Gordon was natural within Glasgow and studied art first there and late at a Slade School in London. His number 1 solo indicate was within 1981.

Very much of Gordon's act is seen when existence all about memory & utilizes repitition inside various forms. Within 1 early function, Meaning & Location (1990), a passage from either the Gospel of Luke is given with a comma inside different web pages, so subtly changing the meaning of the phrase. Listings of List (1990-present) occurs as names of each human Gordon has ever met & potty remember. the single version of this is applied onto a wall of a stairwell in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.

Occasionally of Gordon's works come related to the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Xxiv Hour Psychotic person (1993) is Hitchcock's film Psycho slowed down so that it lives twenty 4 hours. Feature (1999) occurs as projection of Gordon's have film of James Conlon conducting Bernard Hermann's score to Vertigo, thus drawing attention to the film score and the emotional reactions it creates in the viewer. Inside a single installation, this was located at a top of a tall building, referencing one of the film's independent plot points.

Gordon has as well mass produced photographs, often nonparallel by using comparatively minor variations between for each one single piece.

Gordon won a Turner Prize in 1996 and a ensuing season he represented Britain at a Venice Biennale.