Ron Terada – CV
Ron Terada
b. 1969, Vancouver
Lives and works in Vancouver
Education
- 1987–1991 Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 2023 BBQ Beer Freedom, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
We Did This To Ourselves, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada - 2018 Jack and the Jack Paintings: Jack Goldstein and Ron Terada, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
- 2017 TL; DR, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
- 2015 Today It’s Me, Tomorrow It’s You, CSA Space, Vancouver
- 2014 We Will Not Grow Old Together, Project Space, Esker Foundation, Calgary, Canada
Jack, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver - 2011 Being There, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
Jack, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
Who I Think I Am, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House at University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada - 2010 Who I Think I Am, Hayward Gallery Project Space, London, UK; Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Canada; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
- 2008 Voight-Kampff, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
- 2006 Stay Away From Lonely Places, Ikon Eastside, Birmingham, UK
- 2005 You Have Left The American Sector, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Canada
Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver - 2003 Catalogue, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
- 2002 Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
Big Toast, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver - 2000 Soundtrack for an Exhibition, Or Gallery, Vancouver
Soundtrack for an Exhibition, Western Front, Vancouver - 1999 Jeopardy Paintings, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
“What’s the Question?”, Real, New York, USA - 1998 Present Tense, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
- 1997 Grey Paintings, New Gallery, Calgary, Canada
Grey Paintings, Or Gallery, Vancouver
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2024 Light Years: The Phil Lind Gift, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Survival in the 21st Century, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany - 2023 From Slander’s Brand, The Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada
Taking Care: Collection Support Studio, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA - 2022 Headlines: The Art of the News Cycle, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
Out of Control: The Concrete Art of Skateboarding, Audain Art Museum, Whistler, Canada - 2021 Pictures and Promises, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
- 2020 Everywhere We Are, Nickle Galleries, Calgary, Canada
- 2019 Political Affairs: Language Is Not Innocent, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Unexplained Parade, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
The Idea of Place, Audain Art Museum, Whistler, Canada - 2018 Serpentine Path, Terminal Creek Contemporary, Bowen Island, Canada
The Light Fantastic, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Canada - 2017 The Time. The Place. Contemporary Art from the Collection, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA
Entangled: Two Views on Contemporary Canadian Painting, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Art School High, Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art, North Vancouver, Canada - 2016 Let There Be (More) Light, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Béton, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria - 2015 WOOSH, Griffin Art Projects, North Vancouver, Canada
War II, MOSTYN, Wales, UK
Still Life: Looking at the Overlooked, TrépanierBaer, Calgary, Canada - 2014 Home Sweet Home. À propos de l’inquiétude, Dazibao, Montreal, Canada
- 2013 When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, USA
- 2012 Builders: Canadian Biennial 2012, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
The Unseen, 4th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, China
When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA
Summer Special, Koffler Gallery Off-Site at Honest Ed’s, Toronto, Canada
Art Histories, VOX Centre de l’image contemporaine, Montreal, Canada - 2011 Shore, Forest and Beyond: Art from the Audain Collection, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
- 2010 New Canadiana: The Chancellor Richardson Memorial Fund and Art as Social History, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
It Is What It Is: Recent Acquisitions of New Canadian Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
In Print, e-flux reading room, New York, USA
