Stan Douglas

°1960, Vancouver (CA) - lives and works in Vancouver (CA)

Canadian artist Stan Douglas is known for film installations characterized by elaborate mise-en-scènes and sophisticated montages that deal with coincidence and lost utopias of the 20th Century.

Since the late 1980s, he has created films, photographs, and installations that reexamine particular locations or past events. His works often take their points of departure in local settings, from which broader issues can be identified. Making frequent use of new as well as outdated technologies, Douglas appropriates existing Hollywood genres (including murder mysteries and the Western) and borrows from classic literary works (notably, Samuel Beckett, Herman Melville, and Franz Kafka) to create ready-made contextual frameworks for his complex, thoroughly researched projects.

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Stan Douglas has had numerous solo exhibitions, including shows at  the Salzburger Kunstverein, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon; The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Carré d’Art – Musée d’Art Contemporain, Nîmes; Haus der Kunst, Munich; IMMA, Dublin; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Secession, Vienna; and Wiels, Brussels. Group exhibitions include Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Whitney Museum, New York; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; Cisneros Collection, Havana; and Centre Pompidou, Paris. 

Douglas was also included in numerous international projects such as Documenta IX, 1992; Documenta X, 1997; Documenta XI, 2002 and the Venice Biennale in 1990, 2001 and 2005.

Stan Douglas is represented by the following galleries;
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Victoria Miro, London

David Zwirner, New York / London

Stan Douglas

works by Stan Douglas

Stan Douglas - The Secret Agent - 2015

Stan Douglas

The Secret Agent

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