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Owen Kydd is an L.A.-based artist, who works primary with film, video, and photography. A Canadian by birth, Kydd has a bachelor’s of fine arts from Simon Fraser University, with an emphasis on film, and masters of fine arts from UCLA.

In 2006, he started exhibiting documentary-inspired 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.

On Nonsite, the critic Walter Ben Michaels has described Kydd’s exploration of the line the 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.” As Aaron Peck wrote in Artforum, “Kydd employs contemporary technologies to expand the boundaries of pictorial depiction while representing quotidian images of North American life in the early twenty-first century, capturing the specific details that signal the time in which we live.” His work has been written about it in numerous other places as well, such as Canadian Ar t, Foam magazine, Frieze magazine, and Aperture magazine.

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

His work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, SF MoMA, the Albright-Knox, among other places.

He is represented by Monte Clarke Gallery in Vancouver, BC.