Duncan Wylie (b. 1975, Harare, Zimbabwe) is a visual artist living and working between London and Paris. He is internationally recognised for his layered expressionist paintings, in which his technical skill, gestural brushwork, and bold colour use stand out. His works unfold through complex narratives and dynamic compositions, constructed from successive transparent layers of oil paint. Evoking a sense of instability, urgency and resilience, Wylie’s practice engages with themes of displacement, belonging and memory, where figuration and abstraction are held in productive tension.
Wylie has exhibited at major institutions 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.
In 2025, Wylie marked twenty years as a painter, with this first major monograph titled Multiple Realities.