Stan Douglas

Stan Douglas
Stan Douglas
	Stan Douglas, Christine Ross and Okwui Enwezor at Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
Born	October 11, 1960; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Known for	installation artist, photographer
Notable work	Win, Place or Show, 1998
Movement	Vancouver School
Awards	Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Award, 2007; Bell Award in Video Art, 2008; Infinity Award for Art from the International Center of Photography;

Stan Douglas (born October 11, 1960) is an artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Douglas' film and video installations, photography and work in television frequently touch on the history of literature, cinema and music, while examining the "failed utopia" of modernism and obsolete technologies.

He has exhibited internationally, including Documenta IX, 1992, Documenta X, 1997, Documenta XI, 2002 and the Venice Biennale in 1990, 2001, 2005 and 2019. Douglas was chosen to represent Canada in the 2021 Venice Biennale.

Art collector Friedrich Christian Flick, in the foreword to the Stan Douglas monograph, describes Douglas as "a critical analysis of our social reality. Samuel Beckett and Marcel Proust, E.T.A. Hoffmann and the Brothers Grimm, blues and free jazz, television and Hollywood, Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud haunt the uncanny montages of the Canadian artist."

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