Description
Graham McDougal (b. Edinburgh, Scotland) works with text and graphic representation through an intervention with contemporary and historical printed matter. The outcome of this research is exhibited in a variety of media: prints, photographs, paintings and multiples. His work has been included in projects at Firstdraft and KNULP, in Sydney, Regina Rex, Jose Bienvenu Gallery, and Printed Matter Inc. in New York, I-Space in Chicago, the Print Center Philadelphia, Gallery St Vitus, London and Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery in Krakow. He has Received Grants from the Scottish International Education Trust, Cornell Council for the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts. Recent awards and residencies include a research grant from Oberlin College and participation in the Nesnadny + Schwartz Visiting Curator Program, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland and residencies at the Byrdcliffe Art Colony, Woodstock, NY and Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA. McDougal teaches at UC Davis and has taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Oberlin College and the Department of Art, Cornell University. He studied at Cumbria College of Art and Design and at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee, Scotland, before earning an MFA at Southern Illinois University.
