C. V.
Education
Hunter College, NY, NY Master of Fine Arts, 2008
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Skowhegan, ME, 2005
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Bachelor of Fine Arts, 2001
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Certificate in Sculpture, 1998
Selected Exhibitions
2023
Hoverpool (solo), Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY
Unrequited Love, Nathalie Karg Gallery, NY, NY, curated by Sarah Peters and Vera Iliatova
Life and Space: Jennifer Macdonald and Raphael Taylor, Meantime Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
Love Fest, Platform Project Space, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Elizabeth Hazan
Upstate Art Weekend, Hudson, NY
2022
Collage/Assemblage, White Rock Center for Sculptural Arts, Holmes, NY
Jump All the Morning, Ladies' Room, Los Angeles, curated by Ariel Dill
2021
We met in Kaarthijenkia (solo), Sala Projects, NY, NY curated by Manuela Mozo and Eric Brown
Pantheon, Arts of Life / Circle Contemporary, Chicago, IL curated by Adam Parker Smith
Storm King Art Center Annual Gala and Live Auction, New Windsor, NY
Selfies, Birdhouse Gallery / Remade in Brooklyn, Catskills, NY
2020
Together in Isolation, Reinstitute, Millerton, NY
2019
They’re Made Out of Meat, Platform Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
curated by Jennifer Coates
2018
King Arthur Rock Review, Essex Flowers, Sculpture / Photography / Performance collaboration with Birgit Rathsmann and Rick Karr
2017
Personals, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, NY, NY
2016
Peculiar Velocity, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum Gallery, Philadelphia, PA curated by David Dempewolf
2015
Past/Present: Conversations Across Time, double dutch: the wedding feast: hand-made stop-motion animation commissioned by Creighton Michael, Allentown Museum of Art, PA
Merkx and Gwynne: King Arthur Rock Banquet, Present Company Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Upside Presents Portable Nature Graphics, Southside Gallery, Oxford, MS, curated by Hannah Spears
2014
Out to See, Jennifer Macdonald - New Paintings, Canons Walk / South Street Seaport, NY, NY, curated by Sara Reisman
2013
King Arthur Green Room, Props and Sculptures, Merkx and Gwynne, NADA Art Fair, NY, NY
Liars, Actors, Believers: Stop-Action Animation, Cabinet Magazine Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Alumni
2012
Pencil Pushed, Animation and Drawings, Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN, curated by Creighton Michael
Animation props and Paintings, Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, TN
2011
Anomolistic Urge, Vaudeville, Brooklyn, NY curated by Courtney Tramposh
2010
Co-Mix, BETA Spaces / Pg Not Found, Brooklyn, NY
2009
Death Jewel Video: Animation Screening, Anthology Film Archives, NY, NY curated by E.E. Miller
2008
Renaissance Failure, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
2007
Hunter College MFA Thesis Exhibit, Times Square Gallery, NYC
Hand-Painted Animation Screening, Glasgow School of Art, curated by Patricia Valencia
2006
Selections Spring 2006: Analog Animation, The Drawing Center, NY, NY, curated by Katherine Carl & Luis Camnitzer
New Paintings, Acuna-Hansen gallery, Scope Art Fair, NYC
International Global Dislocator, Roebling Hall, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Esperanza Mayobre
2005
Pretty Crude: Paintings, Acuna-Hansen gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Telling Stories: Animation: The Narrative in Contemporary Art, Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Lancaster, PA
2004
too _____ to tell you, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
Home Fires Burning, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Stray Show, Vox Populi @ Thomas Blackman Associates, Chicago, IL
2003
Challenge 2, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
Seriously Animated, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, curated by Susan Rosenberg
Video Selections, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
Drawing on Landscape, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
2002
A Closer Look 5 biennial, curated by Sylvia Yount, Arcadia U. Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
Killjoy, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
Against the Tide, Collection of Peter and Mary Shaw, Philadelphia, PA, curated by Alex Baker
2001
Works on Paper biennial, curated by Thelma Golden, Arcadia U. Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
Lala land, Temple gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Awards & Honors
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, NY 2004-2007
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME 2005
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in Painting, PA 2003
Jurors’ Award for Excellence in Drawing, Perkins Center for the Arts, NJ 2002
Leeway Foundation Window of Opportunity Award, PA 2001, 2002
Pennsylvania Governor’s Award in Sculpture, PA 1998
William Emlen Cresson Memorial Travel Scholarship, PA 1997
Townsend and Mason Memorial Prize in Sculpture, PA 1997
Publications
Pencil Pushed: Exploring Process and Boundaries in Drawing. Catalogue published on the occasion of the 2012 exhibit by the Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, and the Downtown Gallery, at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. ISBN: 978-0-9761663-9 9
The Drawing Center’s Drawing Papers. Selections Spring 2006, Analog Animation, Number 60.copyright 2006, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
New American Paintings #51, Juried Exhibition-in-Print, Open Studios Press 2004. ISSN: 1066-2235
Bibliography
2013
Stewart-Sanabria, Denise, “Pencil Pushed: Exploring Process and Boundaries in Drawing”, East Tennessee Regional Update, Number: 74, Memphis, Tennessee, 2013
2012
Landis, Melissa, “Pencil Pushed: Exploring Process and Boundaries in Drawing”, Cleaver Initiative Notes on the Artists, published by the Downtown Gallery at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
2005
Wagner, James, “Hunter MFA Open Studios”,
www.http://jameswagner.com/mt_archives/004800.html April 2005
Di Fonzo, Carla, “Telling Stories, but Leaving Room for Interpretation”, Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster PA, March 4, 2005
Daminger, Kathleen, “Tell Me a Drawing, Paint Me a Story” New Era Lancaster PA, March 3, 2005
2004
Fallon, R., “”Into a Void on a Steamy Friday”, www.fallonandrosof.com/artblog.html May 10, 2004
2003
Fallon, Roberta, “Everyone’s a Cynic”, Philadelphia Weekly, October 23, 2003
Rosof, Libby & Fallon, Roberta, “Something to Talk About”; “Fal-de-rol”, www.fallonandrosof.com/artblog.html October 23, 2003; July 29, 2003
Fallon, Roberta, “Cup of Joe”, Philadelphia Weekly, February 12, 2003
2002
Sozanski, Edward, “Suggestive Narratives”, The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 18, 2002
Sozanski, Edward, “Deceptively Childlike”, The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 27, 2002
Fallon, Roberta, “Rabbit Test”, Philadelphia Weekly, September 25, 2002
“Three Artists focus of Arcadia Exhibit”, Inside Arts, Intelligencer-Record, September 16, 2002
Yount, Dr. Sylvia L., “The Secret Life of Things”, Gallery Notes on Jennifer Macdonald for “A Closer Look 5 Biennial”, Arcadia University Art Gallery. www.arcadia.edu/gallery September 2002
2001
Rice, Robin, “Paper Chase”, Philadelphia City Paper, September 2001
Hill, Lori, “First Friday Focus”, Philadelphia City Paper, June 2001
Strauss, R.B., “If the Dream Fits, See it at Lala land”, The Suburban / Wayne Times, June 2001
2000
Sozanski, Edward, “New Traditional”, The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 2000