Jody MacDonald

Born in Vancouver, BC, Canada / Works in Long Island City, New York

BIO

MacDonald graduated with a BFA from Emily Carr University in Vancouver, BC, Canada. She has exhibited her meticulously crafted work throughout North America. A recipient of the Queen’s Art Fund New Work Grant (2019), MacDonald recently completed a 4heads residency on Governors Island, New York (2022). Based in New York, MacDonald creates compelling pieces characterized by dark humor, social satire, and an obsessive attention to detail. Her intimately scaled artworks belong in private collections throughout Canada and the U.S.

My practice is a merging of fact, fiction, art history, and popular culture explored through the lens of a shifting identity. I create multiples of generic paper and textile figures that I then transform into distinct personalities. Each piece begins with a photographic image of my face. The works are not a collection of self-portraits but rather a series of roles in which I’ve been cast. These roles transgress timelines and boundaries to comment on current social and political issues.