American artist Doug Aitken (b. 1968) is internationally recognised for his ambitious practice that incorporates objects, installations, photographs and vast, multi-screen environments that envelop viewers within a kaleidoscope of moving imagery and sound.

Based in Los Angeles, Aitken has realised museum projects around the world as well as monumental interventions within the natural landscape and, most recently, below the ocean’s surface. Defying definitions of genre, he explores a world where time, space, and memory are fluid concepts.

Aitken’s work has been featured in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, the Vienna Secession; the Serpentine Gallery in London and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

In 1999 he received the International Prize at the Venice Biennale for the installation electric earth. In 2012 he was awarded the Nam June Paik Art Center Prize, and in 2016 the Americans for the Arts National Arts Award: Outstanding Contributions to the Arts. In 2017 he was the inaugural recipient of the Frontier Art Prize.