_Doug Aitken
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BIOGRAPHY
BORN
1968 Born in Redondo Beach, CA
EDUCATION
1987-91 Art Center College of Design, BFA, Pasadena, CA
1986-87 Marymount College, Palos Verdes, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 "Doug Aitken," 303 Gallery, New York, NY, September 20- November 8, 2008
"Doug Aitken: sleepwalkers," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2006 "Doug Aiken: A Photographic Survey," Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
2005 "UltraWorld," Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
"The Moment," Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
2004 Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany
Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Schirin Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
La Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Spain
2003 Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l'Arte, Torino, Italy
2002 303 Gallery, New York
Magasin, Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, France
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria
Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Japan
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Louisiana Museum, Denmark
2001 Serpentine Gallery, London
Kunst-Werke Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
2000 Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
"Glass Horizon", Vienna Secession, Wien, Austria
"Matrix 185/Into the Sun", Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"Concentrations 33: Doug Aitken, Diamond Sea", Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
1999 Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Doug Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX
Pitti Discovery series, curated by Francesco Bonami, Pitti Immagine, Florence, Italy
Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM
1998 303 Gallery, New York
Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery Side Two, Tokyo, Japan
1997 303 Gallery, New York
1996 Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1994 303 Gallery, New York
Pasco Art Center, Holiday, FL
1993 AC Project Room, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 "Jubilee Exhibition," House Eva Presenhuber VNA, Engiandina Bassa, Switzerland, October 18,
2007 – March 31, 2008
"Uneasy Angel / Imagine Los Angeles," curated by Johannes Fricke Waldtahausen, Monika
Sprüth Philomene Magers, Munich, Germany, September 14 – November 3, 2007
"Widow | Interface," Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, August 31 – November
5, 2007
"Ensemble," Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA,
September 7 – December 16, 2007
"Il Tempo del Postino," co-curated by Hans Ulbrich Olbrist and Philippe Parreno, directed by
Philippe Parreno, Manchester International Festival, Opera House, Manchester, England,
July 12 – 14, 2007
"Mouth Open Teeth Showing: Works from the True Collection," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA,
June 23 – September 23, 2007
"Brave New Year," 303 Gallery, New York, NY, January 6 – January 27, 2007
2006 "Red Eye: L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection," Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL,
December 4 , 2006 – May 1, 2007
"All Hawaii Entrées/Lunar Reggae," curated by Philippe Parreno and Rachael Thomas, Irish
Museum of Modern Art/Áras Nua-Ealaine na hÉireann, November 30, 2006 – February
18, 2007
"Into Black," Western Bridge, Seattle, Washington, September 16 – December 16, 2006
"Surprise Surprise," Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England, August 2 – September 10,
2006
"Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art," Dallas Museum of Art,
Dallas, Texas, February 11 – May 20, 2007; cat.
2005 "Artists' Books revisited," Art Metropole, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ; travels to Printed Matter, Inc., New York, NY
"Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art", Glasgow, Scotland
"Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist's Eye", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
"Now's the Time", Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
2004 "Uses of the Image", Malba Coleccion Constantini, Buenos Aires
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
"3 minutes", Schirin Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
"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
"Hard Light", PS1, New York
"Memory and Landscape" La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain; Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
2003 "World Rush", National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
"Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight", North Carolina Museum of Art,
North Carolina
"The New Yorkers", collaboration with Bang on a Can, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York
"fast forward", Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
"Then all the world would be upside down", Tina Kim Fine Art, NY
"Site Specific", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
"Audiolab 2", collaboration with Steven Roden, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
"Liquid Sea", Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
"Eden", La Coleccion Jumex, Mexico
"Painting Pictures: Painting and Media in the Digital Age", Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
