Stan Douglas

Stan Douglas is a Canadian visual artist and photographer born in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he continues to live and work. Throughout his life, Mr. Douglas has created and re-enacted pivotal moments in Canadian history, connecting us to geography, culture, literature, music, media, social revolution and more—with incredible detail and exquisite results.

Mr. Douglas studied at Emily Carr College of Art in Vancouver in the early 1980s. He had his first American solo exhibition in 1993, the second-ever artist to be featured at the David Zwirner Gallery. Mr. Douglas’s fascination with history inspired him to reconstruct and reinterpret cultural artifacts—films, books and photographs—to find new truths or perspectives in several artistic disciplines.

Mr. Douglas’s work is held in major museum collections in Canada and around the world, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Tate Modern in London. His work has also been featured in world exhibitions such as documenta IX, X and XI (1992, 1997 and 2002) and the Venice Biennale (1990, 2001, 2005 and 2019).

Mr. Douglas has received numerous awards, including the Audain Prize for the Visual Arts (2019), the Hasselblad Award (2016), the Scotiabank Photography Award (2013), and the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography (2012). Mr. Douglas is a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France. He has been chosen to represent Canada, for the first time, in the Canada Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale, which will take place from April to November 2022.