Daniel Faria Gallery

About the Gallery
Daniel Faria founded the gallery in 2011 in the West end of Toronto, the first in a neighbourhood that would quickly become the most vital art community in the city. The gallery began exhibiting with a core group of six represented artists, all of whom are still an important and active part of the gallery’s programme, and who helped establish the mandate for the ambitious, materially curious and conceptually rigorous exhibitions that have followed.

About the Presentation
Daniel Faria Gallery will debut at Independent with a solo presentation featuring work by Douglas Coupland.

Much of Douglas Coupland’s work explores what he refers to as “the 21st century condition,” along with the relationship between the natural and unnatural. In Coupland’s most recent series of oil paintings, the abstracted form of an iceberg is repeatedly broken apart, formally referencing both Cubism and Pop. There are glimmers of tension in these scenes. For instance, in the painting Exxon Valdez, a red Exxon logo is cut into strips which are collaged over the iceberg like band-aids. Coupland’s work has been the subject of 35 solo exhibitions, such as large mid-career surveys at the Vancouver Art Gallery (2014), Witte de Withstraat in Rotterdam (2015), and Villa Stuck in Munich (2016). His curatorial practice in collaboration with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Shumon Basar has produced a trilogy of exhibitions: The Age of Earthquakes at ICA London (2015); The Extreme Present at Fondazione Prada, Milan (2018); and Age of You at MOCA Toronto (2019). A best-selling author, he has published fourteen novels—including Generation X (1991), Microserfs (1995), and JPod (2006).