STAN DOUGLAS


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Born in Vancouver, Canada, 1960. Lives and works in Vancouver.

EDUCATION	Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver, 1982

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1996		
Musee d'Art contemporain Montreal, Montreal, CANADA

1995		
Stan Douglas.  David Zwirner Gallery, New York
Stan Douglas. Marstall, DAAD, Berlin, GERMANY
Stan Douglas, Monodramas, Neuer Aachenerkunstverein, Aachen, GERMANY
The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, 
catalogue

1994		
Pursuit, Fear , Catastrophe: Ruskin B.C..  Milwaukee Art Museum, 
Milwaukee, USA, Nov- Jan
Hors-Champs, Houston Contemporary Museum of Art, Texas, August
Stan Douglas (with Diana Thater). Witte De With, Centre for 
Contemporary Art,  Rotterdam, HOLLAND.catalogue.
Stan Douglas, Centro Reina Sofia, Madrid, SPAIN, catalogue
Stan Douglas, Kunsthalle, Z¸rich, SWITZERLAND. catalogue.
Stan Douglas, Institute of Contemporary Art London, ENGLAND
Hors-Champs, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, USA
Stan Douglas, York University & Guelph University, Toronto, CANADA. 
Stan Douglas, MusÈe national d'art moderne (Centre Georges 
Pompidou), Paris, FRANCE. Catalogue by Peter Culley and Jean 
Christophe Royoux

1993		
Monodramas, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, GERMANY	
Hors-Champs, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, SCOTLAND
Hors-Champs, World Wide Video Centre, Den Haag, HOLLAND
Hors-Champs, David Zwirner, New York, USA

1992		
Monodramas, Art Metropole (with broadcast),Toronto, CANADA
Monodramas and Loops, UBC Fine Arts Gallery (with broadcast), 
Vancouver, CANADA. Catalogue: Stan Douglas, John Fiske, Scott 
Watson.

1991		
Monodramas, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, FRANCE

1991		
Trois installations cinematographiques, Ambassade du Canada, 
Services culturels, Paris, FRANCE

1989		
Subject to a Film: Marnie/Television Spots, YYZ Gallery, Toronto, 
CANADA

1988		
Television Spots/Subject to a Film: Marnie (studies), Contemporary Art 
Gallery, Vancouver, CANADA.  Catalogue:Stan Douglas, Miriam Nichols.
Samuel Beckett: Teleplays (Stan Douglas, curator), 	Vancouver Art 
Gallery (toured Canada, the United States, Australia, France and Italy 
1988-91).  Catalogue: Samuel Beckett, Linda Ben-Zvi, Clark Coolidge, 
Stan Douglas; Stan Douglas, editor.
Television Spots (first six)/Overture, Optica -un centre d'art contemporain, 
Montreal, CANADA
Television Spots (first six), Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver, CANADA

1987		
Stan Douglas: Perspective '87, Art Gallery of Ontario (with broadcast), 
Toronto, CANADA. Catalogue:Barbara Fischer.

1986		
Onomatopoeia, Western Front, Vancouver, CANADA

1985		
Panoramic Rotunda, Or Gallery, Vancouver, CANADA

1983		
Slideworks, Ridge Theatre, Vancouver, CANADA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1996		
"Whitney Biennial", Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, DENMARK

1995		
"Carnegie International", Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, catalogue 
(through February, 1996)
"Video Spaces," Museum of Modern Art, New York,  with Bill Viola, Gary 
Hill, and others.
"Public Information: Desire, Disaster, Document", Museum of Modern Art, 
San Francisco, catalogue
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, catalogue
"Trust", Tramway, Glasgow, SCOTLAND
Raum Aktueller Kunst, Vienna, AUSTRIA
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Ontario, 
CANADA
"Spirits on the Crossing," Setagaya Museum of Art, Tokyo, JAPAN, 
catalogue
"Spirits on the Crossing," Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, 
JAPAN
Spirits on the Crossing," National Modern Art Museum, Kyoto, JAPAN
 
1995		
"Das Ende der Avant Garde", Kunst als Dienstleistung. Sammlung 
Schrmann, der Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, GERMANY
 "Whitney Biennial", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
"Whitney Biennial", Museum of Modern Art, Prague, CZECHOSLOVAKIA
"Temporary Translation(s). Kunst der Gegenwart und Fotografie." 
Sammlung Schürmann Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, GERMANY, catalogue
"Printemps de Cahors", Cahors, FRANCE, TV Broadcast
"en passant", Institut f¸r Gegenwartskunst, Vienna, AUSTRIA

