BIOGRAPHY
I was born in Hialeah, Florida,1976, of Cuban and Lebanese ancestry. I attended New World School of the Arts in Miami, Florida, and the Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri. There, I received an Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a focus on ceramics and painting. Today, I live and work in Gainesville, Florida as a mixed media studio artist.
My solo exhibitions include: Spaces In Between at The Appleton Museum of Art, Bringing Up the Dead at the Art and Cultural Center of Hollywood, FL; Path of Least Resistance at Ingalls & Associates, Miami, FL; Views from Within: Christian Duran and Vickie Pierre at the Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland, FL; Nerve at Edge Zones, Miami, FL; and Equinox at the Capitol, Cabinet Meeting Room, in Tallahassee, FL.
Select group exhibitions include: 100+ Degrees in the Shade: A Survey of South Florida Art at the Laundromat Art Space, Miami; Aesthetic and Values at Florida International University, Miami; NARRATIVES at the Palm Beach State College Art Gallery, Palm Beach, FL; Too Much Is Not Enough at the Little Haiti Cultural Center, Miami; Ways of Worldmaking: Notes on a Passion for Collecting at the Museum at Miami Dade College, Freedom Tower, Miami; 2006 Visual Art Fellowship Traveling Exhibition, traveling throughout Florida; Artists of Cuban Ancestry from the Permanent Collection at the Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland, FL.
My works of art have been published in: Saw Palm, Florida Literature and Art , The Nowhere Man, a novel by Marlon Fick , and 100+ Degrees in the Shade: A Survey of South Florida by [NAME] Publications. I was also featured in two books by Schiffer Publishing Ltd,: 100 Southern Artist and Miami Contemporary Artists, and received a Florida Individual Artist Fellowship Grant and an Artist in Residence at La Fundación Valparaiso in Almería, Spain.
My current work, studio life, and inspirations can also be viewed and followed on Instagram at christianduranstudio, Facebook at “Christian Duran, Visual Artist”, and older work at www.re-title.com, http://www.re-title.com/artists/Christian-Duran.asp.
My solo exhibitions include: Spaces In Between at The Appleton Museum of Art, Bringing Up the Dead at the Art and Cultural Center of Hollywood, FL; Path of Least Resistance at Ingalls & Associates, Miami, FL; Views from Within: Christian Duran and Vickie Pierre at the Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland, FL; Nerve at Edge Zones, Miami, FL; and Equinox at the Capitol, Cabinet Meeting Room, in Tallahassee, FL.
Select group exhibitions include: 100+ Degrees in the Shade: A Survey of South Florida Art at the Laundromat Art Space, Miami; Aesthetic and Values at Florida International University, Miami; NARRATIVES at the Palm Beach State College Art Gallery, Palm Beach, FL; Too Much Is Not Enough at the Little Haiti Cultural Center, Miami; Ways of Worldmaking: Notes on a Passion for Collecting at the Museum at Miami Dade College, Freedom Tower, Miami; 2006 Visual Art Fellowship Traveling Exhibition, traveling throughout Florida; Artists of Cuban Ancestry from the Permanent Collection at the Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland, FL.
My works of art have been published in: Saw Palm, Florida Literature and Art , The Nowhere Man, a novel by Marlon Fick , and 100+ Degrees in the Shade: A Survey of South Florida by [NAME] Publications. I was also featured in two books by Schiffer Publishing Ltd,: 100 Southern Artist and Miami Contemporary Artists, and received a Florida Individual Artist Fellowship Grant and an Artist in Residence at La Fundación Valparaiso in Almería, Spain.
My current work, studio life, and inspirations can also be viewed and followed on Instagram at christianduranstudio, Facebook at “Christian Duran, Visual Artist”, and older work at www.re-title.com, http://www.re-title.com/artists/Christian-Duran.asp.