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BORN
Aberdeen, Scotland. Lives and works in Western Massachusetts.TEACHING
1998-2005 Assistant Professor, Illinois State University, Bloomington IL
2005-6 Associate Professor, Illinois State University, Bloomington IL
2006-present Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
EDUCATION
1996 M.F.A. Degree, Studio Art, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
1991 B.F.A. Honours Degree, Painting, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007
Move, Den Contemporary, LA, CA2005
Shona Macdonald: Inscape, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
Shona Macdonald :Inscape Drawings, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago IL
Shona Macdonald: Inscape: Paintings, Skestos-Gabriele Gallery, Chicago, IL2003
Terrain, Julie Baker Fine Art, Grass Valley, CA2000
Shona Macdonald, Project Room, Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, IL1998
Shona Macdonald, New Work, Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, ILTWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2002
Shona Macdonald: Envelopes and Isles, Galerie refugium, Berlin, Germany (showed with Patrick Magee)
Shona Macdonald & Molly Briggs, Works on Paper, Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL
Shona Macdonald & LJ Douglas, University of Alberta Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Confluence, Julie Baker Gallery, Sacramento, CA, (showed with Ray Charles White)SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2007
The Uncertainty Principle: Drawing in the Golden Age of Worry, Northern Illinois University Art Gallery, DeKalb, IL
Topamnesia, Skestos-Gabriele Gallery, Chicago IL2006
Paper, Skestos-Gabriele Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Lustre of Silver: Contemporary Silverpoint Drawings, Telfair Art Museum, Savannah, GA2005
Into the Woods, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago IL
Invisible Worlds, Evanston Art Centre, Evanston, IL
Groundwork, d.e.n. contemporary, LA, CA
Drawing Project, Stray Show, Chicago, IL
Drawn Out, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
Into the Midst, Mixture Contemporary, Houston, TX
The Promised Land, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Chicago IL2004
Den Nya Framtidsvetenskapen, Lisa Boyle Gallery, Chicago IL
Summer Drawings and Some are Not, Mixture Gallery, Houston TX
Drawing Project: Chicago/London, (organized and curated), The Stray Show,
Chicago IL
Displacement, Gescheildle, Chicago, IL, (Brochure, essay John Brunetti )
Under Run, Dogmatic, Chicago IL
Lazy Days, Julie Baker Fine Art, Grass Valley, CA2003
PAINTINGS !, Central Michigan University Art Gallery, Mt. Pleasant, MI,
(catalogue, essay, Buzz Spector)
So Square, McLean County Art Centre, Bloomington, IL
Faculty Biennial, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Travelogue, Green Studios, Mineral Point, WI2002
Topography, Northeastern Illinois University Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
Postcards from the Edge, MacLean County Art Centre, Bloomington, IL2001
Faculty Biennial, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Bloomington, IL
Bakers Dozen, Julie Baker Gallery, Grass Valley, California
By the Foot, NIU Gallery, Chicago, IL
Summer Group Show, Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, IL2000
Surface Tensions, Spaces, Cleveland, Ohio
Intonations, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL, (brochure, John Brunetti)
Brief Encounters, British Artists Abroad, (BAB), Platform, Melbourne, Australia
Thin Line, I-Space, Chicago, (essay, Tim Porges)
Recycle, McLean County Art Center, Bloomington, IL
The Mark Applied, Cardinal Stritch University Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD, (CD-Rom Catalogue)1999
Thirty times 15" x 15", Fassbender, Gallery, Chicago, IL
Faculty Biennial, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Bloomington, IL
Emergence, The Three Arts Club, Chicago, IL, (essay, Stephanie Skestos)
It Looks Easy: A Cross-Section of Painting in Chicago, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
Otherville, University Gallery, Illinois State University, Bloomington, IL1998
Link: 22 Painters, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
Substance: A Corporeal Investigation, NIU Gallery, Chicago, IL, (essay, Julie Charmello)1997
The Twenty Five Dollar Show, Beret Gallery, Chicago, IL
Works on Paper, Riverside Arts Centre, Riverside, IL1996 (over)
The Fourth Floor, 118 North Peoria, Chicago, IL
Mid-States Annual, Evansville Museum of Art, Evansville, IN
Summer Group Show, Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, IL
Shona Macdonald/Karen Ruby Brown, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL1995
South Central, Link Gallery, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL1993
16th Annual Purchase Award Show, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL Risk, Vergette Gallery, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL1992
Pacesetters, Peterborough Art Gallery, Peterborough, England, UK1990
Scholarship Exhibition, Hospitalfield Residency, Hospitalfield House,
Arbroath, Scotland, UK1988
Paisley Drawing Competition, Paisley Museum and Art Gallery, Paisley, Scotland, UK
REVIEWS
2006
Art in America, review of, ‘Inscape’, at Skestos-Gabriele Gallery and Chicago Cultural Center, Susan Sondgrass, (spring 2006)2005
LA Times, Review of Groundwork, David Pagel
Chicago Tribune, ‘Friday’ Section, Review of ‘Inscape: Drawings’, Jenn Goddu, Dec 16th
Chicago Tribune, ‘On the Town’ Section, Review of ‘Inscape Drawings’, Alan Artner, Nov 25th
Chicago Sun Times, Review of ‘Inscape: Drawings’, Margaret Hawkins, Dec 9
