Stan Douglas Artist Talk

Join Stan Douglas at Reliance Theatre at Emily Carr University of Art + Design for a talk on his exhibition, 2011 ≠ 1848.

Doors at 6pm
Free.
All the tickets for this event have been allocated

People without tickets may wait in the rush line at the talk, and we will seat as many as space allows.

Reliance Theatre is located on Level 1 of Emily Carr's Great Northern Way campus (520 E 1st Ave). Google Map.

About Stan Douglas
Stan Douglas (b. 1960, Vancouver) is a visual artist who lives and works in Vancouver and Los Angeles. His films and photographs have been included in exhibitions internationally since the early 1980s, including at documenta IX, X and XI (1992, 1997, 2002) and in four previous Biennale Artes (1990, 2001, 2005 and 2019). A survey of his work, Stan Douglas: Mise en scene, toured Europe from 2013 until the end of 2015. From 2014 until 2017 his multimedia theatre production Helen Lawrence was presented in Vancouver, Toronto, Munich, Antwerp, Edinburgh, Brooklyn, and Los Angeles. Douglas received the International Centre of Photography’s Infinity Award in 2012, the Scotiabank Photography Award in 2013, the Hasselblad Award in 2016, the Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in 2019 and the Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture in 2021. Between 2004 and 2006, he was a professor at Universität der Künste Berlin and is currently Chair of the Graduate Art Program of ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California.

Photo: Evaan Kheraj

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