2024
MFA Fine Arts, Parsons at The New School, New York City, USA
Education
2009
BFA with Honours, Image Arts - Photography, Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada
Solo & Two Person Exhibitions
2027
(upcoming) United Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2026
(upcoming) Mending Shards
Masson-Karsh Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
2024
Mending Shards
United Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
Curated: Melanie Trojkovic
2022
Collecting Dust
United Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
Curated: Melanie Trojkovic
2021
Fire + Dust, with Amanda Arcuri
United Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
Curated: Burke Patterson
2018
Dark Waters
Double Happiness Projects, Toronto, Canada
Curated: Jeremy Tsang
Dark Waters
Robert Mclaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Canada
Curated: Leila Timmins
2016
Surface Tension, Featured Exhibition CONTACT Festival
Hashtag Gallery, Toronto
2011
(e)femora
Eleanor Winters Art Gallery, York University, Toronto, Canada
2010
Light Objects
Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Curated: Chad Wolfond
Light and Objecthood
Ryerson Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2009
Light Compositions
Art Mur, Montreal, Canada
Icons
Latcham Gallery, November, Markham, Canada
Curated: Maura Broadhurst
Icons
Gallery Karozene, Montreal, Canada
2008
Icons
Engine Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2007
Vanitas
Engine Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Public Art
2025
To Reflect Everything
Washington Square Park, New York, USA
To Reflect Everything
Pullman Yards, Atlanta, USA
2023
To Reflect Everything
Toronto Sculpture Garden and Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada
2020
Our Streetcar
Toronto Transit Commission, Toronto, Canada
2018
Before the Storm
Pemberton Developments, Toronto Canada
Before the Storm
Form Condominiums, Toronto Canada
2015
Supernova
No Vacancy, Burlington, Canada
2009
Spectrum, Nuit Blanche: Public Installation
Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto Canada
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
Zero Art Fair
Flag Art Foundation, New York, USA
Curated: Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida
Salon 44
Gallery 44, Toronto, Canada
B-Sides
Gallery TPW, Toronto, Canada
2024
yet traces linger
Kellen Gallery, Parsons School of Design, New York USA
Curated: Sarah Cho
Color(less)
Ely Centre for Contemporary Art, New Haven USA
Curated: Michelle Szabo
Volume
Black Brick Projects, Brooklyn, USA
Spatiotemporal Meditations
Gallery 25, Parsons School of Design, New York USA
Curated: Shangari Mwashighadi
Ephemeral Threads
MC Gallery, New York USA
Curated: Fora Collective
2023
Glimmers, Camp and Gore
Gallery 25, Parsons School of Design, New York USA
Curated: Richard Valentin
Fragments
Gallery 25, Parsons School of Design, New York USA
404 Error
iidr Gallery, New York USA
Curated: Natasha Chuk
QueerWerks
Silvermine Gallery, New Canaan NY USA
Curated: Stamatina Gregory
Sculpture Exhibition
WNC Sculpture Park, North Carolina USA
Curated: Joe Bigley
2022
Sculpture Garden
Oeno Gallery, Picton, Canada
Curated: Dana Charles
2021
We Like Small Things
Filter Photo, Chicago, USA
Curated: Jan Christian Bernabe
Black and White
Site Brooklyn, Virtual
Curated: Shana Nys Dambrot
Oeno Sculpture Garden
Picton, Canada
Curated: Dana Charles
2020
Tonic
Oeno Gallery, Picton, Canada
Curated: Dana Charles
2019
Grow Op
Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Canada
Curated: Lee Petrie
2018
Carmichael Canadian Landscape
Orillia Museum of Art, Orillia, Canada
Curated: Ninette Gyorody
Grow Op
Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Canada
Curated: Lukus Toane
2017
Exposed
Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Canada
Curated: Linda Jansma
Oasis
Oeno Gallery, Picton, Canada
Curated: Dana Charles
2016
Surface Tension Installation, with Jessica Thalmann
Toronto Archives, Canada
Flash Forward
Division Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Curated: Maryann Camilleri
Utopia: Dystopia
Walcot Chapel Gallery, Bath, UK
Curated: Geoff Dunlop
Come Together
Propeller Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Curated: Barbara Astman
Actinic
Stills Scotland's Centre for Photography, Edinburgh, Scotland
2015
Tra-Digital
Elsie Whitley Innovation Centre, West Yorkshire, UK
Curated: Meg Oxford
Crossroads
Lonsdale Gallery for Contact Festival, Toronto, Canada
2011
AGO Collectors Series: Jeanne Beker
AGO, Toronto, Canada
Curated: Jeanne Beker
Articles, Press and Publications
2025
To Reflect Everything
This massive disco ball sculpture will soon be on display in Washington Square Park
The best things to do in NYC this weekend
A 1500 pound Disco Ball in Washington Square Park
Reflective Circle
Washington Square Park Has Its First Art Installation Since 2017— And It's A Massive Disco Ball
2024
A Q&A with interdisciplinary artist Ryan Van Der Hout
"yet traces linger."