Chicago Reader, ‘Now Showing’ Section, Review of ‘Inscape: Drawings’, Fred Camper
Time Out Chicago, Review of ‘The Promised Land’, Wendy Cooper Gallery. Chicago 12-19 Jan 20052004
Panel House, Review of Den Nya Framtidsvetenskapen, Mary Gustaitis Beyer2003
Art News, Review of ‘Terrain’ at Julie Baker Fine Art, by Lindsey Westbrook,
Summer 20032002
Chicago Critics on Chicago Artists: John Brunetti on Shona Macdonald, Art Fair, Navy Pier, Chicago
Chicago Sun Times, Review of ‘Topography’, Margaret Hawkins, April 2002
The Life, Review of ‘Shona Macdonald and Molly Briggs’, Rohit Mahajan, Feb 20022001
Sacramento Bee, Review of, ‘Bakers Dozen’,Victoria Dalkey, December 20012000
Cleveland Free Times, Review of, ‘Surface Tensions’, Douglas Max Utter, Nov 2000
The Plain Reader, Review of ‘Surface Tensions’, Dan Trauberg Dec 2000
Cleveland Scene, Review of, ‘Surface Tensions’, Charles Yannopouols, Nov 2000
Chicago Artists News, ‘Redefining Emerging Artists: a Closer Look’, John Brunetti, Nov 2000
FGA, review of Shona Macdonald at Fassbender, Julia Marsh, Oct 2000
New City, review of, ‘Thin Line’, Ann Weins, Feb 20001999
New Art Examiner, review of, 'It Looks Easy', Gallery 400, John Gustafson, Dec/Jan 1999
Gravy #5, (on-line review) ‘It Looks Easy’, Adam Mikos, Oct 1999PUBLICATIONS
2004
‘LivingArtists’, Crowwoods Publishing, Chicago IL, 2004
New American Paintings, Volume 59, Midwest Edition, 2005AWARDS
2005
Illinois Arts Council Finalist Award
2002, also 2003 and 2004
Illinois State University Faculty Large Project Grant, Bloomington, IL2001
Nominated, Louis Comfort Tiffany Award
Illinois State University Faculty Large Project Grant, Bloomington, IL2000
CAAP Grant, City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs.1999
Illinois State University Faculty Small Project Grant, Bloomington, IL1997
Drawing Prize, Riverside Arts Centre, Chicago, Illinois1996
Jess Halpert Memorial Award, Evansville Museum, Indiana1995
R.S. Richard Foundation Award, Ayrshire, Scotland
Aberdeen Endowments Trust, Aberdeen, Scotland1993
Purchase Award, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois1992
Scottish International Educational Trust Scholarship, Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh, Scotland1990
Hart Bursary Award, Glasgow School of ArtRESIDENCIES
2007
Ox-Bow, Awarded Cora Bliss Taylor Fellowship in Painting, Saugatuk, MI2004
Tyrone Guthrie Centre, One-month Residency, County Monaghan, Ireland, (selected for the Virginia Centre for the Creative Arts, International Artists Residency Programme)2001
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Artists Residency (Also offered 2003), Sweet Briar, VA
Ragdale Foundation, Artist Residency, (Awarded Friends Fellowship), Lake Forest, IL1990
Hospitalfield Scholarship and Residency, Hospitalfield House, Arbroath, Scotland, UK.COLLECTIONS:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI
Metro Biologics, Madison, WI
Telfair Art Museum, Savannah, GA
La Salle Bank, Chicago IL
Sackner Collection of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Miami Beach, FLINVITED PROJECTS:
2006
Benefit Auction, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL2002
Water: Benefit Auction, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL1999
Awash, Collaborative Artists’ Book with Buzz Spector, WhiteWalls Benefit, 2000
Book of Isles, One-of-a-Kind Artists’ Book, Fassbender Gallery, 1999
A Drawing Project , Anafidorka: (Independent artist/writer publication), Winter, 1999VISITING ARTIST LECTURES/PANELS
2007
Artist-in-Residence, Georgia State University, Atlanta GA. Three day Residency
The Uncertainty Principle: Drawing in the Golden Age of Worry, Two-Day Symposium and Critiques, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL2006
Visiting Artist, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
Visiting Artist, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Panelist, ‘Drawing: Material Articulation’, Vanderbildt University, Nashville, TN2005
Panelist, panel in conjunction with, ‘Drawn Out’ exhibiton, Gallery 400, Chicago IL
Lecture, in conjunction with ‘Inscape’ exhibition, College of DuPage, Glen Elyn, IL
Visiting Artist, Interlink Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago2004
Visiting Artist, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, First Year Programme, presentation
Visiting Artist, University of Illinois at Chicago, Final critiques2003
Visiting Artist, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI
Gallery Talk, Julie Baker Fine Art, Grass Valley, CA
Visiting Artist, Painting Area, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, (Lecture and Critiques; Three day appointment)2002
Visiting Artist, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, (Final Critiques)
Panelist, Mid-America College Art Association Conference, University ofNebraskaLincoln, panel arranged by Prof. Julia Morrisroe, ‘Holding on and Letting go: Inter-Disciplinary Art in Education’
Visiting Artist, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Visiting Artist, Week-Long Project and Lecture, University of Calgary, Canada
Gallery Talk, Julie Baker Fine Art, Grass Valley, CA
Gallery Talk, Northeastern Illinois University, in conjunction with ‘Topography, Chicago, IL2001
Visiting Artist, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, (Final Critiques)
Lecture, Ohio State University, Bowling Green, OH, (at Fassbender Gallery)1999
Visiting Artist, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL
Slide Presentation, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri1997
Visiting Artist, University of Illinois at Chicago
Slide Presentation, Wimbledon College of Art, London, UK