Douglas Gordon

Much of Gordon's work is seen as being about memory and uses repetition in various forms. He uses material from the public realm and also creates performance-based videos. His work often overturns traditional uses of video by playing with time elements and employing multiple monitors.[http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,11710,830076,00.html Monsters Inc], The Guardian, 5 November 2002.

File:Douglas Gordon (Scottish, born 1966), 'Monster', 1996-7, color photograph, HAA.jpg

Gordon has often reused older film footage in his photographs and videos.[http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/show-full/bio/?artist_name=Douglas%20Gordon&page=1&f=Name&cr=1 Douglas Gordon] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110429174154/http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/show-full/bio/?artist_name=Douglas%20Gordon&page=1&f=Name&cr=1 |date=29 April 2011 }} Guggenheim Collection. One of his best-known art works is 24 Hour Psycho (1993) which slows down Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho so that it lasts twenty four hours.Susan Stone: [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1724372 Museum Hosts '24 Hour Psycho' – Literally], "All Things Considered", 29 February 2004. In Between Darkness and Light (After William Blake) (1997), William Friedkin's Exorcist (1973) and Henry King's The Song of Bernadette (1943) – two films about adolescent girls driven by external forces[http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A7805&page_number=3&template_id=1&sort_order=1 Douglas Gordon, Between Darkness and Light (After William Blake) (1997)] Museum of Modern Art, New York. – are projected on either side of a single free-standing semi-transparent screen so they can be seen simultaneously.Ken Johnson (9 June 2006), [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/09/arts/design/09gord.html At MoMA, Douglas Gordon: The Hourglass Contortionist] The New York Times. The video installation left is right and right is wrong and left is wrong and right is right (1999) presents two projections of Otto Preminger's Whirlpool (1949) side by side, with the one on the right reversed so that the two sides mirror each other; by digital means, Gordon separated individual frames of the original film so that odd-numbered ones on one side alternate with even-numbered ones on the other. Feature Film (1999) is a projection of Gordon's own film of James Conlon conducting Bernard Herrmann's score to Vertigo, thus drawing attention to the film score and the emotional responses it creates in the viewer. In one installation, this was placed at the top of a tall building, referencing one of the film's main plot points. In Through a looking glass (1999), Gordon created a double-projection work around the climactic 71-second scene in Martin Scorsese's film Taxi Driver (1976), in which the main character addresses the camera; the screens are arranged so that the character seems to be addressing himself. At first, the 71-second loops are in sync, but they get progressively out and then progressively back with each repetition of the whole, hourlong program.Ken Johnson (2 April 1999), [https://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/02/arts/art-in-review-douglas-gordon-through-a-looking-glass.html Douglas Gordon: 'Through a Looking Glass'] The New York Times.

Originally conceived as a site-specific video projection for Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea,Roberta Smith (7 March 2003), [https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/07/arts/art-in-review-douglas-gordon-franz-west.html ART IN REVIEW; Douglas Gordon; Franz West] The New York Times. Play Dead; Real Time (2003) consists of two videos projected on two large screens showing a circus elephant named Minnie ponderously performing for an off-screen trainer in the empty, spacious, white-walled gallery room. In each projection the camera circles as the elephant walks around, lies down to play dead and gets up. The footage showing Minnie's sequences of tricks is simultaneously presented in a front and a rear life-sized projection and on a monitor, with each one depicting the same event from a range of perspectives, including close-ups of the animal's eyes.[http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/display/artist-rooms-douglas-gordon-play-dead-real-time ARTIST ROOMS: Douglas Gordon: Play Dead; Real Time, 6 May – 29 September 2013] Tate Britain, London. Gordon also made a film about Zinedine Zidane, Zidane, un portrait du 21e siècle (2006), an idea first seen in a film by Hellmuth Costard, who, in 1970, made a film about George Best titled Football as Never Before. The feature-length film, which he co-directed with fellow artist Philippe Parreno and assembled from footage shot by seventeen synchronised cameras placed around the stadium in real time over the course of a single match,Douglas Gordon, Zidane, un portrait du 21e siècle (2006) Guggenheim Collection. premiered outside the competition of the 2006 Cannes Film Festival before screenings at numerous international venues. k.364 premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September 2010.[http://www.gagosian.com/artists/douglas-gordon/ Douglas Gordon] Gagosian Gallery.

