Doug Aitken

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Doug Aitken is a multimedial American artist. On January 16, 2007, Aitken’s sleepwalkers—a video installation projected onto the outdoor facades of the Museum of Modern Art opened. The project represents a collaboration between the artist, the Museum, and the public arts organization Creative Time.

Aitken was born in Redondo Beach, California in 1968 and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

Aitken’s body of work ranges from photography, sculpture, and architectural interventions to sound, single- and multichannel video works, and installations. He has said that his global travel and contemporary nomadic existence informs his work—that he aims to fuse travel and the idea of movements into daily experience. Aitken’s work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world, in such institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Since the mid-1990s, Aitken has created installations by employing multiple screens. His electric earth installation drew international attention and earned him the International Prize at the Venice Biennale in 1999. The following year, glass horizon, an installation comprising a projection of a pair of eyes onto the facade of the Vienna Secession building after it had closed for the night, showcased an interest in architectural structures and in art that interacts with urban environments. In 2001, Aitken’s exhibition at London’s Serpentine Gallery used the entire building for the complex installation new ocean.

In 2005 Aitken received a solo exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

Recently, Aitken produced Broken Screen: 26 Conversations with Doug Aitken (DAP, 2006), a book of interviews with twenty-six artists who aim to explore and challenge the conventions of linear narrative.

Doug Aitken's sleepwalkers is a continuation of Aitken’s exploration into the evolving ways people experience their daily environment. He aims to visualize their perceptions, connect personally private and socially shared experiences and relate them to fast-paced urban environments.

From January 16, 2006, to February 12, 2007, Aitken's sleepwalkers will be presented in New York. The monumental project stars actors Donald Sutherland and Tilda Swinton, musicians Seu Jorge and Cat Power, and actor/street drummer Ryan Donowho. Five interlocking vignettes shown through eight projections will be displayed upon the exterior walls of the Museum so as to be visible from the street. The exhibition will run nightly from 5 PM to 10 PM.

In structuring his work to slip into viewers’ media-saturated cultural unconscious, he seeks to allow them to experience cinematic imagery in a new way. Dismantling the linkages between narrative sequences, isolating sound, moving images, and the rhythms of our surroundings, he engages in an overarching practice of multimedial experimentation.

See a trailer here.

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[edit] His Contributions:

Doug Aitken has participated in over 100 exhibitions (solo/group):

• 2007 The Museum of Modern Art and Creative Time, New York (solo)

• 2006: Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO (solo)
• 2006: The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY (performance)
• 2006: "Broken Screen" Happenings, New York and Los Angeles
• 2006: “.all hawaii eNtrées / luNar reggae”, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
• 2006: “Red Eye: LA Artists from the Rubell Family Collection”, Miami, FL
• 2006: “Touch My Shadows: New Media from the Goetz Collection in Munich”, Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
• 2006: Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
• 2006: “Beyond Cinema”, Hamburger Bahnhof fur Gegenwart, Berlin
• 2006: “Ecotopia”, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
• 2006: “Surprise, Surprise”, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
• 2006: “Cosmic Wonder”, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
• 2006: “Fuori Pista”, Chalet Mollino, Sauze d’Oulx, Italy

• 2005: Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (solo)
• 2005: Regen Projects, Los Angeles (solo)
• 2005: Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich (solo)
• 2005: Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle (solo)
• 2005: Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye”, Hayward Gallery, London
• 2005: "Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art", Glasgow, Scotland
• 2005: “Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
• 2005: “Now’s the Time”, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria

• 2004: Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany (solo)
• 2004: Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain (solo)
• 2004: Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
• 2004: La Caixa Forum and Mies van der Rohe Pavillion, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
• 2004: “Uses of the Image”, MALBA Coleccion Constantini, Buenos Aires
• 2004: 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
• 2004: “3 minutes”, Schirin Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
• 2004: “Past, Present, Future: Contemporary Art 1950-Present”, Art Institute of Chicago
• 2004: “New in the Collection”, 2 person show, Museum Het Domein Sittard, The Netherlands
• 2004: “Hard Light”, P.S.1, New York
• 2004: “Memory and Landscape” La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain; Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
• 2004: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

