Born 1974 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey

Lives and works in Oakland, California

EDUCATION

2003    BFA  California College of Arts and Crafts

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010    Eye Against I. Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA

2009    NADA Art Fair Solo Booth. Miami Beach, FL

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

2009    HOT AND COLD-THE END IS HERE, final hot and cold release exhibition, Baer Ridgeway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA

            MOVE(curated by Rich Jacobs)15th Anniversary Show, New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2008    KICK OUT THE JAMS-Hot and Cold 2 zine release exhibition, The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA

            Apocabliss,(curated by Maya Hayuk) Alice. Brussels, Belgium

            Surf Zombies, Cell Project Space, London, UK

            Hope Springs Eternal, 96 Guillespe, London, UK

            Americana, Wattis Institute, 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)

            U MUST NOT KNOW BOUT ME-Hot and cold 3 zine release, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA

            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

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)

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

            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    Gondola Mayo Funnel, Mimi Barr, San Francisco, CA

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

            Around And Every Day, 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

2003    Keepsake, juice design, San Francisco, CA

2002    Spring to Autumn Period, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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

Chun, Kimberly.  “Goldies 2006 Visual Art: Chris 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

NYARTS Magazine. 2008

The L Magazine. 1/31/07

New American Paintings, issue 79. Pg. 48-51

K48 issue 7, image, 2008

K48 issue 6, image, 2006

Planet Magazine, back page(image), Spring 2007

XLR8R Magazine, interview, April 2008

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

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

2008    3, the work of Ernesto Burgos, Kyle Ranson and Derrick Snodgrass, Gregory Lind Gallery, SF,CA

2004    Heartswork, traveling art exhibition, January-March

2002    Keepsake, 50-person group show

2001    Sketch, with juice design, September

Hot and Cold, zine project with Griffin McPartland. Within each issue between 15-20 artists are invited to participate in hand-built limited edition zine. Project started at 10 and is counting down to 1, when it will end. Group shows curated to accompany release of each issue.

RESIDENCIES

Island Press, St. Louis Il. October 2008.

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