Achievements

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
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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 
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 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
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​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
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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 At Competition. Fractalton. SOLD

2021    Participant in InAbsentia Wrong Biennale Digital Exhibition, Italy. Manual for Terranauts.

​2021    Entrant in digital art competition by Beautiful Bizarre Magazine. Australia.  Manual for Terranauts