User:Doug Aitken
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[edit] Biography:
Doug Aitken, a visual artist, was born in 1968, Redondo Beach, California. He first attended Marymount College for about a year from 1986 to 1987, and then he transferred to Art Center College of Design. Aitken graduated from the school in 1991. Since his graduation, Aitken has been created many visual art pieces, such as music videos, video installations, exhibitions, and etc. His works reveal richness of audiovisual intensities. Thru complex images, he approaches the audience with philosophical questions which inquiries the relationship between people and their time and space. Aitken also won the international prize at the 48th Venice Biennale for his work, "Electric Earth,” which was a video installation.
[edit] His Contributions:
Doug Aitken so far participated in about 60 exhibitions (solo/group)
2005 Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (solo)
2005 Regen Projects, Los Angeles (solo)
2005 Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich (solo)
2005 Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle (solo)
2005 Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye”, Hayward Gallery, London
2005 "Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art", Glasgow, Scotland
2005 “Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2005 “Now’s the Time”, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
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”, PS1, New York
2004 “Memory and Landscape” La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain; Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
2004 Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
2004 Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany (solo)
2004 Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain (solo)
2004 Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
2004 Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (solo)
2004 La Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
2003 Victoria Miro Gallery, London (solo)
2003 Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2003 Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’Arte, Torino, Italy (solo)
2003 “World Rush”, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
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 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
2002 303 Gallery, New York (solo)
2002 Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, France (solo)
2002 Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (solo)
2002 Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Japan (solo)
2002 The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
2002 Louisiana Museum, Denmark (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
2001 Serpentine Gallery, London (solo)
2001 Kunst-Werke Berlin, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2001 Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany (solo)
2000 Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber Zurich, Switzerland
2000 Vienna Secession Wien, Austria
2000 "Matrix 185/Into the Sun", Berkeley Art Museum Berkeley, CA
2000 Dallas Museum of Art Dallas, TX
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 “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
2000 Whitney Biennial, , Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY
2000 Speed of Vision, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art Ridgefield, CT
2000 Flight Patterns, Museum of Contemporary Art
2000 Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1999 Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM (solo)
1999 “dAPERTutto”, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1999 “dAPERTutto”, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1999 “Two Doors- True Value”, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
1999 “Video Cult/ures”, Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsuhe, 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
1999 Victoria Miro Gallery London, UK
1999 Pitti Discovery series, Pitti Immagine Florence, Italy
1998 303 Gallery New York, NY
1998 Jiri Svestka Gallery Prauge, Czech Republic
1998 New Selections from the Permanent Collection, Walker Art Center Minneapolis, Minnesota
1998 portrait--human figure, Galerie Peter Kilchmann Zurich, Switzerland
1998 New Visions: video 1998, Long Beach Museum of Art Long Beach, CA
1998 Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1998 Gallery Side Two, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1997 The 1997 Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1997 303 Gallery, New York, NY "diamond sea", "cathouse"
1996 Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1994 303 Gallery, New York (solo)
1994 Pasco Art Center, Holiday, FL (solo)
1993 “Breathing the Water”, Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich
1993 “Imperfect Innocence”, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
1993 “Spiritus”, Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden
1993 AC Project Room, New York, NY, "Dawn"
1992 Art Institute of Chicago
1992 “Sonic Process”, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain and Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
1992 “Screen Memories”, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Japan
1992 “remix”, Tate Gallery, Liverpool
