Curator/Director

Duncan MacDonald is a Canadian contemporary artist, curator, and professor currently based in Canada. His artworks have been exhibited in numerous venues and festivals throughout the world such as Paris Nuit Blanche, PM Gallery, the Tahrir Cultural Center, Cambridge Galleries, Mercer Union, Gale Gates, Paved Art, Museu Joinville, Oakville Galleries, Museu de Arte Contemporanea do Ceara, Anna Leonowens, Grimsby Art Gallery, and many others. 

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​MacDonald studied at York University and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University (NSCAD), focusing on interdisciplinary studio practice and sound. He has received distinctions, awards and grants such as a Danish international visiting artist residency, the Canada Council Paris Studio, a Canada Council Research and Production Grant to research found video and audio from various archives throughout Canada, numerous grants from the Ontario Arts Council (OAC), a pre-commercialization grant from Federal Pre-Commercialiation Development grant (FEDDEV), a residency at the Royal College of Art in London, England, and the Established Artist Award for Niagara.

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He has produced and curated several exhibitions including Robert Colescott: The Cairo Years, Cairo Volume, and a series of exhibitions that were part of a research project exploring modern and contemporary Egyptian art (MASR). 

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Duncan is the current director and curator of the St. Marys Station Gallery in St. Marys, Ontario.  He also acts as the art educator in an historic railway building (which still is a functioning train station). 

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For more info on Duncan’s work, please see: www.duncandmacdonald.com