jillianmcdonald news

Facebook Twitter Vimeo Instagram



* LISTEN TO FEATURE RADIO INTERVIEW *
CBC IDEAS with PAUL KENNEDY



VTape

Death and Data screening
Seot 19, 2025, 7-9pm
401 Richmond Street W.
Toronto, ON



Opalka Gallery

Compass Roses: Maps by Artists group show
Seot 2 - Oct 11, 2025
Russell Sage College
140 New Scotland Ave.
Albany, NY


The Church at Staatsburg

Unearthing the Light group show, curated by Alison Cornyn
July 19 - Sept 14, 2025
5 Market Street
Staatsburg, NY 12580



Spectral Lines

Under Drifting Suns 2-person show with Stacy Mehrfar, curated by Elisabeth Smolarz
June 20 - Sept 22, 2025
682 Woodward Ave
Ridgewood, NY 11385



Harvestworks

Time Based Art: Space and Time in Tune exhibition
May 17 - Aug 24, 2025
Nolan Park, Goverors Island, NY



Jane Altes Gallery

Realms Unreal: Artistic Experiments with Artificial Intelligence group show, curated by Taliesin Thomas
Jan 13 - Feb 14, 2025
265 River Street
Troy, NY



Temp Files at Pratt Institute

Transformation screening, curated by Maria McCarthy
October 25th, 2024, 7pm
Pratt Film/Video McKenna Screening Room
550 Myrtle Avenue
Brooklyn, NY


Collar Works at Opalka Gallery

Painting at Night group exhibition
Sept 3 - October 12, 2024
Albany, NY



Temp Files online screening

Transformation: Ritual screening
Aug 1 - 31, 2024, online


The DUMBO Projection Project

screening on the Manhattan Bridge
March 21 - April 13, 2024
Brooklyn, NY


Deluge Contemporary Arts

Aesthetic Paralysis, exhibition
Feb 17 - March 16, 2024
Victoria, BC, Canada


Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts

Aliens, Zombies, Monsters and Cyborgs: Creative Encounters on Speculative Landscapes, panel
Oct 26 - 29, 2023
ASU, Tempe, AZ


Wave Farm

Broadcast, interview with Tom Roe
June 10, 2023
Acra, NY


Wave Farm

Residency
June 2 - 11, 2023
Acra, NY


aCinema

Archispectrals
March 3, 2023
Milwaukee, WI


A Small and Quiet Winter Screen

Screening 3 video works by Jillian McDonald
February, 2023
University of Regina
Regina, SK, Canada
Curated by Risa Horowitz


Undercurrent Gallery

HOLE, exhibition with Kate Teale
July 29th - August 21st, 2022
70 John Street
Brooklyn, NY


Message from the Rocks, Stories of the Invisible, residency and exhibition with Linda Duvall
May 23rd - July 31st, 2022
Art Gallery of Regina
Regina, SK, Canada


Visiting Artist
Oct 3 - 16, 2021
Snowmass Village, CO


Message from the Rocks, collaborative residency with Linda Duvall
August 17 - 25, 2021
Art Gallery of Regina
Regina, SK, Canada


Plenery Lecture, Art and Process Series
April 5 - 9, 2021


ASU Leonardo Laser Talk

Why Do Zombies refuse to Die?, panel
Oct 29, 2020
Phoenix, AZ
watch on Youtube


Five Myles

Hauntings, 3-person show with Marigold Santos and Barbara Friedman
Feb 22 - June 27, 2020
Brooklyn, NY


Artist in Residence, Arts Center

LMCC - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Oct 2019 - Nov 2020
Governors Island, New York, NY


Romanov Grave

One Question, One Answer, interview
Nov 2, 2019


Big&Small/Casual Gallery

Home Sweet (Psycho) Home, solo project
Oct 3rd - Nov 7th, 2019
Brooklyn, NY


UAAC University Art Association of Canada Conference

Freezing with Ghosts, presentation on Art North panel
October 24th - 27th, 2019
Quebec City, Canada


C-Flickering

3-person show with Victoria Keddie and Gabrielle Mertz
July 20, 2019
Setauket, NY


ASLE Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Conference,

Freeze, presentation on Arctic Art panel
June 26th - 30th, 2019
University of California, Davis, CA


Philip J. Steele Gallery

Crystal Lake, solo exhibition
May 21 - June 28, 2019
RCMAD, Denver, CO


KIAC


Rush, solo exhibition in conjunction with the Klondike short film festival
Apr 18 - 21, 2019
Dawson City, The Yukon, Canada


Regart Gallery

El Dorado, 2-person collaborative exhibition with Charlotte Becket
Nov 9 - Dec 20, 2018
Lévis, Québec, Canada


Platform Gallery

Something Wicked This Way Comes, solo show
Jan 5 - Feb 17, 2018
Winnipeg, MB, Canada


Galerie La Centrale

Hunger, solo storefront exhibition
Dec 15, 2017 - Jan 12, 2018
Montreal, QC, Canada


AxeNeo7

Crystal Lake, solo show
Nov 8th, - Dec 16, 2017
Gatineau, QC, Canada


Root Division

Love and Longing, group show
November 4 - December 2, 2017
San Francisco, CA


The Arctic Circle Residency

Svalbard, International Territory
October, 2017


LUMP projects

Up All Night, group show, curated by George Jenne
September 1 – 30, 2017
Raleigh, NC


Fab Film Fest

First Thigs Don't Come First, group show
curated by Native Art Department International
July 2017
Durham, ON, Canada


