BRIAN MCDONALD  +  BIO
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About the Artist:
Brian McDonald
is a painter who lives and works in the mission district of San Francisco.
His paintings are inspired by the grit and raucousness of everyday urban life and can be found in numerous private collections around the Bay Area, across the United States, Canada, and in Brazil.

Exhibitions:
Selected Solo:
05.2008  -  Outbound, New Paintings, Dolores Park Cafe, San Francisco, CA
04.2006  -  Beautiful Nuisance, Magnet, San Francisco, CA
07.2005  -  Dolores Park Cafe, San Francisco, CA
01.2005  -  National Product, San Francisco, CA
07.2004  -  Dolores Park Cafe, San Francisco, CA
04.2004  -  Glama-rama!, San Francisco, CA
10.2003  -  Capobianco Gallery, San Francisco, CA
07.2003  -  Dolores Park Cafe, San Francisco, CA
01.2003  -  Hotel Biron, San Francisco, CA
12.2002  -  Tunnel Top, San Francisco, CA
09.2002  -  Chow, San Francisco, CA
07.2002  -  Dolores Park Cafe, San Francisco, CA
05.2002  -  Cafe Royale, San Francisco, CA
06.2001  -  Dolores Park Cafe, San Francisco, CA
07.2000  -  Dalva, San Francisco, CA
04.2000  -  Dolores Park Cafe, San Francisco, CA

Selected Group:
04.2008  -  If These Walls Could Talk, Reaves Gallery, San Francisco, CA
09.2006  -  Bedtime Stories, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, CA
04.2006  -  The Birds and The Bees, Primary Space Gallery, Detroit, MI
03.2006  -  Partially Told Stories, Space 743, San Francisco, CA
12.2005  -  Wish You Were Here, Primary Space Gallery, Detroit, MI
07.2005  -  The Edge of Non-Conformity, Inferno Gallery, Oakland, CA
08.2004  -  Altered Ego, collaborative paintings, Dolores Park Cafe, San Francisco, CA
11.2003  -  Inaugural Exhibition, Revisited Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
07.2003  -  Inaugural Exhibition, Theraplay, West Hollywood, CA
07.2003  -  The Board Show, Di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
04.2003  -  Inaugural Exhibition, Capobianco Gallery, San Francisco, CA
12.2002  -  A Show of Peace, Dolores Park Cafe, San Francisco, CA
10.2002  -  Between the Sheets, Higher Grounds, Hollywood, CA
10.2002  -  Decked Out, Culture Cache, San Francisco, CA
03.2002  -  East Meets West, Facility 3, San Francisco, CA

Education:
1998 - 2000   California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA
1996 - 1998   City College, San Francisco, CA
1988 - 1989   University of Venice, Italy
1984 - 1988   University of California, Santa Cruz
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