Stan Douglas

Stan Douglas is a Vancouver based artist whose multidisciplinary photo, film and video-based work has been exhibited and presented internationally over the past 30 years. Douglas’s work has been included in four Venice Biennales; documenta IX, X and XI; and was the 2016 recipient of the Hasselblad Prize. Douglas represented Canada in the 2022 Venice Biennale. He is one of Canada's most significant contemporary artists, whose work takes up the history of literature, cinema and music, while examining the failed utopias of modernism and technological progress. 

Douglas has been the recipient of notable awards, including the Audain Prize for Visual Art (2019); the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography (2016); the third annual Scotiabank Photography Award (2013); and the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography, New York (2012). In 2021, Douglas was knighted as a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, and in 2023 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Simon Fraser University, Greater Vancouver. Douglas was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2024. 

Work by the artist is held in major museum collections worldwide, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Pérez Art Museum Miami; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate, United Kingdom; Vancouver Art Gallery; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Douglas lives and works in Vancouver.