Rate My Professor Fiona Macdonald

Dr. Fiona Macdonald is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Fine Art within the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Monash University, where she directs the Graduate Theory Program. Her academic background includes a PhD, Translating Relation (2008), a critical theory exploring the discursive, disseminative, and relational spaces of the remake in contemporary practice. Macdonald's research bridges art practice and critical theory, focusing on intergenerational relations in contemporary conceptualism. She has presented papers at Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1970-1985 (Toronto, 2010), togetherapart (Sydney, 2012), and Staging the Land (France, 2012).

Her art practice involves performative and remediated processes, institutional interventions, and serialised film and video projects, exhibited internationally in museums, artist-run spaces, and film festivals. Key exhibitions include Power to the People: contemporary conceptualism and the object in art at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (2011), Collected Collaborations at Monash University Museum of Art (2011), What Happens in Halifax, Returns to Halifax (Remake II) (2010), Index Project (renovated) at Open Space, Victoria, Canada (2009), and (Re)Points of View (Remake 1) at Optica, Montréal (2008). Additional presentations encompass The First Biennale of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia (1990); Photography is Dead, Long Live Photography, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney (1996); Orifice, ACCA (2003); solo exhibitions and screenings at ACMI (Melbourne, 2003), MCA Sydney (2004), CLUBSproject (2005), Light Projects (2010 & 2011), Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery (1998), ACCA (1990 & 1994), Gertrude Contemporary Artspaces & IMA Brisbane (1988); and video works in ISEA (Utrecht) and Ars Electronica (1988). She contributes regularly to Eyeline: Contemporary Visual Arts and served as commissioning editor for photofile (1990-91). Recent research artworks include The Hole in the Bucket: a plastic dilemma (2020), One million dots (2019), and Film Performance (Act 3) (2018).