Monica Duncan (she/her) is a video and performance artist. Her time-based work investigates sensory perceptions, queer potentiality, and relationality to our more-than human world. Duncan’s video and performance work has been exhibited Hebbel am Ufer HAU1, Frankfurt Lab, zeitraumexit, Komuna//Warszawa, The Kitchen, Roulette, Atlanta Contemporary, Hallwalls, La Casa Encendida, ZKM, LACMA, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, amongst others. She has been a visiting artist at the Atlanta College of Art, Georgia State University, Hunter College, New School, Pratt Institute, Signal Culture, Experimental Television Center, Scena Robocza, Institute for Electronic Arts, PACT Zollverein, LMCC Governors Island and Stoveworks.
Duncan is a longtime collaborator with sound artist Senem Pirler. Their audiovisual duo has performed and screened their audiovisual work at numerous festivals and venues such as Revolutions Per Minute, Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film, Video & Music, Transient Visions, Light Matter, Athens International Film + Video, Intermediale Festival of Audiovisual Forms and Chicago Film Festival, 61st Ann Arbor Film Festival's Expanded Cinema program, LEAF2023 Sync Exhibition and forthcoming Currents 2024 Art and Technology Festival. They are recipients of the 2024 Harvestworks New Works Artist Residency. Among others, Duncan has collaborated with the following artists: Kathleen McDermott, Romuald Krężel, Lara Odell, Ross Karre, Merve Kayan and Laure Hiendl.
Duncan has design video projection and immersive environments for theater, dance, opera and new music performance including: Sylvia Milo and Nathan Davis’ “I am the utterance of my name,” Pauline Oliveros and IONE’s “The Nubian Word For Flowers,” Romuald Krężel’s “The Last” and “Retrospective,” Claire Chase’s Density, Suzanne Farrin’s “Dolce la morte,” the International Contemporary Ensemble and Lehman College’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Rick DesRochers.
Duncan received her BFA from the NYSCC School of Art and Design at Alfred University, MFA in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego and while on a D.A.A.D fellowship her MA in Choreography and Performance at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany. Duncan joined the faculty of the Department of Music, Multimedia, Theatre & Dance at Lehman College-CUNY in Fall 2019.