Chai Duncan is an artist, curator and art educator living and working in Nanaimo British Columbia on the unceded territories of the Snuneymuxw Peoples. Currently he teaches sculpture in the Visual Art department at Vancouver Island University where is also the curator at VIU’s VIEW Gallery. In his art practice he continues to work in multiple media, investigating the cultural construction of nature and the overlapping territories that arise where humanity and the natural world meet. He is a collector of found landscapes and is interested in the abandoned, discarded and obsolete built environment. He has lived and worked in Quebec, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta, B.C, and Texas.