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b. 1966, Glasgow
Douglas Gordon was born in 1966 in Glasgow. He attended the Glasgow School of Art from 1984 to 1988 and the Slade School of Fine Art in London from 1988 to 1990. Gordon has often reused older film footage in his photographs and videos; in 24 Hour Psycho (1993), for example, he slowed down the Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho (1960) to two frames per second, lengthening its duration and altering its experience. Tattoo, a series of photographs from 1994, features the phrase "Trust Me" tattooed on the artist's arm. A later photograph, Tattoo (for Reflection) (1997), shows the reflection of a man's back tattooed with the word "GUILTY" written in mirror image. In through a looking glass (1999), Gordon created a double-projection work around the climactic scene in Martin Scorsese's film Taxi Driver (1976), in which the main character addresses the camera; the screens are arranged so that the character seems to be addressing himself. For the 2003 exhibition of the video work Play Dead; Real Time (2002) at Gagosian Gallery in New York, Gordon brought a live elephant into the gallery.
Since his first solo exhibition, at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1993, Gordon has shown at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (1995), the Tate in London (1996), Dia Center for the Arts in New York (1999), Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (2001), and National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh (2002). He has also exhibited widely in group shows, including Skulptur. Projekte in Münster (1997), Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon (1997), Venice Biennale (1999 and 2003), and Moving Pictures at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (2002 and 2003). He won the Turner Prize in 1996, the Premio 2000 at the Venice Biennale in 1997, and the Guggenheim Museum's Hugo Boss Prize in 1998. He lives and works in Glasgow, Hannover, and Berlin.
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