Scottish artist Douglas Gordon began his career as a performance artist, but evolved into a diverse oeuvre encompassing video and film, sound works, photographic objects, and texts. Good versus bad is a recurring theme. He transforms familiar objects, such as photos of famous personalities, often with a result somewhere between humor and dismay. One of Gordon’s most famous works is 24h Psycho (1993), in which he slows down Hitchcock’s infamous film Psycho (1960) to 24 hours, removing the tension and completely changing the experience of the film.
Douglas Gordon has had numerous solo exhibitions, including at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris; MOCA, Los Angeles; Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow; Van Abbemuseum, and Tate Britain, London. In 1996, he received the Turner Prize. In the same year, Gordon was one of the invited artists for Skulptur Projekte Münster, and in 1997, he represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale.
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