Act V: Power Alone, Witte De With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Route 1: R for Replicant, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA
Gallery, Galerie, Galleria, Norma Mangione Gallery, Turin, Italy - 2009 Act I: Beautiful from Every Point of View, Witte De With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Arena: Road Game, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada
Loaded, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War, The Model Satellite, Sligo, Ireland - 2008 Tractatus Logico-Catalogicus, VOX Centre de l’image contemporaine, Montreal, Canada
Wandering Lines: Towards a New Culture of Space, SCAPE: Christchurch Biennial of Art in Public Space, Christchurch, New Zealand
Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada; Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, Canada
The Store, Tulips & Roses, Vilnius, Lithuania - 2007 Without, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Plan Large, Fonderie Darling, in collaboration with Le Mois de la Photo: Replaying Narrative, Montreal, Canada
Sobey Art Award Exhibition, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Canada
FOR SALE, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
Words Fail Me, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, USA
The Idea of North, Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin, Germany
The Monochromatic Field: Works from the Collection, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver - 2006 Recent Acquisitions, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
The Show Will Be Open When The Show Will Be Closed, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France; STORE Gallery and various locations, London, UK
Paint, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Concrete Language, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
HyperDesign, Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
Territory, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada; Artspeak, Vancouver
274 East 1st, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver - 2005 Intertidal: Vancouver Art and Artists, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
Monkey Work Coconut: Xu Zhen and Ron Terada, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
General Ideas: Rethinking Conceptual Art 1987-2005, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA
Post No Bills, White Columns, New York, USA
Painting After Poverty, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver - 2004 Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast in Contemporary Art, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, USA
2048 KM, Or Gallery, Vancouver
Prototype, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
Sign Language, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Soundtracks, The Gallery, University of Toronto Scarborough, Scarborough, Canada; MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada - 2003 Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast in Contemporary Art, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
I Sell Security, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver, Canada
Seethe, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver, Canada
Soundtracks: Re-play, Blackwood Gallery, Toronto, Canada; The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada; Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
Peripheries become the center, Prague Biennale, Prague, Czech Republic
Subscribe: Recent Art in Print, CCS Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA - 2002 Crack, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
Signage, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver - 2001 Promises, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
Universal Pictures 3.1, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada
Universal Pictures 3, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, Canada
Supernatural Fairytales (Pink Island), Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
These Days, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Art>Music: Rock, Pop, Techno, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Talk the Talk, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver - 2000 Supersonic Transport, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Canada; Netherlands Design Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver
Message by Eviction: New Art from Vancouver, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Canada
New Work: Jerry Allen, Ron Terada, Trylowsky Gallery, Vancouver - 1999 Recollect, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Universal Pictures II, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver
