Jillian McDonald
Jillian McDonald is a Canadian artist based in New York, where she is a professor at Pace University. Her work has been exhibited and screened at Undercurrent and Air Circulation in Brooklyn; 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 staged performances involving 50 to 1,000 participants in both natural and urban settings, including at the Arizona State University Art Museum, in collaboration with Sweden’s Lilith Performance Studio, and at Toronto’s Nuit Blanche.
Her videos have been featured in a CBC IDEAS documentary and reviewed in The New York Times and Canadian Art. Critical discussions of her work appear in The Transatlantic Zombie by Sarah Lauro and Deconstructing Brad Pitt, edited by Christopher Schaberg.
McDonald has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Canada Council for the Arts and has participated in numerous international residencies, including Wave Farm in Acra, NY; The Arctic Circle Expedition in Svalbard, Norway; The Headlands Center for the Arts in California; the Glenfiddich Canadian Art Prize in Dufftown, Scotland; and Harvestworks in New York.In January, she presented her work at the Darkness conference in Nuuk, Greenland.
📷 Image from the video Staring with Billy Bob. Courtesy of the artist.