Zhivago Duncan

Zhivago Duncan (* 1980 in Terre Haute, United States) is an American artist.

Life

Duncan was born in 1980 the son of a Syrian and a Dane in Terre Haute. Since Duncan's father worked in the tourism industry, Duncan grew up among others in Saudi Arabia, London, Malta, Los Angeles, USA and France. After his graduation he worked as a snowboard instructor and an auto mechanic.

Duncan graduated in 2007 graduated from the BFA Chelsea College of Art and Design in London from. He lives and works in Berlin. His most important exhibition to date was in 2011 to participate in the group exhibition Gesamtkunstwerk: New Art in Germany at the Saatchi Gallery in London.

Work

Duncan works both as a painter and as a sculptor and installation artist. In his large and brightly colored canvas paintings that are inspired by the American pop art and by his own admission of television Trash formats, combining letters and logos with cartoon characters, graffiti, and other elements of street art.

In his installation " Pretentious crap", he developed an apocalyptic vision - in miniature - a destroyed after a disaster deserted world to visit in a glass case, like a biological specimen in the Natural History Museum.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2007: For the Over Eyes of the Underviewed, Private Loft of Shelley from Strunckel, London, UK
  • 2007: Accidental crash, Chelsea College of Art, London, UK
  • 2009: double zap robotrap - exploration of the unknown, TEAPOT, Cologne, Germany
  • 2010: The Beautiful and the Damned, Cruise & Callas, Berlin, Germany
  • 2011: Dick Flash 's Souvenirs of Thought, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
  • 2011: The Beautiful and the Damned, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong, China
  • 2012: Zhivago Duncan, Fredrick Snitzer Gallery, Miami, USA

Group exhibitions ( selection)

  • 2004: Till the End of Time, Chelsea College of Art, London, UK
  • 2005: MMDAW, Chelsea College of Art Triangle Gallery, London, UK
  • 2006: Swag, Corsica Studios, London, UK
  • 2007: Untitled Crash " AA Galleries, London, UK
  • 2008: Gallery Wednesday, collective, Berlin
  • 2008: Tape Modern Number 02, Tape Modern, Berlin
  • 2009: Out of Wedding, Uferhallen, Berlin
  • 2009: No more sugar for the monkey, bathhouse, Berlin
  • 2009: Lynch Mob, HBC & Collective, Berlin
  • 2010: A Party for Boris, Vittorio Manalese, Berlin
  • 2010: In fifteen minutes everyone wants to be famous, Tape Modern, Berlin
  • 2011: DEAD_Lines. Death in Art - Media - Daily life, Galerie der Stadt Remscheid, Remscheid, DE in cooperation with the Von der Heydt - Museum, Wuppertal
  • 2011: GESAMTKUNSTWERK: NEW ART FROM GERMANY, Saatchi Gallery, London

Catalogs

  • Zhivago Duncan - Dick Flash 's souvenirs of thought. Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-931355-66-1.
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