Douglas Gordon was born in 1966 in Glasgow, Scotland. He lives
and works in Glasgow and Berlin.
After receiving a B.A. at the Glasgow School of Art from 1984 to
1988, Gordon undertook a graduate program at the Slade School of
Art in London from 1988 to 1990. Gordon was the recipient of the
1996 Turner Prize, the 1997 Venice Biennial's Premio 2000 award,
the 1998 Hugo Boss Prize awarded by the Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum, and the 2008 Roswitha Haftmann Prize.