Ilan Sandler

Ilan Sandler has shown his sculptures, installations, and videos internationally and across Canada and has completed public art commissions in a number of cities in North America, as well as in Denmark and in Busan, South Korea. In 2000 he began experimenting with approaches and techniques to creating public art by combining industrial processes with emerging new media and rapid prototyping technology, and those experiments led him to found Sandler Studio as a research/production space for public projects. His major projects until 2005 included long- term temporary installations in unconventional sites: Arrest at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia; Pulse for the city of St. Louis; and Double Storey at the Toronto Sculpture Garden, as well as other mobile sensory and temporary projects in New York City, Philadelphia, and Connecticut. By 2006 his studio could support the production of large-scale pieces for national and international public art competitions.

Although some of these public pieces have a textual or media component, in general his work references contemporary objects that are in common use and resonate across cultures, including books, wheels, sheaves of paper, tables, chairs, and water vessels. Recent perman...

M.F.A., Sculpture/Installation and Digital Media, 2000 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Video and New Media Research, 1999
Public Broadcasting Service Member Station WHYY-TV Philadelphia

A.O.C.A.D., 4 year Honors Fine Arts, 1997 OCAD University

B.Sc. Physics, 1994 University of Toronto

CommISSIonS
2013 “Lace Up”, Canada Games Oval, Halifax, NS
2012 “Under the Helmet”, Windsor Park, City of Calgary, AB.
2011 “The School Chair” Halifax Regional Municipality, Halifax, NS.
2010 “What’s Your Name?” The Republic, North Toronto Collegiate Institute.
2009 “A Departure” Lethbridge Centennial Bridge, Lethbridge AB.
2009 “The Vessel” Taddle Creek Park, Toronto ON.
2008 “An Ear to the Sky” Busan Biennale Sculpture Park Busan, South Korea.
2006 “The Book” Artstage, Toronto ON.
2003 “Double Storey” Toronto Sculpture Garden, Toronto ON.
2002 “Pulse” Arts in Transit public art commission, St. Louis MO.
2001 Alternate for Arts in Transit public art commission, SEPTA, Philadelphia PA. 1999 Hand forged steel text for Xu Bing, Anima, Animal, Animus PS1 Queens NY. 1999 Outdoor Steel and Stone Sculpture, M. Shrestha, Philadelphia PA.
Solo eXhIBItIonS
2011 Nocturne Art at Night: Ursa Major’s Visit, Parks Canada, Halifax Citadel, NS. 2011 City of Toronto Parks and Culture The Vessel, Taddle Creek Park, Toronto ON. 2009 Allied Arts Council Galt Museum, A Departure, Installation, Lethbridge, AB. 2006 Artstage, The Book, Public Art Installation, Toronto, ON.
2005 St. Mary’s University Art Gallery, Three Senses, Halifax NS.
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