Douglas Huebler was born in 1924, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Huebler’s work has been shown in numerous exhibitions in the United States and Europe. His solo shows include his first, at the Phillips Gallery, Detroit (1953), along with retrospectives at the Palais des beaux-arts, Brussels (1994); Camden Arts Centre, London (2002); Musée d’art moderne et contemporain (Mamco), Geneva (2006); and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (2012). Selected group exhibitions include Documenta, Kassel, West Germany (1972) and A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958–1968, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2004). Huebler died in 1997, in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.