Vancouver, BC Canada b. 1968
Education
Simon Fraser University, Bachelor of Fine Arts
University of British Columbia, Master of Fine Arts
Select Solo Exhibitions
2021 — Made/Unmade, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2020 — Stephen Waddell, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto ON (forthcoming)
2018 — Visible Light, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2016 — Dark Matter Atlas, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC
2014 — During the Day, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2012 — Inhabitants, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto ON
2012 — Einwohner, Baloise Art Forum, Basel
2011 — Stephen Waddell, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto
2010 — Stephen Waddell, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2009 — Flaneur, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
2009 — Stadt Mensch/City Dwellers, Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
2008 — Stephen Waddell, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto ON
2008 — Stephen Waddell, 1998-2006, curated by Roy Arden, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver BC
2006 — Talents, curated by Felix Hoffman, C/O Berlin, Berlin
2006 — Mostly Unforeseen Encounters, curated by Martin Schwander, Kunstforum Baloise, Basel
2005 — Stephen Waddell, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2004 — Ten Photographs, Schirmer/Mosel Showroom, Munich
2004 — Stephen Waddell, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto ON
2003 — Stephen Waddell, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2001 — Stephen Waddell, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto ON
2001 — Stephen Waddell, Galerie Tanit, Munich
2000 — IL Killer, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2000 — Conspirators, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
1998 — Stephen Waddell, Galerie K&S, Berlin
1997 — Stephen Waddell, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
1992 — Subdivisions, Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver BC
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 — Scotia Bank Photography Award Winners, Canada House, London, UK
2021 — True Pictures?, Sprengel Museum, Hannover DE
2020 — Jelena and the Magic Flute, CSA Space, Vancouver BC
2015 — Eye to Eye, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver BC
2015 — Images that Speak, Satellite Gallery, Vancouver BC
2015 — Melancholy Bay, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver BC
2014 — Dream Location (curated), Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, BC
2012 — Builders: Canadian Biennial 2012, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa ON
2012 — Photographieren, Galerie Tanit, Munich
2011 — Capture, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto ON
2009 — 5×5 Castelló 09, Espai d’art contemporani de Castelló, Spain
2008 — Portraits, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto ON
2006 — Contact Photography Festival, Toronto ON
2005 — Temporary Import, curated by Susanne Titz, Berlin Art Forum
2005 — Emotion Pictures, curated be Dieter Roelstraete, MUHKA, Anterp
2005 — Real Pictures, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC
2004 — Direkte Malerei/Direct Painting, Städtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim
2004 — PILOT:1, Limehouse Hall, London
2004 — Looking at Painting, Galerie Tanit, Munich
2003 — Vacant Community, curated by Marianna Vecellio, Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, Rome
2003 — Quartieri Milano, Stephen Waddell + Gruppo A12, Openspace, Milan
2002 — Proposal for an Exhibition, curated by Claudia Beck and Andrew Gruft, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2001 — Arden, McFarland, Ursuliak, Waddell, Wall, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto ON
2001 — Solitude au Musée, Musée d’art Moderne, St.Etienne
2000 — Solitude im Museum, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
1999 — Pictures of Pictures, Arnolfini, Bristol & The Norwich Gallery, Norwich
1999 — After Photography, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
1997 — Next to the City, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
1995 — EAST international, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich Gallery
1994 — UBC MFA Graduate Show, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver
Selected Bibilography
2018 — Stephen Waddell, Visible Light, Alison Sinkewicz, Canadian Art, October
2016 — The Natural Entropy of Things, an Interview with Stephen Waddell (cover), Meeka Walsh and
Robert Enright, Border Crossings Volume 35 no. 4 December
2016 — Stephen Waddell, Dark Matter Atlas, Vancouver Art Gallery, Galleries West, August 3, by Lorne Roberts
2014 — All the World’s a Stage, C Photo Volume 2 no.9, David Campany
2011 — Hunt and Gather (book), Steidl Publishers, Germany
2006 — Postmark Berlin (cover), Canadian Art Magazine, by Sascha Hastings
2006 — Talents, C/O Berlin (exhibition catalogue), Katrin Blum
2005 — Lost in Privacy, Vancouver Sun, by Clint Burnham
2004 — Restlessly Frigid Images of Solitude, the Globe and Mail, July 10 2004
2004 — The Contemplation of Sight Itself, The Photographs of Stephen Waddell, Art on Paper Magazine, by Jeff Wall
2003 — USE – Multiplicities; Uncertain States of Europe, Skira
2003 — Gruppo A12 + Stephen Waddell, Openspace
2001 — Gesicht in der Masse (Face in the Crowd), Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich, by Anne Erfle
2000 — The Killer in the Photograph, National Post, by Cori Howard
2000 — After Photography (cover), Canadian Art Magazine, by Roy Arden
2000 — A Plot Unfolding: Stephen Waddell, in Solitude im Museum, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart / Musée d’art
Modern, St.Etienne France, by Shepherd Steiner
1999 — Pictures of Pictures, Norwich Gallery / The Arnolfini, Bristol, by Lynda Morris
1998 — Glance and Landscape / Blick und Landschaft, Stuttgart Berlin, by Daniel Kurajovic
1995 — East International, Norwich School of Art & Design, by Lynda Morris
1994 — UBC MFA Graduate Show, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, by Jeff Wall
Collections
Armand Hammer Collection, Los Angeles
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa
Collection Bâloise, Basel
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Schirmer / Mosel Collection, Munich
Vancouver Art Gallery
Awards
2019 — Scotiabank Photography Award