Duff Norris is a Pittsburgh-based interdisciplinary artist, curator, and writer working in performance and visual art, currently focusing on photography and performance-for-documentation, using the mythos of objects and iconography within his work. His experience growing up in the American West has informed his aesthetics, evidenced in projects like RH Desert, and Freshly Wedded Queer. More broadly, his practice centers on themes of intimacy, masculinity, and direct address audienceship. Using personal narrative and portraiture as an entry point, he is interested in how impenetrable or porous boundaries are between an artists and audience. He asks questions about what narratives we are telling ourselves, what our relationship is to each other are, and if it is possible to be known and understood.

He has exhibited work with Culture Lab LIC (Queens), Ortega y Gasset Projects (Brooklyn), La Mama Galleria (Manhattan), On Canal (Manhattan), Experimental Sound Studio & Out of Site Chicago, Save Art Space (Los Angles), Tijuana Performa-Mexico, Walters Art Museum (Baltimore), and in Lake Ballard (Menzies, Australia). He completed an MFA from Pratt Institute and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.