| Doug Aitken | |
| Birth Place: | Redondo Beach, California, US |
| Occupation: | Multidisciplinary artist |
Doug Aitken (born 1968) is an American multidisciplinary artist. 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.[1] He currently lives in Venice, California, and New York City.[2]
Doug Aitken was born in 1968 in Redondo Beach, California.[3] In 1987, he initially studied magazine illustration[4] 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.
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.[5] [6] [7] Aitken's video works have taken place in such culturally loaded sites as Jonestown in Guyana, southwest Africa's diamond mines, and India's Bollywood.[8]