21 Facts About Doug Aitken

Doug Aitken was born on 1968 and is an American multidisciplinary artist.

Doug Aitken was born in 1968 in Redondo Beach, California.

Doug Aitken moved to New York in 1994 where he had his first solo show at 303 Gallery.

Doug Aitken has created an array of site-specific installations, sometimes synthesizing interactive media with architecture.

Since the mid-1990s, Doug Aitken has created installations by employing multiple screens in architecturally provocative environments.

Doug Aitken's ambitious show New Ocean, which included multiple sound, photo, and video works, began with a transformation of the Serpentine Gallery in London and traveled the world to Austria, Italy and Japan, each time in a new configuration.

In 2010, Doug Aitken exhibited his work House, a study of destruction featuring the artist's parents.

Doug Aitken has shown NEW ERA, a kaleidoscopic multi-channel video installation in a mirrored hexagonal room, in various locations across the world, from New York to Zurich, Denmark, Beijing, California and London.

Concurrent with the exhibition, Doug Aitken presented a "happening" inside the museum that featured live drummers and auctioneers, and a performance by Cat Power.

In 2008, Doug Aitken produced another large scale outdoor film installation, titled Migration for the 55th Carnegie International show titled "Life on Mars" in Pittsburgh, PA.

Rather than using a more typical concave surface for such a projection, Doug Aitken projected the film onto the convex exterior of the museum creating a cinema experience that required moving around the building and could never be fully seen from any one location.

Doug Aitken has directed many live "happenings" including his Broken Screen happenings from 2006 in Los Angeles and New York.

In 2009, Doug Aitken orchestrated a real-time opera titled "the handle comes up, the hammer comes down" that assembled auctioneers performing against the rhythms of his Sonic Table, at Il Tempo del Postino, at Theater Basel.

Also in 2009, along with his large-scale video installation, Frontier, presented on the Tiber river's Isola Tiberina in the heart of Rome, Doug Aitken staged a happening by the same title.

Doug Aitken is well known for his many photographs, which often explore spatial and temporal disruption and narrative suggestion like his installations.

In 1996, for the public art organization Creative Time, Doug Aitken conceived an installation piece in the Anchorage, a cavernous space inside the base of the Brooklyn Bridge, that used recordings of the traffic noises overhead.

Doug Aitken has collaborated on his films with a wide variety of musicians, from hip hop artist Andre 3000 of Outkast, who was in Doug Aitken's 2002 multiscreen Interiors to indie bands like Lichens and No Age, which contributed to his score for his 2008 film Migration and 2011's Black Mirror, respectively.

From June 27- July 26,2015, Doug Aitken staged Station to Station: A 30 Day Happening at the Barbican Centre in London.

Doug Aitken has participated in over 200 art exhibitions throughout the world.

Doug Aitken's work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions in such institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

Doug Aitken is represented by 303 Gallery, New York; Regen Projects, Los Angeles; Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich; and Victoria Miro Gallery, London.