DOUGLAS GORDON
Douglas Gordon born 1966, Glasgow, Scotland. Lives and works in Berlin, Glasgow and Paris.
Gordon’s practice encompasses video, film, installation, sculpture, photography and text. Through his work, the artist investigates human conditions of memory, passage of time, ambiguity and the disruption of the normal as well as the binary nature and the tendency to split things into opposites: black / white, good / evil. He won the Turner Prize in 1996, the Premio 2000 at the 47th Venice Biennale in 1997 and the Hugo Boss Prize in 1998.
Gordon’s work has been exhibited globally, in major solo exhibitions including: the Museum of Modern Art in New York, USA; TATE Britain in London, UK; Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, France; ARoS Aarhus Art Museum in Denmark; Dunedin Public Art Gallery in New Zealand; Prisons of the Palazzo Ducale in Venice, Italy; K20, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf, Germany; the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in Israel; the National Gallery of Scotland in the UK; the Hayward Gallery in London, UK; as well as the MOCA in Los Angeles and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Germany. His film works have been invited to the Festival de Cannes, Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Venice Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Festival del Film Locarno, New York Film Festival, among many others.
