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DOUG AITKEN
 

 
Biography

1968                born in Redondo Beach, USA
1987–1991    Art Center College of Design, BFA, Pasadena, CA
1986–1987    Marymount College, Palos Verdes, CA
    
lives and works in Los Angeles
 
Solo Exhibitions

2008
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, '99¢ Dreams', Zurich
303 Gallery, New York

2007
Museum of Modern Art, 'Sleepwalkers', New York
303 Gallery, New York

2006
Aspen Art Museum, A Photographic Survey, Aspen/Colorado
The Parrish Art Museum, 'K-N-O-C-K-O-U-T', Southampton, New York (performance)
Essex Street Market, 'Broken Screen Happening', New York
MAK Center, Schindler House, Los Angeles (happening)

2005
Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Couvent des Cordeliers, ’ULTRAWORLD’, Paris
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, 'Sell yourself for nothing', Zurich
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle

2004
Aldrich Museum, Connecticut
Goetz Collection, Munich
Sala Rekalde, Bilbao
Taka Ishi Gallery, Tokyo
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
La Caixa Forum, ’We’re Safe As Long As Everything Is Moving’, Barcelona

2003
Henry Art Gallery, 'i am in you', Seattle
Fondazione Sandretto ReRebaudengo, 'new ocean', Torino
Kunsthalle, Zürich
Victoria Miro Gallery, London

2002
Kunsthaus Bregenz, 'new ocean', Bregenz
303 Gallery, New York
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, ‘Interiors‘, Philadelphia
Tokyo Opera City Gallery, 'new ocean', Tokyo
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 'Doug Aitken. Rise', Humblebaek
Magasin Centre National D’Art Contemporain, ’Doug Aitken. Rise‘, Grenoble

2001
Serpentine Gallery, 'new ocean', London
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 'Metallic sleep', Wolfsburg (in connection with Kunst-Werke Berlin)
Kunst-Werke, ’I AM IN YOU’, Berlin (in connection with Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg)

2000
Wiener Secession, 'Glass Horizon', Vienna
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, 'Matrix 185/Into the Sun', Berkeley/CA
Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, 'I AM IN YOU', Zurich
Dallas Museum of Art, ’Concentrations 33: Doug Aitken, Dimond Sea’, Dallas

1999
Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Doug Lawing Gallery, Houston TX
Pitti Immagine, 'Pitti Discovery series', cur. Francesco Bonami, Florence
Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe

1998
303 Gallery, New York
Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Gallery Side Two, Tokyo

1997
303 Gallery, New York

1996
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo

1994
303 Gallery, New York
Pasco Art Center, Holiday FL

1993
AC Project Room, New York
York 1996 Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo 1994 303 Gallery, New York Pasco Art Center, Holiday FL 1993 AC Project Room, New York


 
Group Exhibitions

2008
EXPO 2008, 'El Mundo del Hielo', Zaragoza, Spain
Carnegie International, Pittsburgh
Kaiser Wilhelm Museum und Museum Haus Lange, 'Der grosse Wurf/Falling Right into Place', Krefeld, Germany
Manchester International Festival, Paris and Manchester (performance)

2007
Sprüth Magers Galerie, 'uneasy angel –i magining los angeles', Munich
House Eva Presenhuber, 'Jubilee Exhibition', Vnà, Switzerland
ICA, Institute of Cotemporary Art, 'Ensemble', Philadelphia
Kemper Art Museum, 'Window/Interface', Washington
Manchester International Festival/ Opera House, 'Il Tempo del Postino', Manchester (performance)
Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf
Henry Art Museum, University of Washington, Seattle
Museum of Cycladic Art, 'Her(His)tory', Athens
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, 'Silence', Torino
Stedelijk Museum, 'Mapping the City', Amsterdam
Vanhaerents Art Collection, 'Disorder in the House', Brussels
303 Gallery, 'Brave New Year', New York

2006
Rubell Family Collection, 'Red Eye. L. A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection', Miami
Irish Museum of Modern Art, 'all hawaii eNtrées / luNar reggae', Dublin
ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, 'Surprise, Surprise', London
Chalet Mollino, 'Fuori Pista', Sauze D' Oulz, Italy
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 'Cosmic Wonder', San Fransisco
Hamburger Bahnhof. Museum für Gegenwart, 'Beyon Cinema', Berlin
Broad Art Foundation, 'Santa Monica/CA
Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, 'Touch My Shadows: New Media from the Goetz Collection in Munich', Warsaw

2005
SK Stiftung Kultur, 'Jump-Cut Nights – Choreographic Structures in Moving images. Part 3: Time images', Cologne
Kulturzentrum Seedamm, ’REALIT;-)T’, Pfäffikon, Switzerland
Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art, Glasgow
Art 36, Art Unlimited, ’Skyliner’, Basel
Rialto, 'Disorientation – New Ways of Storytelling', Amsterdam
Museum of Contemporary Art  Chicago and Hayward Gallery London, ’Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist's Eye’, Chicago/London
Kulturzentrum Seedamm, ’REALIT;-)T’, Pfäffikon/CH
Kunsthaus Graz, ’Now’s the time’, Graz

