Doug Aitken
| Type | Male Artist |
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| URLs | Documentation Wikipedia Artist's page |
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| Award | 2012 | Nam June Paik Art Center Prize | Nam June Paik Art Center | Giheung-gu, Yongin (KR) | |
| Award | 1999 | International Prize – Golden Lion | Venice Biennale | Venice (IT) |
| Exhibitions | |||||
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| Solo exhibition | 2015 | Doug Aitken | Schirn Kunsthalle | Frankfurt (DE) | |
| Project | 2013 | MIRROR | Seattle Art Museum (SAM) | Seattle (US) | |
| Group exhibition | 2007 | Mapping the City | Stedelijk Museum | Amsterdam (NL) | |
| Group exhibition | 2003 - 2004 | Fast Forward Media Art Sammlung Goetz | ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe | Karlsruhe (DE) | |
| Group exhibition | 1999 | 48th Venice Biennale | Venice (IT) | ||
| Solo exhibition | 1994 | 303 Gallery | New York (US) |
| Artworks in Collections | |||
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| Julia Stoschek Foundation | Düsseldorf (DE) | ||
| Museum of Modern Art | New York (US) | ||
| Centre Pompidou | Paris (FR) |
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| Monography | 2007 | The Museum of Modern Art | Doug Aitken: Sleepwalkers | Klaus Biesenbach, Peter Eleey | ISBN10 0870700456, ISBN13 9780870700453 | New York (US) | Klaus Biesenbach, Emily Hall, Peter Eleey, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), Creative Time, Inc |
Awards
International Prize, Golden Lion, Venice Biennale for the Video-Installation Electric Earth
Education
Pasadena, California, USA
Art Center College of Design, BFA
Education
Palos Verdes, California, USA
Marymount College
Born
Redondo Beach, California, USA
Doug Aitken
Doug Aitken’s work started to draw international attention when his installation Electric Earth earned the International Prize at the 1999 Venice Biennale, which was organized by renowned Swiss curator Harald Szeemann. Interested in breaking conventional narratives, Aitken emphasizes circularity and non-linearity in his monumental site-specific installations. This monumentality is usually expressed in Aitken’s tendency to combine apparently disconnected fragments in order to create epic films. Although this aspect of his work differs from the all-encompassing wholes sought by modernism, Aitken’s films play with the imaginary and surreal in a way that flirts with the notion of utopia. The artist uses pop culture and, especially, the film industry as sources for his compelling and immersive environments. Aesthetic elements such as coloration, light and space and a careful editing process give his films a contemplative mood.
https://kadist.org/people/doug-aitken/ (17.03.2019)
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MIRROR - Seattle Art Museum | 2013 | Doug Aitken | |
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STS – Nomadic Light Sculpture | 2013 | Doug Aitken | |