b. 1966
Douglas Gordon is from Glasgow and currently lives and works in Berlin. He works across music, installation, performance and video to interrogate themes of memory, good and evil, and the passage of time. Utilising elements of literature, folklore, and Hollywood cinema, Gordon disorients audiences and encourages a challenging of initial perceptions.
Gordon studied Sculpture and Environmental Art at the Glasgow School of Art from 1984-88, and attended the Slade School of Fine Art, London between 1988-90. His most famous works include the films 24 Hour Psycho (1993) and Play Dead Real Time (2003), as well as sound installation Something Between My Mouth and Your Ear (1994) and text piece From God to Nothing (1996).
Gordon won the Turner Prize in 1996, the Premio 2000 at the 47th Venice Biennale in 1997, the Hugo Boss Prize in 1998, and the Käthe Kollwitz Prize in 2012.
His work is held in the collections of the Fondation Louis Vuitton, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Kunstmuseum Basel, the Guggenheim Museum, the Tate, and the Museum of Modern Art.
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Thirty days of chasing Douglas Gordon
