Donigan Cumming

Donigan Cumming

Donigan Cumming (born 1947) is a visual artist who uses photography, video, sound, and text. His work is notable for its concern with breaking taboos and uses of media to stimulate strong audience response.

Cumming's books are The Stage (Maquam Press, 1991), Pretty Ribbons (Stemmle, 1996), Gimlet Eye (Chapter and ffotogallery, 2001), and Lying Quiet (Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, 2004). The Stage is included in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, eds., The Photobook: A History, Volume II (Phaidon, 2006).

His solo museum shows include exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography.[1]

His work has been acquired for the permanent collection of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (Ottawa),[2] the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris), the Musée de L'Élysée (Lausanne), the Musée du Québec (Québec), the Musée d'art contemporain (Montréal), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), and by national museums in Belgium, Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States.

In 1984 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.[3]

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