Background
Born in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1980, son of Michael Duncan and Sadie Duncan.
Born in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1980, son of Michael Duncan and Sadie Duncan.
He studied at the Chelsea School of Art, London, graduating in 2007.
His life has been itinerant, and he has lived in many different countries including the United States, United Kingdom, Malta, France and Germany. Zhivago speaks six languages fluently. include the Saatchi, where he has exhibited in the major Gesamtkuntswerk exhibition of new art from Germany. Zhivago"s multi-faceted character is reflected in his habitation of a variety of creative alter egos who inspire and create his work.
One of these was "Nacnud Ogavihz" a reversal of the label of his own identity.
As Zhivago puts it, Dick Flash"s work is "the result of the imaginary journey of Dick Flash, the world’s sole survivor of the apocalypse according to him and his legacy. Semi-amnesiac, Dick Flash roams the converted world digging up the fruitful remains of his debauched ancestors.".
According to the Saatchi gallery, one of the world"s leading collections of modern art, "through his sprawling, messy multimedia artworks, Zhivago Duncan comments on the state of contemporary culture and its obessions, crassly quoted and re-created from an irreversibly apocalyptic future point of view".
