Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland is a graduate of Vancouver’s Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, as well as the Hokkaido College of Art and Design in Sapporo, Japan. He also attended the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan, Italy. His work has been the subject of two major museum retrospectives: everywhere is anywhere is anything is everything at the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto’s Museum of Contemporary Art, and Bit Rot at Rotterdam's Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, and Munich's Villa Stuck. His work has been included in numerous international exhibitions including: Art in the Age of Anxiety, Sharjah Art Foundation, 2020; Hello, Robot., Nouveau Musée Bienne, 2020 & Vitra Design Museum, 2017; Human Learning: What Machines Teach Us, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, 2020; The Extreme Present, presented by Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch, Miami, 2019; 24/7: A Wake up Call for our Non-Stop World, Somerset House, London, 2019-2020; I Was Raised on the Internet, MCA Chicago, 2018; Electronic Superhighway, curated by Omar Kholeif, Whitechapel Gallery, London & MAAT, Lisbon, Portugal, 2017. Coupland co-curated the exhibition Age of You with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Shumon Basar at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto (2019) and Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai (2021).Coupland’s work can be found in the collections of the Vancouver Art Gallery (Vancouver), University of British Columbia (Vancouver), Museum of Canadian History (Gatineau), Glenbow Museum (Calgary), Agnes Etherington Art Centre (Kingston), the Albright Knox (Buffalo), and the Confederation Centre (Charlottetown). He is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy, an Officer of the Order of Canada, an Officer of the Order of British Columbia, a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and recipient of the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence.