Biography

DOUGLAS WALKER (b. Brockville, Ontario, 1958) studied at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto. Douglas Walker has offered enigmatic takes on traditional subject matter—primarily landscape and the built environment—realized in media ranging from photodrawings and photography, to sculpture, to painting. Consistently, his work, though cleaving to representational motifs, manifests as unworldly, often other-worldly, anchoring just enough in the realm of the real to make it feel unlikely. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; The Power Plant, Toronto; Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto; Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC; Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto; Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa; ICA London, UK; and Dia Foundation, New York.