Working across mediums and disciplines, Douglas Gordon investigates moral and ethical questions, mental and physical states, as well as collective memory and selfhood. Using literature, folklore, and iconic Hollywood films in addition to his own footage, drawings, and writings, he distorts time and language in order to disorient and challenge.

Gordon received the prestigious Turner Prize in 1996.

Douglas Gordon (b. 1966, Glasgow, Scotland) lives and works in Berlin, Germany; Glasgow, Scotland; and New York.

Education

He graduated with a MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London and a BFA from the Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow.

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions include Philharmonie de Paris (with Philippe Parreno), Paris (2024); Beyeler Foundation, Basel (2022); Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (with Philippe Parreno), Humlebaek (2020); ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus (2019); K20 Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf (2018); Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh (2017); National Holocaust Museum, Amsterdam (2016); Museu d’Art Contemporani d’Eivissa (2015 with Tobias Rehberger); Park Avenue Armory (with Hélène Grimaud), New York; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Victoria; Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow; Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris; (all 2014); Museum Folkwang, Essen; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv; Tate Britain, London; Ruhrtriennale, Kokerei Zollverein, Essen (all 2013); Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2012); MMK, Frankfurt am Main (2011); Tate Britain, London (2010); Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2009); Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture, Moscow (2008); Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (all 2007); Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (both 2006).