1994		
"The Media", Magic Media Company, Huerth, GERMANY"In the Field. Landscape in Recent Photography." Margo Leavin Gallery, 
Los Angeles. October-November.
"First Light: Celebrating African Canadian Cinema", Canadian Artist's 
Network: Black Artists in Action, Toronto, CANADA, November 
David Zwirner, NY, Summer Group Show, June - July
"Notational Photographs", Metro Pictures and Petzel/Borgmann Gallery, 
Sept.-Oct.
"Les Absences de la photographie," Goethe Insitut, Montreal, CANADA
Theoreticalevents, Naples, ITALY, July - October
Museum Van Hedengaagse Kunst, "Beeld/Beeld" (Image/Image), Ghent, 
BELGIUM, March 5 - April 17
Galerie Nicolai Wallner, "Stain", Copenhagen, DENMARK, March 19th - 
April 10th, catalogue
LACE, (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), "Neither Here Nor 
There",  June

1993		
Self Winding, Sphere Max, Tokyo, JAPAN
Out Of Place, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, CANADA. Catalogue. 
Self Winding, Nanba City Hall, Osaka, JAPAN
Tele-Aesthetics, Procter Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-
Hudson, USA. Catalogue:Sandra Antelo-Suarez
Canada - une nouvelle gÈnÈration, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, GÈtignÈ-
Clisson, and MusÈe de L'Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables-d'Olonne, 
FRANCE.  Catalogue.
Canada - une nouvelle gÈnÈration, MusÈe de Beaux Arts, and FRAC 
Franche-ComtÈ, Dole, FRANCE.  Catalogue.
Working Drawings, Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver, CANADA

1992		
Documenta IX, Kassel, GERMANY.  Catalogue: Jan Hoet, et al.
The Creation ... of the African-Canadian Odyssey, The Power Plant, 
Toronto, CANADA.  Catalogue: Nkiru Nzegwu.

1991		
Schwarze Kunst: Konzept zur Politik und Identitaet, Neue Gesellschaft 
fuer bildende Kunst, Berlin, GERMANY.  Catalogue:  Hilton Als, Yasmin 
Ramirez, Frank Wagner.
Northern Lights, Canadian Embassy, Tokyo, JAPAN. Catalogue: Peggy 
Gale.
The Projected Image, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 
San Francisco, USA

1991		
"Working Truth/Powerful Fiction" as part of the Regina Work Project, 
Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, CANADA.Catalogue: Jessica Bradley.
Private/Public: Art and Public Discourse, Winnipeg Art Gallery (with 
broadcast), Winnipeg, CANADA

1990		
PrivÈ/Public: Art et Discours Social, Galerie d'art 
Essai & Galerie du Cloitre, Rennes, FRANCE
Passage de l'image (Video Program), MusÈe national d'art moderne 
(Centre Georges Pompidou), Paris, FRANCE.  Catalogue: Christine van 
Assche, Raymond Bellour, Catherine David, et al.	
Aperto '90, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, ITALY. Catalogue: Bernard 
Blistene, Stuart Morgan, Linda Shearer, et al.

1990		
Issues in Contemporary Video, Mendel Art Gallery (TV Spots with 
broadcast), Saskatoon, CANADA
Sydney Biennale, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, AUSTRALIA. 
 Catalogue: Rene Block, et al.
Reenactment, Between Self and Other The Power Plant, Toronto, 
CANADA.  Catalogue: Barbara Fischer.

1989		
Photo Kunst, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart GERMANY.  Catalogue: 
Jean-FranÁois Chevrier.
Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Canadian Art, National Gallery of 
Canada (TV-Spots with broadcast), Ottawa, CANADA.  Catalogue: Diana 
Nemiroff.
The Vancouver Exchange, Cold City Gallery, Toronto, CANADA

1988		
Made in Camera, VAVD Editions, Stockholm, SWEDEN. Catalogue: 
Peter Andersson, editor.
Behind the Sign, Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver, CANADA. Catalogue: 
Miriam Nichols, Cate Rimmer, Scott Watson.

1986		
Camera Works, Or Gallery, Vancouver, CANADA
Broken Muse, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, CANADA.Catalogue: 
Helga Pakassar, Keith Wallace.
Songs of Experience, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CANADA. 
Catalogue: Jessica Bradley, Diana Nemiroff.

