100 Years of Prosperity
100 Years of Peace
100 Years of Abundance
We live as we dream, alone
Live long and prosper
God is nowhere. God is now here
100 Years of Joy
A computer on every desk and in every home
Douglas Coupland
Since 1991 Coupland has written thirteen novels published in most languages. He has written and performed for England’s Royal Shakespeare Company and is a columnist for The Financial Times of London. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, e-flux, DIS and Vice. In 2000 Coupland amplified his visual art production and has recently had two separate museum retrospectives, Everything is Anything is Anywhere is Everywhere at the Vancouver Art Gallery, The Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, and Bit Rot at the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, and Villa Stücke in Munich this fall. In 2015 and 2016 Coupland was artist in residence in the Paris Google Cultural Institute. Coupland is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy, an Officer of the Order of Canada, a Officer of the Order of British Columbia, a Chevlier de l'Order des Arts et des Lettres and receiver of the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence.
BORN
1961 in Germany
EDUCATION
Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada
Hokkaido Collage of Art and Design, Hokkaido, Japan
Sapporo
Instituto Europeo di Design, Milan, Italy
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
Anticipation, Saint Petersburg Manege, Saint Petersburg
Bit Rot, Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
Polychrome, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto
2015
Bit Rot, Witte De With, Rotterdam, Netherlands
everywhere is anywhere is anything is everything, Royal Ontario Museum & Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada
Our Modern World, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2014
Everything is Anything is Anywhere is Everywhere, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Slogans For The 21st Century, Or Gallery, Berlin
2013
The 21st Century Continues…, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2012
Welcome to the Twenty-First Century, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto
2011
Twenty-First Century, Trepanier Baer, Calgary, Canada
2010
Atelier, Clark & Faria, Toronto, Canada
Mom and Dad, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2007
Fifty Books I have Read More Than Once, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
The Penguins, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Warflowers (Self Portraits), Contact Photography Festival, Photographic Installations in Bus Shelters, Toronto, Canada
2005
Super City, The Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada
I Like the Future and the Future Likes Me and Lost and Gained in Translation, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2004
Canada House, Canadian High Commission, London, UK
Canada House, DX Design Exchange, Toronto, Canada
2002
The Canada Pictures, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2001
Spike, The Totem Gallery, New York, USA
Spike, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Images of Douglas Coupland, Gallerie Friebe, Dusseldorf, Germany
2000
Theoretical Furniture, Gallery Speak For, Tokyo, Japan
1987
Children’s Gallery at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
I Was Raised on the Internet, MCA Chicago, Chicago (forthcoming)
2017
Electronic Superhighway, MAAT, Lisbon
Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany; MAK Vienna,
Austria; Design Museum Gent, Gent, Belgium
It’s All Happening So Fast, Art Museum at University of Toronto, Toronto
2016
This is it with it as it is, AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre, Vancouver
It’s all happening so fast, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
The Desire to Acquire: London Collects, Museum London, London, Canada
Electronic Superhighway, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2015
Co-Workers, La Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
The 6th Beijing International Art Biennale, Beijing, China
INVENTO, OCA Museum, Ibirapuera Park, Sao Paulo
The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things, HOME, Manchester, UK
Space Between, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
2014
Cycle, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Sao Paulo
The Miyake Issey Foundation, Tokyo
I Hope Humanity…, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Canada
Oh, Canada, Confederation Centre of The Arts, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Dreamland: Textiles and the Canadian Landscape, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto (2013/2014); Museum London, London, Canada; Confederation Centre of The Arts, Prince Edward Island, Canada
2013
Do It 2013, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester UK
Decenter, Abrons Art Centre, Brooklyn, USA; Luther W Brady Art Gallery, George Washington University Washington, DC, USA
Family Ties, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2012
Paperless, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston-Salem, USA
The Supersurrealism, Museet Moderne, Malmö, Sweden
The Museum of the Rapture, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada
Memory Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Oh Canada, Mass Moca, New, North Adams, USA
2011
By Sea, Land & Air, We Prosper: New Art from Vancouver, Canada,
Labour Gallery, Beijing, China
Logotopia: The Library in Architecture, Art and the Imaginations, Grand Biblioteque nationale du Quebec, Montreal
, Canada
The Rooms, St. John’s, Canada
2010
Logotopia: The Library in Architecture, Art and the Imaginations, Triangle Gallery, Calgary
2009
Bowie, Clark & Faria, Toronto, Canada
Logotopia: The Library in Architecture, Art and the Imaginations, The Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Canada, Mount St. Vincent Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Canada
2008
Diabolique, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
A Spoken Work Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Arts, Prague, Czech Republic
Logotopia: The Library in Architecture, Art and the Imaginations, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, Canada
Dream House (Curated by Anthony Kiendi and Steven Matijcio), Organized by Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada
Portraits, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2007
Winter Salon Show, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
The Writer’s Brush, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, USA
History, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Strange Identity, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2006
Vancouver School, Artists for Kids Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada
The Seventh Side of the Die, Alona Kagan Gallery, New York, USA
2004
Do It, Publication launch, co-edited by e-flux and Revolver Press and edited by Hans Ulrich Orbist, Miami, USA
Terminal Five, Site Specific installation at JFK Terminal 5, New York, USA
2003
The Basement Show, Calgary, Canada
2002
School Spirit, A Collaboration with Pierre Hughe, Published by DisVoir, Paris, France