Douglas Gordon was born in Glasgow in 1966. He studied at the Glasgow and Slade Schoosl of Art.Through his work in video, photography, and sculpture, he addresses and explores universal dualities such as life and death, good and evil.
Gordon has had several major solo exhibitions over the last 10 years, with the more recent ones including: the Lambert Collection, and the Palais des Papes, Avignon (July 2008); 'Superhumanatural' at the National Gallery of Scotland (2007); 'Between Darkness and Light' at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (2007), and 'Timeline' at MoMA, New York (2006). In 2005, he curated 'The Vanity of Allegory', an exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin and released the film 'Zidane – A 21st Century Portrait'.
Gordon has received many awards: he was the 1996 recipient of the British Turner Prize, in 1997 was awarded Premio 2000 at the Venice Biennial and most recently, in May 2008, he won the Roswitha Haftmann Prize awarded by the Kunsthaus Zuerich. In the same year Gordon was Juror at the 65tth International Venice Film Festival, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice.
Gordon now lives and works in Berlin, Glasgow and New York.
Photograph credit: Martin Hunter