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Ryan Van Der Hout: Collecting Dust

Past exhibition
5 - 28 May 2022
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Ryan Van Der Hout, Collecting Dust
Opening reception: Saturday, May 7, 1-5pm
Artist in attendance
 
In Collecting Dust, multi-disciplinary artist Ryan Van Der Hout reimagines traditional still-life Vanitas in a photographic and installation-based solo exhibition that considers our human fascination with our own mortality. Tablescapes arranged with canonical symbols such as skulls or butterflies, are placed among sex toys, Shabbos candles and other personal items. The artist covers these meticulously arranged tableaus with dust and ash, to don the appearance of years of neglect. This black and white series explores the transformation and re-birth that emerged through the pandemic, both personally and universally, along with the accompanying anxiety and grief. 
 
Collecting Dust is a core exhibition for Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival.
 
Ryan Van Der Hout’s work has been widely featured in publications including The Huffington Post, Vogue Italia, CBC and Reader’s Digest. He has exhibited across Canada, The United Kingdom, and New York, most notably in the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Collectors Series, as part of a Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival featured exhibitions, and in The Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward festival. He has created public art for the Toronto Archives, The TTC, Nuit Blanche and Pemberton Developments. Van Der Hout was awarded the Emerging Artist Award by the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, and has been supported by the Ontario Arts Council. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Ryerson University.
  • Scotiabank Contact Festival Core Program
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Works
  • We Are What We Pretend To Be, 2022 10 x 8 in. $500, 24 x 20 in. $2,000, 50 x 40 in. $4,500
    We Are What We Pretend To Be, 2022
    10 x 8 in. $500, 24 x 20 in. $2,000, 50 x 40 in. $4,500
  • Stress Test, 2021 8 x 10 in. $500, 20 x 24 in. $2,000, 40 x 50 in. $4,500
    Stress Test, 2021
    8 x 10 in. $500, 20 x 24 in. $2,000, 40 x 50 in. $4,500
  • Spotlight Theory, 2021 8 x 10 in. $500, 20 x 24 in. $2,000, 40 x 50 in. $4,500
    Spotlight Theory, 2021
    8 x 10 in. $500, 20 x 24 in. $2,000, 40 x 50 in. $4,500
  • Sorry For Your Luck, 2022 10 x 8 in. $500, 24 x 20 in. $2,000, 50 x 40 in. $4,500
    Sorry For Your Luck, 2022
    10 x 8 in. $500, 24 x 20 in. $2,000, 50 x 40 in. $4,500
  • Shabbat Vanitas with Diet Coke, 2022
    Shabbat Vanitas with Diet Coke, 2022
    CAD 8,000.00
  • Disco Ball Vanitas with Grandma's Egg, 2022
    Disco Ball Vanitas with Grandma's Egg, 2022
    CAD 10,000.00
  • Self Work, 2022 8 x 10 in. $500, 20 x 24 in. $2,000, 40 x 50 in. $4,500
    Self Work, 2022
    8 x 10 in. $500, 20 x 24 in. $2,000, 40 x 50 in. $4,500
  • In The Dust Of This Planet, 2022
    In The Dust Of This Planet, 2022
    CAD 12,000.00
  • Just Breath, 2021 8 x 10 in. $500, 20 x 24 in. $2,000, 40 x 50 in. $4,500
    Just Breath, 2021
    8 x 10 in. $500, 20 x 24 in. $2,000, 40 x 50 in. $4,500
  • I Think I Over Estimated, 2022 8 x 10 in. $500, 20 x 24 in. $2,000, 40 x 50 in. $4,500
    I Think I Over Estimated, 2022
    8 x 10 in. $500, 20 x 24 in. $2,000, 40 x 50 in. $4,500
  • Finding Balance, 2022 8 x 10 in. $500, 20 x 24 in. $2,000, 40 x 50 in. $4,500
    Finding Balance, 2022
    8 x 10 in. $500, 20 x 24 in. $2,000, 40 x 50 in. $4,500
  • Original Sin, 2021 10 x 8 in. $500, 24 x 20 in. $2,000, 50 x 40 in. $4,500
    Original Sin, 2021
    10 x 8 in. $500, 24 x 20 in. $2,000, 50 x 40 in. $4,500
  • Fire and Flood, 2021 8 x 10 in. $500, 20 x 24 in. $2,000, 40 x 50 in. $4,500
    Fire and Flood, 2021
    8 x 10 in. $500, 20 x 24 in. $2,000, 40 x 50 in. $4,500
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