Stan Douglas
Stan Douglas (born October 11, 1960) is a visual artist educated at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design who lives and works in Vancouver. Since 1990 his films, videos and photographs have been seen in exhibitions internationally.
Biography
Stan Douglas is recognized as part of the Vancouver School of photoconceptualists that also includes Ian Wallace, Jeff Wall and Rodney Graham. Since the late 1980s, Douglas has been known for his films, photographs, and installations that re-examine particular locations or past events. In the early 1990s, Douglas rose to international prominence, showing extensively worldwide. Being among the first artists to be represented by New York gallery David Zwirner, he has his preliminary American exhibition there in 1993.[1]Through the 1990s and 2000s, Douglas built a practice through photography and projection-based work, examining the legacy of modernism and the nature of historical and social narratives. References to or re-enactments of films and political incidents are common in Douglas’s work, as well as sites of failed utopianism from Detroit to Berlin to Havana. He has been the recipient of several awards, including the International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award (2012) and the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award (2007).[2]
Selected Art Works (from 2014)
Like many black artists in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Douglas used his art to examine race and discrimination, not only that faced by African Canadians but by the country’s native population. Nowadays he is still looking at history, race, and psychology but through new technology and digital art works.[3]Helen Lawrence is a new multimedia theatre work produced by Douglas at the Arts Club Theatre Company in Vancouver. Created in close collaboration with acclaimed screenwriter Chris Haddock, the project innovatively merges theatre, visual art, live-action filming, and computer-generated imagery.[4] In his newest work, Douglas cooperated with Loc Daothe executive producer and a team of 3D artists and programmers of National Film Board of Canada to virtually construct the set, that is available to audience to explore in advance through a 3D augmented reality app (the first Real-time 3D art app to tell a story inspired by real events)and interactive installation called Circa 1948[5][6]
Selected Awards
2013 Scotiabank Photography Award, Toronto
2012 2012 Infinity Award, International Center of Photography, New York
2011 2011 Mayor’s Arts Awards, Vancouver
2009 Honorary Doctoral Degree, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver
2008 Bell Award in Video, The Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa
2007 Hnatyshyn Foundation Award, The Hnatyshyn Foundation, Ottawa, Canada
2001 Arnold Bode Prize, Documenta, Kassel
1999 Gershon Iskowitz Prize, The Gershon Iskowitz Foundation and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1998 Coutts Contemporary Art Foundation Award, Coutts Bank, Zürich
1996 Mies van der Rohe Stipendium, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany
1994-1995 DAAD Scholarship, Berlin [7]
References
- ↑ http://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/stan-douglas/biography/
- ↑ http://canadianart.ca/artists/stan-douglas/
- ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/apr/22/stan-douglas-vancouver-circa-film-new-york
- ↑ http://www.eif.co.uk/2014/helenlawrence#.VEhzTr5rzG4
- ↑ http://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/stan-douglas/biography/
- ↑ https://www.nfb.ca/interactive/
- ↑ http://16fdn9ufhox41fwkc1azw8b1bio.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Stan-Douglas-CV-20148.pdf
External Links
https://www.canadianstage.com/online/helen
http://artsclub.com/shows/2013-2014/helen-lawrence
Wiki Authors
- Farnoosh Shahrokhi
- Liss Villalva