Euan MacDonald

Euan Macdonald was born in Edinburgh in 1965. He is a Canadian/US artist based in Los Angeles.

Macdonald's videos, drawings and sculptures are informed by philosophical, musical, literary and popular references. They often depict everyday scenes while examining landscape, entropy, stillness, noise, and duration.

Recent solo exhibitions include A Bigger Plan, ASU Museum of Art, Arizona (2018), End Pages, ASU Museum of Art, Arizona (2017), A Place Like This, Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, Belgium (2015), Still Moving, Harold J. Miossi Art Gallery, Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, California (2015), City Limits, AOYAMA | MEGURO, Tokyo (2015), The Start of a Gauntlet of Beings (collaboration with Kevin Hanley), Ditch Projects, Oregon. AOYAMA | MEGURO, Tokyo (2013), Open-Tuning, Hayward Gallery Project Space, London, UK. Curated by Ralph Rugoff (2012), 9,000 Pieces, Yerba Buena Center for Contemporary Art, San Francisco (2011) and A Little Ramble, Western Bridge, Seattle, Washington (2010).

His work has also been included in group exhibitions including An Opera for Animals, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2019), The Time. The Place. Contemporary Art from the Collection, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2017-18), Fixing the Future – Technics and Time, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (2015), On the Other Hand, Museo De Arte Moderno Y Contemporaneo De Santander Y Cantabria, Santander, Spain (2013), HUMMINGBIRD FILTER, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy. Curated by Chris Fitzpatrick (2013) and Super 8, Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2012)

His work is included in the collections of National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Gallery of Vancouver, Musee D’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Art Gallery of Peel, Canada and Stadtische Galerie, Lenbachhaus Museum, Munich, Germany.