Colin Duncan – Curriculum Vitae

Melbourne-based multi-disciplinary artist, Colin Duncan’s practice centres on how visual media expresses ideas as social narratives. Drawing from literature, data, architecture, music, language, and history, both social and artistic, his work explores contextual storytelling through multimedia.
He has exhibited nationally and internationally and is based in Melbourne, Australia.

Artistic Practice

Duncan works across multimedia-based art, participating in notable exhibitions such as:

the everyday – 11th Biennale of Sydney
unhomely – The Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art
all this and heaven too – Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art
I am a thief – Australian Centre for Photography
here – Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA)
interiors – Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP)
innerspace – Fifth Sculpture Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria

His work has been featured in Flash Art News, Art in America, and Art and Text, among others.

Education

🎓 Research Masters in Fine Art
Victoria College of the Arts, University of Melbourne

Solo Exhibitions

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2016 – Creative Capital, Space 388, Melbourne
2011 – Late Capitalism, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide
2011 – Conny Dietzschold, Sydney/Cologne/Hong Kong
2011 – somewhere else, Level 17 Artspace, Melbourne
2009 – withoutyouimnothing, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide
2007 – now, PB Gallery, Swinburne University, Melbourne
2006 – Shadows, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
2004/05 – lollypop installation, Tarrawarra Museum of Art
2004 – night, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
2004 – tween, TCB Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
1998 – I Am A Thief, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
1997 – Interiors, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
1997 – Crime & Ornament, Economiser Building, Melbourne
1996 – Hold, VIC Arts Gallery, Melbourne
1995 – here, ACCA, Melbourne
1995 – Hold, Ministry of Arts Victoria Gallery
1994 – Death, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
1993 – Well, MOMA@Heide, Melbourne
1992 – Cave, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1991 – Paintings, Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1991 – Box, Studio 12, 200 Gertrude Street
1987 – Recent Works, Bad Gallery, Melbourne

Selected Group Exhibitions

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2008 – Group Exhibition, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide
2007 – Strange Beauty, Linden Art Gallery, Melbourne
2006 – CCB Auction, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2005 – A Short Ride in a Fast Machine, 200 Gertrude Street Gallery, Melbourne
2004 – Vivid, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
2003 – The Labyrinthe Effect, ACCA (with Francis Alÿs, Bruce Nauman, et al.), curated by Juliana Engberg
2001 – Wynne Art Prize, AGNSW, Sydney
1998 – The Everyday, 11th Biennale of Sydney
1998 – All This and Heaven Too, Adelaide Biennial, AGSA
1997 – Unhomely, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
1996 – Ruins in Reverse, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
1994 – Aussemblage, Auckland City Gallery, NZ
1993 – Inner Space, Fifth Australian Sculpture Triennial, NGV
1990 – Inaugural Exhibition, NT Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin
…and many more.

Publications & Reviews

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2005 – Short Ride in a Fast Machine, 200 Gertrude Street Gallery
2004 – Australian Art Collector, Issue 29 – Ashley Crawford
2003 – The Labyrinthe Effect, Catalogue Essay – Juliana Engberg
2003 – The Age, Feature: A Sense of Landscape – Rebecca Lancashire
2003 – Broadsheet, Vol 32 No. 3 – Mark Gomes
1999 – Art in America, A Summer Place – Lisa Liebman
1998 – The Everyday, Catalogue Essay – Jonathon Watkins
1997 – Catalogue Essay, All This and Heaven Too – Douglas Kahn
1996 – Photofile, Issue 47 – Denise Robinson
1996 – Art & Text, No. 55 – Robert Schubert
1996 – The Australian, July – Robert Rooney
1994 – Flash Art News, March-April – Adrian Dannatt
…and many others including features on Channel 31, Radio National, and Channel 9.