Duncan MacDonald

Associate Professor Visual Arts Studio, Director of cSTAC
BFA York University, MFA Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
Office: GLN 111
Telephone: (905) 688-5550 ext. 5253
E-mail:dumacdon@brocku.ca

Duncan MacDonald is a contemporary interdisciplinary artist who works with audio, performance, video, photography, drawing and diverse media to explore the uncanny and the commodification of the corporeal sensorium.

MacDonald has taught at both The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and Brock University. He has taught drawing, foundation, art history, cultural theory, interdisciplinary studio, video art, intermedia, interdisciplinary workshop, sculpture and audio art.

His art works have been exhibited, performed and recorded throughout Canada, the US, Europe and South America.

www.duncanmacdonald.ca

Humanities Research Institute profile

Selected Solo or Two-Person Exhibitions

2011 Natural Frequencies, Cram Art Gallery, St. Catharines, ON, May- June

2010 Little Revolutions, Rodman Hall Arts Centre, Hansen Gallery, September - January

2010 Duncan MacDonald, Art Dealers of Association of Canada, Toronto International Art Fair, November

2010 Babble, pm gallery, Toronto, September

2009 This is that, A Mano Libera, St. Catharines, August

2008 White Picket Sound-Fence, Grimsby Public Art Gallery, June – September

2007 Boules de gui, pm gallery, Toronto, May 24 – July 1

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011 Summer Show, Part One, pm Gallery, June – July

2011 The Good Host, curated by Su-Ying Lee, Metro Hall, Toronto, April-May

2011 Small Feats, NAC fundraiser, St. Catharines, April 2

2010 Toronto International Art Fair, pm gallery, Toronto, November

2009 First year retrospective, A Mano Libera Art Gallery, July-August

2009 Upon First Refraction, Drake Hotel, curated by Mia Nielsen and Powell,
MacDougall, Toronto

2008 Toronto International Art Fair, pm gallery, Toronto, October

2008 Mnemonic Devices, Oakville Galleries, Gairloch Garden, crated by Matthew Hyland, May – June

2008 Ice Follies, WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay, February

2007 Toronto International Art Fair, pm gallery, Toronto, October

2007 J’etais comme une pierre, j’etais comme un arbre (Nuit Blanche), Musee Cluny, Paris, France, October 6-7

2007 Intramural League, pm gallery, curated by Kyle Bishop, September 6 – October 6

2007 Make ‘em beg, pm gallery, August

Collaborative Works

2011 Musicbox Revolving Door (with Cory Lund and Janis Demkiw), Metro Hall, Toronto

2008 L’intrus (with Emmanuelle Raynaut: Nuit Blanche), Paris, France, October 4-5

2008 Ice Follies (with Derek Knight and Melissa Smith), WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay, Ontario, February 23

2007 J’etais comme une pierre, j’etais comme un arbre (with Emmanuelle Raynaut: Nuit Blanche), Musee Cluny, Paris, France, October 6-7