1986		
Mechanics of Memory, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, CANADA.,Catalogue: 
Jane Young.

1983		
Vancouver: Art and Artists 1931-1983, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, 
CANADA.  Catalogue: Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, Lorna Farrell-Ward, Scott 
Watson, et al.
PST: Pacific Standard Time, Funnel Film Theatre (a YYZ project), 
Toronto; Western Front, Vancouver, CANADA.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

1995		
Charles Hagen, "Back in Fashion, Video Installations," The New York Times, July 11
Charles Hagen, "Art in Review", The New York Times, April 21
Peter Schjeldahl, "In Love Again," The Village Voice, April 11
McLean Greaves, "Canadian artists crash Whitney's showcase", The 
Globe and Mail, April 1
Sabine B. Vogel, "Die Sprachen der Medien", Artis, February-March
Sarah Curtis, "Stan Douglas. Insitute of Contemporary Art, London", 
Review, World Art, #1
Ronald Berg, "Das Monodrama im Monitor", Tagesspiegel, February 15
Sabine Vogel, "Review: Kunsthalle Zurich", Artforum, January

1994		
Catherine Elwes, "Stan Douglas Review at the ICA." Art Monthly, October
Scott Watson, "Making History." Canadian Art, Winter
Din Pieters, "Fascinerende tv-en filmbeelden in Witte de With", NRC 
Handelsblad, October 14
Robbert Roos, "Anders omgaan met film en video", Trouw, September 28
Rutger Pontzen, "Plotloze films uit Terminal", Vrij Nederland, 
September 24
Sabine B. Vogel. "Lesen auf der Rueckseite der Bilder." Frankfurter 
Allgemeine Zeitung. Friday, September 23, 1994.
Ben Lewis. "Stan Douglas", What's On, September 23, 1994
Dolf Welling, "Overrijk aanbod van tentoonstellingen", Rotterdams 
Dagblad, September 20
Ineke Schwartz, "Beeldende kunst blijft te vaak op afstand", De Volksrant, 
September 15
Richard Cork. "Unhappy case of nostalgia." The London Times, 
September 6, 1994
Carla Tjon, "De Verwarde Kijker", Magazijn, September 1994
Stephen Sarrazin. "Le Cadet de la foret: Spoorzoeken in het werk van 
Stan Douglas." Metropolis, August, 1994.
Muriel Liebert. "Stan Douglas. La Situation du Spectateur dans 
l'Oeuvre." Artefactum, #52, Summer
Harry Rudolfs.  "Douglas Loops and Splits in Guelph and Downsview".  
Excalibur, March 16, 1994
Jose Levrero Stals.  Global Art.  Flash Art, summer 1994, page 111
Jean-Christophe Royoux.  "Resonance: Stan Douglas & Olivier Cadiot".  
Galeries Magazine. April 1994, page 46-49
Jean-Paul Fargier.  "Charmants Fantomes", Le Monde.  January 13, 
1994, (Arts et Spectacles), page 1 and 4
Owen McNally.  "Freedom Rings".  The Hartford Courant.  January 21, 
1994, Section C, pages 1 and 4

1993	
Pavel Buechler.  "Digging it".  Creative Camera.  October/November 
1993
Luca, Elisabetta. "Stan Douglas", Juliet Art Magazine No 64, (October 
-November 1993):pg 48
Lynne Cooke, "Broadcast Views - Stan Douglas interviewed by Lynne 
Cooke", Frieze Issue 12, (September 1993), 41-45, ill.
Peter Culley. "The Magic Box: Stan Douglas in the Cabinet of Cinema." 
Out of Place. Vancouver Art Gallery, 1993, edited by Gary Dufour.

1992		
Jean Christophe Royoux, "Documenta IX: the Call of the 
Phrase",Galleries 50, (August/September 1992): 80-89
Kate Taylor, "Monodramas" Review.  The Globe and Mail, Toronto, 
(November 1992)
Jean-Yves Bosseur, Le sonore et le visuel: Intersections musique/arts 
plastiques aujourd'hui [interview] (Paris: Dis Voir, 1992): 143-146.
Richard Rhodes, "Documenta IX," Canadian Art IX:3 (Fall 1992): 82-87, 
ill.
Douglas Fetherling, "Vancouver Anthology," Canadian Art IX:3 (Fall 
1992): 104, ill.
John O'Brian, "Vancouver Anthology," Parachute 66 (April-June 1992):
ill.
Nkiru Nzegwu, "The Creation of the African-Canadian Odyssey", The 
International Review of African American X:1 (Spring 1992); 16-37, ill.
David Joslit, "Projected Identities," Art in America  (November 1991): 116-
123, ill.

