Isabelle McDonald (b. 2000) is an Ithaca, NY based artist recently graduated from Cornell University with concurrent degrees in Fine Art and Art History. She is interested in the intersections between the personal and the public, performing identity, archiving memory, and the environment. Her practice ranges a multitude of mediums like photography, installation work, painting, and video.
isabellemcdonald.art@gmail.com
Education
2018 - 2023 BFA and BA Cornell University, Concurrent Degree: Fine Art and Art History
2015 - 2016 Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT: Summer Courses
Exhibitions
2024 International Alternative Processes Show, online group show, Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY
2024 No Place Like Home, group show, OVERLAP, Newport, RI
2024 Iteration Reiteration, online group show, Touchstone Gallery, Washington D.C.
2024 Dewey Decimal System, group show, John Hartell Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2024 /ˈrəp(t)SHər/, group show, String Room Gallery, Aurora, NY
2024 NaloxBox Harm Reduction Box permanent installation in partnership with TruthPharm, Binghamton, NY
2023 Flock, sheep not birds, group show, Bibliowicz and Hartell Galleries, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2023 County Fair, group show, Hartung-Boothroyd Observatory, Mount Pleasant, Ithaca, NY
2023 Art Crawl, Golden Hour, group show, The Prospect of Whitby Gallery, Ithaca, NY
2023 Life After: Material Manifestations of Loss, group show, Cornell Textile Collection, Ithaca, NY
2023 Remnants, solo show, Experimental Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2022 Art Crawl, Sad Happy Hour, group show, multiple locations, Ithaca, NY
2022 Art Crawl, Soft Launch, group show, The Prospect of Whitby Gallery, Ithaca, NY
2022 Anthropu$$yne, group show, Olive Tjaden Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2021 Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees, solo show, Olive Tjaden Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Curatorial
2023 Assisted with The Seventies, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
2022 Assisted with Radical Desire: Making On Our Backs Magazine, Hirshland Exhibition Gallery, Cornell University Library
2022 Assisted with Celebrating the Class of 1962 Fund for Photography, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
2022 Resistance is Personal: Photobooks as Protest, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
2021 The Power of Portrayal: Envisioning Women’s Representation, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
Awards
2022 The Gibian-Rosewater Traveling Research Grant
2019-2022 Ruth Woolsey Findley and William Nichols Findley History of Art Scholarship
2018 Essex Art Association, juried show awards
Presentations
2023 Artist Talk and Gallery Tour of Remnants, for Art 1901: Studio Art for Non-Majors, Cornell University
2019 Environmental Activism and Art, at Hurlbert Ecology House, Cornell University
Bibliography