Stan Douglas

(Canadian, born 1960)

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Stan Douglas

Hair, 1948, 2010

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Stan Douglas

Shoes, 1947, 2010

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trick or treat, 1945 by stan douglas

Stan Douglas

Trick or Treat, 1945, 2010

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juggler, 1946 by stan douglas

Stan Douglas

Juggler, 1946, 2010

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Stan Douglas

Suspect, 1950, 2010

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Stan Douglas

Dresser, 1949, 2010

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Stan Douglas

Checkpoint, 1975, 2012

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Stan Douglas

Doppelgänger, 2019

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Stan Douglas

Candlelight, 2017

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Stan Douglas

Skyline, 2017

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Stan Douglas

Jewels, 2017

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Stan Douglas

6th Floor, 2017

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Biography

Timeline

1960
Born in Vancouver, Canada
1982
Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver
Lives and works in Vancouver, Canada

Exhibitions

2019
Stan Douglas Selected Exhibitions in 2019:
58th Venice Biennale: May You Live In Interesting Times, Venice, Italy
Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2018
Stan Douglas Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
Stan Douglas: DCTs and Scenes from the Blackout, David Zwirner, New York (solo exhibition)
Brilliant City, David Zwirner, Hong Kong
David Zwirner: 25 Years, David Zwirner, New York [catalogue]
Digital Worlds: New Media from the Museum’s Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Domestic Arenas, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague
Faithless Pictures, Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design, Oslo
I was Raised on the Internet, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago [catalogue]
Picture Industry: A Provisional History of the Technical Image, 1844-2018, Luma Foundation, Arles, France
Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art, Tate Modern, London [catalogue]
2017
Stan Douglas Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Stan Douglas, Victoria Miro, London (solo exhibition)
Stan Douglas: Luanda-Kinshasa, Les Champs Libres, Rennes, France (solo exhibition)
4th Canadian Biennial, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Cinéma mon amour. Film in Art, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
Moving is in every direction. Environments - Installations - Narrative Spaces, Hamburgher Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Natural Histories: Traces of the Politcal, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
Performance!: Les collections du Centre Pompidou, 1967-2017, lille3000, Lille, France
Tell It Like It Is–or Could Be, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Massachusetts
2016
Stan Douglas Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Stan Douglas: Photographs, David Zwirner, New York (solo exhibition)
Stan Douglas: The Secret Agent, David Zwirner, New York (solo exhibition)
Stan Douglas: Luanda-Kinshasa, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) (solo exhibition)
Stan Douglas: The Secret Agent, Victoria Miro, London (solo exhibition)
Stan Douglas, Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden [organized on occasion of the artist receiving the 2016 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography] [catalogue] (solo exhibition)
3rd Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kerala, India
The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1975 to Now, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
In Context: Africans in America, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
THE INFINITE MIX: Sound and Image in Contemporary Video, 180 The Strand, London [organized by Hayward Gallery, London in association with The Vinyl Factory, London] [catalogue]
KAT A Fotografie Installation, KAT A, Bad Honnef-Rhöndorf, Germany
MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture, Vancouver Art Gallery
On Space and Place: Contemporary Art from Chicago, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Vancouver, Depaul Art Museum, Chicago [organized in collaboration with ART21]
2015
Stan Douglas Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Stan Douglas: Interregnum, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon [catalogue] (solo exhibition)
Stan Douglas: Interregnum, Wiels Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brussels [itinerary: Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg [catalogue] (solo exhibition)
Black Box 2.0, Seattle Art Museum [organized by Aktionsart, Seattle; part of 41st Seattle International Film Festival] [film screening]
The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music 1965 to Now, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago [catalogue]
I Got Rhythm. Kunst und Jazz seit 1920/Art and Jazz since 1920, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart [catalogue]
Land in Sight: 400 Years of Landscapes, Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany
Lo que no se ve. Studium y Punctum en la Colección de Fotografía Contemporánea de Telefónica (y desde La Cámara Lúcida de Roland Barthes)/Sight Unseen. Studium and Punctum in the Telefónica Contemporary Photography Collection and from the Camera Lucida of Roland Barthes, Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, Mexico City
Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Perfect Likeness: Photography and Composition, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles [catalogue]
Residue: The Persistence of the Real, Vancouver Art Gallery [catalogue]
2011
Stan Douglas: Midcentury Studio, David Zwirner, New York (solo) [catalogue]
Streetlife and Homestories, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich [catalogue forthcoming]
2010
Stan Douglas: Klatsassin, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, Canada (solo)
Act III Morality, Witte de With, Rotterdam
Art at Work: Corporate Collecting Practices Today, Part I, Art Gallery of Mississauga,Mississauga, Canada

Public Collections

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Museum Brandhorst, Munich
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum De Pont, Tilburg, The Netherlands
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Literature

2011
Stan Douglas: Midcentury Studio. Edited by Tommy Simoens. Texts by Stan Douglas, Christopher Phillips, and Pablo Sigg. Ludion, Antwerp (exh. cat.)
2008
Stan Douglas: Klatsassin. Text by Ariane Beyn. Screenplay by Stan Douglas. Vienna Secession and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne (exh. cat.) [exhibition in 2006]
2007
Stan Douglas: Past Imperfect: Werke/Works 1986-2007. Edited by Hans D. Christ and Iris Dressler.Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, Germany (exh. cat.)
2006
Stan Douglas, DuMont Literatur and Kunst Verlag, Cologne, Germany, text by Philip Monk
The Eighties: A Topology, Museu de Serralves, Porto, portugal, texts by Julian Heynen, Ulrich Loock, et al.
2005
Intertidal, M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium
Inconsolable Memories - Stan Douglas, Joslyn Art Museu, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
2004
Friederich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Schöner Wohnen, kunst van heden voor alle dagen, Be-Part, Platform, Waregem, Belgium, curated by Mortiz Küng
Stan Douglas: Film-Installationen und Fotografien / Stan Douglas: Film Installations and Photographs, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany, text by Carsten AHRENS