Douglas Coupland

Biography

Since 1991 Coupland has written thirteen novels published in most languages, and seven books of non-fiction. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, e-flux, DIS and Vice. In the 1990s as Coupland emerged as a novelist, his visual work helped give visual form to a nascent online world. 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 Rotterdam’s Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, and Munich’s Villa Stücke. In May 2018 his exhibition, Vortex, opened at the Vancouver Aquarium. In 2019 Coupland cocurated a large exhibition at Toronto’s Museum of Contemporary Art along with Hans-Ülrich Obrist and Shumon Basar. Coupland has also produced an array of public art.