Christopher Robin Duncan

Christopher Robin Duncan (b. 1974, Perth Amboy, NJ) lives and works in Oakland, California. Duncan’s practice is interdisciplinary, incorporating painting, sculpture, sound, and performance. His work is attuned to the rhythms and passages of time and representative of the repetitive cycles that inform our lives.

He received his BFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 2003 and his MFA from Stanford University in 2013. He has had solo exhibitions at Pt. 2 Gallery, Oakland, CA (2024); Rebecca Camacho Presents, San Francisco, CA (2023; 2020); Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY (2022; 2019; 2016); Eighteen Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (2020); Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA (2018); and Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA (2016); amongst others.

His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV (2025); The Wattis Institute, California College of Arts, San Francisco, CA (2024); San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery (2022); Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE (2019); Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY (2018); the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) (2018); and the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2018); amongst others.

Duncan has been in residence at the Space Program, San Francisco (2023); Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito (2015); ACRE, Steuben (2012); University of Kansas, Lawrence (2012); and Kala Institute, Berkeley (2010) amongst others.

Duncan's work is in the collection of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley CA; Jaffe Book Arts Collection, Boca Raton FL; Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis MO;  Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA.