16 Facts About Douglas Gordon

Douglas Gordon was born on 20 September 1966 and is a Scottish artist.

Douglas Gordon won the Turner Prize in 1996, the Premio 2000 at the 47th Venice Biennale in 1997 and the Hugo Boss Prize in 1998.

Douglas Gordon uses material from the public realm and creates performance-based videos.

Douglas Gordon has often reused older film footage in his photographs and videos.

The video installation left is right and right is wrong and left is wrong and right is right presents two projections of Otto Preminger's Whirlpool side by side, with the one on the right reversed so that the two sides mirror each other; by digital means, Douglas Gordon separated individual frames of the original film so that odd-numbered ones on one side alternate with even-numbered ones on the other.

In Through a looking glass, Douglas Gordon created a double-projection work around the climactic 71-second scene in Martin Scorsese's film Taxi Driver, in which the main character addresses the camera; the screens are arranged so that the character seems to be addressing himself.

Douglas Gordon made a film about Zinedine Zidane, Zidane, un portrait du 21e siecle, an idea first seen in a film by Hellmuth Costard, who, in 1970, made a film about George Best titled Football as Never Before.

Douglas Gordon has made photographs, often in series with relatively minor variations between each individual piece.

In 2010, Douglas Gordon collaborated with Rufus Wainwright, creating the visuals for his tour which accompany Rufus' All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu album.

In 2008, Douglas Gordon was a member of the Official Competition Jury at the 65th Venice International Film Festival.

Douglas Gordon was a member of the jury that selected Hito Steyerl as recipient of the Kathe Kollwitz Prize in 2019.

In 1996, Douglas Gordon was one of the artists invited to Skulptur Projekte Munster, and in 1997 he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale.

Douglas Gordon's 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, DC 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 in New York showed a retrospective of Douglas Gordon's work, called Timeline, which was curated by Klaus Biesenbach.

Douglas Gordon took part in the Biennale of Sydney 2014 and Documenta 17.