Douglas White
“Nothing is created, nothing is destroyed, everything is transformed”
- Douglas White
Charity: Macmillan
Douglas White (b. 1977 Guildford, UK), graduated from the Ruskin School of Art (2000) and Royal College of Art (2005), and has exhibited throughout the UK, Europe, the US and South America.
Recent group exhibitions include Infinite Village at Manifesta 13, Marseille (2020), She Sees the Shadows, Oriel Mostyn (2019), Icononclasts: Art Outside the Mainstream, Saatchi Gallery (2018).
His works are in the collections of the David Roberts Art Foundation, Saatchi Collection, Frank Cohen and Cass Sculpture Foundation.
In 2019 he released the feature length documentary A Moon For My Father, a collaboration with his partner Mania Akbari. The film premiered at CPH:DOX where it was awarded the New:Vision Award and subsequently a FIPRESCI Critic's Award.
Education
Royal College of Art
Ruskin School of Art
Prizes / Awards
2014 | AA2A Residency, Camberwell College of Art, London
2014 | Vent de Forets, Residency and site-specific installation, France
2014 | Art Saint Barth, Production residency and solo exhibition, St Barth
2012 | EKWC, Production residency, NL
2011 | NEXT Visit, Residency and exhibition, Berlin, Germany
2010 | AIR Residency, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2009 | Napoleon Garden Commission, Holland Park, London, UK
2009 | Malta Contemporary Art, Residency and solo exhibition, Malta
2007 | Poustinia Land Art Park Residency, Belize
2007 | Paul Hamlyn Award (Shortlist)
2006 | Commission for Cass Sculpture Foundation, UK
2005 | Winner, Man Group Drawing Prize
2005 | Jerwood Drawing Prize (Shortlist)
2005 | Deutsche Bank Pyramid Award
2005 | Man Group Drawing Prize
2005 | Jerwood Sculpture Prize (Shortlist)
Select Solo Exhibitions
2017 | Portraits of my Father as a Horseshoe Bat, Galerie Valerie Bach, Brussels
2014 | Splendor Solis, Eden Rock Gallery, St Barth
2013 | Song of the Roustabouts, Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam
2011 | New Skin for an Old Ceremony, Paradise Row, London
2010 | Black Sun, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2009 | Masquerade, Malta Contemporary Art, Valletta
2009 | Elephant Totem Song, Paradise Row, London
2008 | Hartrot, Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam
2007 | Black Palm, Galerie Nuke, Paris
2007 | Lilith, Paradise Row, London
Select Group Exhibitions
2018 | Islands, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
2018 | Magic and Method, Frestonian Gallery, London
2018 | La Saga, Double V Gallery, Marseilles
2017 | Iconoclasts: Art out of the Mainstream, Saatchi Gallery, London
2017 | Summer in the City, La Patinoire Royale, Brussels
2017 | Sparkling like the Surface of the Ocean at Night, Garage, Rotterdam
2017 | Force of Nature II, Art Pavilion, London
2016 | Theatre de l’absurde, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam
2016 | Force of Nature, Galerie Valerie Bach, Brussels
2015 | Finding Form, Art First, London
2015 | Evolution, Asia House, London
2014 | Moon, Art First, London
2014 | Feito por Brasilieros, Cidade Matarazzo, Sao Paolo
2014 | Brand New Second Hand, Vigo Gallery, London
2014 | Network Clay, Landgoed Anningahof, Zwolle, NL
2014 | Stand and See, UAL Wimbledon, London
2013 | Island, Dairy Art Centre, London
2012 | Specimens, Domaine de Chamarande, Paris
2012 | Intersections: Science in Contemporary Art, Weizmann Institute, Tel Aviv
2012 | London Twelve, City of Prague Gallery, Prague
2012 | Bouvard and Peuchet’s Compendious Quest for Beauty, David Roberts Art Foundation, London
2011 | THE STATE: The Coming Insurrection, Traffic, Dubai
2011 | Con Amore, ARoS Museum, Denmark
2011 | Freies Material, Weltraum, Munich
2011 | Natalia Stachon and Douglas White, NEXT Visit, Berlin
2011 | Duel…Man kann auch Flohe und Lause haben, Christinger De Mayo, Zurich
2010 | AIR 6, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam
2010 | New Symphony, Simon Oldfield Gallery, London
2010 | REHAB, Espace Electra, Fondation EDF, Paris
2009 | Drawn from Life, Green Cardamom, London
2009 | Natural Wonders, New Art from London, Baibakov Art Projects, Moscow
2009 | Il Faut Etre Absolument Moderne, Paradise Row, Istanbul
2008 | Nathaniel Rackowe and Douglas White, The Russian Club, London
2008 | Flight of the Dodo, Project Arts Centre, Dublin
2008 | Gothic, Fieldgate Gallery, London
2007 | Unholy Truths, Initial Access, Wolverhampton
2007 | Anticipation, One.One.One. London
2007 | Forbidden Spectacle, Museum of Fine Arts, Malta
2007 | Welcome to Paradise, Nuke Gallery, Paris
2006 | Cannibal Ferox, Paradise Row, London
2006 | New Contemporaries 2006, The Coach Shed, Liverpool and Tour
2005 | Peculiar Encounters, EC Arts Space, London
2005 | Jerwood Drawing Prize 2005, Jerwood Space, London and Tour
2005 | Jerwood Sculpture Prize 2005, Jerwood Space, London and Tour
2005 | Man Drawing Prize 2005, Royal College of Art, London
2004 | Art School, Bloomberg Space, London
2004 | New Contemporaries 2004, The Curve Gallery, Barbican, London