Eliza Douglas is an American interdisciplinary artist whose work ranges from painting to performance. In their practice, Douglas often incorporates imagery from fashion, music, film and advertising to draw attention to consumption of art itself. In doing so, they often deploy familiar images of popular culture, like Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, and distort these through rich colours and compositions, exploring the material and limits of painting. This well-known imagery brings up questions of authenticity and originality, exploring the conceptual limits of painting and can be considered as meta-painting itself.
born 1984, USA
lives and works in New York, USA
selected solo exhibitions
2024
Gift, Contemporary Fine Arts Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2023
Parole, Air de Paris, Paris, France
2022
The Whitney Biennial, VI, VII ,Oslo, Norway
2021
Orgy of the Sick, Overduin & Co. Los Angeles, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Notre Mort, Neue Alte Brüke, Frankfurt, Germany
2020
Lord of the Fucking Wasteland, Air de Paris, Romainville, France
2019
Josh Smith, Overduin & co, Los Angeles, USA
2018
The Jewish Museum New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
2017
Overduin & Co. Los Angeles, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
My Gleaming Soul, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Old Tissues Filled with Tears, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany
Eliza Douglas Anne Imhof, Galerie Buchholz, New York, USA
Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany
2016
I am All Soul, Air de Paris, Paris, France
Music, Jo Anne, Stadelschule, Frankfurt, Germany
selected group exhibitions
2024
J’ai pleuré à la fin d‘un manga, Ecole Municipale des Beaux-Arts, Galerie Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers, France
2023
Canned Heat, Contemporary Fine Arts Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Death and the Devil, Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany
2022
X Years, VI, VII, Oslo, Norway
The American Friend, Downs & Ross, New York, USA
Barbe à Papa, CAPC, Bordeaux, France
Youth, Anne Imhof (featuring Eliza Douglas), Stedelijik Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2021
Lust for Life, Edward Ressle, Shanghai, China
Who Protects Us from The Slug Slide That Passes Over The Knife Blade Without Caring, Sector 1 Gallery, Bucuresti, Romania
Natures Mortes, Anne Imhof, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2020
Fuck You Be Nice, Air de Paris, Romainville, France
Iván Argote, Eliza Douglas & Jojo Gronostay: Ups And Downs Of A Flipped Planet, Galerie Hubert Winter, Wien, Austria
My C art ography. The Erling Kagge Collection, Santander Art gallery, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid
Sex, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy
2017
Eliza Douglas & Puppies Puppies (Jade Kuriki Olivo), Galerie Francesca Pia, Zürich, Switzerland
Shifts in Time, Over the Influence, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
2018
The Vitalist Economy of Painting, Galerie Neu, Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Mademoiselle, Centre régional d’art contemporain, Sete, France
The Seam, the Fault, the Flaw, Algus Greenspon, Greenwich Village, New York, USA
2017
How It’s Made, Carl Kostyál, Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
Home of the Brave. Graduates of the Städelschule 2017, MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt – TOWER, Frankfurt, Germany
Eliza Douglas / Anne Imhof, Galerie Buchholz, New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
Cul-De-Sac, Antenna Space, Shanghai, China
Monday is a Day Between Sunday and Tuesday, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany
2016
Being There, Vilma Gold, Bethnal Green, London, UK