Travis MacDonald


born 1990, Bunnythorpe, New Zealand

lives and works between Berlin, Germany and Melbourne, Australia


selected solo exhibitions


2024    

I’ll be back tomorrow, painters painting paintings, London, United Kingdom

Travis MacDonald: selected paintings, The Commercial Gallery, Sydney, Australia


2023

fly by night, JVDW Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany


2021

Rain sounds, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia


2019

Clock Face, C3 Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne, Australia


2018

Melbourne Art Fair, Niagara Galleries, Southbank Arts Precinct, Melbourne, Australia


2016

Homesick Mascot, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia


2015

Good Peacetime Liver, Neospace, Melbourne, Australia


2014

Big Sky II, C3 Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne, Australia


2013

Big Sky, C3 Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne, Australia


group exhibitions


2025

Last Summer, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany

Mortal Thoughts, Bernheim Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland


2024

Geelong Contemporary Art Prize (winner), Geelong Gallery, Geelong, Australia

Arch-iv, Depa archive, Ghent, Belgium

Night stroll, Dans les yeux d’Elsa, Paris, France

Liquid Memory, Villepin Hong Kong, Hong Kong


2023

REALMS, a group show, JVDW Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany


2022

Trance, Envy6011, Wellington, New Zealand

Spring1883 presented by Niagara Galleries, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia


2021

Postcards, Gallerie Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden


2020

Freedom is the gentle exploration of boundaries… I wear jeans, t-shirt, fragrance… curated by Spencer Lai, Discordia, Melbourne, Australia

Rain Sounds, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia


2019

Melbourne Comes to Sydney, Home@735, Sydney, Australia

Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, presented by Niagara Galleries, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia


2018

The Mechanic Part 2, Neon Parc, Melbourne, Australia

The horse, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia


2017

Double A-side, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Rudi Williams and Travis MacDonald, Punk Café, Brunswick East, Victoria, Australia


2016

Painting. More Painting., ACCA, Melbourne, Australia

Len Fox Painting Award Exhibition, Castlemaine Art Museum, Victoria, Australia


2015    

Return, Daine Singer, Melbourne, Australia


2014

Faux Museum, C3 Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne, Australia


2012

VCA Selected Graduate Exhibition, Boom Gallery, Geelong, Australia


2011

Wallara Traveling Scholarship Exhibition, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, Australia


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