Achievements & Exhibitions
2009 Fade To Light. Joint exhibition with wife Susannah, Unitec, Auckland, NZ.
2011 Graduated with Bachelor Degree of Design and Fine Arts, Unitec, Auckland, NZ.
2014 Artist Talk. PechaKucha, Auckland War Memorial Museum, 31C interactive light Sculpture proposal.
2015 Awarded Certificate of Higher Education, Unitec, Auckland, NZ.
2015 Paradigm Found Joint exhibition with wife Susannah + artists talk, Mairangi Arts, Auckland, NZ.
2016 Kabbalah Tea Of Mercy (drawing) Finalist in Parkin Drawing Award, Wellington NZ.
2017 Fractalton (drawing) Finalist in Parkin Drawing Award, Wellington NZ
2017 Field Notes of A Terranaut. in permanent virtual exhibition, SciArt Center (NY). Curated by Marnie Benney, George Musser, author of Spooky Action at a Distance.
http://www.sciartcenter.org/the-void-and-the-cloud.html
2017 April. Blog interview, SciArt Centre (NY), based on Field Notes of A Terranaut.
http://www.sciartmagazine.com/blog/interview-alan-macdonald-in-sciart-centers-the-void-and-the-cloud
2017 October. Field Notes of A Terranaut, in SciArt magazine promo anticipating pop-up exhibition in NY..
Curated by Marnie Benney with guest juror George Musser, author of Spooky Action at a Distance.
www.sciartmagazine.com/sciart-center-the-void-and-the-cloud.html
2017 December 2. Field Notes of A Terranaut, exhibited in pop-up gallery, UES Gallery, NY.
Curated by Marnie Benney
www.sciartcenter.org/the-void-and-the-cloud.html
2017 December 14. Magazine article, in Interalia Magazine Emerging Ideas Section.
www.interaliamag.org/emerging-ideas/alan-macdonald/
2018 Artist talk, Creativity, A New Paradigm, delivered to Lake House Arts Centre, AGM, Takapuna, Auckland, NZ
2019 Joined Anilla Cultural Co-Lab, Arts & Science + ICT as a CoCreator. Based in Montevideo, Uruguay.
http://anillaculturaluruguay.net/
2019 August Joint Exhibition, and artist talk with Susannah MacDonald Paradigm Found 2,
Browne School of Art, Grey Lynn, Auckland.
2019 Entrant in Hibiscus and Bays National Art Competition. Fractalton. SOLD
2021 Exhibiter in digital art competition by Beautiful Bizarre Magazine. Australia. Manual for Terranauts.
2021 Exhibiter in InAbsentia Wrong Biennale Digital Exhibition, Italy. Manual for Terranauts.
www.inabsentia.it/gallery_eng/manual-for-terranauts/
2023 Participant / Video Provider. Visualising The Invisible #1.
California Institute of Human Science. Center for Consciousness Studies. Webinar / Symposium. Aug. 18 - 22.
Video link www.facebook.com/GodsIdiot/videos/812806957205439
2024 Participant / Video Provider. Visualising The Invisible #1.
California Institute of Human Science. Center for Consciousness Studies. Webinar / Symposium. Aug. 18 - 22.
Video link https://youtu.be/A7FS35TEWSY