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Douglas Gordon

1966

WA-00005491

PaintingYoung British Artists

Representation

None documented

Institutional Exhibitions

Works in Collection

133

Assets Indexed

Authority-backed Facts

Publications Referenced

90%

Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

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Authority Records (2)

WikidataQ1252327

MoMA

Field Verification (4 fields)

1 cross-verified · 3 single-source

Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
NationalityArtsy· 85%
BiographyGallery Gagosian· 80%
LocationGallery Generic· 72%

Source Registry (3)

Gagosianhttps://gagosian.com/artists/
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Phillips-Artsyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/douglas-gordon
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/7805
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

Why this artist matters now

No biography available for Douglas Gordon yet.

Graph relationships

Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement

Young British Artists

Medium

Painting

Related Artists

12 in graph

Institutional

Museum Collections

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Tate

Canonical record

Artworks (24)

Express from August 12, 1999

2011 · One from a series of ten offset lithographs

composition and sheet: 21 1/8 x 29 1/16" (53.6 x 73.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Telegraph from August 12, 1999

2011 · One from a series of ten offset lithographs

composition and sheet: 21 3/16 x 26 5/16" (53.8 x 66.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Guardian from August 12, 1999

2011 · One from a series of ten offset lithographs

composition and sheet: 21 3/16 x 27 13/16" (53.8 x 70.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Mirror from August 12, 1999

2011 · One from a series of ten offset lithographs

composition and sheet: 21 1/4 x 27 5/16" (53.9 x 69.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Record from August 12, 1999

2011 · One from a series of ten offset lithographs

composition and sheet: 21 1/8 x 29" (53.7 x 73.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Mail from August 12, 1999

2011 · One from a series of ten offset lithographs

composition and sheet: 21 3/16 x 24 5/8" (53.8 x 62.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Independent from August 12, 1999

2011 · One from a series of ten offset lithographs

composition and sheet: 21 3/16 x 28 1/4" (53.8 x 71.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Sun from August 12, 1999

2011 · One from a series of ten offset lithographs

composition and sheet: 21 3/16 x 27 11/16" (53.8 x 70.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Times from August 12, 1999

2011 · One from a series of ten offset lithographs

composition and sheet: 21 3/16 x 27 15/16" (53.8 x 71 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

August 12, 1999

2011 · Series of ten offset lithographs

dimensions vary, see child records

Museum of Modern Art

Herald from August 12, 1999

2011 · One from a series of ten offset lithographs

composition and sheet: 21 3/16 x 26 7/8" (53.8 x 68.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

2004 · Ink, pencil, and ballpoint pen on notebook paper

11 x 7 1/2" (27.9 x 19.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

2004 · Ink on notebook paper

11 x 7 1/2" (27.9 x 19.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

2004 · Ink on notebook paper

11 x 7 1/2" (27.9 x 19.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

2004 · Ink on notebook paper

11 x 7 1/2" (27.9 x 19.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

WattsOS

Play Dead; Real Time

2003 · Three-channel video (color, silent), two projectors, two screens, monitor

19:11 min., 14:44 min. (on large screens), 21:58 min. (on monitor)

Museum of Modern Art

Blind James (white)

2002 · Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper mounted onto board

unconfirmed: 610 x 653 mm

Tate

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The Air is Blue from the Museum in Progress project With an Open Mind - Tolerance and Diversity

2002 · Two lithographs, offset printed

sheet (.a): 18 1/2 x 12 3/8" (47 x 31.5 cm); sheet (.b): 22 7/16 x 15 3/4" (57 x 40 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Blind Star: Mirror Blind Vivien

2002 · Cut gelatin silver print with mirror

8 7/8 x 7 7/8" (22.5 x 20 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Bootlegged

2000 · 7-inch vinyl record

cover: 7 × 7" (17.8 × 17.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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raise the dead from the Museum in Progress project TransAct: Transnational Activities in the Cultural Field

2000 · Lithograph, offset printed

Museum of Modern Art

Between Darkness and Light (After William Blake)

1997 · Two-channel video (color and black and white, sound), dual vision screen

107 min. and 155 min.

Museum of Modern Art

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Signature (for Parkett no. 49)

1997 · Imprint of artist's bite bound into journal

composition (irreg.): 2 3/16 x 1 15/16" (5.5 x 5 cm); sheet: 9 13/16 x 8 1/4" (25 x 21 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

WattsOS

Memoirs, 1988-1990

1984 · Ten sketchbooks and backpack

(a): 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 x 3/4" (21.6 x 14.6 x 1.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Artwork sources (2)

24 published of 48 catalogued · 40 with image

MoMA
23 publishedof 47 catalogued39 img
Tate
1 published1 img

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 1)

1 entries · 1 sources

Blind James (white)
2002 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

Record

Images

26 assets

Artsy

Wikipedia

Art Institute of Chicago

Wikipedia

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Relationships

Movements1

Young British Artists

Collections4

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Tate Christie's Gagosian

Institutional

Representation & Collections

Gallery

Gagosian

In collection

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

In collection

Tate

Market

Auction sale history

Houses that have sold works by this artist at auction

Auction house

Christie's

Background

Education

Slade School of Fine Art

Visual Arts

Glasgow School of Art

Visual Arts

Dumbarton Academy

Visual Arts

Record

Exhibitions and timeline

Solo Exhibition Douglas Gordon

2017