Christopher W. McDonald (1983-)
christopherwmcdonald.com
cwm@christopherwmcdonald.com

Solo Shows
2014
“Bored Horny” drawings at The Jacqueline Falcone Bed & Breakfast, Miami, FL USA (forthcoming)

Group Shows
2014
“Figure Found” at Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA USA (forthcoming)

2013
“red and figure” and “for Josef and Anni” in “Fresh 10!” at Outlet Fine Art, Brooklyn, NYC

2012
"and", eight 22" x 22" photographic c-prints in "New. New York", Essl Museum, Vienna, AT

2011
“Alice & Gertrude (Self-Portrait)”, medium format instant photograph, “Coming and Going”, NYCAMS, NYC

2009
“Lines”, six black and white photographs, N|F|P fashion show, NYCAMS, NYC
“Box I and II”, two 4’x4’ photographic c-prints, Sidedoor Gallery, NYC

2008
“Gertrude (windowpane)”, sculpture and photo exhibition, LEMUR, NYC
“VPDEO GAME”, drum sequencer video game in felt enclosure, Death By Audio, NYC
“Gertrude”, three days of interactive machine and photography installation, “Bent Festival”, NYC

2007
“Tikichips”, self-immolating microcontroller-based sound sculpture, Stain, NYC
“Hell Yup!: DJ Candy”, in “Kunst und Musik mit dem Tageslichprojektor”, Moltkerei Werkstatt, Köln, Germany
“Sad Sandy The Self-Destructive Sculpture” (with Kunal Gupta), self-sanding sculpture, “Build/Decay”, NYC

2005
“Dignatty”, generative sound installation, in “Nhebraska Noisefest”, The Tank, NYC

Selected Performances, Screenings and Publications
2013
“L’orgueilleux” trio for piano, flute and viola in “Not The Third Viennese School”, Hartford New Music Festival, Hartford, CT USA
“Sugaring Off” video piece screened as part of “New. New York: Other Worlds” at Votivkino, Vienna, AT

2012
"The Call: I" video piece screened as part of "New. New York Filmnacht" at Gartenbaukino, Vienna, AT

2012
"and figure, red" artist proof, cover of ShowPaper (issue 140), Brooklyn, NYC

2011
“Dork” in “The Musical Singularity: Music for Computer-Controlled Pipe Organ”, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT USA

2010
“Box” (with Mikael Karlsson), performed by Tabor Wind Quintet at Issue Project Room, NYC
“On This Planet” (with Mikael Karlsson), performed by Cedar Lake ballet at Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden, DE

2009
“Alice (Lines)”, in “Bent Festival” at The Tank, NYC
“In The Photograph The Event Is Never Transcended For The Sake Of Something Else”, The Banff Centre, CA
“Life Class” (with Mikael Karlsson), sound installation for François Rousseau’s “Atelier”, Maison Européene de la Photographie, Paris, FR

2008
“Gertrude (lightning)”, Galleri Jonas Kleerup, Stockholm, Sweden
“Gertrude (JurassicPiksel)”, PikselFest, Bergen, Norway
“Gertrude”, machine choreography for Loud Objects performance as part of Evolution Festival, Leeds, UK
“Sound and Vision [DOPPLER ATTACK!]”, a declaration of war on a physical law, with microcontroller-based video and sound, in Sculpting Voice, curated by Lesley Flanigan at MonkeyTown, NYC

2007
“Everybody’s Autobiography” (text by Gertrude Stein), music for voice and electronics commissioned and performed by Anne Rhodes at Neverending Books, New Haven, CT USA

2006
“I’m afraid they misled me, though I let them”, music for cello, electronic tiara and amplified sweatband; commissioned by and performed with Rachel Gawell at An Die Musik Live, Baltimore, MD USA
“Five Songs About Distance”, film and sound installation, Center for the Arts Cinema, Middletown, CT USA

2005
“the Open”, outdoor sound installation, Middletown, CT USA

2003
“Landscape” (music for a 16mm film by Jessica Duffett), Broad Performance Space, Claremont, CA USA

2001
“Adamsong”, composition and performance at the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA USA

Commissions and Awards
2009
“Box” (with Mikael Karlsson), sound sculptures and composition commissioned by Tabor Quintet

2006
Juan Roura-Parella Prize for outstanding interdisciplinary thesis in art, music and intellectual history at Wesleyan University

2002
“Essay” (text by Jessica Duffett), composition commissioned by Wesleyan New Music Ensemble