[1] He creates sculpture from found objects, oil paintings, graphite drawings and collage, and curates and writes on contemporary art.
Arden graduated from Emily Carr College of Art and Design with a bachelor's degree in photography and interdisciplinary studies in 1982[1] and with an M.A.
[2] In the 1990s, he made colour photographs of what he termed the "landscape of economy" that depicted the city of Vancouver and its rapid growth.
[4] His videos, Juggernaut (2000), Citizen (2000), and Supernatural (2006), were shown at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham in 2006 in his solo exhibition there, along with his photographs from 1985 on.
It is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York – it was featured in their inaugural exhibition after their expansion in 2005 [1][7] - besides being included in the collections of major museums in Canada, Europe and the U.S.A. such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo[8] the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.