DUNCAN WYLIE

Wylie has displayed his art at major international venues, including the Louvre Abu Dhabi, the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the Palais de Tokyo, the Museum of Grenoble, Modern Gallery Saarbrücken, the Pinacothèque of Luxembourg, the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, and Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town. His works are part of important public and private collections, including the Louvre Abu Dhabi, Le CNAP, FMAC, FNAC, MUDAM Luxembourg, the Museum of Grenoble, and the Pritzker, Guerlain, Colas, Perrier Jouët, and Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon foundations.

Wylie began formal training in drawing and painting under artist Helen Lieros. In 1992, at the age of seventeen, he won the National Schools of Zimbabwe Prize. Inspired by painters like Manet, Cézanne, Van Gogh, and Picasso, he moved to France in 1994 to study at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. He trained under Jean-Michel Alberola and Pierre Buraglio, graduating with distinction in 1999. Wylie became a French citizen in 2005.

Reflecting on his work, Zoé Isle de Beauchaine writes, ‘In his works, Duncan Wylie plays with contrasts and oppositions, between construction and deconstruction, abstraction and figuration, order and chaos, revealing that behind one world, another awakens’ (The Art Newspaper, March 2023). In 2025, Wylie marked twenty years as a painter, with this first major monograph titled Multiple Realities.

Courtesy THK Gallery, Cape Town.