2004
Malba Coleccion Constantini, ’Uses of the Image’, Buenos Aires
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Schirnkunsthalle, ’3minutes’, Frankfurt
Art Institute of Chicago, ’Past, Present, Future. Contemporary Art 1950–Present’, Chicago
Museum Het Domein, ’New in the Collection’, Sittard, Netherlands
PS1, ’Hard Light’, New York
La Casa Encendida, ’Memory and Landscape’, Madrid/Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, ’Memory and Landscape’, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

2003
National Gallery of Victoria, ’World Rush’, Melbourne
North Carolina Museum of Art, 'Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight', North Carolina
Brooklyn Academy of Music, ’The New Yorkers’, collaboration with Bang on a Can, New York
Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, ’fast forward’, Karlsruhe
Tina Kim Fine Art, ’Then all the world would be upside down’, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, ’Site Specific’, Chicago
Centre Pompidou, ’Audiolab 2’, collaboration with Steven Roden, Paris
National Gallery of Victoria, ’World Rush’, Melbourne, Australia
Museum of Contemporary Art, ’Liquid Sea’, Sydney
La Coleccion Jumex, ’Eden’, Mexico
Kunstmuseum Wolfsberg, ’Painting Pictures: Painting and Media in the Digital Age’, Wolfsberg
Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, ’The Breathing Water’, Zurich
Contemporary Museum, ’Imperfect Innocence’, Baltimore
Magasin 3, ’Spiritus’, Stockholm, Sweden

2002
Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, 'Sonic Process', Paris
MACBA, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 'Sonic Process', Barcelona
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Art '33, Art Unlimited, 'thaw', Basel
Tate Liverpool, 'Remix', Liverpool
Villa Stuck, 'Hautnah. Die Sammlung Goetz', Munich
Art Tower Mito, 'Screen Memories', Mito/J
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Galerie Jan Mot, ‘Doug Aitken, Sharon Lockhart‘, Brussels
Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, ‘French Collection‘, Geneva

2001
Artist’s Space, ’Urban Pornography’, New York
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, 'Media Connection', cur. by Gianni Romano, Rome
Castello di Rivoli, Museo dArte Contemporanea, 'Form Follows Fiction', Rivoli/Turin
The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, 'ARS 01. Unfolding perspectives', Helsinki
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, 'Media Connection', cur. by Gianni Romano, Rome
Museum of Modern Art, 'Collaborations With Parkett: 1984 to NOW', New York
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg‚ ‘the Dark‘, Wolfsburg
Miami Art Museum, 'Let's Entertain. Life's Guilty Pleasures', cur.  Philippe Vergne, Miami FL
Villa Merkel, 'Moving Pictures. Fotografie und Film in der zeitgenössischen Kunst. 5. Internationale Foto-Triennale Esslingen 2001', Esslingen
DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Haus Huth, 'Juni 2001. Fotografie. Video. Mixed Media', Berlin
Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen & Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, 'Ohne Zögern – Without Hesitation. Die Sammlung Olbricht Teil 2. The Olbricht Collection Part 2’, Bremen
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 'Let's Entertain. Life's Guilty Pleasures', cur.  Philippe Vergne, Wolfsburg
Jumex Collection, Mexico City

2000
Whitney Museum of American Art, ’Whitney Biennial’, New York
Kunsthaus Zürich, 'Hypermental. Wahnhafte Wirklichkeit 1950–2000. Von Salvador Dali bis Jeff Koons', cur. by Bice Curiger, Zurich
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, 'Au-delà du spectacle', Paris
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, 'Speed of Vision. On the Construction and Perception of Time in Video Art', cur. Matthew Yokobosky, Pittsburgh
Walker Art Center, 'Let's Entertain. Life's Guilty Pleasures', cur. Philippe Vergne, Minneapolis
Portland Art Museum, 'Let's Entertain. Life's Guilty Pleasures', cur. Philippe Vergne, Portland
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, 'Speed of Vision. On the Construction and Perception of Time in Video Art', cur. Matthew Yokobosky, Ridgefield CT
Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Victoria Miro Gallery, 'Raw', London
Arco 2000, 'Future Identities: Reflections from a Collection', cur. Francesco Bonami, Madrid
The Museum of Contemporary Art, 'Works from the Angel Collection: Doug Aitken/electric earth’, Nagoya/J
Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Flight Patterns‘, Los Angeles

