Forthcoming
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In Broken Light
Spadina Museum | Curated by Adrien Sun Hall 26 Aug - 18 Oct 2026 Ry Van Der Hout: In Broken Light Curated by Adrien Sun Hall August 26 – October 18, 2026 Spadina Museum, Toronto Toronto, ON — Spadina Museum presents In Broken Light , a new site-specific exhibition by interdisciplinary artist Ry Van Der Hout, curated by Adrien Sun Hall, on view from... Read more -
Mending Shards
Ottawa City Hall | Curated by Jesse King 19 Nov 2026 - 14 Feb 2027 Ry Van Der Hout – Mending Shards November 19, 2026 to February 14, 2027 Opening: Thursday, November 19, 5:30 to 7:30 pm This exhibition investigates transformation through ritualistic destruction and repair. Ry Van Der Hout photographs intimate portraits on glass, deliberately shatters them, then meticulously reconstructs each fragment using traditional... Read more
Past
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A shadow holds
United Contemporary 18 Jun - 25 Jul 2026 Presented in the intimate setting of United Contemporary’s Project Space, a shadow holds is an exhibition of new work by Ry Van Der Hout, created during their residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity as the recipient of the Barbara Spohr Memorial Award (2026). This body of work continues... Read more -
To Reflect Everything :: Washington Sq. Park
Washington Sq. Park 7 Jan - 31 Mar 2025 New York, NY — Artist Ryan Van Der Hout brings a captivating new public art installation to Washington Square Park with To Reflect Everything , a monumental sculpture that blends the gleaming facets of a disco ball with the sleek form of a space satellite. Set to debut on January... 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... Read more -
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
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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 -
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