Gordon has also made photographs, often in series with relatively minor variations between each individual piece. His Blind Stars (2002) featured publicity photographs of mid-century movie stars in which the sitters' eyes were replaced by expressionless black, white or mirrored surfaces.[http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/october-31-2007--douglas-gordon Douglas Gordon: self-portrait of you + me, after the factory, 31 October – 15 December 2007] Gagosian Gallery, New York.

In 2010, Gordon collaborated with Rufus Wainwright, creating the visuals for his tour which accompany Rufus' All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu album. In Phantom (2011), another collaboration with Wainwright, Gordon employs slow-motion film produced with a high-speed Phantom camera focusing on Wainright's eye – blackened with make-up, weeping, and glaring back at the viewer, echoing melodramatic performances by stars of the silent screen.Douglas Gordon: Phantom, 11 December 2014 – 17 January 2015. Gagosian Gallery, New York.

In 2008, Gordon was a member of the Official Competition Jury at the 65th Venice International Film Festival. He was also a member of the jury that selected Hito Steyerl as recipient of the Käthe Kollwitz Prize in 2019.Alex Greenberger (25 October 2018), [https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/hito-steyerl-wins-2019-kathe-kollwitz-prize-11227/ Hito Steyerl Wins 2019 Käthe Kollwitz Prize] ARTnews.

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Gordon's first solo show was in 1986. In 1993, he exhibited 24 Hour Psycho in the spaces of Tramway, Glasgow, and at Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. The Berlin show was curated by Klaus Biesenbach. In 1996, Gordon was one of the artists invited to Skulptur Projekte Münster,[http://www.museomadre.it/bio_show.cfm?id=76 Douglas Gordon] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111122191955/http://www.museomadre.it/bio_show.cfm?id=76 |date=22 November 2011 }} Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina (M.A.D.RE), Naples. and in 1997 he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale. His work was the subject of a 2001 retrospective organised by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, which travelled to the Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City; and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. In 2005, he put together an exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin called The Vanity of Allegory. In 2006, Douglas Gordon Superhumanatural opened at the National Galleries of Scotland complex in Edinburgh, being Gordon's first major solo exhibition in Scotland since he presented 24 Hour Psycho in 1993. Also in 2006, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York showed a retrospective of Gordon's work, called Timeline, which was curated by Klaus Biesenbach.{{cite web | url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/76?locale=en | title=Douglas Gordon: Timeline | year=2006 | publisher=The Museum of Modern Art | access-date=8 June 2019 }}[http://fillip.ca/content/new-museum-of-modern-contemporary-art "New" Museum of Modern (Contemporary) Art] by Rebecca Lane in Fillip Another 2006 retrospective was on view at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.[http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/november-04-2004--douglas-gordon Douglas Gordon: Fog, 4 November – 23 December 2004] Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles. A survey of his textworks was shown at Tate Britain, London in 2010. Retrospective solo exhibitions were shown at Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main in 2011 to 2012, Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2013 and at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne in 2014. Further solo exhibitions have been held at Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany 2013, Musée D'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2014. Gordon took part in the Biennale of Sydney 2014 and Documenta 17. In 2019, his works were exhibited at the Arsenale Institute for Politics of Representation, Venice, during the show Hey Psycho!.

