ELIZA DOUGLAS
b. 1984, United StatesEliza Douglas is an American interdisciplinary artist whose work spans painting, performance, music, and fashion. The artist is known for a deft blending of pop-cultural iconography—such as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck—with gestural abstraction, Douglas creates what has been described as “meta-painting,” questioning authenticity, originality, and the material limits of the medium. The artist often works in close collaboration with Anne Imhof, contributing both as a visual artist and performer.
Douglas has had major institutional solo exhibitions including My Gleaming Soul at Museum Folkwang, Essen (2017); Old Tissues Filled with Tears at Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2017); a solo project at The Jewish Museum, New York (2018); and presentations at the Whitney Biennial (2022). She has also participated in significant group exhibitions such as Natures Mortes at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2021); Youth at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2022); and Death and the Devil at Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf (2023).
Courtesy Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin/Basel.
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