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.
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