Universal Pictures: Geoffrey Farmer, Myfanwy MacLeod, Ron Terada, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, for Signs of Life: Melbourne International Biennial, Canadian Pavilion, Melbourne, Australia
East International, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, UK
The High Life, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver - 1998 Masquerade: Lucy Hogg, Tulsa Kinney, and Ron Terada, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
6: New Vancouver Modern, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver - 1996 Young Contemporaries, London Regional Art and Historical Museums, London, Canada
- 1995 Dark Memories Hovering Below the Transparent Screen of the Present will Project Images of Reality in Sharp Silhouette to Create the Pleasurable Effect of a Double World, Marc Foxx Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Invitational, Cold City Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Type-Cast: Ron Terada, Julie Arnold, Steven Shearer, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver
Monographs
- 2010 Cliff Lauson, Anne Low, and Tom McDonough, Ron Terada: Who I Think I Am, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK; Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Canada; Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto, Canada
- 2003 Michael Darling, Jens Hoffmann, Reid Shier, and Kelly Wood, Ron Terada, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
Books and Exhibition Catalogues
- 2024 Georg Diez, Dirk Luckow, Nicolaus Schafhausen, eds., Manual for Survival, Deichtorhallen Hamburg; Hirmer Verlag, Munich Germany
- 2022 Riva Symko, ed., Headlines: The Art of the News Cycle, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada
Patrik Andersson and Kiriko Watanabe, Out of Control: The Concrete Art of Skateboarding, Audain Art Museum, Whistler, Canada - 2017 Patrik Andersson, Art School High, Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art, North Vancouver, Canada
David MacWilliam, ‘Art as Idea as Painting’, in Entangled: Two Views on Contemporary Canadian Painting, Black Dog Publishing, London, UK; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver - 2016 Helga Pakasaar, Woosh, Griffin Art Projects, North Vancouver, Canada
- 2014 France Choinière, ed., Home Sweet Home, Dazibao, Montreal, Canada
- 2012 Luis Jacob, ed., Commerce by Artists, Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada
Robin T. Anthony and Cassandra Cook, eds., The RBC Collection: Selected Works, RBC Collection, Toronto, Canada - 2010 Kitty Scott, ‘Ron Terada’, in Creamier: Contemporary Art in Culture, Phaidon, London, UK
Josée Drouin-Brisebois, ed., It Is What It Is: Recent Acquisitions of New Canadian Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Xiaoyu Weng, ‘Of This Quiz, I Cannot Guarantee a Univocal Truth’, in Route 1: R for Replicant, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA
Adam Carr, ‘A Short History of the Commercial Gallery as a Work of Art’, Gallery Galerie Galleria, Norma Mangione Gallery, Turin, Italy - 2008 Anne Low, ‘Designed to provoke an emotional response’, in Anthology of Exhibition Essays 2006/2007, CJ Press, Vancouver
Klaus Scherübel, Tractatus Logico Catalogicus, VOX Centre de l’image contemporaine, Montreal, Canada
Jon Bywater, ‘Ron Terada’, in Wandering Lines: Towards a New Culture of Space, SCAPE 2008 Christchurch Biennial, Christchurch, New Zealand
Boris Groys, et al., Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, Canada, and Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Jens Hoffmann, ‘Ron Terada’, in For Sale, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal - 2007 Marie Fraser, ed., Replaying Narrative: Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2007, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Helga Pakasaar, ‘Ron Terada’, in Sobey Art Award 2007, ed. Ray Cronin, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Canada - 2006 Jenifer Papararo and Christina Ritchie, Concrete Language, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
Jonathan Watkins, ‘Art and Design and Everything Else’, in 6th Shanghai Biennale: HyperDesign, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Melanie O’Brian and Helga Pakasaar, eds., Territory, Artspeak and Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver
Germaine Koh, Prototype: Contemporary Art from Joe Friday’s Collection, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada - 2005 Bart De Baere, et al., Intertidal: Vancouver Art and Artists, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MuHKA), Antwerp, Belgium; Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Natalie De Vito, ‘Monkey Work Coconut’, exhibition essay, Monkey Work Coconut, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
