We All Live In Coupland

For 25 years, he has branded the everyday, starting with Generation X, a cohort of underachievers who weren’t slackers at all but victims of booming forces of history. With his first solo show kicking off this summer at Vancouver Art Gallery, stick with us below for an insider’s glance of Douglas Coupland, courtesy of those with first-hand experience.

Did you know Douglas Coupland used to write for Vancouver Magazine? If this piques your interest, you can view some of his original pieces here, here, and even here. 

 

The Man With Two Brains

by Daina Augaitis

Curating a survey exhibition of an artist’s career involves far more than just selecting which artworks will be displayed in what order…

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15 Minutes With Fame

by Lucy Hyslop

It’s hard not to be sucked into the visual vortex that is Douglas Coupland’s home, a 1960s post-and-beam haven in bucolic West Vancouver partly camouflaged by creepers and firs. …

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Life, Death, and Things in Between

by Michael Prokopow

In 2012, Coupland imagined and realized an installation for Nuit Blanche, a dusk-to-dawn art happening each fall that sees Toronto…

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The Writer Fights Back

by John Ralston Saul

A few years ago I asked Coupland if he would write a short intellectual biography of Marshall McLuhan. It was to be part of a series…

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A Nook of One’s Own

by Renee Switzer

The first time I met Douglas Coupland, I was a little intimidated. One doesn’t know what to expect…

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The Great Pretender

by Douglas Coupland

At the airport, it turned out Kam had booked me into first class—woohoo! It was a brilliant early evening, with magic light beaming in through…

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