Doug Aitken
Doug Aitken is an American multimedia artist.
Early life and career
Doug Aitken was born in Redondo Beach, California in 1968. In 1987, he initially studied magazine illustration with Philip Hays at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena before graduating in Fine Arts in 1991. He moved to New York in 1994 where he had his first solo show at 303 Gallery. He currently lives and works in Venice, California, and New York.
Work
Aitken’s body of work ranges from photography, print media, sculpture, and architectural interventions, to narrative films, sound, single and multi-channel video works, installations, and live performance. Aitken's video works have taken place in such culturally loaded sites as Jonestown in Guyana, Africa's diamond mines, and India's Bollywood.
Video Installations
Podcasts:
Doug Aitken
ALBUMS
- Visionaire No. 53: Sound released: 2007
Visionaire No. 53: Sound
Released 2007- Supercali, Part 1
- The Dog Park Mix
- Polaroid Picture
- Ein Kleine Jazz Musik
- 0_1
- (Newborn) Empty Shell
- [untitled]
- Karesansui
- Off the Top of My Head
- Willow
- Human Rights
- Control Freak
- Lady From Abbey
- [untitled]
- I Don't Get Out of Bed for Less Than $10, 000 a Day
- [untitled]
- God With No Tear
- Excerpts From Andy Warhol's Interview With Ginger Rogers
- Holiwater: Blind Man's Bath
- Sonic Table
- The Sound of Broadway
- Beat Piece
