Rodney Graham CM (January 16, 1949 – October 22, 2022) was a Canadian artist and musician who was most often associated with the Vancouver School.
Rodney Graham’s Cause of Death?
Canadian artist Rodney Graham died of cancer on 22 October. The news was announced in a shared statement by his galleries—303 Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, Lisson Gallery, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, and Esther Schipper.
‘We’ve lost our dear Rodney, a genius artist, dear friend, master of disguise, snappy dresser, supplier of dry humor, an amazing songwriter, always modest, an understated intellectual, gifted amateur, professional connoisseur, Sunday painter who seldom worked Sundays, ultimately a true professional in every sense of what it means to be an artist,’ said Lisson’s founder Nicholas Logsdail.
Born in British Columbia in 1949, Graham studied under conceptual artist Ian Wallace at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby. During the 1980s he became associated with the Vancouver School, a group of artists exploring conceptual photography that included Wallace, Jeff Wall, and Ken Lum