1991		
Tony Reveaux, "Fleeting Phantoms: the Projected Image at SFMOMA," 
Artweek (28 March 1991): 1, 20-21.
Zainub Verjee, "Vancouver Anthology", Front (January/February 1991): 
18-21

1990		
Monika Gagnon, "Reenactment: Between Self and Other," C Magazine 
26 (Summer 1990): 58-60.

1991		
Mike Hoolbloom, "Stan Douglas Talks at YYZ", Independent Eye X:2 
(Winter 1989) 36-39, ill.

1989		
Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, "The Beauty of the Weapons," Canadian Art 
(Fall 1989): 102-107, ill.
Arne Zazlove, "Samuel Beckett's Teleplays," C Magazine 23 (Fall 1989): 
60-65, ill.
Mark Harris, "Stan Douglas: Television Spots," C Magazine 21 (Spring 
1989): 74-75, ill.

1988		
Karen Henry, "Television Spots," Parachute 51 (June-August 1988): 35-
36, ill.
Scott Watson, "Zweimal Canada Dry - Sechs K¸nstler aus Vancouver," 
Wolkenkratzer Art Journal (March-April 1988): 28-33, ill.
Peggy Gale, "Stan Douglas: Perspective '87," Canadian Art (Spring 
1988): 32-33, ill.
Peter Culley, "Window Dressing," Vanguard (April-May 1988): 32-33,ill.
Peter Culley, "Dream as Dialectic: Two Works by Stan Douglas," 
Vanguard (September 1987): 10-13, ill.

1987		
Michael Lawlor, "Camera Works," Parachute 47 (June-August 1987): 44-
45.
Jane Young, "Broken Muse," C Magazine 13 (Spring 1987): 75-77.
Jean Tourangeau "Sins of Experience," Vanguard (Winter 1986/1987):
 14-21, ill.

1986		
Carol Laing "Songs of Experience," Parachute 44 (September-
November 1986): 67-69.
William Wood, "Skinjobs," C Magazine 11 (Fall 1986): 78-87, ill.

1985	
Scott Watson "The Afterlife of Interiority: Panoramic Rotunda," C 
Magazine 6 (Summer 1985): 23-25, ill.

1982		
Daniel Barb "Stan Douglas" Vanguard 11 (September 1982): 39


PUBLICATIONS

"Pursuit, Fear, Catastrophe: Ruskin B.C. (1993)", Jahresring 41: Jahrbuch 
fuer moderne Kunst, edited by Christiane Schneider, 1994.
"Police Daily Record" Project for Frieze, Issue 12, (September 1993), 46-
47, ill.
"Accompaniment to a Cinematographic Scene: Ruskin B.C.," WestCoast 
Line XXVI: 2 (Burnaby: Simon Fraser University, Fall 1992): 9-12; ill., 
front & back covers.
Vancouver Anthology: The Institutional Politics of Art, Stan Douglas, ed. 
(Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1991): 304pp.
"Introduction," Vancouver Anthology: The Institutional Politics of Art, 11-
21.
"Joanne Tod and the Final Girl," Joanne Tod (Toronto/Saskatoon:The 
Power Plant/Mendel Art Gallery): 31-52; rpt abr. Parachute 65 (January-
March 1991): 11-17.
"Public Art in a Nutshell," paper delivered at Politics of the Image, Dia 
Center for the Arts, New York USA, November 1990.
"Shades of Masochism: Samuel Beckett's Teleplays," Australia: Photofile 
(Fall 1990): 16-25, ill.
Samuel Beckett: Teleplays Stan Douglas, ed. (Vancouver: Vancouver Art 
Gallery, 1988): 80pp.
"Goodbye Pork-Pie Hat," Samuel Beckett: Teleplays, 11-19; rpt. 
Vanguard (November 1988): 16-21, ill.
with Deanna Ferguson, Link Fantasy (Vancouver: Artspeak Gallery, 
1988): 24pp.

COLLECTIONS

Musee national d'art moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 
FRANCE
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CANADA
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, FRANCE
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, BELGIUM
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, CANADA
Collection Clyde & Karen Beswick, Los Angeles, USA
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg CANADA
Canada Council Art Bank, CANADA
Collection Pamela and Richard Kramlich, San Francisco, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Collection Ann and Marshall Webb, Toronto, CANADA
Collection Greg Linn and Clayton Press, Philadelphia, USA