Shona Macdonald received her MFA in 1996 in studio arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago and her BFA in 1992 from Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. She has held selected solo exhibitions at the McDonough Museum of Art, (2023), Zillman Art Museum, (2020-21), Brattleboro Art Center and Museum (2018), Roswell Art Museum, (2011), Tarble Arts Center (2015), Gridspace, (2014) Engine Room, Wellington, New Zealand, (2010), Proof Gallery, Boston, MA (2009), Reeves Contemporary, NY, NY (2008), Den Contemporary, LA, CA, (2007), Skestos-Gabriele, Chicago IL, (2005), Galerie Refugium, Berlin, Germany, (2002), and Fassbender Gallery, Chicago (1998 and 2000). Two person exhibitions include the Ballina Art Center in Co, Mayo, Ireland (2022), Linden Sculpture Garden (2012), and Dayton Art Center (2018.) Her work has been included in numerous group shows across the United States, UK, Australia, and Canada. Reviews of her work are included in Art in America, Art News, the LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun Times, Sacramento Bee, Boston Globe, Artscope, and New American Paintings. She has been a Visiting Artist at over fifty institutions, including The University of Wyoming (2023), Georgia State University (2007), the University of Alberta, and the University of Calgary, Canada, (both 2002). Shona Macdonald is a 2009 recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation award. She has been artist-in-residence at UCross, Ragdale, VCCA, Roswell, (all USA) and internationally, at Can Serrat, Spain, the Cromarty Arts Trust, Scotland, and both Ballinglen and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland.
Based in Los Angeles, California, Christy Matson merges the precision of handweaving with the expressive qualities of painting through a manually operated Jacquard loom. Her work, often referencing landscape, balances structure and fluidity, capturing a sense of place through woven form. Matson’s process begins with oil pastel drawings, watercolors, and other works on paper, which she translates into weave structures using a distinctive digital approach. As the loom follows her instructions, she improvises with the weft (horizontal rows) with ingenuity and nuance, introducing subtle shifts in color, structure and texture. The result challenges conventional notions of both art objects and the act of making itself. Matson received her BFA from the University of Washington and her MFA from California College of the Arts. She has since had solo exhibitions at the Milwaukee Art Museum, The Cranbrook Art Museum and the Long Beach Art Museum. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions including, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Knoxville Museum of Art, The Asheville Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art’s Renwick
Gallery. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Cranbrook Art Museum, The Mint Museum and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art’s Renwick Gallery.
