This week Duncan and Christian talk to Ron Terada about art, hockey fights and Blade Runner (for the love of God, Edward James Olmos's character was named Gaff!!!).Ron Terada lives and works in Vancouver. Recent solo exhibitions include Voight-Kampff (2008),
Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver; Stay Away From Lonely Places (2006),
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; and You Have Left the American Sector (2005),
ArtGallery of Windsor. His work has been included in a number of group exhibitions
including Tractatus Logico-Catalogicus (2008), VOX Centre de l’imageContemporaine,
Montreal; Words Fail Me (2007), Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit; The
Show Will Be Open When the Show Will Be Closed (2006)Store, London and
the Kadist Foundation, Paris; Intertidal (2005), Museum van Hedendaagse
Kunst Antwerpen, Belgium; and General Ideas: Rethinking Conceptual Art
1990-2005 (2005), CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco.
Terada was a recipient of the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award, Canada Council
for the Arts (2006); and the VIVA Award, Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation
(2004); and was nominated for a Sobey Art Award (2007). Terada is represented
by Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver.