Doug Aitken

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Doug Aitken is an American multimedia artist.

1 Life and work
2 Solo and Group Exhibitions
3 Prizes
4 References
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Life and work

Doug Aitken was born in Redondo Beach, California in 1968 and currently lives and works in Los Angeles and New York.^[1]

Aitken’s body of work ranges from photography, sculpture, and architectural interventions to films, sound, single and multichannel video works, and installations.^[2] He has described his work as "reflecting a world that is harmonious, mysterious, mesmerizing, passionate, and sometimes rough and violent."^[3] His work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world, in such institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

Since the mid-1990s, Aitken has created installations by employing multiple screens. His electric earth installation drew international attention and earned him the International Prize at the Venice Biennale in 1999.^[4] The following year, glass horizon, an installation comprising a projection of a pair of eyes onto the facade of the Vienna Secession building after it had closed for the night, showcased an interest in architectural structures and in art that interacts with urban environments.^[5] In 2001, Aitken’s exhibition at London’s Serpentine Gallery used the entire building for the complex installation new ocean. ^[6]

In 2005 Aitken received a solo exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

In 2006, Aitken produced Broken Screen: 26 Conversations with Doug Aitken (DAP, 2006), a book of interviews with twenty-six artists who aim to explore and challenge the conventions of linear narrative. Interviews included Robert Altman, Claire Denis, Werner Herzog, Rem Koolhaus, and Ed Ruscha. ^[7]

Doug Aitken's Sleepwalkers is a continuation of Aitken’s exploration into the evolving ways people experience their daily environment. He aims to visualize their perceptions, connect personally private and socially shared experiences and relate them to fast-paced urban environments.

In the winter of 2007, Aitken's Sleepwalkers was presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The monumental project stars actors Donald Sutherland and Tilda Swinton, musicians Seu Jorge and Cat Power, and actor/street drummer Ryan Donowho.^[8] Five interlocking vignettes shown through eight projections were displayed upon the exterior walls of the museum so as to be visible from the street. Concurrent with the exhibition, Aitken also presented a one night "happening" inside the museum that featured live drummers and auctioneers chants and a performance by Cat Power. ^[9]

In 2008, Aitken produced another large scale outdoor film installation, titled "Migration" for the 55th Carnegie International show titled "Life on Mars" in Pittsburgh, PA. The work features wild animals of North America curiously inhabiting a human realm - neat, empty hotel rooms. ^[10] He also produced a collection of photographs, "99 Cent Dreams", which captures "moments between interaction" in a kind of nomadic travelogue. ^[11]

In structuring his work to slip into viewers’ media-saturated cultural unconscious, he seeks to allow them to experience cinematic imagery in a new way. Dismantling the linkages between narrative sequences, isolating sound, moving images, and the rhythms of our surroundings, he engages in an overarching practice of multimedial experimentation.

[edit] Solo and Group Exhibitions

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Doug Aitken has participated in over 150 art exhibitions throughout the world. Solo show are noted below, all others are group shows:

2008 Life on Mars, the 2008 Carnegie International ^[12]
2008 “El Mundo del Hielo”, EXPO 2008, Zaragoza, Spain

2007 The Museum of Modern Art and Creative Time, New York (solo)^[13]
2007 303 Gallery, New York (solo) ^[14]
2007 "Mapping the City", The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam^[15]
2007 Il Tempo De Postino, Manchester England ^[16]
2007 “Power of Ten: Gifts in Honor of Miami art Museum’s 10th Anniversary”, Miami Art Museum, FL
2007 "Silence. Listen to the Show", Sandretto Foundation, Torino, Italy
2007 “Destroy, She Said”, Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany
2007 “Mouth Open, Teeth Showing: Major works from the True Collection”, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA ^[17]
2007 “Window/Interface”, Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, Kansas City, MO
2007 "Her(His)tory", Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens^[18]
2007 “Ensemble”, ICA, Philadelphia, PA ^[19]
2007 Martin Margulies Collection, Miami, FL

2006: Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO (solo)
2006: The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY (performance)
2006: "Broken Screen" Happenings, New York and Los Angeles^[20]
2006: “.all hawaii eNtrées / luNar reggae”, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin^[21]
2006: “Red Eye: LA Artists from the Rubell Family Collection”, Miami, FL
2006: “Touch My Shadows: New Media from the Goetz Collection in Munich”, Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
2006: Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
2006: “Beyond Cinema”, Hamburger Bahnhof fur Gegenwart, Berlin^[22]
2006: “Ecotopia”, International Center of Photography, New York, NY^[23]
2006: “Surprise, Surprise”, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London^[24]
2006: “Cosmic Wonder”, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA^[25]
2006: “Fuori Pista”, Chalet Mollino, Sauze d’Oulx, Italy

2005: Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (solo)
2005: Regen Projects, Los Angeles (solo) ^[26]
2005: Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich (solo)
2005: Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (solo) ^[27]
2005: Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye”, Hayward Gallery, London^[28]
2005: "Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art", Glasgow, Scotland ^[29]
2005: “Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago ^[30]
2005: “Now’s the Time”, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria^[31]

2004: Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany (solo)
2004: Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain (solo)
2004: Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
2004: La Caixa Forum and Mies van der Rohe Pavillion, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
2004: “Uses of the Image”, MALBA Coleccion Constantini, Buenos Aires
2004: 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
2004: “3 minutes”, Schirin Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
2004: “Past, Present, Future: Contemporary Art 1950-Present”, Art Institute of Chicago
2004: “New in the Collection”, 2 person show, Museum Het Domein Sittard, The Netherlands
2004: “Hard Light”, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York ^[32]
2004: “Memory and Landscape” La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain; Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
2004: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

2003: Victoria Miro Gallery, London (solo)
2003: Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland (solo) ^[33]
2003: Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’Arte, Torino, Italy (solo)
2003: “World Rush”, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia ^[34]
2003: “Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight”, North Carolina Museum of Art, North Carolina
2003: "The New Yorkers”, collaboration with Bang on a Can, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York
2003: “fast forward”, Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
2003: “Then all the world would be upside down”, Tina Kim Fine Art, NY
2003: “Site Specific”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2003: “Audiolab 2”, collaboration with Steven Roden, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
2003: “Liquid Sea”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2003: “Eden”, La Coleccion Jumex, Mexico
2003: “Painting Pictures: Painting and Media in the Digital Age”, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
2003: “Breathing the Water”, Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich
2003: “Imperfect Innocence”, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
2003: “Spiritus”, Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden

2002: 303 Gallery, New York (solo)
2002: Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, France (solo)
2002: Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (solo) ^[35]
2002: Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Japan (solo)
2002: The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
2002: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark (solo)
2002: Art Institute of Chicago
2002: “Sonic Process”, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain and Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2002: “Screen Memories”, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Japan
2002: “remix”, Tate Liverpool, England

2001: Serpentine Gallery, London (solo)
2001: Kunst-Werke Berlin, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2001: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany (solo)
2001: “Urban Pornography”, Artist’s Space, New York, NY
2001: “Media Connection”, curated by Gianni Romano, (exh.cat) published by Libri Scheiwiller Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
2001: “Form Follows Fiction”, curated by Jeffrey Deitch, Castello di Rivoli
2001: “Ars 01. Unfolding Perspective”, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
2001: “Moving Pictures”, curated by Dr. Renate Wiehager, Galerien der Stadt Esslingen, Germany
2001: “Collaboration With Parkett: 1984 to NOW”, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2001: “Let’s Entertain: Life’s Guilty Pleasures”, curated by Philippe Vergne, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
2001: Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico

2000: Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2000: "Glass Horizon", Vienna Secession Wien, Austria (solo)
2000: "Matrix 185/Into the Sun", Berkeley Art Museum Berkeley, CA (solo)
2000: Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
2000: “Concentrations 33: Doug Aitken, Diamond Sea”, Dallas Museum of Art Dallas, TX (solo)
2000: Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2000: “Hypermental Rampant Reality 1950-2000 from Salvador Dali to Jeff Koons”, curated by Bice Curiger, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
2000: “Biennale of Sydney”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
2000: "Speed of Vision", Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art Ridgefield, CT and Pittsburgh Center for the Art, Pittsburgh, PA
2000: "Flight Patterns", Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2000: “Let’s Entertain: Life’s Guilty Pleasures”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
2000: “Raw”, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
2000: “Future Identities: Reflections from a Collection”, curated by Francesco Bonami from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, Arco 2000, Madrid, Spain
2000: “Work from the Angle Collection: Doug Aitken/Electric Earth”, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Japan

1999: Victoria Miro Gallery London, UK (solo)
1999: Doug Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX (solo)
1999: Pitti Discovery series, Pitti Immagine Florence, Italy (solo)
1999: Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM (solo)
1999: “dAPERTutto”, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1999: “From Film”, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
1999: “Two Doors- True Value”, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
1999: “Video Cult/ures”, Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
1999: “EXTRAetORDINAIRE”, curated by Christine Macel, Le Printemps de Cahors, Saint-Cloud, France
1999: Natural Order”, curated Catherine Crowston, Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada
1999: “Clues, An Open Scenario Exhibition”, curated by Luca Cerizza and Marieke van Hal, Monte Video, Amsterdam

1998: 303 Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1998: Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic (solo)
1998: Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1998: Gallery Side Two, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1998: "New Selections from the Permanent Collection", Walker Art Center Minneapolis, Minnesota
1998: "portrait--human figure", Galerie Peter Kilchmann Zurich, Switzerland
1998: “La Voie Lactée”, organized by the Purple Institute at Alleged, New York, NY
1998: “L.A. Times”, curated by Francesco Bonami, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarane, Italy
1998: "New Visions: video 1998", Long Beach Museum of Art Long Beach, CA
1998: “Unfinished History”, curated by Francesco Bonami, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

1997: 303 Gallery, New York, NY "diamond sea", "cathouse" (solo)
1997: The 1997 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1997: “I Love New York -- Crossover of Contemporary Art”, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
1997: “Speed”, Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK.
1997: “Poor Man’s Pudding; Rich Man’s Crumbs”, AC Project Room, New York, NY
1997: "We Gotta Get Out of this Place", curated by Stefan Kalmar, Cubitt Gallery, London, UK.
1997: "One Minute Scenario", curated by Jerome Sans, Le Printemps de Cahors, Saint-Cloud, France
1997: "Doug Aitken and Peter Gehrke", Galleri Index, Stockholm, Sweden
1997: “Camera Obscura,” curated by Susan Hapgood, San Casciano dei Bagni, Italy
1997: “Doug Aitken, Alex Bag, Naotaka Hiro”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1997: “(re)Mediation: The Digital in Contemporary American Printmaking", U.S. entry in the 22nd International Ljubljana Biennal of Graphic Art, Cankarjevdom-Cultural and Congress Centre, the Modern Gallery and the Tivoli Gallery, Ljubljana

1996: Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1996: "Campo 6: The Spiral Village", curated by Francesco Bonami, Galleria Civica D'Arte Moderne e Contemporanea Turin, Italy and Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands
1996: "29' - 0"/East", Kunstraum Vienna, Vienna, Austria
1996: "29' - 0"/East", Kunsthalle New York, New York
1996: "a/drift: Scenes from a Penetrable Culture", curated by Josh Decter, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
1996: "Intermission", Basilico Fine Arts, New York, New York
1996: "Art in the Anchorage", organized by Creative Time, The Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, Brooklyn, New York
1996: "Show and Tell", curated by Andrea Scott, Lauren Wittles Gallery, New York
1996: "Doug Aitken, Mariko Mori, Ricardo Zulueta", Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York

1995: "La Belle et la Bete", curated by Lynn Gumpert, Musee d'art de la Ville Paris, Paris, France
1995: "The Image and The Object", curated by Giovanna Trento & Bruce Di Marino, Museo Laboratorio di arte Contemporanea, Roma, Universita Degli Studi di Roma, Rome, Italy

1994: 303 Gallery, New York (solo)
1994: Pasco Art Center, Holiday, FL (solo)
1994: "Beyond Belief", curated by James Roberts, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
1994: "Audience 0.01", curated by Helena Kontova, Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy
1994: Vera Vitagioia, Naples, Italy
1994: "still", curated Heidi Zuckerman, Espace Montjoie, Paris
1994: "New York, New York", curated by Zdenka Gabalovia, Ma'nes Space, Prague, Czech Republic
1994: "Out West and Back East", curated by Tom Rhoads, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
1994: "Not Here Neither There", curated by Charles Gaines, Paul McCarthy, Stephen Prina, Fran Seegull, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA

1993: AC Project Room, New York, NY, "Dawn" (solo)
1993: "Okay Behavior", curated by Gavin Brown & Gareth Jones, 303 Gallery, New York, NY
1993: "Outside Possibilities", curated by Bill Arning, Rushmore Estate, Rushmore, NY
1993: "Underlay", curated by Paul Bloodgood & Gavin Brown, 15 Renwick St, New York, NY
1993: "Doug Aitken and Robin Lowe", AC Project Room, New York, NY

1992: "Multiplicity", curated by Susan Inglett, Christopher Middendorf Gallery, Washington, DC
1992: "The Art Mall, A Social Space", New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1992: "Invitational 92", Stux Gallery, New York, NY