Roderick Buchanan (born 1965) is a Scottish artist working in the fields of installation, film and photography. Often based around portraits of groups and individuals, Buchanan’s photographic and film works skillfully engage with their subjects to explore the codes and iconographies of cultural allegiance and identity, frequently focusing on the individual subject as part a wider field of social and cultural relationships.

‘Harriers’, 2002, and ‘History Painting’, 2005, are two major video installation works by Roderick Buchanan that were commissioned and toured by Film and Video Umbrella. ‘History Painting’ was accompanied by a publication, ‘Roderick Buchanan: Portraits’ published by Film and Video Umbrella.

In 2000 Buchanan won the inaugural Beck’s Futures prize for his work ‘Gobstopper’, a video of children trying to hold their breath while being driven through Glasgow’s Clyde Tunnel. In 2004, he was awarded a Paul Hamlyn Award. His 2005 Film and Video Umbrella commission ‘History Painting’, about Indian and Scottish soldiers, was commissioned in collaboration with the British Council for the 11th Indian Triennale. The artist has had solo exhibitions at Dundee Contemporary Arts in 2000, and the Camden Arts Centre, 2005. His work is held in the collections of the Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland and was featured at the 2001 Venice Biennale. He lives and works in Glasgow.