Arthur Duff
Born in Wiesbanden in 1973, Duff spent time living in the United States, South Korea, Germany and Japan before settling in Italy. Duff currently lives and works between Vicenza and Venice, where he teaches at the city’s Academy of Fine Arts along with his position at Boston University. Since the early 2000s, he has been active as a visual artist in the Italian and international contemporary art scene. In 2010 he won the 2% prize at MACRO in Rome with his ROPE project.
"Artwork, at its most potent, evolves through the shaping effect of others — a passive process intertwined with a certain apprehension of unleashing emotions."
In recent years, he has created numerous works on an urban scale, participating in various group exhibitions including ‘Light Cycles’, at MAXXI in Rome, 2021; ‘The Muse’, KW Museum, Seoul, 2017; Curitiba Biennial, ‘Antipodes, Diverse and Reverse’, Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Curitiba; ‘La Finestra sul Cortile: Glimpses of Private Collections’ at the GAM in Milan in 2017; ‘Themes & Variations: Script and Space’ at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice in 2011; ‘La parola nell’arte: Ricerche d’avanguardia nel ‘900. Dal Futurismo ad oggi attraverso le Collezioni del Mart’ at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto in 2007. Duff recently exhibited at The Home of the Human Safety Net at the Procuratie Vecchie in Venice with the installation The Hungriest Eye, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero.
