Jillian McDonald

Jillian McDonald is a dual citizen Canadian-American artist living in Brooklyn and Troy, NY. She received an MFA in Combined Media from Hunter College at City University of New York and is a professor at Pace University.

Exhibitions and screenings were held at PS122 Gallery, Undercurrent, Air Circulation, and FiveMyles in New York; The Art Gallery of Regina in Saskatchewan; Régart, La Bande Vidéo, and AxeNéo7 in Québec; aCinema in Milwaukee; Philip Steele Gallery in Denver; and The Esker Foundation in Calgary. She has mounted performances for 50 to 1000 performers in natural and urban settings in Tempe at The Arizona State University Art Museum, in Sweden in collaboration with Lilith Performance Studio, and in Toronto at La Nuit Blanche. A CBC IDEAS documentary profiles her videos, which were also reviewed in The New York Times and Canadian Art. Critical discussion appears in The Transatlantic Zombie by Sarah Lauro and Deconstructing Brad Pitt, edited by Christopher Schaberg. Awards include grants from The New York Foundation for the Arts and The Canada Council for the Arts, and participation in numerous international residencies such as Wave Farm in Acra, NY, The Arctic Circle Artist & Scientist Residency in Svalbard, Norway, The Headlands Center for the Arts in California, Sporobole in Sherbrooke, Québec, the Glenfiddich Canadian Art Prize in Dufftown, Scotland, and The Banff Center for the Arts in Alberta, Canada.