Douglas Gordon
Individual
Roles
Artist, FilmmakerBiography
Working across mediums and disciplines, Douglas Gordon investigates moral and ethical questions, mental and physical states, as well as collective memory and selfhood. Using literature, folklore, and iconic Hollywood films in addition to his own footage, drawings, and writings, he distorts time and language in order to disorient and challenge. Gordon was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1966 and studied sculpture and environmental art at the Glasgow School of Art (1984-88). After graduating, he attended the Slade School of Fine Art, London (1988-90), where he began to more deeply explore his interests in cinema and film.Gordon has had major international solo exhibitions, including at the National Gallery of Scotland, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington D.C., Tate Liverpool, Tate Britain, Hayward Gallery, London, MOCA Los Angeles, MoMA, New York, ACCA, Melbourne, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Denmark, Prisons of the Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Neue National Galerie Berlin, K20, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany, the Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Gagosian London, New York, Los Angeles, Athens, Dvir Gallery Israel and Brussels, Galerie Mennour, Paris, and among many others. He has presented his work in group exhibitions including at Documenta 14, Athens and Kassel, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum of Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France, Fondation Boghossian-Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy, among many others. His film works have been invited to the Festival de Cannes, Toronto International Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, and Festival del Film Locarno, New York, among others.
Adapted from Douglas Gordon, 2024
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