CHRISTOPHER DULIN
Ceramic Sculptor & Painter
Christopher Dulin is a ceramic sculptor and painter whose work grows out of time spent living within indigenous and historical communities around the world. In partnership with the people who hold them, he collects natural pigments — used for centuries in ritual, body painting, and textile dyeing — and incorporates them into sculptures and paintings that reflect the places and traditions they come from.
EXHIBITIONS
Solo
2024 — La Storta Gallery, Venice, Italy
Group
2025 — Tsalapeteinos Te Arts, Kavala, Greece
2017 — Happy Place Imaginative Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
2017 — Happy Place Imaginative Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014 — Phyllis Arnold Memorial Gallery, Moorpark College, Moorpark, CA
2014 — The Environment Symposium & Exhibit, Moorpark College, Moorpark, CA
RESIDENCIES
2025 — Eutopia Art, Kavala, Greece 2024 — Venezia Contemporanea, Venice, Italy
FIELD RESEARCH & CULTURAL COLLABORATIONS
Ongoing research practice centered on the collection, preparation, and study of natural pigments in partnership with indigenous and historical communities. Materials gathered inform the sculptural and painted work.
2026
Palaung (Palung) Community, Myanmar — residential fieldwork; indigo dyeing and textile traditions
Kayan Community, Thailand — residential fieldwork; material culture and traditional adornment
Indigo Dyeing Master, Japan — traditional fermentation and dyeing practice
2025
Basque Country, Spain — material traditions and viticulture
Kavala, Philippi & Xanthi, Greece — regional history and material culture
Türkiye — Ottoman and Anatolian artistic traditions
2024
Tuareg (Amazigh) Community, Morocco — residential fieldwork; nomadic textile and indigo traditions
Shilha (Ishelhiyen Amazigh) Community, Morocco — residential fieldwork; craftsmanship and material practice
Jewish Community of Venice, Italy — cultural heritage and material history
Rio Tinto, Spain — historic ochre traditions
Minas de São Domingos, Portugal — historic ochre traditions
Lagos, Portugal — historic ochre traditions
2023
Kogi Community, Namgeja Mountains, Colombia — residential fieldwork; Hayu/Poporo spiritual practices
San José del Guaviare, Colombia — prehistoric petroglyph sites and ceremonial practice
Quechua Community, Peru — pigment traditions and textile arts
Emberá Community, Panama — residential fieldwork; Jagua body ornamentation
Multi-Tribal Community, Amazon Rainforest, Peru — residential fieldwork; botanical pigment traditions
Kuku Yalanji Community, Daintree Rainforest, Australia — ancestral body-painting traditions
Great Barrier Reef, Australia — regional pigment traditions
Aṉangu Community, Uluṟu–Kata Tjuṯa, Australia — ancestral history and rock art traditions
Video documentation of selected fieldwork is featured on the Films page.