This publication, produced by the Contemporary Art Gallery in 2003, accompanies the exhibition Ron Terada: *Catalogue* at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, November 20, 2003 – January 3, 2004. The publication includes texts by Michael Darling, Jens Hoffmann, Reid Shier and Kelly Wood. Design and drawings by Julian Gosper.

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Catalogue

Ron Terada

The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition by Vancouver artist Ron Terada. Terada's recent work uses the exhibition as a medium, and employs promotional and didactic material — things that might normally be thought of as ancillary to the art itself — as raw material. In *Catalogue*, Terada will occupy and exaggerate the mandate of a public institution by making private patronage the content and means of the artwork. *Catalogue* will take the form of an exhibition publication. The catalogue will look and function like any other publication would within the typical institutional frame of an exhibition. But by highlighting the patronage of those who collaborated with the artist in support of the show, the catalogue aims to re-align conventions which presuppose such contextualizing and legitimating vehicles as supplementary. 

### Biography

Recent solo projects by Ron Terada include the magazine *Defile*, *Art Metropole*, Toronto and *Big Toast* at the Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including *Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast in Contemporary Art*, which opened at the Seattle Art Museum before touring to Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Wattis Institute, Oakland and the Vancouver Art Gallery. His work was also included in the 2003 Prague Biennale and *Subscribe: Recent Art in Print* at Bard College, Annandale, New York. He is represented by the Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver. 

Essay: "Follow the Money," Reid Shier

This is an installation shot of a gallery space. On a white wall, the names of people are printed in a large black font. There are two listed as “Anonymous” in this list of names. 

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Two of the CAG window spaces are visible in this photograph. Four logos of different companies and organisations are printed on the white walls behind the windows. 

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This is an installation shot of a gallery space. There are ten large-sized logos of different companies and organisations printed on a gallery wall.

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This is an installation shot of a gallery space. There are ten large logos of different companies and organisations printed on a gallery wall.

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Two of the CAG window spaces are visible in this photograph. Six black and white logos of different companies and organisations are printed on the white walls behind the windows. 

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This is an installation shot of a gallery space. On a white wall, names of people are printed in a large black font. There are two listed as “Anonymous” in this list of names. 

Ron Terada

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