After Graduating from The University of Texas, Douglas taught at the University of Kansas for three years, before moving to New York in 1969. While living, and working in New York, Douglas showed his work at the Paula Cooper Gallery, Whitney Museum Resources Center, The Clocktower, John Weber Gallery and Jack Tilton Gallery, along with solo exhibitions in Paris, Verona, Stockholm and Munich. Douglas returned to Cleveland in 1991 to teach at the Cleveland Institute of Art and Kent State University. He has shown his paintings at the William Busta Gallery: 1993, 1995, 2007, 2009 and 2013. His selected awards include: 2012 Cleveland Arts Prize Lifetime Achievement Award 2005 / 2009 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award 1990 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 1981 National Endowment for the Arts Grant New York State Creative Arts Public Service Program Fellowship Douglas is presently Adjunct faculty in Foundation at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland Ohio.