photography, Ottawa (1991)
Grande, John, K., "Roy Arden - Selected Works", Vie Des Arts, Montréal, #189,
(hiver, 2002-2003)
Grande, John, K., review of Vancouver Art Gallery exhibition, Ciel Variable, Montréal, #78, Spring 2008
Guzman, Antonio, "Roy Arden - Archives Instabiles", Artpress, 155, Paris (February, 1991)
Haraldsson, Arni Runar, "Photographs", Vanguard, 13:2, Vancouver (March, 1985)
Haraldsson, Arni Runar, "History at Infinity", C Magazine 11, Toronto (Summer, 1986)
Haraldsson, Arni Runar, "Roy Arden" Made in Camera, VAVD, Stockholm, (1988)
Hoffman-Johnson, Barbara, “Roy Arden” in Photo Art – Fotografie Im 21 Jahrhundert, Uta Grosenick & Thomas Seelig editors, Dumont Buchverlag, Köln,(2008)
Huitorel Jean Marc, "Roy Arden", Photographie d'une collection, Hazan, Paris, (1997)
Jean, Marie-Josee, "The Space of Making," in Zeitgenoessische Fotokunst aus Kanada,
exhibition catalogue, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, (2005)
Laurence, Robin, "The Landscape of Violence", The Georgia Straight, Vancouver,
(Jan. 1-8, 1998)
Laurence, Robin,”The Eyes of Arden”, The Georgia Straight, Vancouver, (October 18, 2007)
Lawlor, Michael, "Camera Works", Parachute 47, Montreal (Summer, 1987)
Lederman, Marsha, “Behind the Lens: The Vancouver School Debate”, The Globe and Mail, Toronto (October 20, 2007)
Leydier, Richard, "Shopping", Artpress #285, Paris (November 2002)
Mackie, John, “Art With a Sense of History”, The Vancouver Sun, Vancouver (October 20, 2007)
Mays, John Bentley, "Roy Arden at YYZ", The Globe and Mail, Toronto (Summer, 1986)
Mays, John Bentley, "Challenging the Need to Figure Things Out", The Globe and Mail,
Toronto (April 8, 1988)
Miller, Earl, "The Discursive Field of Recent Photography", Parachute 52, Montreal
(Fall, 1988)
Miller, Earl, "Impossible Mission", C Magazine 26, Toronto (Summer, 1990)
Miller, John, "Down There", Roy Arden, Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery and Art Gallery of
York University (1997)
Milroy, Sarah, "Photographs Challenge B.C. Image", The Globe and Mail, Toronto
(January 8, 1998)
Milroy, Sarah, "Life on the Edge", The National Post, Toronto, (Feb. 29, 2000)
Milroy, Sarah, "An Eye one the Margins", The Globe & Mail, Toronto, (February 28. 2002)
Milroy, Sarah, “Is Arden Our Next Greatest Photographer”, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, (Saturday October 27, 2007)
Monks, Christian, “Invisible Politics” Terminal City, Vancouver, (Dec.9, 2004)
Olson, Christopher, review of Vancouver Art Gallery Exhibition, Border Crossings. Issue # 105, Vol.27 #1, Winnipeg, (Feb, 2008)
Pagel, David, "Pretty Images of Gritty Vancouver Subjects", Los Angeles Times,
(April 10, 1998)
Poivert, Michel, in La Photographie Contemporaine, Flammarion, Paris, (2002
Richter, Verena, “Magische Momente”, (review of “Jede Photographie ein Bild” at Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich), Die Welt, Munchen (Dec.14, 2003)
Rochefort, Jean-Claude ,"Par-delà la mécanique des choses", Le devoir, Montréal
(samedi 14, 2002)
Roelstraete,Dieter, “1,986,965 (2001 Census) An Intertidal Travelogue”, in Intertidal – Vancouver Art & Artists, exhibition catalogue, MuHKA, Antwerp, (2005)
Roelstraete,Dieter, “Negative Diagnostics – Vision and Discontent in the Work of Roy Arden”, in Roy Arden, exhibition catalogue, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England (2006)
Roelstraete,Dieter, “Le mot et le chose – Alternating Currents in Roy Arden’s Net.art.” , CV Ciel Variable, #71 (June 2006)
Roelstraete,Dieter, “Vision and It’s Discontent – On Roy Arden’s Negative Diagnostics (Reprise)”, in Roy Arden – Against the Day, exhibition catalogue for mid-career survey at Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery and Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, (2007)
Scott, Michael, "Exacting Look at an Empty Man-Made World", The Vancouver Sun,
(Nov.29, 1997)
Scott, Michael, "Pictures find Meaning in Neglected Places", The Vancouver Sun,
Scott, Michael, "A Terrible Terminal City", The Vancouver Sun, Vancouver, (Feb. 22, 2000)
Scott, Kitty, "Die dialektischen Stadtansichten von Roy Arden", Bauwelt Heft 12 (March
1998)
Shaw, Nancy, "Expanded Consciousness and Company Types", The Vancouver Anthology,
Talon Books, Vancouver (1991)
Shier, Reid, "Beauty Among the Ruins", The National Post, Toronto (April,27, 2000)
