About

b. 1993, Canterbury, England
Based in Bergen, Norway and Göteborg, Sweden

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hanlmcd/

Research blog: http://www.hanlmcd.tumblr.com/

Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/hannahmcdonald

CV

Education:

2023-2025 MFA in Fine Arts, Bergen Academy of Arts, University of Bergen

2011-2015 BA(Hons) in Painting and Printmaking, Glasgow School of Art

2013 Erasmus exchange term, BA Fri Konst, Akademin Valand

Coming activity:

2025 Solo show at Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen

2025 Solo show at Nye Bokboden, Bergen

2025 Holding a monoprinting workshop at Ljurhalla Fabriken, Vårgårda, Sweden

Solo Exhibitions:

2024 Surface Tensions, Galleri Taxi, Bergen

2024 Welcomed Uncertainties, Rom61, Bergen Academy of Arts, Bergen

2023 Re-re-remembering, Konstnärscentrum Väst, Göteborg

2019 Transcript of a Wall, Open Space Zeitz, Zeitz, Germany

2019 The Devil Makes Work for Idle Hands, Galleri 54, Göteborg

2017 The Collected Moments of Idleness, Open Space Zeitz, Zeitz, Germany

2016 We make new stock from the salt, Fabriksg. 48, Göteborg

2015 The Hinge of I and It, The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow

2015 A blindfolded surface, Tontine Building, Glasgow

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2024 (-21, -20, -19) Upplaga 2, 3, 4, 6, Nejd, Göteborg

2024 BIG TEETH, MA1 takeover at Bergen Kjøtt, Bergen

2023 In Tandem, with Martin Holm, Pannrummet, Konstepidemin, Göteborg

2023 ArtFairAbstrakt, ArtMobile, Västerås Konsthall

2023 Bookbound, NABO, Göteborg

2022 (-21, -19) Medlemsutställningen, Galleri 54, Göteborg

2022 ANAD GLÖD, NABO, Göteborg

2022 ArtFairLustarnasTrädgård, ArtMobile, Västerås Konsthall

2021 Vad är nytt, Lindholmen, Göteborg

2020 The Curse of Knowledge, Upper Hand, Göteborg

2020 Videorama 1, Galleri 54, Göteborg

2018 Here Comes the Water Works, Upper Hand, Göteborg

2018 Tenthaus Winter Depot, Galleri Box, Göteborg

2015 PrintLab, as part of The only way to do it is to do it, The Hunterian, Glasgow

2015 All You Can Eat, Truman Brewery, London

2014 A Red Apple Among the Oranges, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art 2, Edinburgh

2013 Work as Play, GIBCA, Galleri Rotor 1+2, Göteborg

2012 Drawing and Spoken Word, Studio 41, Glasgow

Other Work:

2024- Runs Open Process Night events at Bergen Kjøtt, Bergen

2024- Thingness, co-run with Martin Holm, a domestic micro-gallery + podcast, in our apartment,

Bergen

2023 it needs to explode out of me and vomit onto a canvas, performance at Time-Based Evening,

OVE Galleri at Bergen Kjøtt, Bergen

2023 Today and today and today, performance at 13festivalen, Konstepidemin, Göteborg

2022 30 words after I love you, performance at KALEJODOSKOP, Galleri 54, Göteborg

2020 Entanglement, 8 x 2.3m mural at Friplanket, Frilagret, Göteborg

Curated Shows:

2021 Vad är nytt, showcase of over 100 Göteborg artists in Götaverkens Gamla Industrilokaler,

Lindholmen, Göteborg

2020 The Curse of Knowledge with Joel Danielsson, Dick Hedlund, Martin Holm, Laleh Kazemi Veisari

and Anton Josephson, Upper Hand, Göteborg

Workshop Leading Experience:

2023- Hosts regular MA crits at KMD, Bergen

2023- Runs Drawing Club at KMD, Bergen.

2022 Hosted a Drawing Club session as part of ANAD GLÖD, NABO, Göteborg

2019-21 Ran Drawing Club sessions at Upper Hand, Göteborg

Publications:

2024 - Open Process Night publications. Made with Johanna Sevholt

2024 Big Teeth publication, for MA1 Takeover at Bergen Kjøtt. Made with Johanna Sevholt

Stipends:

2021, -20 Krisstipendium 2+3, Konstnärsnämnden

2020 Tillfälligt stipendium, Göteborgs Stad

2020, -18 Projektstöd Pronto from Göteborg Stad

Experience:

2019-21 Co-hosted gallery Upper Hand, Göteborg

2013 Gallery invigilator, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland

2013 Gallery invigilator, Studio 41, Glasgow, Scotland

2011 Gallery invigilator, Sydney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury, England

2010 One week’s work experience with international artist Nigel Cooke