Michael Andrew Law Meets Doug Aitken

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attends MOCA’s Leadership Circle And Members’ Opening For “Doug Aitken: Electric Earth” at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA on September 9, 2016 in Los Angeles, California.

LOS ANGELES, CA – SEPTEMBER 09: Artist/filmmaker Doug Aitken (L) and artist Mark Bradford attend MOCA’s Leadership Circle And Members’ Opening For “Doug Aitken: Electric Earth” at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA on September 9, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Donato Sardella/Getty Images for MOCA)

Doug Aitken is widely known for his innovative fine art installations. Utilizing a wide array of artistic approaches, Aitken’s eye leads us into a world where time, space, and memory are fluid concepts. His work has been featured in exhibitions around the world, in such institutions as the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden of the Smithsonian Institution, The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Vienna Secession, the Serpentine Gallery in London and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Aitken earned the International Prize at the Venice Biennale for the installation “electric earth”, the 2012 Nam June Paik Art Center Prize, the 2013 Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award: Visual Arts, and the 2017 Frontier Art Prize.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2017 “Doug Aitken: Electric Earth”, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
“Mirage”, Desert X, Palm Springs, CA
2016 “Doug Aitken, Underwater Pavilions”, Parley for the Oceans and MoCA, Los Angeles, Pacific Ocean near Catalina Island, CA
“Doug Aitken: Electric Earth”, The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
2013 “Station to Station”, multiple locations across the U.S., New York To San Francisco
“electric earth”, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin-si Gyeonggi-do, Korea
“MIRROR”, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2012 “SONG 1”, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
2011 “Black Mirror”, DESTE Foundation Project Space, Salughterhouse and open-air barge, Hydra Island, Greece
2010 “Doug Aitken: migration (empire)”, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
2009 “Frontier”, Museum of Contemporary Art Roma / Enel Contemporanea, Tiber Island, Rome, Italy
2007 “sleepwalkers”, The Museum of Modern Art New York and Creative Time, New York, NY
2005 “ULTRAWORLD”, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
2004 “Hard Light”, MoMA PS1, New York, NY
2003 Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
2001 “new ocean”, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK; traveled to: Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Japan (2002);
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2002); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’Arte, Turin, Italy (2003)
2000 “glass horizon”, Vienna Secession, Vienna, Austria
1999 “Concentrations 33: Doug Aitken, Diamond Sea”, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
“dAPERTutto”, 48th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1997 “1997 Whitney Biennial”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

PRIZES:

2017 Frontier Art Prize, World Frontiers Forum

2016 Americans for the Arts National Arts Award: Outstanding Contributions to the Arts

2013 Smithsonian Magazine American Ingenuity Award: Visual Arts

2012 Nam June Paik Art Center Prize

2009 Aurora Award, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX

2007 German Film Critics Association Award, KunstFilmBiennale, Cologne, Germany

2000 Aldrich Award, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

1999 International Prize – Golden Lion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy