Niall Macdonald

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Born: 1980, Outer Hebrides of Scotland
Lives: Glasgow

Education
2008 MFA Glasgow School of Art
2003 MA University of Glasgow

Solo Exhibitions
2009 Washington Garcia Gallery, Glasgow, 'Near No Ritual'
2006 Glasgow Project Rooms, Glasgow, 'Our Old Subtle Foe'
2005 GSS Gallery, Glasgow, 'As Kingfishers Catch Fire'
2005 EmergeD/Edinburgh International Art Festival ’05, 'The Tower'

Group Exhibitions
2010 Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art

2008 Bargehouse, London, 'ROAR!'
2008 Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, 'Salem'
2008 Enderz Gallery, London, 'Things Worth Knowing'
2008 Artnews Projects, Berlin, 'And So it Goes'
2008 Bezalel Academy, Israel, 'Flock'
2008 Tramway, Glasgow, 'MFA Degree Show'

2007 The Breeder, Athens, Greece, 'True Romance'
2007 Terrace Gallery, London, '100 Years Too Early, 100 Years Too Late
2007 Galleri Box, Iceland, 'Songs With Dirty Words
2007 CAFA, Beijing, China, 'International Works on Paper
2007 The Factory, Glasgow, 'Devil Blue Dress
2007 Newberry Gallery, Glasgow, 'The Weirding and Uncanny
2007 MacIntosh Gallery, Glasgow,' MFA Interim exhibition

2006 Low Salt Gallery, Glasgow, 'Rack ’n’ Ruin

2005 Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow, 'Whose Gravity They Cant Escape
2005 The Jail, Glasgow, 'The Trap and the Rope

2004New Work Scotland 2004', Short-listed with artist group Something Haptic

2003 Becks Futures 2003, ICA London, Short-listed for Student Prize, ICA, London
2003 Winchester Art Gallery, Winchester, 'Bad Quality'

Grants/Awards
2009 SAC Award for Visual Art
2009 Dewar Award

2006-8 Leverhulme Scholarship 2006-2008

Projects
2006 Conical Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, 'Mind Games' (Collaborative)
2006 Glasgow International 06, Market Gallery off-site (Collaborative)

2005 Generator Gallery, Dundee, 'And one more fall, Faktura' (Collaborative)
2005 CCA, Glasgow Trajectory Presents III (Publication event)

2004 Hotel Mariakapel, Hoorn, Netherlands, 'Siege and Counter Siege' (Collaborative)
2004 GIS, Glasgow, 'Means to an End' (Collaborative)
2004 CCA, Glasgow Trajectory Presents II (Publication event)

2003 Bit Teatergarasjen, Bergen, Norway,'In the Wake of Lightships' (Collaborative)
2003 CCA, Glasgow Trajectory Presents I (Publication event)

Publications
2006 Placed Upon the Horizon (with Ruth Barker)