Anaïs Duplan
Anaïs Duplan '14 is a trans* poet, curator, and artist. He is the author of upcoming book I NEED MUSIC (Action Books, 2021), and a book of essays, (Black Ocean, 2020). He founded the , a residency program for artists of color, at Iowa City’s artist-run organization Public Space One.
Biography
Duplan is a trans* poet, curator, and artist. He is the author of upcoming book I NEED MUSIC (Action Books, 2021), a book of essays, (Black Ocean, 2020), a full-length poetry collection, Take This Stallion (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2016), and a chapbook, Mount Carmel and the Blood of Parnassus (Monster House Press, 2017). He has taught poetry at the University of Iowa, Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence College, and St. Joseph’s College.
His video works have been exhibited by Flux Factory, Daata Editions, the 13th Baltic Triennial in Lithuania, Mathew Gallery, NeueHouse, the Paseo Project, and will be exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art in L.A in 2021.
As an independent curator, Duplan has facilitated curatorial projects in St. Louis, Chicago, Boston, Santa Fe, and ReykjavÃk. He was a 2017-2019 joint Public Programs fellow at the Museum of Modern Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem. In 2016, he founded the , an artist residency program for artists of color, based at Iowa City’s artist-run organization Public Space One. He works as Program Manager at . Duplan received his BA from ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø College and was a visiting faculty member at ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø for Fall 2021 and a Ben Belitt Visiting Faculty Fellow for Spring 2022. He joined the ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø faculty in Fall 2022.