Chris Duncan

Born 1974 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey
Lives and works in Oakland, California

EDUCATION

2003 BFA California College of Arts and Crafts

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008 The Faith Void Split, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY

2007 The Beginning. The Middle. The End., Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2006 The Continued Exploitation of Pink and Brown, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY

  The Playing Field, Nakaochiai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

  Dark Times, Motel Gallery, Portland, OR

2005 Where we meet, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008 Apocabliss, Alice Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (curated by Maya Hayuk)

  Hope Springs Eternal, 96 Guillespe, London, UK

  KICK OUT THE JAMS – Hot & Cold 2 zine release exhibition, The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA

2007 Hope and Despair, Cell Project Space, London, UK (curated by Bob Matthews)

  Distinctive Messengers, 489 Broome Street, New York, NY (curated by Simon Watson and Craig Hensala, Scenic)

  All is well that begins well and has no end, NYU Washington Square East Galleries, New York, NY
  (curated by Jan Van Woensel, Ernesto Burgos, and Jonah Groeneboer)

  The Unknown Quantity, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA

  Close Calls, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

2006 Infinity in Finite Things, Western Project, Los Angeles, CA

  ZusammenKunst, Galerie Hafemann, Wiesbaden, Germany

  Men and Materials, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY

  I used to believe, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL (curated by Melissa Diaz)

  World Without End, McKenzie FIne Art, New York, NY

  West Coast Windows, Samson Projects, Boston, MA (curated by Oliver Halsman Rosenberg)

  Variegated Radiant Dream Plot, (w/ David Dupuis, Jovi Schnell),
  Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2005 Kults, Werewolves and Sarcastic Hippies, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

  Shelter From the Storm, Allston Skirt, Boston, MA

  Young Mountain, The Sharon Arts Center Gallery, Peterborough, NH

  Op-Ish, Samson Projects, Boston, MA

  Tsunami Relief Auction, White Box, New York, NY

2004 The Form and Energy, Voice 1156, San Diego, CA

  Gondola Mayo Funnel, Mimi Barr, San Francisco, CA

  Life and Death, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA

  Adobe Books, San Francisco, CA

  Collectors Edition, Triple Base, San Francisco, CA

  Books! Awesome!, Mimi Barr, San Francisco, CA

  Portrait Show, Needles and Pens, San Francisco, CA

  Heartswork, traveling exhibition, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC
  (Covivant Gallery, Tampa, FL, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA)

  Market East Meets West, camp fig, Austin, TX

2003 Keepsake, juice design, San Francisco, CA

  Annual Textiles Exhibition, Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont, CA

2002 Celebrated Summer, 5024 Gallery

  Soexquisite, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

  Blow the Dragon Flute, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2001 Re-fuse, Westbrook Artist Site, Winterset, IA

  Spring to Autumn Period, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

  Modart, Reincarnation Projects, San Diego, CA

  Sketch, juice design, San Francisco, CA

BIBLIOGRAPHY

NY Arts: Vol. 13. Chris Duncan, 2008

The NADA Emerging Artist Page: Chris Duncan, The L Magazine, January 31, 2007, p. 62

Smith, Roberta. "Chris Duncan: The Continued Exploration of Pink and Brown," New York Times, December 15, 2006

Chun, Kimberly. "Goldies 2006 Visual Art: Cris Duncan, San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 8-14, 2006

Rawlings, Ashley. "Interview with Chris Duncan," tokyoartbeat.com, November 4, 2006

Review. The Japan Times, October 19, 2006

Lyman, Ian. "The Temple of Light and Sound," Ping Mag, October 4, 2006

Whiteside, Amber. "Variegated Radiant Dream Plot," ARTWEEK, April 2006, p. 14

Helfand, Glen. "Variegated Radiant Dream Plot," Art on Paper, March-April 2006, p. 80-81

Cash, Stephanie. "Report From San Francisco II: New and Now," Art In America, January 2006, p. 62

Spalding, David. Review, Artweek, April 2001

PUBLICATIONS

Arrow Magazine, "Chris Duncan," Issue 3, Fall 2006, Pg. 42-43, 55-61, Back Cover

McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, (image) Issue 20, Fall 2006, Pg. 60

The Zine Unbound: Kults, Werewolves and Sarcastic Hippies, exhibition catalogue, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Griffin McPartland and Chris Duncan, 2005

Lyric poetry journal, (image) issue 7, 2005

The Drama, (image) issue 4, 2004

May the Circle Be Unbroken, Heartswork exhibition catalog, 2004

Wonderland, Art and Design catalog, (image) Die Gestalten, 2004

Arkitip, (image) issue 21, 2004

Crown, Jeremy. Herbivore Magazine, issues 2 and 3, 2003/2004

AWARDS

2006 Goldie Award for Visual Art

PANEL DISCUSSIONS

"Art of Zines 2004", San Jose Museum of Modern Art, 9/11/2004

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

Heartswork, traveling art exhibition, January-March 2004

Keepsake, 50-person group show to celebrate the release of the Keepsake Society website with juice design, September 2003

Sketch, with juice design, September 2001

Hot and Cold, zine project with Griffin McPartland. Within each issue we invite upwards of 15 people to participate in our hand-built limited edition zine

COLLECTIONS

Museum of Modern Art, NY (Library Archives - Hot and Cold complete publications)

The JP Morgan Chase Collection

Wellington Management Company, Boston, MA

The Progressive Art Collection, OH

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