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Scottish artist

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Douglas Gordon (born 20 September 1966) is a Scottish artist.

This is the official site of Scottish artist Douglas Gordon, born in Glasgow, 20 September Gordon, who lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Douglas Gordon is a Scottish contemporary artist who was born in in Glasgow.

Douglas Gordon is a Scottish artist who creates work that questions the complexities of memory and perception, both from an individual and collective position.

Much of Douglas Gordon's art is concerned with memory and perception - using video, photography and text installations to explore the human condition.

Douglas Gordon was born in Scotland in He won the Turner Prize in and represented the UK at the 47th Venice Biennale.

He won the Turner Prize in 1996, the Premio 2000 at the 47th Venice Biennale in 1997 and the Hugo Boss Prize in 1998. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Work

Much of Gordon's work is seen as being about memory and uses repetition in various forms.

He uses material from the public realm and also creates performance-based videos. His work often overturns traditional uses of video by playing with time elements and employing multiple monitors.^[1]

Gordon has often reused older film footage in his photographs and videos.^[2] One of his best-known art works is 24 Hour Psycho (1993) which slows down Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho so that it lasts twenty four hours.^&#