• 2003: Victoria Miro Gallery, London (solo)
• 2003: Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
• 2003: Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’Arte, Torino, Italy (solo)
• 2003: “World Rush”, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
• 2003: “Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight”, North Carolina Museum of Art, North Carolina
• 2003: "The New Yorkers”, collaboration with Bang on a Can, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York
• 2003: “fast forward”, Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
• 2003: “Then all the world would be upside down”, Tina Kim Fine Art, NY
• 2003: “Site Specific”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
• 2003: “Audiolab 2”, collaboration with Steven Roden, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
• 2003: “Liquid Sea”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
• 2003: “Eden”, La Coleccion Jumex, Mexico
• 2003: “Painting Pictures: Painting and Media in the Digital Age”, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
• 2003: “Breathing the Water”, Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich
• 2003: “Imperfect Innocence”, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
• 2003: “Spiritus”, Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden

• 2002: 303 Gallery, New York (solo)
• 2002: Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, France (solo)
• 2002: Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (solo)
• 2002: Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Japan (solo)
• 2002: The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
• 2002: Louisiana Museum, Denmark (solo)
• 2002: Art Institute of Chicago
• 2002: “Sonic Process”, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain and Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
• 2002: “Screen Memories”, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Japan
• 2002: “remix”, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England

• 2001: Serpentine Gallery, London (solo)
• 2001: Kunst-Werke Berlin, Berlin, Germany (solo)
• 2001: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany (solo)
• 2001: “Urban Pornography”, Artist’s Space, New York, NY
• 2001: “Media Connection”, curated by Gianni Romano, (exh.cat) published by Libri Scheiwiller Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
• 2001: “Form Follows Fiction”, curated by Jeffrey Deitch, Castello di Rivoli
• 2001: “Ars 01. Unfolding Perspective”, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
• 2001: “Moving Pictures”, curated by Dr. Renate Wiehager, Galerien der Stadt Esslingen, Germany
• 2001: “Collaboration With Parkett: 1984 to NOW”, Museum of Modern Art, New York
• 2001: “Let’s Entertain: Life’s Guilty Pleasures”, curated by Philippe Vergne, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
• 2001: Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico

• 2000: Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
• 2000: "Glass Horizon", Vienna Secession Wien, Austria (solo)
• 2000: "Matrix 185/Into the Sun", Berkeley Art Museum Berkeley, CA (solo)
• 2000: Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
• 2000: “Concentrations 33: Doug Aitken, Diamond Sea”, Dallas Museum of Art Dallas, TX (solo)
• 2000: Whitney Biennial, , Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY
• 2000: “Hypermental Rampant Reality 1950-2000 from Salvador Dali to Jeff Koons”, curated by Bice Curiger, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
• 2000: “Biennale of Sydney”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
• 2000: "Speed of Vision", Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art Ridgefield, CT and Pittsburgh Center for the Art, Pittsburgh, PA
• 2000: "Flight Patterns", Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
• 2000: “Let’s Entertain: Life’s Guilty Pleasures”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
• 2000: “Raw”, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
• 2000: “Future Identities: Reflections from a Collection”, curated by Francesco Bonami from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, Arco 2000, Madrid, Spain
• 2000: “Work from the Angle Collection: Doug Aitken/Electric Earth”, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Japan

• 1999: Victoria Miro Gallery London, UK (solo)
• 1999: Doug Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX (solo)
• 1999: Pitti Discovery series, Pitti Immagine Florence, Italy (solo)
• 1999: Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM (solo)
• 1999: “dAPERTutto”, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
• 1999: “From Film”, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
• 1999: “Two Doors- True Value”, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
• 1999: “Video Cult/ures”, Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsuhe, Germany
• 1999: “EXTRAetORDINAIRE”, curated by Christine Macel, Le Printemps de Cahors, Saint-Cloud, France
• 1999: Natural Order”, curated Catherine Crowston, Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada
• 1999: “Clues, An Open Scenario Exhibition”, curated by Luca Cerizza and Marieke van Hal, Monte Video, Amsterdam

• 1998: 303 Gallery New York, NY (solo)
• 1998: Jiri Svestka Gallery Prauge, Czech Republic (solo)
• 1998: Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
• 1998: Gallery Side Two, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
• 1998: "New Selections from the Permanent Collection", Walker Art Center Minneapolis, Minnesota
• 1998: "portrait--human figure", Galerie Peter Kilchmann Zurich, Switzerland
• 1998: “La Voie Lactée”, organized by the Purple Institute at Alleged, New York, NY
• 1998: “L.A. Times”, curated by Francesco Bonami, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarane, Italy
• 1998: "New Visions: video 1998", Long Beach Museum of Art Long Beach, CA
• 1998: “Unfinished History”, curated by Francesco Bonami, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

• 1997: 303 Gallery, New York, NY "diamond sea", "cathouse" (solo)
• 1997: The 1997 Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
• 1997: “I Love New York -- Crossover of Contemporary Art”, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
• 1997: “Speed”, Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK.
• 1997: “Poor Man’s Pudding; Rich Man’s Crumbs”, AC Project Room, New York, NY
• 1997: "We Gotta Get Out of this Place", curated by Stefan Kalmar, Cubitt Gallery, London, UK.
• 1997: "One Minute Scenario", curated by Jerome Sans, Le Printemps de Cahors, Saint-Cloud, France
• 1997: "Doug Aitken and Peter Gehrke", Galleri Index, Stockholm, Sweden
• 1997: “Camera Obscura,” curated by Susan Hapgood, San Casciano dei Bagni, Italy
• 1997: “Doug Aitken, Alex Bag, Naotaka Hiro”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• 1997: “(re)Mediation: The Digital in Contemporary American Printmaking", U.S. entry in the 22nd International Ljubljana Biennal of Graphic Art, Cankarjevdom-Cultural and Congress Centre, the Modern Gallery and the Tivoli Gallery, Ljubljana

• 1996: Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
• 1996: "Campo 6: The Spiral Village", curated by Francesco Bonami, Galleria Civica D'Arte Moderne e Contemporanea Turin, Italy and Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands
• 1996: "29' - 0"/East", Kunstraum Vienna, Vienna, Austria
• 1996: "29' - 0"/East", Kunsthalle New York, New York
• 1996: "a/drift: Scenes from a Penetrable Culture", curated by Josh Decter, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
• 1996: "Intermission", Basilico Fine Arts, New York, New York
• 1996: "Art in the Anchorage", organized by Creative Time, The Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, Brooklyn, New York
• 1996: "Show and Tell", curated by Andrea Scott, Lauren Wittles Gallery, New York
• 1996: "Doug Aitken, Mariko Mori, Ricardo Zulueta", Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York

• 1995: "La Belle et la Bete", curated by Lynn Gumpert, Musee d'art de la Ville Paris, Paris, France
• 1995: "The Image and The Object", curated by Giovanna Trento & Bruce Di Marino, Museo Laboratorio di arte Contemporanea, Roma, Universita Degli Studi di Roma, Rome, Italy

• 1994: 303 Gallery, New York (solo)
• 1994: Pasco Art Center, Holiday, FL (solo)
• 1994: "Beyond Belief", curated by James Roberts, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
• 1994: "Audience 0.01", curated by Helena Kontova, Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy
• 1994: Vera Vitagioia, Naples, Italy
• 1994: "still", curated Heidi Zuckerman, Espace Montjoie, Paris
• 1994: "New York, New York", curated by Zdenka Gabalovia, Ma'nes Space, Prague, Czech Republic
• 1994: "Out West and Back East", curated by Tom Rhoads, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
• 1994: "Not Here Neither There", curated by Charles Gaines, Paul McCarthy, Stephen Prina, Fran Seegull, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA

• 1993: AC Project Room, New York, NY, "Dawn" (solo)
• 1993: "Okay Behavior", curated by Gavin Brown & Gareth Jones, 303 Gallery, New York, NY
• 1993: "Outside Possibilities", curated by Bill Arning, Rushmore Estate, Rushmore, NY
• 1993: "Underlay", curated by Paul Bloodgood & Gavin Brown, 15 Renwick St, New York, NY
• 1993: "Doug Aitken and Robin Lowe", AC Project Room, New York, NY

• 1992: "Multiplicity", curated by Susan Inglett, Christopher Middendorf Gallery, Washington, DC
• 1992: "The Art Mall, A Social Space", The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
• 1992: "Invitational 92", Stux Gallery, New York, NY

• 1991: "Artworks/Artworkers", AC Project Room, New York, NY

[edit] External link

• Articles about Doug Aitken
• sleepwalkers at The Museum of Modern Art
• sleepwalkers 30-second trailer on YouTube
• Doug Aitken Workshop: official website
• Doug Aitken information at 303 Gallery
• Doug Aitken Art News Story
• Essay on"Sleepwalkers" by John Haber