Douglas Gordon (born 1966) is an artist. He works with video, photography, sound, text, and other media. Gordon was awarded the Turner Prize in 1996, and his work was presented in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale the following year. Gordon’s work is exhibited worldwide; selected exhibitions include: Retrospective, Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2008; Timeline, MOMA, New York, 2006; Douglas Gordon Superhumanatural, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 2006; The Vanity of Allegory, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, 2005; and 24 Hour Psycho, Tramway, Glasgow, 1997. One of his recent works, a collaboration with Philippe Parreno, is a cinematic portrait of the French football player Zinedine Zidane, Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, first shown at both Cannes and Edinburgh Film Festival in 2006. Gordon lives and works in Berlin. [Last updated 2009]