Mending Shards
Mending Shards
Satellite Art Show 2024
2023
Toronto's all-night art fest is happening this week & it will have a silent disco
Nuit Blanche 2023
2022
Ekphrasis - A conversation between Kerry Manders and Brandy ryan on Ryan Van Der Hout's Collecting Dust
2021
50 most influential people in NFT's
Fire + Dust
Fire + Dust
2020
PhotoVogue
2019
A Streetcar Named Toronto
Toronto is Sending Off Its Old Streetcars in Style
You Can Hop Aboard A Psychedelic Streetcar in Toronto This Fall
Catching Toronto's Famed Streetcar...Before It's Gone for Good
2018
Flash Forward, Emerging Photographers from Canada The United Kingdom and the United States
Grow Op Highlights
2016
Flash Forward, Emerging Photographers from Canada The United Kingdom and the United States
2014
Stephanie from Art Bitch: Ryan Van Der Hout
2011
A tour of The Collector Series
A look at "The Collector Series" exhibition
Jeanne Beker Strips her Walls for the AGO
Art Fairs
2025
Future Fair
United Contemporary, New York
Atlanta Art Fair
Atlanta
2024
Art Toronto
United Contemporary, Toronto
Satellite Art Fair
Moisturizer Gallery, New York
2023
Art Toronto
United Contemporary, Toronto
2022
Art Toronto
United Contemporary, Toronto
2021
Papier
United Contemporary, Montreal
Art Toronto
United Contemporary, Toronto
Gallery Weekend
United Contemporary, Toronto
2019
NY Art Book Fair
MOMA PS1
Art Toronto
Oeno Gallery
Edition Toronto
2018
Charlie James Gallery, LA
Art Toronto
Oeno Gallery, Prince Edward County
Art Toronto
Edition Toronto
2017
Oeno Gallery, Prince Edward County
Art Toronto
2008
Engine Gallery, Toronto
Art Toronto
2007
Engine Gallery, Toronto
Art Toronto
Residencies
2026
Banff Centre for the Arts
Banff, Canada
Mass MoCA Residency
Massachusetts, USA
La Napoule International Residency
France
2023
WNC IronLight Sculpture Residency
North Carolina, USA
Awards/Grants
2025
Barbara Spohr Memorial Award for Photography
Banff Centre for the Arts
Research and Creation
Canada Arts Council
Creation Grant
Toronto Arts Council
2023
Travel Grant
Parsons School of Design
Merit Scholarship
Parsons School of Design
2022
Merit Scholarship
Parsons School of Design
Exhibition Assistance Grant
Ontario Arts Council
Chalmers Professional Development Grant
Ontario Arts Council
2019
Exhibition Assistance Grant
Ontario Arts Council
2018
Emerging Artist Award
Robert McLaughlin Gallery
Exhibition Assistance Grant
Ontario Arts Council
2017
Exhibition Assistance Grant
Ontario Arts Council
2015
Exhibition Assistance Grant
Ontario Arts Council
Conferences, Talks & Lectures
2026
Mending Shards
Banff Centre for the Arts and Exposure Festival
2025
Building Images
MOCA Toronto, Canada
Traces Panel Talk
Moda Critical Review, Columbia University, New York
Art as Ritual
Gallery 44, Toronto
Artist Talk with Nato Thompson for Future Fair
Washington Square Park
Artist Talk
OCAD University
Artist Talk in conversation with Mia Neilson
B-Street Collective
2024
Artist Talk
Parsons School of Design
2023
Artist Talk, Ryan Van Der Hout in conversation with Katriina Campitelli for Art Toronto
2022
Queering The Collection, Symposium
University of Toronto
2018
Artist Talk
Robert Mclaughlin Gallery
2016
Artist Talk, Cut, Scratch, Fold
Gallery 44
2015
Artist Talk with AGM Curator, Kendra Ainsworth
Hashtag Gallery
Panel on alternative process photography
Lonsdale Gallery
2010
Artist Talk
Ryerson Gallery
Collections
Edward P. Taylor Library & Archives, Art Gallery of Ontario
Toronto Metropolitan University
Art Centre University of New Brunswick, Canada
Pierre and Anne-Marie Trahan (Arsenal), Canada
Streetcar Museum, Halton, Canada
B Street Collaborative, Toronto, Canada
Montreal Planetarium, Montreal, Canada
Parsons School of Design, New York, USA
Curatorial Projects
2024
a porous vessel
United Contemporary, Toronto