Matthew Higgs, General Ideas: Rethinking Conceptual Art 1987-2005, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA - 2004 Ralph Rugoff, et al., Baja to Vancouver - The West Coast and Contemporary Art, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, USA; MCA San Diego, San Diego, USA; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Michael Darling, ‘Sign Language’, exhibition essay, Sign Language, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA - 2002 Clint Burnham, ‘Cat Fries’, exhibition essay, Signage, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
- 2001 Barbara Fischer, ‘Smoke and Mirrors’, exhibition essay, Universal Pictures 3, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, Canada
Sue Cramer, ‘Turn Up the Volume: Art into Music’, in Art>Music: Rock, Pop, Techno, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia - 2000 Ian M. Thom, Art BC: Masterworks from British Columbia, Vancouver Art Gallery and Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver
- 1999 Kitty Scott, ‘What’s the question?’, exhibition essay, What’s the Question?, Real Gallery, New York, USA; Jeopardy Paintings, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
Juliana Engberg, et al., Signs of Life: Melbourne International Biennial 1999, City of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia - 1998 Christina Ritchie, ‘Present Tense: Ron Terada’, exhibition essay, Present Tense, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Scott Watson, et al., 6: New Vancouver Modern, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver - 1997 Reid Shier, ‘Ron Terada: Grey Paintings’, exhibition essay, Grey Paintings, Or Gallery, Vancouver
John Armstrong, ‘Masquerade: Lucy Hogg + Tulsa Kinney + Ron Terada’, exhibition essay, Masquerade, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada - 1996 James Patten, London Life Young Contemporaries ’96, London Regional Art and Historical Museums, London, Canada
- 1995 Greg Bellerby and Lucy Hogg, Type-Cast: Ron Terada, Julie Arnold, Steven Shearer, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver
- 1993 Artropolis ’93, Vancouver
Magazines and Periodicals
- 2024 Kristi Alexandra, ‘Five Vancouver art exhibits to check out this month’, The Georgia Straight, 15 January
- 2023 Dorothy Woodend, ‘When Art Is Freighted with the Weight of History, Where’s the Light?’, The Tyee, 28 November
Janet Smith, ‘Vancouver artist Ron Terada reframes real pandemic headlines on a grade scale, at the Polygon Gallery’, Stir, 10 November
Mina Kerr-Lazenby, ‘Polyon’s latest exhibition helps make sense of seismic world events’, North Shore News, 31 October
Yani Kong, ‘Ron Terada’, Galleries West, 18 October
Kate Taylor, ‘Power Plant shows mark a stimulating departure,’ The Globe and Mail, 14 July
Cormac Newman, ‘Art Basel 2023: Standouts, Takeaways, and Must-See Galleries’, Slate Magazine, 16 June
Myrto Katsikopoulou, ‘Ron Terada Compiles Unexpected News Headlines in “TL;DR” Painting Series at Art Basel’, Designboom, 16 June
Nel-Olivia Waga, ‘Inside Art Basel’s Unlimited 2023’, Forbes, 15 June
Christina Petridou, ‘First Impressions: The Large-Scale Projects We Saw and Liked at Art Basel’s Unlimited’, Designboom, 13 June
Maximilíano Durón, ‘The Best Large-Scale Works on View in Art Basel Unlimited’, Art News, 14 June
Alison Gillmor, ‘Headlines: Artists recycle and rethink the daily news cycle’, Galleries West, 10 January - 2022 Alan Small, ‘Informed by design,’ Winnipeg Free Press, 25 November 2022
- 2020 ‘The Proust Questionnaire: Ron Terada’, National Gallery of Canada Magazine, 22 May
Tom McDonough and Ron Terada, ‘Time Is Different Now’, Canadian Art, 9 March - 2019 Anny Shaw, ‘Text and slogan statement pieces draw Instagram crowd to Art Basel’, The Art Newspaper, 7 December
Ricardo Mor, ‘What Stuck at Art Basel Miami Beach’, Cultured, 6 December
Douglas Markowitz, ‘The Works at Art Basel Miami Beach 2019 Raise More Questions Than Answers’, Miami New Times, 5 December
Samuel Leuenberger, ‘Parcours curator Samuel Leuenberger on sculpture now,’ Art Basel, 28 May
Chris Hampton, ‘Border Divide: Ron Terada and the Power of Signs’, National Gallery of Canada Magazine, 24 May
Peter Gazendam, ‘Ron Terada’s TL; DR’, The Capilano Review 3.37, Winter - 2018 Earl Miller, ‘Jack Goldstein and Ron Terada’, Border Crossings, Issue 148
David Balzer, ‘Jack Goldstein and Ron Terada’, Canadian Art, 10 September
Bronwyn Beairsto, ‘New Bowen exhibit makes wish list of artists a reality’, Bowen Island Undercurrent, 23 August
Elke Buhr, ‘9 Highlights der Art Basel’, Monopol Magazin, 17 June
Alice Bucknell, ‘Existential Anxiety at Art Basel’, Elephant, 15 June
Christoph Heim, ‘Wie ein Komet vor dem Verglühen’, Basler Zeitung, 13 June
