16 Facts About Stan Douglas

Stan Douglas has exhibited internationally, including Documenta IX, 1992, Documenta X, 1997, Documenta XI, 2002 and the Venice Biennale in 1990,2001,2005 and 2019.

Stan Douglas was born in 1960 in Vancouver, where he currently lives and works.

In 2007, Stan Douglas was the recipient of the inaugural Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Award, a $25,000 prize for excellence in Canadian visual arts presented by Gerda Hnatyshyn president and chair of the board of The Hnatyshyn Foundation.

Stan Douglas is represented by David Zwirner, New York and Victoria Miro Gallery, London.

Stan Douglas' work reflects the technical and social aspects of mass media, and since the late 1980s has been influenced by the work of Samuel Beckett.

Stan Douglas' use of jazz is a more direct response to complex attitudes towards African-American music.

Rather than strictly working from Alea's film in the manner Stan Douglas worked from Hitchcock's Marnie, Inconsolable Memories plays with the layers of its various sources.

Stan Douglas has long been interested in the work of Samuel Beckett.

In 1991, Stan Douglas produced Monodramas a series of short videos for television broadcasting, based on his studies of Beckett's teleplays.

Stan Douglas was not aware of Beckett's own work Not I, a disembodied mouth in a black screen.

Stan Douglas began to study Beckett's works and his next video work Panoramic Rotunda came from misremembering a line from Beckett's Fizzle No 7.

The soundtrack consists of Vancouver writer Gerald Creede reading Stan Douglas's reworking of various sentences taken from the opening section of Marcel Proust's A la recherche de temps perdu.

Stan Douglas situates Overture in the historical moment that the beginnings of film share with the end of the novel, when Proust's faith in the tantalizing structures of his great predecessors, Balzac and Wagner, was being undermined by the perceptive discontinuities that film helped to bring about.

Stan Douglas's Monodramas are ten 30- to 60-second videos from 1991, conceived as interventions into commercial television, broadcast nightly in British Columbia for three weeks in 1992.

Stan Douglas created the stage play Helen Lawrence, which shares graphics, story and characters with Circa 1948.

The National Gallery of Canada chose Stan Douglas to represent Canada in the 2021 Venice Biennale.