Doug Aitken Workshop

Doug Aitken Workshop is a multidisciplinary fine-art production studio for American artist and filmmaker Doug Aitken. Based in Los Angeles, it works across contemporary art, narrative cinema, architectural intervention and experiential design, developing large-scale projects that combine moving image, sound, sculpture and built environments.

The workshop creates immersive and panoramic audiovisual installations, site-specific kinetic and reflective structures, multi-channel film works, and public-art interventions. Its projects often examine technology, landscape, ecological time and collective perception through environments intended to be experienced physically as well as visually.

Design, fabrication and production

The studio connects digital visualization with hands-on industrial production. Its capabilities include:

• Artistic concept development, spatial design and digital modeling
• Rhino and V-Ray visualization workflows
• 3D digital sculpting, CNC milling, carving, casting and custom fabrication
• Architectural planning, structural-engineering coordination and site integration
• Audiovisual system design, projection setup and exhibition production management

Its fabrication practice supports work in foam, timber, plastics, mirrored-glass structures and sculptural text reliefs, enabling the translation of complex concepts into full-scale installations.

Selected work

The workshop's notable projects include electric earth, Sleepwalkers, SONG 1, Station to Station, Underwater Pavilions, Mirage, New Horizon, Green Lens, Wilderness and Lightscape. These projects range from exterior projection environments and submerged sculptures to a transcontinental moving-art intervention, mirrored architectural works and multi-screen installations.

Recent work includes UNDER THE SUN, an immersive retrospective and craft commission in Mumbai, and The Impact / Byens Scene, a public-art and urban-landscape project in Copenhagen developed in collaboration with Bjarke Ingels Group. Through this combination of artistic direction, technical development and fabrication oversight, the workshop realizes ambitious projects for museums, cultural institutions and public settings.