Biography

Alasdair Duncan 


Born in London in 1971. 

Lives and works in London.



Education


'04 –'07     

Royal Academy Schools, Post Grad. Dip Fine Art.


'90 –'94

 Goldsmiths College, University of London, BA Fine Art and Critical Theory.



Solo Exhibitions:


2017

Things to do with what we don't know, Theodore:Art, Brooklyn NY.


2014

The Meanings, Bohunk Institute, Nottingham.


2013

Here, and Somewhere Else, ArtLacuna, London.


2012

Signs for the Future: essen vil, essen der, elet insiir, Theodore:Art, Brooklyn, NY (March)

Signs for the Future, MOCA London.


2010

An Introduction to the Future, Theodore:Art, NY.


2008

The thinking of five thoughts about living well (an something else), RBS Gallery, London



Selected Group Exhibitions and Projects:


2016

It is what it is what it is, Kingly Industrial Unit, Hong Kong.

A Lover's Discord, MOCA London.


2015

First Floor, GiG, Munich.

A Lover's Discord, Kondor Projects, Copenhagen.

Island II, G39, Cardiff.

Urban Exotic Dilemma, AVA, Hong Kong


2014

A Union of Voices, Horatio Junior, London.

drAwn2gether, GiG, Munich.

A Significant Other, Glass Cube, Hammersmith Town Hall, London.

Anna, Mettlework, Singapore.

Bits of the Real, Art at the time of the Disorder in the Real, sign and text for World Association of Psychoanalysis website.

prensestil arendesh, sign for MA in Psychoanalysis, Kingston University, London.

Real Estate, Ventana244, Brooklyn,  New York.

Amerika: Idea / Fantasy / Dream / Myth / Image, Camberwell Space, London.


2013

USA, GiG, Munich.

trade parade, Kanazawa Toiya Art Fair, Kanazawa, Japan.

Gardening, Garden Projects 2, London.

Hack the Barbican, Barbican Centre, London.

How we Dance in the Wind, Garden Projects, Kunitachi, Tokyo.

The ArtLacuna Film Festival, ArtLacuna, London.

Sex, Death and Cocktails: Desire and the Death Drive, ArtLacuna Publications.


2012

Towards A New Abstraction, Fondazione MACC, Calasetta, Sardinia, Italy.

Temples 2 the Domestic, Clifford Chance, London.

Artist's project, Schism Magazine, issue four.

Cover art for Psychoanalytical Notebooks 23.

Lewton Bus 'Conditions', Vitrine Gallery, London.

Lewton Bus 'Coming Soon, Shortwave Cinema, London.

Dana Bell / Alasdair Duncan / Don Voisine, Theodore:Art, Brooklyn, NY.

The Box space at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London.

Form & Malfunction, Angus-Hughes Gallery, London.


2011

Little White Lies, Aubin Gallery, London.

Hi Teen Carnival, Let's be Civil, ANDOR, London. 

Unconventional Objects, Take Out Drawing (Hannam branch), Seoul, S. Korea. 

Artist's project, Madame Wang, Journal for Geo-Distributed Collaboration, issue one.

Artist's project, Schism Magazine, issue two.

Art Works, 9th Congress of the New Lacanian School, Institute of Education, London.

New Lacanian School Congress Poster, various sites, London and Paris.

Peter von Kant Poster Project, Peter von Kant, London.


2010

Peter von Kant: Shop Preview: Duncan, Hermes, Strba, Verdon, Peter von Kant, London.

Enslave Your Planet, Lo & Behold, London.

Throwing Shapes, Cafe Gallery Projects and Coleman Project Space, London.

HANSA, (collaborating with Situ Projects and Treignac Projet) Treignac Projet, Treignac, France.

Happy End, Basement Art Project at Yinka Shonibare's space, London.

Signs project, (collaborating with Situ Projects and Treignac Projet)Treignac and Belfast.

Avec Vkhoutemas, Treignac Projet, Treignac, France.

                

2009 

Sons & Lovers, 52Meters, London


2008

Geometry and Colour, Poussin Gallery, London

The Brotherhood of Subterranea, Kunstbunker, Nuremberg.


2007

Fusion Now: more light, more power, more people, Rokeby Gallery, London.

Postgraduate Printmaking in London 2007, Clifford Chance, London

12 to 1, 1 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London.

STINKBOMB, Substation Project Space, Margate.


2006

Everything to Lose, 53 Millbrook Rd, Brixton, London.

International Enquirer, (collaborating with JJ Charlesworth) Art Gene, Barrow in Furness.

Facing the Façade, Royal Academy of Arts, London.

RA5, Lennon Weinberg, New York.

ASP. KRK. RAS. LDN. Young Artists: Poland, Britain, Wisnycz Castle, Wisnycz, Poland.


2005

Premiums, Royal Academy of Arts, London.


2001

The Tomorrow Gate, Britart Space, London.


2000 & 2001

Akihabara TV 1 & 2, Command N, Tokyo.


1999 & 2000

The Non Stop Opening, Centrepoint Gallery, London & Galeria Ze dos Bois, Lisbon, Portugal.


1998

EBC (everything broadcasting corporation), ICA, London.


1997 & 1998

Martin / Curator’s Arse, Spitz Gallery, London & Waygood Gallery, Newcastle.


1996 & 1997 

Artist’s projects, Everything Magazine  19 & 21.



Other Activities:


Alasdair Duncan has written on art for ArtReview, London, Everything Magazine, London, Mute, London, Void Chicken, Tokyo, Studio Voice, Tokyo, & Audience Today, London and Madam Wang.


In 2004 Alasdair organised The Futurians at the Taro Nasu Gallery, Tokyo, in 2009 co-organised Sons & Lovers at 52Meters, London,  

 in 2011 organised Peter von Kant Poster Project, Peter von Kant, London,

in 2013 co-organised USA at GiG, Munch,  

and in 2014 co-organised Amerika: Idea / Fantasy / Dream / Myth / Image, at Camberwell Space, London.

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