DOUGLAS COUPLAND was raised in Vancouver and graduated from the sculpture studio at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in 1984. Rounding out a multinational triad of degrees, Coupland then studied at the European Design Institute in Milan and at Hokkaido College of Art and Design in Sapporo with concentrations in Japanese Business Science and Industrial Design. Just a year later, he had his first solo sculpture show at the Vancouver Art Gallery and in 1988 began writing commentary about Generation X in Vancouver Magazine. Coupland extended the commentary to the size of a full-length book, Generation X, and coined the label itself. He has won two National Awards for Excellence in Industrial Design and has written nine other novels. Coupland splits his time between freelance commissions for the likes of New York Times and Artforum while exhibiting new sculpture internationally and designing furniture for Pure Design.

PIERRE HUYGHE: The work of the French artist Pierre Huyghe has been the subject of six books and has been exhibited in numerous solo exhibitions after graduating from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs in 1985. In 2002, he received the prestigious Hugo Boss Prize from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and exhibited there in 2003. Huyghe had solo exhibitions at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie in 2002 and at the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum in Amsterdam, among others. He represented France at the 2001 Venice Biennale and was included in Documenta 11, Kassel. Huyghe lives and works in Paris.