The Fall 2026 Graduate Art guest lecture series, organized by Jan Tumlir and Jack Bankowsky.

Stan Douglas

This event is free and open to the public. RSVPs are not required.

Stan Douglas is a visual artist who lives and works in Vancouver. His films, videos and photographs, which explore social rupture and the effects of technical media on human consciousness and history, have been seen in exhibitions internationally, including three documentas (1992, 1997, 2002) and four Venice Biennales (1990, 2001, 2005, 2019). A survey of his work, Stan Douglas: Mise en scène, toured Europe from 2013 until the end of 2015. From 2014 until 2017, his theatre-cinema hybrid, Helen Lawrence, was performed in Vancouver, Toronto, Munich, Antwerp, Edinburgh, Brooklyn and Los Angeles and in 2022 he represented Canada at the 59th Venice Biennale. He received the International Centre for Photography’s Infinity Prize in 2012, the Hasselblad Award in 2016, the Audain Prize in 2019; he was named a Chevalier in France’s Order of Arts and Letters in 2020 and, in 2024, an Officer of the Order of Canada. Between 2004 and 2006 he was a professor at Universität der Künste Berlin, and from 2009 until 2024 he was a core faculty member in the Graduate Art department of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.

Image: Portrait by Evaan Kheraj. / Stan Douglas, Hastings Park, 16 July 1955 (2008). Digital chromogenic print mounted on Dibond aluminum. Courtesy of the artist. 

See the full Fall 2026 Seminar schedule here.

Support for this series is generously provided by the following: Jack Shear, Brenda R. Potter, Brendan Dugan, Lisson Gallery, Beth Rudin DeWoody, David Kordansky, Jeffrey Deitch, Gattopardo, Tara Walters, Alan Hergott, and an anonymous donor.

ArtCenter's Graduate Art program is based on intensive studio practice and rigorous academic coursework. The program is distinguished by its low faculty-to-student ratio that provides students with the attention and feedback they need to refine and achieve their artistic goals. Faculty and students are artists working in all genres—film, video, photography, painting, sculpture, performance and installation. A significant number of alumni have achieved national and international acclaim and often return to share their insights and expertise as visiting faculty and guest lecturers.