Richmond Center for Visual Art, Atrium Gallery

17 Days, group show
Nov 14, 2016 - May 1, 2017
Kalamazoo, MI


Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art

Summer Institute, The Woodland School
July 18 - Aug 5, 2016
Winnipeg, MB, Canada


Klondike Institute of Arts and Culture

Residency
Spring, 2016
Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada


Me and Billy Bob

Barthes, Mon Amour, group show online
launched Nov 12th, 2015
La ONG, Buenos Aires


Process Space Residency

Lower Manhattan Cultural Center
March 1 - June 30, 2016
New York, NY


University of Waterloo Art Gallery

Valley of the Deer, solo show
Nov 5th - Dec 19th, 2015
Waterloo, ON

17 Days

Bret Llewellyn Gallery, Alfred University & Atrium Gallery, Western Michigan University
Sept 30 - Oct 22nd, 2015
Alfred, NY and Kalamazoo, MI

Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba

The Thaw, solo show
Sept 17th - Nov 14th, 2015
Brandon, MB

The Transatlantic Zombie

by Sarah Juliet Lauro
Rutgers Press

Fabulous Film Festival

Scary Movies!!!!!!, screening
curated by Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan
July 23rd, 2015
Durham, ON

Squeaky Wheel

Valley of the Deer, solo show
May 8th - June 8th, 2015
Buffalo, NY

Production Residency

Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba
Spring, 2015
Brandon, Canada

New Media Gallery

L'Amour Fou, group show
Feb 14th - Apr 12th, 2015
New Westminster, BC

Atkinson Gallery

Valley of the Deer, solo show
curated by Sarah Cunningham
January 23rd - Feb 20th, 2015
Santa Barbara, CA

Centre Clark

Valley of the Deer, solo show
January 15th - Feb 21st, 2015
Montréal, Canada

Nordic Summer University

presentation
July 24 - 31, 2014
Sauðárkrókur, Iceland

Sumter Gallery

Frame and Frequency
June 6th to July 18th, 2014
Sumter, SC

Air Circulation

Valley of the Deer, solo show
May 16th - June 22nd, 2014
Opening May 16th, 7-9pm
160 Randolph Street
Brooklyn, NY

Galerie Sans Nom

No Rhyme or Reason
curated by Terrance Houle
25 Avril au 30 Mai, 2014
Moncton, NB, Canada

Plecto Galeria de Arte

Frame and Frequency
Apr 24th and 25th, 2014
Medellin, Colombia

La Bande Video

Valley of the Deer, solo show
March 29th - April 27th, 2014
Québec City, Canada

New Media Artspace at Baruch College

Something Wicked This Way Comes
curated by Katherine Behar
Feb 20 - May 5, 2014
Closing Reception, May 5th, 8pm
Baruch College
151 E. 25th Street
New York, NY

Peter Fingesten Gallery

Oblique Strategies
curated by Emmy Mikelson
Jan 27 - Feb 21, 2014
Pace University
New York, NY

Augmented Reality Picture Postcards: Available now!

Boxed set of 24 cards featuring Scottish landscapes from Valley of the Deer
Info at link above.

Alone Together in the Dark Catalogue available now

Featuring curatorial essay, interview, and images from Alone Together in the Dark, a residency and installation in Arizona. Designed by Wendy Furman.

Kenderdine Gallery

Valley of the Deer, solo show
University of Saskatchewan
curated by Kent Archer
Sep 17 - Dec 21, 2013
talk, workshop, and reception Nov 7/8, 2013
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

The Works Festival

No Rhyme or Reason, video screening
curated by Terrance Houle
June 21st - July 1st, 2013
Edmonton, Canada

ISIS Arts

On the Precipice, touring video programme
curated by Kelly Richardson, at venues throughout NE England, beginning May 2013.
"Seven internationally renowned artists will inhabit the Big M (ISIS Arts' inflatable mobile exhibition venue) with immersive moving image environments that seek to examine the role human history has played in the development and possible decline of our global environment".

DATES:
May 17/18, Toffee Factory, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne
June 7/8, Saltwell Park, Gateshead
June 15/16, The Links, Whitley Bay, North Tyneside
July 31/Aug 1, Mima, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Centre Square, Middlesbrough
Sept 14/15, Woodhorn Museum and Northumberland Archives, Ashington
Sept 27/28, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Berwick upon Tweed

Onsite at OCADU

No Dull Affairs, group show,
curated by Lisa Deanne Smith.
Karen Lofgren, Vanessa Maltese and Jillian McDonald
Ontario College of Art and Design University
June 19th - Oct 12th, 2013
Artists' talk, June 22nd
Toronto, Canada

Esker Foundation

Valley of the Deer, solo show
curated by Naomi Potter
June 15th - Sept 6th, 2013
Calgary, Canada

Blackflash Magazine

(image, Blackfash magazine)
Valley of the Deer, artist project
Jillian McDonald
7 page photo spread featuring images that trigger augmented reality videos, via Layar app, on smartphones.

Queens Nails

The Modern Monster, group show,
curated by Jeanne Gerrity.
Works by five artists that express the same sense of violence and foreboding that fuels horror films. The works in the exhibition either project back filmic monsters through a critical lens, or they explore the mysterious, and often ominous, suggestion of an internal aggressor. The works somberly portend doom, but they do so with humor and compelling insights on the current state of humanity. 
March 15th - May 3rd, 2013
San Francisco, CA