Current
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Oeno Sculpture Garden
Picton Ontario 2 Jan 2020 - 9 Feb 2025 Ryan Van Der Hout has created a series of compelling minimalist sculptures that illustrate the effects of light and motion on lenses. While the Toronto born artist has been taking photographs since age 16, and created several sculptural images using digital photography, they only learned how to weld metal in... Read more -
Mending Shards
United Contemporary 14 Nov - 21 Dec 2024 Opening reception: Saturday, November 16, 2-5pm Artist in attendance United Contemporary presents Mending Shards, a solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Ryan Van Der Hout that explores the intricate relationship between brokenness and wholeness, intimacy and transformation. In this body of work, Van Der Hout begins with close-up photographs printed on... Read more
Past
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To Reflect Everything
Toronto Sculpture Garden 5 Sep 2023 - 23 May 2024 Exhibition Text by Renata Azevedo Moreira Daring to place a 10 feet high version of a gleaming object that usually finds shelter in dark, enclosed, and loud spaces instead in the outdoors can be disconcerting. Unwittingly encountering it while crossing a quiet garden on a sunny winter morning, when the... Read more -
Collecting Dust
United Contemporary 5 - 22 May 2022 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... Read more