Steiner, Shep, "Aspects of the Rustic as Trope" in Terminal City, Ediciones Universidad de
Salamanca, Salamanca (1999)
Steiner, Shep, "The Old Mole" - Photography Neighbouring on Materialism" in Roy Arden, Selected Works 1985-2000, exhibition catalogue, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, (2002)
Steiner, Shep, “What is it About Vancouver Art? Tales of Narrative Entanglement From Up North”  in X-tra,  Vol. 6, #3, Los Angeles, (Spring 2004)
Steiner, Shep, “Paragraphs” in Roy Arden – Against the Day, exhibition catalogue for mid-career survey at Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery and Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, (2007)
Taft, Catherine, Critic's Picks Artforum.com "Untitled Group Exhibition" October 3-14, 2006.
Thériault, Michèle, "Roy Arden", Perspective 89, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
(September, 1989)
Thom, Ian, "Roy Arden", Art B.C. - Masterworks from British Columbia, Vancouver Art
Gallery/ Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver (2000)
Tousley, Nancy, "Beauty in Blighted Landscapes Highlights Failures of Society", Calgary
Herald (March, 21, 98)
Tousley, Nancy, "Engines of Desire", Calgary Herald. (Feb. 7, 1998)
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(Summer, 2002)
Troncy, Eric, "Roy Arden at Giovanna Minelli", Artscribe, 86, London (March/April, 1991)
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Uimonen, Anu, "Merkitystenta ja käsitteiden virrassa" Helsingin Sanomat, Helsinki
(March 4, 1989)
Wall, Jeff, "La Melancholie de la rue: Idyll and the Monochrome in the Works of Ian
Wallace", Ian Wallace: Selected Works 1970-1987, Vancouver Art Gallery (1988)
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(1993. Reprinted in Parachute 74, Montreal, (April, 1994) Also reprinted in German in Jeff Wall, Essays Und Interviews, Szenarien Im Bildraum Der Wirklich Keit., Verlag Der Kunst, (Fundus-Bücher; 142) Dresden, (1997)
Wall, Jeff, 'Roy Arden', Photo District News, Vol XXIV, Issue 2, New York, (Feb. 2004)
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1988:2 (Spring)
Watson, Scott, "Landscape of the Economy - Roy Arden's Photographs", Roy Arden, Morris
and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, U.B.C. (1997)
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(Feb. 16, 2000)
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Weski, Thomas, “Beyond”, in Roy Arden – Against the Day, exhibition catalogue for mid-career survey at Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery and Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, (2007)
Whyte, Murray, "Amid Serene Natural Beauty, A Residue of Brutal Trauma", The New York Times, Sunday, January 24, 1999
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(1988). Reprinted in Sightings, Reading Contemporary Canadian Art, Artexte Editions,Montreal, 1994. Also reprinted in French in Réfractions, Trajets de l’art contemporain au Canada, Artexte, Montreal, 1998
Wood,William, "Roy Arden", Huitiemes Ateliers Internationaux des pays de la Loire, Frac,
Pays de la Loire, Nantes, (1991)
Wood,William, “The Insufficiency of the World”, in Intertidal – Vancouver Art & Artists, exhibition catalogue, MuHKA, Antwerp, (2005)
Young, Jane, "Broken Muse", C Magazine 14, Toronto (Spring, 1987)

 

Collections

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Caisse des Dépôt et consignations, Paris
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa
Canadian Centre for Contemporary Photography, Ottawa
DG Bank, Frankfurt
Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC
Fond national d'art contemporain, Paris
F.R.A.C., Pays de la Loire, Nantes
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina
Metropolitan Bank & Trust Collection, Cleveland, Ohio
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
Musee d'art contemporain, Geneva
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal
Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Museu d’Art Contemporaini de Barcelona
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario
Siemens Fotosammlung, Neue Pinakothek, Munich
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart
Vancouver Art Gallery
Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto