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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Exhibitions
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Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition 2025
5 July 2025 — 29 October 2025 -
Outdoor Garden Exhibition 2024
1 May 2024 — 31 December 2024 -
COLOUR TRIP
3 February 2024 — 31 March 2024 -
Outdoor Sculpture Garden Exhibition 2023
16 May 2023 — 30 November 2023 -
CREATIVES - Small Gifts, Big Ideas: Oeno Gallery in The Royal Annex
26 November 2022 — 23 January 2023 -
Outdoor Sculpture Garden Exhibition 2022
16 May 2022 — 30 November 2022 -
Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition 2021
12 May 2021 — 1 November 2021 -
Winter Tonic
1 February 2020 — 29 March 2020
News
- Ryan Van Der Hout Was Recently Featured on the OMG Blog! Read the Interview About His Disco Ball Sculpture, ‘To Reflect Everything’ on Display in the Toronto Sculpture Garden March 10, 2024
- Ryan Van Der Hout Creates 10-Foot Tall Discoball-Satellite, 'To Reflect Everything' for The City of Toronto September 18, 2023
- Ryan Van Der Hout at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery November 5, 2020
- Ryan Van Der Hout exhibiting at the Gladstone Hotel, Toronto November 5, 2020