1999
Venice Biennale, 'dAPERTutto', Venice
Victoria Miro Gallery, 'From Film‘, London
Galerie Mai 36, ’Two doors – True Value’, Zurich
Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnoloige, 'Video Cult/ures', Karlsruhe
Le Printemps de Cahors, 'EXTRAetORDINAIRE', cur. Christine Macel, Saint-Cloud/F
Edmonton Art Gallery, 'Natural Order', cur. Catherine Crowston, Alberta
Monte Video, 'Clues. An open Scenario Exhibition', cur. Luca Cerizza, Marieke van Hal, Amsterdam

1998
Walker Art Center, 'New Selections from the Permanent Collection', Minneapolis
Galerie Peter Kilchmann, 'portrait-human figure', Zurich
Purple Institute at Alleged, 'La Voie Lactée', New York
Palazzo ReRebaudengo, 'L.A. Times', cur. Francesco Bonami, Guarane
Long Beach Museum of Art, 'New Visions: videos 1998', Long Beach CA
Walker Art Center, 'Unfinished History’, cur. Francesco Bonami, Minneapolis
Museum Ludwig, 'I Love New York – Crossover of Contemporay Art', Cologne
Photographer's Gallery, 'Speed', London
AC Project Room, 'Poor Man's Pudding; Rich Man's Crumbs', New York

1997
Museum Ludwig, ’I Love New York – Crossover of Contemporary Art’, Cologne
Photographer’s Gallery, ’Speed’, London
AC Project Room, ’Poor Man’s Pudding; Rich Man’s Crumbs’, New York
The Whitney Museum of American Art, 'The 1997 Whitney Biennial', New York
Third International Biennale, 'film+arc.graz', Graz
Cubitt Gallery, 'We Gotta Get Out of this Place', cur. Stefan Kalmar, London
Le Printemps de Cahors, 'One Minute Scenario', cur. Jerome Sans, Saint-Cloud
Galleri Index, 'Doug Aitken and Peter Gehrke', Stockholm
'Camera Obscura', cur. Susan Hapgood, San Casciano dei Bagni
Taka Ishii Gallery, 'Doug Aitken, Alex Bag, Naotaka Hiro', Tokyo
'Video Divertimento', cur. Susan Hapgood, San Casciano dei Bagni
Cankarjevdom-Cultural and Congress Center, the Modern Gallery and the Tivoli Gallery, 'U.S. Entry in the 22th International Ljubljana Biennal of Graphic Art: (re)Mediation: The Digital in Contemporay American Printmaking', Ljubljana

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

1995
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 'La Belle et la Bête', cur. Lynn Gumpert, Paris
Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea, Università Degli Studi di Roma, 'The Image and The Object', cur. Giovanna Trento & Bruce Di Marino, Rome

1994
Lisson Gallery, 'Beyond Belief', cur. James Roberts, London
Flash Art Museum, 'The Audience 0.01', cur. Helena Kontova, Trevi
Vera Vitagioia, 'The Audience 0.01', cur. Helena Kontova, Naples
Espace Montjoie, 'still', cur. Heidi Zuckerman, Paris
Ma'nes Space, 'New York, New York', cur. Zdenka Gabalovia, Prague
Santa Monica Museum of Art, 'Out West and Back East', cur. Tom Rhoads, Santa Monica CA
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, 'Not Here Neither There', cur. Charles Gaines, Paul McCarthy, Stephen Prina, Fran Seegull, Los Angeles

1993
303 Gallery, 'Okay Behaviour', cur. Gavin Brown & Gareth Jones, New York
Rushmore Estate, 'Outside Possibilities', cur. Bill Arning, Rushmore NY
15 Renwick Street, 'Underlay', cur. Paul Bloodgood, Gavin Brown, New York
AC Project Room, 'Doug Aitken and Robin Lowe', New York

1992
Christopher Middendorf Gallery, 'Multiplicity', cur. Susan Inglett, Washington DC
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 'The Art Mall, A Social Space', New York
Stux Gallery, 'Invitational 92', New York

1991
AC Project Room, ’Artworks/Artworkers’, New York


 
Video festivals

2007
KunstFilmBiennale, Cologne/Bonn

2005
Médiathèque Josè Cabanis, ’Best of Festivals’, Toulouse

2004
Canaris Media Festival, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

2003
LaForet Museum, ’Nueva Film Festival’, Tokyo
The New York Video Festival, New York
Tribeca Film Festival, New York

2002
’Res Fest’, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco
Telluride Film Festival, Telluride, Colorado
Impakt Film Festival, Utrecht

2001
London Film Festival, London
Oberhausen Film Festival, Oberhausen

2000
Danish Film Institute, ’Crossing Boundaries’, Copenhagen
Haus der Kunst, ’Regarding Beauty in Performance and Media Arts’, München
Danish Film Institute, ’Crossing Boundaries’, Copenhagen


 
Awards and grants

2000
The 2000 Larry Aldrich Foundation Award, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Connecticut

1999
International Prize – Golden Lion, Venice Biennale, Venice

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