2022 Stonecroft Lecture: Stan Douglas
- When: Thursday, October 6th, 2022, 6:00 PM
- Where: Auditorium at the National Gallery of Canada, 380 Sussex Drive, Ottawa
- Lecture also available online via Zoom Live Stream
The Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa, in collaboration with the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) is proud to present Stan Douglas for the seventh annual Stonecroft Foundation Visiting Artist Lecture on Thursday, October 6th at 6:00 PM. The University of Ottawa is located on unceded territories of the Algonquin People, who are the traditional guardians of this land.
This lecture series is made possible thanks to a significant gift from the Stonecroft Foundation for the Arts, in support of contemporary art discourse. The annual Stonecroft Foundation Visiting Artist Lecture Series allows the public to discover prominent Canadian artists’ practices. We invite you to join us on Thursday, October 6th at the NGC Auditorium for the artist talk by Stan Douglas. The event will also be made available online for live streaming via Zoom.
Stan Douglas is a visual artist who lives and works in Vancouver and Los Angeles. His films and photographs have been included in exhibitions internationally since the early 1980s, including at documenta IX, X and XI (1992, 1997, 2002) and in four Venice Biennales (1990, 2001, 2005, 2019 and representing Canada in 2022). A survey of his work, Stan Douglas: Mise en scène, toured Europe from 2013 until the end of 2015. From 2014 until 2017 his multimedia theatre production Helen Lawrence was presented in Vancouver, Toronto, Munich, Antwerp, Edinburgh, Brooklyn and Los Angeles. Douglas received the International Centre for Photography’s Infinity Prize in 2012, the Scotiabank Photography Award in 2013, the Hasselblad Award in 2016, the Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in 2019 and the Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture in 2021. Between 2004 and 2006 he was a professor at Universität der Künste Berlin and is currently Chair of the Graduate Art Program of ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California.
Please join us at the NGC Auditorium on Thursday, October 6th at 6:00 PM or if you prefer to attend the conference online, go to the following link to register for the live streaming of the lecture: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XQ9IR-bwSBa-ZikZtUt_5Q
The lecture will be in English with simultaneous French interpretation.
For more information please visit: NGC, Stonecroft Lecture Series: Stan Douglas
