Douglas Coupland is a Canadian novelist, visual artist and designer. His first novel in 1991 was Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture. He has published thirteen novels, a collection of short stories, seven nonfiction books, and a number of dramatic works and screenplays for film and television. Coupland’s novels and visual work synthesize high and low culture, web technology, religion, and changes in human existence caused by modern technologies.
MASS MoCA’s curator Denise Markonish spent the last three years crisscrossing Canada to view hundreds of exhibitions in museums and galleries, visiting over 400 artists’ studios, and making connections with a full range of artists working in Canada today.
The exhibition will be mounted in the 14,000 sf comprising MASS MoCA’s first floor galleries, as well as additional indoor and outdoor spaces.
A comprehensive full-color 450-page catalogue by MIT Press will accompany the exhibition and will provide insights into Canada’s thriving contemporary cultural scene. Featuring artist-to-artist interviews, the book also includes contributions from notable Canadian writers including Douglas Coupland.
Oh, Canada
May 27, 2012–Apr 1, 2013
MASS MoCA
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North Adams, MA 01247, United States
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