Hewitt was born in New York City in 1949 and grew up on Long Island. Having graduated from

Colby College (BA) and the University of Pennsylvania (MFA), he worked at a Maine boatyard

and foundry before becoming a Professor of Art, now Emeritus, at the University of Southern

Maine. His work has been shown with prominent twenty and twenty first century artists. In

2016, the Portland Museum of Art presented Duncan Hewitt: Turning Strange, a selection of

Hewitt’s work from the previous twenty years. In 2024 his work was exhibited in a two person

show at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. In addition to a dozen solo shows (four at the

ICON gallery) he has completed five public art projects.