Eliza Douglas: Selected Works

Eliza Douglas’ oil paintings explore warped and abstract imagery borrowed from Disney and anime characters; race-car drivers’ sponsorship logos; and gothic, punk and metal graphics. The artist uses self-created digital reference photographs, transferring these images onto canvases. Douglas’ work examines the relationship between advertising and identity, including the cyclical nature of producing and consuming mass-marketed images.

“What's compelling about her images is how they corrupt an easy distinction between product and personhood. Douglas does not assume a self which preexists the material objects through which it is elaborated and discovered. The thrill of her T-shirt paintings is that they are seemingly caught in the process of transforming into something else, packaged up to be reimagined elsewhere”

- Guy Mackinnon-Little

Installation view, Eliza Douglas, Orgy of the Sick, Overduin & Co., Los Angeles, California, 2021

Eliza Douglas was born in New York City in 1984. The artist completed the graduate program at Städelschule in Frankfurt, Germany and received an undergraduate degree at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

Solo exhibitions of Douglas’ work have taken place at: the Jewish Museum in New York City; the Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin, Germany; Air de Paris in France; Galerie Buchholz in New York City; Nassauischer Kunstverein in Wiesbaden, Germany; and Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany.

Douglas’ work has also been included in exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, France; the Foundation Vincent Van Gogh in Arles, France; the Castello di Rivoli in Italy; and the Tate Modern in London, UK. Douglas lives and works in New York City and Berlin, Germany.