Gallery versions of Zidane, un portrait du 21e siècle (2006) were purchased by the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/91449/zidane-21st-century-portrait?artists%5B14908%5D=14908&search_set_offset=6|title=Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait|work=National Galleries of Scotland|access-date=2018-10-16|language=en}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/17581|title=Zidane, a 21st century portrait|date=2006-01-01|work=Guggenheim|access-date=2018-10-16|language=en-US}} The Guggenheim collection also include Through a Looking Glass (1999) and Tattoo (for Reflection) by Gordon.{{Cite web|url=https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/douglas-gordon|title=Douglas Gordon |website=guggenheim.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-10-16}} Several photographs and video installations are in the Migros Museum for contemporary art in Zürich.,{{Cite web|url=https://www.migrosmuseum.ch/de/sammlung/werke-in-der-sammlung/?no_cache=1&tx_museumplus%5Bartist%5D=5465|title=Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst–Werke in der Sammlung|website=migrosmuseum.ch|language=de|access-date=2018-10-16}} in the Tate collection,{{Cite web|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/search?aid=2617&type=artwork|title=Search results {{!}} Tate|last=Tate|website=Tate|language=en-GB|access-date=2018-10-16}} National Galleries of Scotland,{{citation needed|date=November 2024}} Musée D'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.{{Cite web|url=http://www.mam.paris.fr/fr/collections-en-ligne#/artworks?layout=grid&page=0&filters=authors:GORDON+Douglas%E2%86%B9GORDON+Douglas|title=Collections en ligne {{!}} Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris|last=agence|first=GAYA – La nouvelle|website=mam.paris.fr|language=fr|access-date=2018-10-16}} Play Dead; Real Time (2003) is co-owned by MMK Frankfurt and Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection.{{Cite news|url=https://hirshhorn.si.edu/search-results/search-result-details/?edan_search_value=hmsg_05.13|title=Search Result Details – Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden {{!}} Smithsonian|work=Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden {{!}} Smithsonian|access-date=2018-10-16|language=en-US}} His colour photograph Monster (1996–7) is in the permanent collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art.{{Cite web|url=http://www.haaedu.org/contemporary-artists-research|title=Research on Contemporary Artists – haaedu.org|website=haaedu.org|access-date=2019-01-25}}

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• 1996: Turner Prize"[http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/turner-prize-1996/turner-prize-1996-artists-douglas-gordon Turner Prize 1996 artists: Douglas Gordon]". Tate. Accesses 4 October 2017
• 1997: Venice Biennial's Premio 2000 award
• 1998: Central Kunstpreis awarded by the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
• 1998: Hugo Boss Prize awarded by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum[http://www.hugobossprize.com/main_2010.html?lan=en 'Hugo Boss Prize website'] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615131812/http://www.hugobossprize.com/main_2010.html?lan=en |date=15 June 2011 }}. Retrieved 31 January 2010.
• 2008: Roswitha Haftmann PrizeLevent Ozler: [https://www.dexigner.com/news/13271 Roswitha Haftmann Prize Goes to Video Artist Douglas Gordon], Dexigner, 20 January 2008.
• 2011: London Award for Art and Performance
• 2012: Käthe Kollwitz Prize awarded by the Academy of Arts, Berlin
• 2012: Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Grade de Commandeur
• 2018: Elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh{{Cite news|url=https://www.rse.org.uk/fellow/douglas-gordon/|title=Professor Douglas Gordon CorrFRSE – The Royal Society of Edinburgh|work=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|access-date=2018-03-14|language=en-GB}}

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• [http://www.gagosian.com/artists/douglas-gordon/ Gagosian Gallery: Douglas Gordon]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20101129191018/http://www.yvon-lambert.com/douglas_gordon-A22.html Yvon Lambert: Douglas Gordon]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20060831050411/http://www.contemporary-magazine.com/reviews48%2647_2.htm Another Review of what have I done (Contemporary)]
• [https://theartwolf.com/exhibitions/douglas_gordon/ Review of "what you want me to say..." exhibition in Barcelona]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20080405231100/http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$artistdetail?GORDOND Douglas Gordon] in the Video Data Bank
• [http://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/129462 "Pretty much every film and video work from about 1992 until now. To be seen on monitors, some with headphones, others run silently and all simultaneously." (1992–)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110503005854/http://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/129462 |date=3 May 2011 }}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20100110155930/http://www.dvirgallery.com/artists/works_selected.asp?artistID=16&contentPageID=5 Douglas Gordon at Dvir Gallery]

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