Douglas COUPLAND

Born

1961 in Germany

Education

Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada
Hokkaido Collage of Art and Design, Hokkaido, Japan
Sapporo
 Instituto Europeo di Design, Milan, Italy

Solo Exhibitions

2024
The New Ice Age, Arsenal Contemporary, New York, USA

2023
The New Ice Age, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2022
Rabbit Lane: Douglas Coupland, Wet Vancouver Art Museum, Vancouver, Canada

2021
Red Light Green Light, Fairmont Pacific Rim, Vancouver
The Emoji Gallery, KING Presentation Centre, Toronto
The Whale without Johah, Dal Schindell Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2020
Fordite: Neominerology in the Anthropocene, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2019
Douglas Coupland, Galerie Division, Montreal, Canada

2018
Douglas Coupland: 3D Canada, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
Vortex, Vancouver Aquarium, Vancouver, Canada
Tsunami, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2016
Anticipation, Saint Petersburg Manege, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Bit Rot, Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
Polychrome, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2015
Bit Rot, Witte De With, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
everywhere is anywhere is anything is everything, Royal Ontario Museum & Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada
Our Modern World, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2014
Everything is Anything is Anywhere is Everywhere, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Slogans For The 21st Century, Or Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2013
The 21st Century Continues…, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2012
Welcome to the Twenty-First Century, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto

2011
Twenty-First Century, Trepanier Baer, Calgary, Canada

2010
Atelier, Clark & Faria, Toronto, Canada
Mom and Dad, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2007
Fifty Books I have Read More Than Once, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
The Penguins, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Warflowers (Self Portraits), Contact Photography Festival, Photographic Installations in Bus Shelters, Toronto, Canada

2005
Super City, The Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada
I Like the Future and the Future Likes Me and Lost and Gained in Translation, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2004
Canada House, Canadian High Commission, London, UK
Canada House, DX Design Exchange, Toronto, Canada

2002
The Canada Pictures, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2001
Spike, The Totem Gallery, New York, USA
Spike, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Images of Douglas Coupland, Gallerie Friebe, Dusseldorf, Germany

2000
Theoretical Furniture, Gallery Speak For, Tokyo, Japan

1987
Children’s Gallery at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver

Group Exhibition

2025
Electric Op, Musée d’Arts de Nantes, France
Sports Sports Sports, Art Windsor-Essex, Windsor, Canada

2024
Electric Op, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, New York, USA
Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography and Film, LACMA, Los Angeles, USA

2023
Queering the Collection, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Canada
Beyond Words, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague
Canadian Modern, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada

2022
Human Learning. What Machines Teach Us., Kiasma, Castelnau-le-Lez, France

2021
Hello, Robot. Hyundai Motorstudio Busan, Korea
Age of You, curated by Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai

2020
The Tin Man Was a Dreamer: Allegories, Poetics and Performances of Power, The Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
In Focus: Statements, Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark
Together Apart, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Hello, Robot. Nouveau Musée Bienne, Bienne, Switzerland
Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Human Learning: What Machines Teach Us, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, France

2019
The Extreme Present, presented by Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch, Moore Building, Miami, USA
24/7 – A Wake-Up Call For Our Non-Stop World, Somerset House, London, UK
Age of You, curated by Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada
Surface Tension, Artport Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2018
Breaking the Code, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
I Was Raised on the Internet, MCA Chicago, Chicago, USA

2017
Electronic Superhighway, MAAT, Lisbon, Portugal
Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany / MAK Vienna, Austria / Design Museum Gent, Gent, Belgium
It’s All Happening So Fast, Art Museum at University of Toronto, Toronto

2016
This is it with it as it is, AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre, Vancouver
It’s all happening so fast, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
The Desire to Acquire: London Collects, Museum London, London, Canada
Electronic Superhighway, Whitechapel Gallery, London

2015
Co-Workers, La Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
The 6th Beijing International Art Biennale, Beijing, China
INVENTO, OCA Museum, Ibirapuera Park, Sao Paulo
The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things, HOME, Manchester, UK
Space Between, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York

2014
Cycle, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Sao Paulo
The Miyake Issey Foundation, Tokyo
I Hope Humanity…, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Canada
Oh, Canada, Confederation Centre of The Arts, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Dreamland: Textiles and the Canadian Landscape, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto (2013/2014); Museum London, London, Canada; Confederation Centre of The Arts, Prince Edward Island, Canada

2013
Do It 2013, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester UK
Decenter, Abrons Art Centre, Brooklyn, USA; Luther W Brady Art Gallery, George Washington University Washington, DC, USA
Family Ties, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2012
Paperless, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston-Salem, USA
The Supersurrealism, Museet Moderne, Malmö, Sweden
The Museum of the Rapture, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada
Memory Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Oh Canada, Mass Moca, New, North Adams, USA

2011
By Sea, Land & Air, We Prosper: New Art from Vancouver, Canada,
Labour Gallery, Beijing, China
Logotopia: The Library in Architecture, Art and the Imaginations, Grand Biblioteque nationale du Quebec, Montreal
, Canada
The Rooms, St. John’s, Canada

2010
Logotopia: The Library in Architecture, Art and the Imaginations, Triangle Gallery, Calgary

2009
Bowie, Clark & Faria, Toronto, Canada
Logotopia: The Library in Architecture, Art and the Imaginations, The Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Canada, Mount St. Vincent Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Canada

2008
Diabolique, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
A Spoken Work Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Arts, Prague, Czech Republic
Logotopia: The Library in Architecture, Art and the Imaginations, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, Canada
Dream House (Curated by Anthony Kiendi and Steven Matijcio), Organized by Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada
Portraits, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2007
Winter Salon Show, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
The Writer’s Brush, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, USA
History, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Strange Identity, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2006
Vancouver School, Artists for Kids Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada
The Seventh Side of the Die, Alona Kagan Gallery, New York, USA

2004
Do It, Publication launch, co-edited by e-flux and Revolver Press and edited by Hans Ulrich Orbist, Miami, USA
Terminal Five, Site Specific installation at JFK Terminal 5, New York, USA

2003
The Basement Show, Calgary, Canada

2002
School Spirit, A Collaboration with Pierre Hughe, Published by DisVoir, Paris, France

Awards

2015
Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

2014
Officer of the Order of Canada
Order of British Columbia

2013
Honorary Degree from OCAD University

2010
Honorary Degree from University of British Columbia

2007
Honorary Degree from Simon Fraser University

2001
Honorary Degree from Emily Carr University of Art and Design

Collections

Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Canada
Audain Art Museum, Whistler, Canada
Bank of Montreal, Canada
Buffalo AKG, Buffalo, New York, USA
Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau, Canada
Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, Canada
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada
Musée d’art de Joliette, Joliette, Canada
Peel Art Gallery, Brampton, Canada
RBC Art Collection, Canada
Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada
Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Canada
Scotiabank Art Collection, Canada
TD Art Collection, Canada
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada