Jillian McDonald
1971–
Jillian Mcdonald is a Canadian media and performance artist living in New York where she teaches at Pace University. Her work has been shown at 404 International Festival of Electronic Art in Argentina; BananaRAM in Italy; The Sundance Online Film Festival; TPW, YYZ, and Year Zero One in Toronto; vertexList in Brooklyn; La Biennale de Montreal; ISEA2004; and the Centre d'Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie. In 2004, she received grants from The Canada Council for the Arts, Soil New Media, Turbulence, NYSCA, and Pace University. Some of her favorite people are strangers.
Introduction
Jillian McDonald is a conceptual artist and curator from Canada, living in Brooklyn, New York. Her work is meant to be humorous and features references to popular films. She uses video art, net art, performance art, installations, and photography.
Her interests are the American celebrity culture, extreme fandom, themes and characters from horror films. Recent work includes zombies, the undead, masks, and paranormal experiences, and is often set in northern landscapes such as . In her best-known works she digitally manipulated romantic scenes from Hollywood films starring actors such as Billy Bob Thornton, Vincent Gallo, and Johnny Depp, investigating celebrity obsession. In The Screaming, she inserted herself into horror films such as The Shining and Alien, screaming at the monsters to scare them away or destroy them. In Horror Makeup, she applies makeup on a subway commute, turning herself into a zombie.
Wikidata identifier
Q6193154
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Exhibitions & projects
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