Ryan Van Der Hout

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Biography

The photo-based work of Ryan Van Der Hout (b. Toronto, 1987) has been exhibited in the U.K., New York, and Canada most notably as part of the AGO’s Collector’s series and in a 2018 solo show at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa. While the Toronto-born artist has been taking photographs since age 16 and has created several sculptural images using digital photography, they only learned how to weld metal in 2020. An apprenticeship over several weeks in the studio of one of Canada’s foremost sculptors Shayne Dark followed.
 
“Each sculpture becomes something of a static camera, documenting the many changes in the scene around it.” Ryan Van Der Hout
 
His work has been supported by the Ontario Arts Council. Van Der Hout is a graduate of Ryerson's photography program. His work has been published in The Huffington Post, CBC Online, and Readers Digest. In 2017, he won the Emerging Photographer Award from the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, for his laser-cut pigment print with gold leaf, Before the Storm. Van Der Hout’s new cubist-inspired faceted works push the boundaries of photography.  

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