EDUCATION:
2024 MFA Fine Arts Candidate, Parsons at The New School, New York City, USA
2009 BFA with Honours, Image Arts - Photography, Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2024 More Important Than Bread (Upcoming), United Contemporary, Toronto, Canada. Curated: Melanie Trojkovic
2023 To Reflect Everything, Toronto Sculpture Garden, Toronto, Canada. Curated: Katriina Campitelli
2022 Collecting Dust, United Contemporary, Toronto, Canada. Curated: Melanie Trojkovic
2018 Dark Waters, Double Happiness Projects, Toronto, Canada. Curated: Jeremy Tsang
Dark Waters, Robert Mclaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Canada. Curated: Leila Timmins
2010 Light Objects, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Canada. Curated: Chad Wolfond
Light and Objecthood, Ryerson Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2009 Light Compositions, Art Mur, Montreal, Canada
2007 Vanitas and the Death of the Darkroom, Engine Gallery, Toronto, Canada
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2024 Parsons MFA Thesis Exhibition (upcoming), Kellen Gallery, Parsons School of Design, New York USA Curated: Sarah Cho
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
2023 Sculpture Exhibition, WNC Sculpture Park, North Carolina USA. Curated: Joe Bigley
2022 Sculpture Garden, Oeno Gallery, Picton, Canada, Curated: Dana Charles
2021 Fire + Dust, with Amanda Arcuri United Contemporary, Toronto, Canada. Curated: Burke Patterson
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
Surface Tension, Featured Contact Festival, Hashtag Gallery, Toronto, 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
(e)femora, Eleanor Winters Art Gallery, York University, Toronto, Canada
2009 Icons, Latcham Gallery, November, Markham, Canada. Curated: Maura Broadhurst
Icons, Gallery Karozene, Montreal, Canada
2008 Icons, Engine Gallery, Toronto, Canada
COLLECTIONS:
Art Centre University of New Brunswick, Canada
Pierre and Anne-Marie Trahan (Arsenal), Canada
Streetcar Museum, Halton, Canada
Library of the AGO, Toronto, Canada
Montreal Planetarium, Montreal, Canada
SELECTED ARTICLES, PUBLICATIONS and PRESS:
2023 Toronto’s all-night art fest is happening this week & it will have a silent disco, Curiocity
Nuit Blanche 2023, CityNews (Canadian TV)
2022 Ekphrasis - A conversation between Kerry Manders and Brandy ryan on Ryan Van Der Hout’s Collecting Dust, Photo Ed Magazine
2021 50 most influential people in NFT’s, Fortune Magazine,
Fire + Dust, DArt (review)
Fire + Dust, ARToronto, (review)
2020 PhotoVogue, Vogue Italia
2019 A Streetcar Named Toronto, Blog TO
Toronto is Sending Off Its Old Streetcars in Style, CTV (Canadian TV)
You Can Hop Aboard A Psychedelic Streetcar in Toronto This Fall, Narcity,
Catching Toronto's Famed Streetcar...Before It's Gone for Good, CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation),
2018 Flash Forward, Emerging Photographers from Canada The United Kingdom and the United States, Magenta Foundation
Grow Op Highlights, Toronto Life Magazine
2016 Flash Forward, Emerging Photographers from Canada The United Kingdom and the United States, Magenta Foundation
2014 Stephanie from Art Bitch: Ryan Van Der Hout, Art Local
2011 A tour of The Collector Series, CTV Morning News
A look at “The Collector Series” exhibition, Jeanne Beker Fashion Television,
Jeanne Beker Strips her Walls for the AGO, Toronto Star
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS:
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
TALKS:
2023 Artist Talk, Ryan Van Der Hout in conversation with Katriina Campitelli for Art Toronto
2022 Queering The Collection, Symposium at University of Toronto
2018 Artist Talk, Robert Mclaughlin Gallery
2016 Artist Talk, Cut, Scratch, Fold. Gallery 44
Artist Talk with AGM Curator, Kendra Ainsworth, Hashtag Gallery: 2015
Panel on alternative process photography, Lonsdale Gallery
2010 Artist Talk, Ryerson Gallery: 2010
RESIDENCIES, GRANTS & AWARDS:
2023 WNC IronLight Sculpture Residency, North Carolina, USA
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