Born Glasgow, 1965, lives and works in Glasgow
Roderick Buchanan graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1989 and from the University of Ulster, Belfast, in 1990. He was awarded the Becks Futures Prize in 2000 and a Paul Hamlyn Award in 2004.
Buchanan employs film, video, photography and sculpture to question collective and individual identity. His works engage with their subjects ‘to explore the codes and iconographies of cultural allegiance and identity, frequently focusing on the individual subject as part of a wider field of social and cultural relationships.’
Selected Exhibitions – Solo
2012
‘Legacy’, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
2011
‘Legacy’, Imperial War Museum, London
2008
‘Beyond Use’, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
2007
‘From a City of One Million’, La Criee, Rennes
‘History Painting’, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Rennes
‘Histrionics’, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
2006     
Ards Arts Center, Northern Ireland (with Aisling O’Biern)
‘Words and Pictures’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (with Douglas Gordon)
2005
‘History Painting’, Victorial Memorial Hall, Kolkata
‘Film, Video & 18^th Century Politics’, Camden Arts Centre, London
‘History Painting’ 11^th Indian Triennial, NGMA, New Delhi. British Council