User:Doug Aitken

Biography:
Doug Aitken, a visual artist, was born in 1968, Redondo Beach, California. He first attended Marymount College for about a year from 1986 to 1987, and then he transferred to Art Center College of Design. Aitken graduated from the school in 1991. Since his graduation, Aitken has been created many visual art pieces, such as music videos, video installations, exhibitions, and etc. His works reveal richness of audiovisual intensities. Thru complex images, he approaches the audience with philosophical questions which inquiries the relationship between people and their time and space. Aitken also won the international prize at the 48th Venice Biennale for his work, "Electric Earth,” which was a video installation.

His Contributions:
Doug Aitken so far participated in about 60 exhibitions (solo/group) 2005	 Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (solo)

2005	 Regen Projects, Los Angeles (solo)

2005	 Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich (solo)

2005	 Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle (solo)

2005	 Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye”, Hayward Gallery, London

2005	 "Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art", Glasgow, Scotland

2005	 “Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

2005	 “Now’s the Time”, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria

2004	 “Uses of the Image”, Malba Coleccion Constantini, Buenos Aires

2004	 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan

2004	 “3 minutes”, Schirin Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany

2004	 “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

2004	 “Hard Light”, PS1, New York

2004	 “Memory and Landscape” La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain; Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

2004	 Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

2004	 Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany (solo)

2004	 Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain (solo)

2004	 Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)

2004	 Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (solo)

2004	 La Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Spain (solo)

2003	 Victoria Miro Gallery, London (solo)

2003	 Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland (solo)

2003	 Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’Arte, Torino, Italy (solo)

2003	 “World Rush”, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

2003	 “Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight”, North Carolina Museum of Art, North Carolina

2003	 The New Yorkers”, collaboration with Bang on a Can, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York

2003	 “fast forward”, Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany

2003	 “Then all the world would be upside down”, Tina Kim Fine Art, NY

2003	 “Site Specific”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

2003	 “Audiolab 2”, collaboration with Steven Roden, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

2003	 “Liquid Sea”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

2003	 “Eden”, La Coleccion Jumex, Mexico

2003	 “Painting Pictures: Painting and Media in the Digital Age”, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

2002	 303 Gallery, New York (solo)

2002	 Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, France (solo)

2002	 Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (solo)

2002	 Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Japan (solo)

2002	 The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA (solo)

2002	 Louisiana Museum, Denmark (solo)

2001	 “Urban Pornography”, Artist’s Space, New York, NY

2001	 “Media Connection”, curated by Gianni Romano, (exh.cat) published by Libri Scheiwiller Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy

2001	 “Form Follows Fiction”, curated by Jeffrey Deitch, Castello di Rivoli

2001	 “Ars 01. Unfolding Perspective”, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki

2001	 “Moving Pictures”, curated by Dr. Renate Wiehager, Galerien der Stadt Esslingen, Germany

2001	 “Collaboration With Parkett: 1984 to NOW”, Museum of Modern Art, New York

2001	 “Let’s Entertain: Life’s Guilty Pleasures”, curated by Philippe Vergne, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany

2001	 Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico

2001	 Serpentine Gallery, London (solo)

2001	 Kunst-Werke Berlin, Berlin, Germany (solo)

2001	 Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany (solo)

2000	 Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber Zurich, Switzerland

2000	 Vienna Secession Wien, Austria

2000	 "Matrix 185/Into the Sun", Berkeley Art Museum Berkeley, CA

2000	 Dallas Museum of Art Dallas, TX

2000	 “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

2000	 “Raw”, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK

2000	 “Future Identities: Reflections from a Collection”, curated by Francesco Bonami from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, Arco 2000, Madrid, Spain

2000	 “Work from the Angle Collection: Doug Aitken/Electric Earth”, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Japan

2000	 Whitney Biennial,, Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY

2000	 Speed of Vision, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art Ridgefield, CT

2000	 Flight Patterns, Museum of Contemporary Art

2000	 Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)

1999	 Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM (solo)

1999	 “dAPERTutto”, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

1999	 “dAPERTutto”, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

1999	 “Two Doors- True Value”, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

1999	 “Video Cult/ures”, Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsuhe, Germany

1999	 “EXTRAetORDINAIRE”, curated by Christine Macel, Le Printemps de Cahors, Saint-Cloud, France

1999	 Natural Order”, curated Catherine Crowston, Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada

1999	 “Clues, An Open Scenario Exhibition”, curated by Luca Cerizza and Marieke van Hal, Monte Video, Amsterdam

1999	 Victoria Miro Gallery London, UK

1999	 Pitti Discovery series, Pitti Immagine Florence, Italy

1998	 303 Gallery New York, NY

1998	 Jiri Svestka Gallery Prauge, Czech Republic

1998	 New Selections from the Permanent Collection, Walker Art Center Minneapolis, Minnesota

1998	 portrait--human figure, Galerie Peter Kilchmann Zurich, Switzerland

1998	 New Visions: video 1998, Long Beach Museum of Art Long Beach, CA

1998	 Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)

1998	 Gallery Side Two, Tokyo, Japan (solo)

1997	 The 1997 Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1997	 303 Gallery, New York, NY "diamond sea", "cathouse"

1996	 Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)

1994	 303 Gallery, New York (solo)

1994	 Pasco Art Center, Holiday, FL (solo)

1993	 “Breathing the Water”, Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich

1993	 “Imperfect Innocence”, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland

1993	 “Spiritus”, Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden

1993	 AC Project Room, New York, NY, "Dawn"

1992	 Art Institute of Chicago

1992	 “Sonic Process”, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain and Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

1992	 “Screen Memories”, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Japan

1992	 “remix”, Tate Gallery, Liverpool