anne arden mcdonald

Anne Arden McDonald was born in London, England and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. From age 15 to 30 she made photographic self portraits; building installations in the landscape or in abandoned interiors and making private performances for her camera in these spaces. She published a book of this work in 2004. More recently she has been making images with a plastic camera and doing sculpture and installation work. In the past 16 years, she has had 42 solo exhibitions in 11 countries and has been published in many journals, including Aperture Magazine. Her work is currently included in six major museum collections. She is represented by several galleries, including Photo Eye in Santa Fe, Gerald Peters in Dallas, and Flatfile in Chicago.  She lectures on the history of staged photography and represents 12 Czech and Slovak photographers who do performances for the camera.