Achievements & Exhibitions

2009    Joint exhibition.   Fade To Light.   with wife Susannah.  Unitec, Auckland, NZ.

2011    Graduated.  Bachelor Degree Design and Fine Arts, Unitec, Auckland, NZ.

2014    Artist Talk.  31C Interactive light Sculpture Proposal  PechaKucha, Auckland War Memorial Museum.

2015    Certificate of Higher Education, Unitec, Auckland, NZ

2015    Joint exhibition + Artists Talk. with wife Susannah Paradigm Found  Mairangi Arts, Auckland, NZ.

2016     Finalist in Parkin Drawing Award.   Kabbalah Tea Of Mercy (drawing), Wellington NZ.

2017    Finalist in Parkin Drawing Award.   Fractalton (drawing)  Wellington NZ.
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2017    Permanent Virtual Exhibition.   Field Notes of A Terranaut. SciArt Center  (NY).                                                                  Curated by Marnie Benney, George Musser, author of Spooky Action at a Distance.
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​2017   Blog interview.  Field Notes of A Terranaut.  SciArt Centre (NY).
           http://www.sciartmagazine.com/blog/interview-alan-macdonald-in-sciart-centers-the-void-and-the-cloud
   
​2017    Exhibition.  Field Notes of A Terranaut. 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
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2017    Exhibition.   Field Notes of A Terranaut.  Pop-up gallery, UES Gallery, NY.  Curated by Marnie Benney.
            
2017     Article.  Field Notes of a Terranaut.   Interalia Magazine Emerging Ideas Section. 
             www.interaliamag.org/emerging-ideas/alan-macdonald/

2018   Artist Talk, Creativity, A New Paradigm, delivered at Lake House Arts Centre, AGM, Takapuna, Auckland, NZ

2019   Joined as CoCreator.  Anilla Cultural Co-Lab,  Arts & Science + Montevideo. Uruguay.
            http://anillaculturaluruguay.net/
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2019    Joint Exhibition / Artist Talk.  Paradigm Found 2 with Susannah MacDonald  Browne School of Art, Auckland. 

2019    Exhibition.   Fractalton.  Hibiscus and Bays National Art Competition. SOLD

2021    Exhibition.  Manual for Terranauts. in InAbsentia Wrong Biennale Digital Exhibition, Italy. 
            www.inabsentia.it/gallery_eng/manual-for-terranauts/  

​2023    Video Participant.  Visualising The Invisible #1.  California Institute of Human Science. 
            Center for Consciousness Studies. Webinar / Symposium.  Aug. 18 - 22.    
​            www.facebook.com/GodsIdiot/videos/812806957205439 

2026    Article. Dream Seequence.  Interalia Magazine.
            https://www.interaliamag.org/articles/alan-macdonald-three-in-one-nature-of-consciousness-and-dreams/ 
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