"Shortly after Doig's graduation from the Chelsea College of Art and Design, he was awarded the prestigious Whitechapel Artist Prize culminating in a solo exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1991.
В 1991 выиграл Whitechapel Art Gallery’s Artist Award, давшей общественное признание, двумя годами позже получил первый приз на John Moores Liverpool Exhibition.