Mitchell Van Duzer

Mitchell Van Duzer was born on December 8, 1985, in Greenville, South Carolina, USA. For the first few years of his life, he and his family lived in Sparta, New Jersey, while his mother worked for Metropolitan Life at their main headquarters in New York City. When Mitchell was 4, his mother was transferred to the MetLife branch office in Atlanta, so the family relocated to northern Georgia, first to the town of Cumming, and then to Gainesville. Throughout his childhood, Mitchell was always attracted to both visual art and writing as forms of expression; his mother would bring home printer paper from work, upon which he spent countless hours fervently scribbling and doodling.

Following his graduation from high school in 2004, Mitchell's family relocated once more to Bradenton, Florida, and he began attending Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota as a computer animation major. Despite his focus on his major, it was here that he really began to hone his painting skills, under the direction of Sarasota artist Jeff Schwartz. When Mitchell was 21, he was also diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, a high-functioning autism spectrum disorder that manifests as social awkwardness, difficulty interpreting body language and subtle ve...

Associate Certificate, British Columbia Institute of Technology, 2013
Concentrations: Graphic Design​

B.F.A., General Fine Arts, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, 2008-2010
Concentrations: Painting, Drawing

​Computer Animation, Ringling College of Art and Design, 2004-2007
Concentrations: Computer Animation, Concept Development

2022 • Membership Show, Allied Arts of Whatcom County, Bellingham, WA

2021 • Fingerism: Rejoinders to a Post-Pandemic World, Van Duzer Gallery, virtual [ArtSteps]

2021 • 2021 Shoreline Arts Festival Virtual Juried Art Show, ShoreLake Arts Gallery, Shoreline, WA

2020 • Precisely Abstract, Allied Arts of Whatcom County, Bellingham, WA

2020 • Membership Show, Allied Arts of Whatcom County, Bellingham, WA

2019 • 60th Annual Kingston Fine Arts Festival, Village Green Community Center, Kingston, WA

2019 • The Art of Mitchell Van Duzer, Legendary Vinyl Records, Bellingham, WA

2019 • Early Summer Juried Exhibit, Jansen Art Center, Lynden, WA

2019 • Membership Show, Allied Arts of Whatcom County, Bellingham, WA

2018 • Winter Juried Exhibit, Jansen Art Center, Lynden, WA

2015 • Close Encounters: the unseen editions, Make.Shift Gallery, Bellingham, WA

2015 • Early Summer Juried Exhibit, Jansen Art Center, Lynden, WA

2014 • 6 x 6 BHAM, Dakota Gallery, Bellingham, WA

2014 • Winter Juried Exhibit, Jansen Art Center, Lynden, WA

2013 • It's a Mad World, Gallery Gachet, Vancouver, BC

2012 • Anonymous Art Show, CityScape Community Art Space, North Vancouver, BC

2011 • Anonymous Art Show, CityScape Com...