Stan Douglas
b. 1960
Since the late 1980s, Stan Douglas 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 Making frequent use of new as well as outdated technologies, Douglas appropriates existing Hollywood genres (including murder mysteries and the Western) and borrows from classic literary works (notably,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. Douglas was born in 1960 in Vancouver, where he continues to live and work. He was one of the first artists to be represented by David Zwirner, where he had his first American solo exhibition in 1993. The artist’s latest project, Luanda-Kinshasa, debuted at David Zwirner, New York, marking his twelfth gallery solo show (on view January 9 to February 22, 2014). In 2013, a major survey of the artist’s recent work, Stan Douglas: Photographs 2008-2013, was presented at Carré d’Art – Musée d’Art Contemporain in Nîmes, France. The exhibition travels as Stan Douglas: Mise en scène to Haus der Kunst in Mu…
Films