Stephen Waddell received his MFA from the University of British Columbia in 1994, and has exhibited in galleries and institutions including Monte Clark Gallery, the Vancouver Art Gallery, Espai d’art contemporani de Castelló in Castello, Spain, Kunstforum Baloise in Basel, Switzerland, the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver, and C/O in Berlin. Waddell’s works are included in the permanent collections of the Armand Hammer Collection in Los Angeles, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Canada, and numerous others. Waddell’s most recent books include Dark Matter Atlas (2017) published by Distanz and Hunt and Gather (2011) published by Steidl. In 2019, Waddell won the Scotiabank Photography Award. The artist lives and works in Vancouver, B.C. Canada.

Stephen Waddell is represented by Monte Clark Gallery in Vancouver, B.C. Canada. For inquiries, please contact the gallery.

Education

1994 Master of Fine Arts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC 1990 Bachelor of Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2020 Stephen Waddell, Scotiabank Photography Award, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, ON 2018 Visible Light, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2016 Dark Matter Atlas, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC The Collector and The Showroom, Dal Grauer Commission, Burrard Arts Foundation, Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver, BC 2015 Galerie Tanit, Paris Photo, Grand Palais RMN, Paris, France 2014 During the Day, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2013 Stephen Waddell Fotograf, Ostholstein-Museum, Eutin, Germany 2012 Kunstforum Baloise, Basel, Switzerland Inhabitants, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto, ON 2011 Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto, ON Solo Projects, Galerie Tanit, Basel, Switzerland 2010 Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2009 Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany 2008 Stadtmensch-Zeitsprung, Schader Stiftung, Darmstadt, Germany Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto, ON 2006 Talents 03, Compositions, C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany Mostly Unforeseen Encounters, Kunstforum Baloise, Basel, Switzerland 2005 Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2004 Ten Photographs, Schirmer/Mosel Showroom, Munich, Germany Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto, ON 2003 Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2002 Consigned to the Street, Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin, Germany New Pictures, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2001 Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto, ON Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany 2000 IL Killer, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, BC Conspirators, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany 1998 Galerie K&S, Berlin, Germany 1997 Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany 1992 Subdivisions, Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Selected Group Exhibitions

2020 Uniform, MAST Foundation, Bologna, Italy 2019 Person/ne, Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver, BC 2018 Vestige, from the Kazlaw Collection, West Vancouver Museum, Vancouver, BC 2017 N. Vancouver, Polygon Gallery, Vancouver, BC Galerie Tanit, Paris Photo Grand Palais RMN, Paris, France Only Entropy Comes Easy, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2016 Kitchen Midden, Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver, BC Surrogates, Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver, BC Counterpoints: Photography Through the Lens of Toronto Collections, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON Audain Collection, Audain Art Museum, Whistler, BC Eye to Eye, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2015 Melancholy Bay, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC Images That Speak, Satellite Gallery, Vancouver, BC Through a Window: Visual Art and SFU 1965–2015, SFU Gallery, Burnaby, BC ADDITION: Pieter and Marieke Sanders Collection, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2014 Dream Location, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2013 Builders: The Canadian Biennale, Recent Acquisitions of New Canadian Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON Art Bank in the 21st Century, Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, NS, exhibition curated by the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, ON Backspace, Slide Room Gallery, Victoria, BC 2012 Jeff Wall, Crooked Path, Centro Galego De Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain 2011 Shore Forest and Beyond from the Audain Collection, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC Spaces of the City, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON 2010 Jeff Wall, Crooked Path, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium Living Things (Carte Grise), Dazibao, Montreal, QC 2009 5x5: Castelló, 09 International Contemporary Art Prize Diputacio de Castelló. Espai d´art contemporani de Castelló, Spain 2008 Artist’s Choice, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC Tree, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2007 Considering Urbanity, Academy Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany Resources, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2006 Pedestrians, St. Andrews Subway Station, Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, Toronto, ON 2005 Temporary Import, Berlin Art Forum, Berlin, Germany Emotion Pictures, MHKA, Antwerp, Belgium Real Pictures, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2004 Direkte Malerei/Direct Painting, Städtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany PILOT:1, Limehouse Hall, London, UK Looking at Painting II, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany 2003 Vacant Community, Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, Rome, Italy Quartieri Milano: Stephen Waddell + Gruppo A12, Openspace, Milan, Italy 2002 Proposal for an Exhibition, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2001 Arden, McFarland, Ursuliak, Waddell, Wall, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto, ON Solitude au Musée, Musée d’art Moderne, St.Etienne, France 2000 Solitude im Museum, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany 1999 Pictures of Pictures, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK / The Norwich Gallery, Norwich, UK After Photography, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, BC 1997 Next to the City, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany 1995 EAST International, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, UK

Selected Curatorial Projects

2016 An Agreeable State of Uncertainty, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2014 Dream Location, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2011 Fred Herzog: Photographs, C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany, co-curated with Felix Hoffman

Monographs and Exhibition Catalogues

2020 Stephen Waddell, Scotiabank Photography Award, co-published by Scotiabank and Steidl, Göttingen, Germany with texts by Brian Sholis and Helga Pakasaar 2017 Dark Matter Atlas, Vancouver Art Gallery, Distanz Verlag, Berlin, Germany with text by Craig Burnett 2011 Hunt & Gather, Steidl, Göttingen Germany with text by Michael Fried 2008 Stadtmensch—Zeitsprung: Fotografien von Stephen Waddell (City Dwellers—Then and Now: Photography by Stephen Waddell), Schader–Stiftung/Hessischen Landesmuseums, Darmstadt, Germany Stephen Waddell 1996–2006, Contempoary Art Gallery (CAG), Vancouver, BC with texts by Roy Arden and Katrin Blum 2006 Compositions: Talents 03, C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany with interview/text by Katrin Blum 1998 Glance and Landscape (Blick und Landschaft), Daniel Kurajovic, Stuttgart/Berlin, Germany

Fellowships and Awards

2019 Scotiabank Photography Award 2018 Scotiabank Photography Award Finalist 2010 Liliane Bettancourt Book Prize, Steidl for Hunt & Gather 1998 Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship, Berlin, Germany 1997 Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship, Stuttgart, Germany

Selected Group Exhibition Catalogues

2020 Bâloise Holding AG Collection, Basel, Switzerland 2017 Art in Canada, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON with text by Marc Mayer 2016 Eye to Eye, co-published by The Capilano Review and Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2014 C Photo: Street Issue, Ivory Press, Madrid, Spain with texts by David Campany and Daniel Wolf Dream Location, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2013 Builders: The Canadian Biennale, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON 2003 USE Multiplicites: Uncertain States of Europe, Skira, Milan, Italy Gruppo A12 & Stephen Waddell, Openspace, Milan, Italy 2000 “A Plot Unfolding: The Work of Stephen Waddell,” Solitude im Museum/Solitude au Musée, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany, pp. 164–173 1999 Pictures of Pictures, Norwich Gallery, Bristol, UK with text by Lynda Morris 1995 East International, Norwich School of Art & Design, Norwich, UK with text by Lynda Morris

Collections

Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Armand Hammer Collection, Los Angeles, CA Audain Collection, Vancouver, BC Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, ON Collection Bâloise, Basel, Switzerland Emanuel Hoffmann Collection, Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON Morris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC Schirmer/Mosel Collection, Munich, Germany Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC