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Owen Kydd

b. 1975

Canadian artist (born 1975)

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About Owen Kydd

Born 1975. Owen Kydd is a Canadian artist.

Owen Kydd (born 1975) is a Canadian artist who works primarily with film, video and photography.

Early life and education Kydd holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Simon Fraser University and a Master of Fine Arts degree from UCLA.

Art career In 2006, he started exhibiting documentary-related videos that he called “durational photographs,” although he has since also branched out into various forms of digital art.

His work has been exhibited extensively, including solo shows at the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, and group shows at SFMoMA, the Albright-Knox Gallery, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the International Center for Photography, and the Ontario Art Gallery.

In 2015, he was shortlisted for the AIMIA AGO Photography Prize.

Critical reception The critic Walter Benn Michaels has described Kydd's exploration of the line between video, cinema, and photography in the following way: “It’s thus the photographic and the cinematic that provide the terms in which Kydd understands his work, and inasmuch as the videos are neither photographs nor movies, video functions for him less as a medium in itself than as a technology for addressing the relation between the photograph and the movie, for, more precisely, turning the cinematic into the photographic.” Frieze magazine, and Aperture magazine. SF MoMA, and the Albright–Knox Art Gallery.

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Who is Owen Kydd?

Canadian artist (born 1975)

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Owen Kydd was born in 1975 in Calgary.

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Owen Kydd is an artist.

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Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Owen Kydd

· Wikidata: Q106110162

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