Nicole Buesing and Heiko Klaas, ‘Courage statt Scheuklappen’, DARE, 13 June Alexander Forbes and Nate Freeman, ‘The 15 Best Booths at Art Basel in Basel’, Artsy, 13 June
Andrew Goldstein, ‘10 of the Best Artworks at Art Basel 2018’, Artnet News, 13 June
‘Ron Terada tells all’, Art Matters Blog, Art Gallery of Ontario, 28 May
Mollie Cronin, ‘The Light Fantastic’, The Coast, 3 May
Helen Wong, ‘Contemporary Paintings from Clickbait’, Canadian Art, 3 January
Clint Burnham, ‘Ron Terada: TL; DR’, espace art actuel, No. 118, Winter - 2017 Robin Laurence, ‘Art School High exhibit revels in nostalgia, and darker memories too’, The Georgia Straight, 29 May
- 2014 Michael Turner, ‘Text-based Public Art Works in Vancouver’, The Capilano Review, Issue 3.23, Spring
- 2012 ‘Ron Terada: Being There’, Here and Elsewhere online, 10 January
- 2011 Michael John Harris, ‘Ron Terada’, Frieze, October/November
Robin Laurence, ‘Ron Terada captures doomed soul’, The Georgia Straight, 8–15 September
Bill Clarke, ‘Ron Terada’, Modern Painters, April
Leah Sandals, ‘Soundtrack for an artist’, Toronto Star, 27 January - 2010 Aileen Burns, ‘Ron Terada: Who I Think I Am’, Magenta Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4, Fall
Amy Fung, ‘Ron Terada Conversation: Painting, Pathos and the Pictures Generation’, Canadian Art online, 3 June
Barry Schwabsky, ‘Ron Terada, IKON Gallery’, Artforum, Summer
Kevin Griffin, ‘Creamier rises to the top: Vancouver contributes to top 100 emerging artists’, The Vancouver Sun, 26 May
Nancy Tousley, ‘Getting to know Jack’, Calgary Herald, 12 May
Caridad Botella, ‘Morality Act I & II’, Artpulse Magazine, 2 April
Mark Sheerin, ‘Soundtracks (for an) Exhibition’, The Saatchi Gallery Magazine, 19 March - 2009 ‘Ron Terada’, Bad at Sports online, Episode 222, 28 November
Adam Carr, ‘Trading Places: The Story of Defile’, Ciel Variable, Issue 83, Fall
Murray Whyte, ‘Stunning Sports Art Tilts to the Profane’, The Toronto Star, 18 April - 2008 Andy Weir, ‘Without’, Contemporary, No. 98
Christopher Mooney, ‘Reviews: Ron Terada’, Art Review, July /August
‘Must-Sees: Ron Terada: Urbanity and Unease’, Canadian Art online, 4 June
Clint Burnham, ‘Critics’ Picks: Ron Terada, Catriona Jeffries’, Artforum, June
Andrea Carson, ‘Bridging the gap between war’s myth and reality’, The Globe and Mail, 27 February
Ashley Johnson, ‘“Signals in the Dark”: Reviewing Art in the Shadows of War’, Canadian Art online, 6 March
Fran Schechter, ‘War shows battle convention: Double exhibit challenges mass media’s sanitized images of war’, Now Toronto, 31 January–7 February - 2007 Brian Sholis, ‘Talking about communication’, Detroit Metro Times, 3 October
Doreen Mende, ‘The Idea of North’, C Magazine, Issue 94, Summer
Jennifer Allen, ‘The Idea of North: Isabella Bortolozzi’, Artforum, April
Annika von Taube, ‘Shortcuts: Ron Terada’, Sleek Magazine: Solid/Liquid, Spring - 2006 Lee Rodney, ‘Have you left the American sector? Ron Terada’s Adventure in the “City of Roses”’, Fuse magazine, Vol. 29, No. 2
Cliff Lauson, ‘Ron Terada’, Contemporary, Issue 85, September
Julia Dault, ‘A room of one’s own’, The National Post, 15 June
Clint Burnham, ‘Artworks challenge and intrigue’, The Vancouver Sun, 3 June
Sarah McFadden, ‘Intertidal: Vancouver Art and Artists’, Art Papers, May/June - 2005 Terence Dick, ‘Ron Terada/Xu Zhen: Monkey Work Coconut’, Camera Austria, No. 92
Clint Burnham, ‘Art’s narrative of discovery in 2005’, The Vancouver Sun, 31 December
Amy O’Brian, ‘Vancouver artists make waves around the world’, The Vancouver Sun, 17 December
Matthew Higgs, ‘100 Future Greats: Ron Terada’, ArtReview, December
Rosemary Heather, ‘Censorship Bulletin’, C Magazine, Winter
Kenneth Baker, ‘Artworks emerge from the rubble of deconstructed memories’, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 October
Dalson Chen, ‘City orders art removed’, The Windsor Star, 29 September
Dalson Chen, ‘Artist shrugs off critique’, The Windsor Star, 25 September
‘Art and public parks’, The Windsor Star, 22 September
Donald McArthur, ‘Art sparks controversy’, The Windsor Star, 21 September
Roseann Danese, ‘Council debates artwork’s merit’, The Windsor Star, 20 September
Christopher Brayshaw, ‘Wit on the streets’, The Globe and Mail, 27 May
Tim Carlson, ‘“Free Manure, Bagged!” and other signs of the times’, The Globe and Mail, 20 May
Trevor Mahovsky, ‘2048 KM’, Artforum, January - 2004 Clint Burnham, ‘Aperto Vancouver’, Flash Art, November–December
William Wood, ‘Offensive’, Public, Issue 28, Winter
Michael Turner, ‘Not so quiet on the western front’, The Globe and Mail, 14 July
Ann Rosenberg, ‘Vancouver Contemporaries’, Galleries West, Summer
Gregory Elgstrand, ‘Ron Terada’, Canadian Art, Summer
Michael Scott, ‘Separating West Coast dream from reality’, The Vancouver Sun, 5 June
Robin Laurence, ‘B2V Finds West Coast Context’, The Georgia Straight, 3–10 June
David Gleeson, ‘Baja to Vancouver’, Canadian Art, Spring
Deborah Campbell, ‘The New School’, Vancouver Guestlife - 2003 Lloyd Dykk, ‘Pride of place in businessofartshow show’, The Vancouver Sun, 6 December
Glen Helfand, ‘Baja to Vancouver’, Artforum, December
Robin Laurence, ‘A Catalogue of Illusions’, The Georgia Straight, 13–20 November
Samir Gandesha, ‘Vancouver, British Columbia’, Art Papers, November/December
Jeff Jahn, ‘Review; Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art’, Modern Painters, Winter
Sarah Milroy, ‘An artful anger, driven to extremes’, The Globe and Mail, 18 October
Stephanie Snyder, ‘How five curators mapped the land, life and art of today’s West Coast: SAM’s Lisa Corrin takes Cooley Gallery’s Stephanie Snyder behind the scenes’, Organarts, Issue 7, September/October
Michael Turner, ‘Wall and Void’, Modern Painters, Summer
Christopher Brayshaw, ‘Security and Anxiety Post-9/11’, The Georgia Straight, 5–12 June
Kitty Scott, ‘Reviews’, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Magazine, Issue 2 - 2002 Séamus Kealy, ‘Ron Terada’, Canadian Art, Winter
Melanie O’Brian, ‘Promises: Espousal and Constraint’, Mix, Spring - 2001 Kenneth Hayes, ‘Universal Pictures 3 at The Blackwood Gallery’, Mix, Winter
Jeff Derksen, ‘Thing Culture’, C Magazine, Winter
Jessica Wyman, ‘Review: Universal Pictures 3’, C Magazine, Winter
Michael Scott, ‘Gallery lives up to Promises’, The Vancouver Sun, 15–21 November
Germaine Koh, ‘Give aways: a partial account’, Mix, Vol. 27, No. 2, Fall
Marina Roy, ‘These Days’, Last Call, Fall
Trevor Mahovsky, ‘Radical, Bureaucratic, Melancholic, Schizophrenic: Texts as Community’, Canadian Art, Summer
Douglas Coupland, ‘Critical Mass’, The Globe and Mail, 12 May
Michael Scott, ‘The writing is on the wall in a playful show at Atelier’, The Vancouver Sun, 29 March–5 April
Christopher Brayshaw, ‘Artists Weigh Their Words in Strong Show’, The Georgia Straight, 29 March–5 April
Terence Dick, ‘Pop Art: Tunesmithing in the Work of Ron Terada and Rodney Graham’, Mix, Summer - 2000 Christopher Brayshaw, ‘Spotlight: Ron Terada’, Canadian Art, Summer
Barry Schwabsky, ‘Ron Terada’, artext, No. 69, May–July - 1999 Matthew Mallon, ‘Asia Specific: Vancouver hatches plans for a huge new gallery of asian art’, Western Living, December
Eileen Sommerman, ‘Good and Far’, Canadian Art, Winter
Keith Wallace, ‘The beauty of rupture: Artists of Asian descent and Canadian identity’, Art Asia Pacific, Winter
Robin Laurence, ‘Young Artists Cull Pop-Culture Kitsch’, The Georgia Straight, 23 September
Christopher Brayshaw, ‘Curator’s words undermine cartoon- and TV-inspired work’, The Vancouver Courier, 19 September
Dave Beech, ‘Reviews: East International and Riverside’, Art Monthly, Issue 9.99, September
Sarah Milroy, ‘Vancouver painters reach critical mass’, The Globe and Mail, 15 May
Ashley Crawford, ‘The biennial’s big night’, The Age, 13 May
Kitty Scott, ‘Cityscape Vancouver: Ron Terada’, Flash Art, May–June - 1998 Greg Humeniuk, ‘Ron Terada, Grey Paintings’, Lola, Winter
Gillian MacKay, ‘AGO show examines the art of the parting shot’, The Globe and Mail, 31 October
Ken Lum, ‘Six New Vancouver Modern’, Canadian Art, June
Robin Laurence, ‘Slacker-Generation Artists Take out the Pop-Culture Trash’, The Georgia Straight, 5–12 March
Sarah Milroy, ‘An eyeful of irony’, The Globe and Mail, 15 February - 1997 Marilou Knode, ‘New Vancouver Art: Deliberately Pushy’, art/text, November–January
Christopher Brayshaw, ‘Monochrome exhibit surprisingly varied’, Vancouver Courier, 5 March - 1996 Donald Brackett, ‘Canada’s Rising Art Stars’, The Globe and Mail, 5 October
Public Works
- 2014 The Unseen, Westbank Corp., 601–627 Main Street, Vancouver
- 2010 The Words Don’t Fit the Picture, City of Vancouver, Olympic and Paralympic Public Art Program, Legacy Sites, Vancouver
Special Projects
- 2009 Ron Terada, Cockatoo Island, Bywater Bros. Editions, Toronto, Canada; Or Gallery, Vancouver
- 2003 Ron Terada, Defile, Art Metropole and YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto, Canada
Residencies
- 2009 Paul D. Fleck Fellowship, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada
- 2004 Canada Council for the Arts International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, USA
Teaching Appointments
- 1998-2007 Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver
Awards
- 2006 Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award, Visual Art, Canada Council for the Arts
- 2004 VIVA Award, Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation for the Visual Arts, Vancouver