"Breathing the Water", Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich
"Imperfect Innocence", Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
"Spiritus", Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden
2002 Art Institute of Chicago
"Sonic Process", MACBA, Barcelona, Spain and Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
"Screen Memories", Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Japan
"remix", Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England
2001 "Urban Pornography", Artist's Space, New York, NY
"Media Connection", curated by Gianni Romano, (exh.cat) published by Libri
Scheiwiller Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
"Form Follows Fiction", curated by Jeffrey Deitch, Castello di Rivoli
"Ars 01. Unfolding Perspective", Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
"Moving Pictures", curated by Dr. Renate Wiehager, Galerien der Stadt
Esslingen, Germany
"Collaboration With Parkett: 1984 to NOW", Museum of Modern Art, New York
"Let's Entertain: Life's Guilty Pleasures", curated by Philippe Vergne, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico
2000 "Whitney Biennial", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
"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
"Speed of Vision", curated by Matthew Yokobosky, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
"Flight Patterns", Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Speed of Vision", Pittsburgh Center for the Art, Pittsburgh, PA
"Let's Entertain: Life's Guilty Pleasures", curated by Philippe Vergne, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
"Let's Entertain", Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
"Raw", Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
"Future Identities: Reflections from a Collection", curated by Francesco Bonami from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo collection
Collection, Arco 2000, Madrid, Spain
"Work from the Angle Collection: Doug Aitken/Electric Earth", The Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Japan
1999 "dAPERTutto", Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
"From Film", Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
"Two Doors- True Value", Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
"Video Cult/ures", Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsuhe, Germany
"EXTRAetORDINAIRE", curated by Christine Macel, Le Printemps de Cahors, Saint-Cloud, France
"Natural Order", curated Catherine Crowston, Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada
"Clues, An Open Scenario Exhibition", curated by Luca Cerizza and Marieke van Hal, Monte Video, Amsterdam
1998 "New Selections from the Permanent Collection", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
"portrait--human figure", Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland
"La Voie Lactée", organized by the Purple Institute at Alleged, New York, NY
"L.A. Times", curated by Francesco Bonami, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarane, Italy
"New Visions: video 1998", Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
"Unfinished History", curated by Francesco Bonami, Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis, MN
1997 "I Love New York -- Crossover of Contemporary Art", Museum Ludwig,
Cologne, Germany
"Speed", Photographer's Gallery, London, U.K.
"Poor Man's Pudding; Rich Man's Crumbs", AC Project Room, New York, NY
"The 1997 Whitney Biennial", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1997 "We Gotta Get Out of this Place", curated by Stefan Kalmar, Cubitt Gallery, London, U.K.
"One Minute Scenario", curated by Jerome Sans, Le Printemps de Cahors,
Saint-Cloud, France
"Doug Aitken and Peter Gehrke", Galleri Index, Stockholm, Sweden
"Camera Obscura," curated by Susan Hapgood, San Casciano dei Bagni, Italy
"Doug Aitken, Alex Bag, Naotaka Hiro", Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"(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 "Campo 6: The Spiral Village", curated by Francesco Bonami, Galleria Civica D'Arte Moderne e Contemporanea Turin, Italy and Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands
"29' - 0"/East", Kunstraum Vienna, Vienna, Austria
"29' - 0"/East", Kunsthalle New York, New York
"a/drift: Scenes from a Penetrable Culture", curated by Josh Decter, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
"Intermission", Basilico Fine Arts, New York, New York
"Art in the Anchorage", organized by Creative Time, The Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, Brooklyn, New York
"Show and Tell", curated by Andrea Scott, Lauren Wittles Gallery, New York
"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
"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 "Beyond Belief", curated by James Roberts, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
"Audience 0.01", curated by Helena Kontova, Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy
Vera Vitagioia, Naples, Italy
"still", curated Heidi Zuckerman, Espace Montjoie, Paris
"New York, New York", curated by Zdenka Gabalovia, Ma'nes Space, Prague, Czech Republic
"Out West and Back East", curated by Tom Rhoads, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
"Not Here Neither There", curated by Charles Gaines, Paul McCarthy, Stephen Prina, Fran Seegull, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
