Art of the Black Experience

Keith Duncan was born in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. He received a BFA from Louisiana State University, and an MFA from Hunter College (CUNY) New York. With a multidimensional approach to subject matter and material, Duncan is a visual storyteller whose narrative artworks depict widely relatable imagery that is often specific to New Orleans.

The CUE Arts Foundation in New York presented a solo exhibition of his work in 2010, followed by inclusion of all works from the exhibition in Prospect.2 New Orleans, LA, curated by Dan Cameron. In 2017, the solo exhibition "Satire and Storytelling" was presented at Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi, Mississippi. In 2019, Fort Gansevoort gallery in New York presented the solo exhibition "Keith Duncan: The Big Easy." In 2021, Fort Gansevoort presented "Keith Duncan: Bayou Classic," an online exhibition in conversation with Franklin Sirmans.

Duncan was included in Thelma Golden’s "Black Romantic" exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2002. Duncan’s work has been included in numerous group exhibitions at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum in Lafayette, LA; Art in General, David Beitzel Gallery, Rush Arts Gallery, Williamsburg Music Center, Brooklyn, NY, Bronx River Arts Center, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Pontiac, MI, Tustin Center, Philadelphia, PA, and the Artist Center & Gallery, Richmond, VA. Duncan is included in the permanent collections of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL; and Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI.

His awards include the Camille Cosby Fellowship (1990), The Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (1997), and the CUE Foundation Grant (2010) among others.