1993 "Okay Behavior", curated by Gavin Brown & Gareth Jones, 303 Gallery, New York, NY
"Outside Possibilities", curated by Bill Arning, Rushmore Estate, Rushmore, NY
"Underlay", curated by Paul Bloodgood & Gavin Brown, 15 Renwick St, New York, NY
"Doug Aitken and Robin Lowe", AC Project Room, New York, NY
1992 "Multiplicity", curated by Susan Inglett, Christopher Middendorf Gallery, Washington, DC
"The Art Mall, A Social Space", The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
"Invitational 92", Stux Gallery, New York, NY
1991 "Artworks/Artworkers", AC Project Room, New York, NY
FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVALS
2005 "Best of Festivals #2", Médiathèque Josè Cabanis, Toulouse, France
2004 Canarias Media Festival, Las Palmas de Gran Canarias, Spain
2003 Nueva Film Festival, LaForet Museum, 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, CO
Impakt Film Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2001 London Film Festival, England
Oberhausen Film Festival, Germany
2000 Oberhausen Film Festival, Germany
"Crossing Boundaries", Danish Film Institute, Copenhagen
"Regarding Beauty in Performance and Media Arts", Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
1999 "Unfinished History", curated by Francesco Bonami, Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis, MN
1998 International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands
"ret.inevitable", Creative Time at the Brooklyn Anchorage, Brooklyn, NY
International Film Festival, Geneva, Switzerland
1997 Montreal International Festival of Cinema and New Media, Montreal, Canada, screening Diamond Sea
"film+arc.graz," Third International Biennale, Graz, Austria
"Video Divertimento", curated by Susan Hapgood, San Casciano Dei Bagni, Italy
1996 Film Festival, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, screening bad animal
The 5th New York Video Festival, Walter Reade Theatre, Lincoln Center, New York, screening autumn and monsoon
Boston Film Festival, Boston, MA, screening monsoon
Champ Libre, Sous la Passerelle, Montreal, Canada, screening autumn
1996 International Festival of New Film and Video, Split, Croatia, screening dawn, fury eyes, inflection, and monsoon
1995 Telluride Film Festival, Telluride, CO, screening monsoon
INSTALLATIONS AND VIDEOGRAPHY
2005 the moment, 11 channel installation, color, stereo, 6:30 min. cycle
2004 the moment, single projection, color, stereo, 3:20 min.
skyliner, sonic mobile sound installation, continuous cycle
2002 you exist/you think, sound installation, continuous cycle
interiors, 3 channel, 3 projections, color, 3 stereo signals, 27:40 min. cycle
new skin, 4 channel, 4 projections, color, stereo, 12 min. cycle
on, 3 channel, 4 projections, color, stereo, 11:37 min. cycle
2001 thaw, 3 channel, 3 projections, color, stereo, 4:10 min. cycle
new machines/new ocean floor, 4 channels, 8 projections, color, stereo, 20:39 min. cycle
new ocean cycle, 4 channels, 7 projections, color, stereo, 9:10 min. cycle
1 second expansion, single projection, color, stereo
windows, single projection, color, stereo
hysteria (breaths), sound installation, continuous cycle
2000 blow debris, 9 channels, 9 projections, color, stereo, 21 min. cycle
i am in you, 3 channels, 5 projections, color, stereo, 11 min. cycle
1999 electric earth, 8 channels, 8 projections, color, stereo, 10 min. cycle
into the sun, 3 channels, 4 projections, color, stereo, 12 min. cycle
1998 eraser, 7 channels, 7 projections, color, stereo, 20 min. cycle
these restless minds, 3 channels, 3 monitors, color, stereo, 8 min. cycle
me amour, single channel, color, stereo, 5 min. cycle
hysteria, 2 channels, 4 projections, color and black and white, stereo, 7 min. cycle
1997 diamond sea, 1 channel, 3 projections, 1 monitor, color, stereo, 18 min. cycle, 1 duratran
cathouse, 3 channels, color, stereo, 2 min. cycle
1997 moving, audio/light installation, continuous cycle
1996 bad animal, single channel, color, stereo, 7 min.
1996 rise, single channel, color, stereo, 30 min.
anchorage, site specific audio installation, continuous cycle
1995 monsoon, single channel, color, stereo, 6 min.
1994 fury eyes, single channel, color/ black and white, stereo, 7 min.
autumn, single channel, color, stereo, 8 min.
dawn, single channel, color, stereo, 6:30 min.
1993 superstar (development 3), color, stereo, 8 min., VHS
i'd die for you, color, stereo, 10 min., VHS
1992 inflection, color, no sound, 13 min., VHS
AWARDS
2000 Aldrich Awards, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1999 International Prize – Golden Lion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
PUBLIC AND MUSUEM COLLECTIONS
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Astrup Fearnley Meseet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway
Center National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Centre pour l'Image Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland
Dallas Museum of Art, TX
Foundazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l'Arte, Turin, Italy
Kanazawa Museum, Japan
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Fundacio "la Caixa", Barcelona, Spain
La Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Mora Art foundation
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
U.C. Berkley Art Museum/Matrix, Berkley, CA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
