Formal Education / Teaching / Positions   

1976 BFA Louisiana State University Baton Rouge LA 

1996 MA Northwestern State University Natchitoches LA 

1998 – 2004 NSU Adjunct Professor of Art Natchitoches LA 

2006 – Current Gallery Coordinator, GALLERY ONE EIIIEVEN, Leesville LA

Selected Exhibitions 

1995   Italy Inspires Group Show Orville Hanchey Gallery Natchitoches LA 

1996   Dishman National Competition Dishman Gallery Beaumont TX 

1996   13th Annual Competition Navarro Council of the Arts Corsicana TX 

1996   Beaumont Arts League Tri-State Exhibit Beaumont TX 

1997   Beaumont Arts League Tri-State Exhibit Beaumont TX 

1998   Beaumont Arts League Tri-State Exhibit Beaumont TX 

1999   Group Inaugural Exhibition River Oaks Gallery Alexandria LA 

2000   LSU Union Works on Paper Exhibit Baton Rouge LA 

2000   Tom Payton Memorial Arts Festival Alexandria LA 

2001   Miniatures Exhibit, River Oaks Art Center Alexandria LA 

2001 “Flora and Fauna” One-man show, NSU Natchitoches LA 

2002 Watercolor Exhibition Diversity Gallery Leesville LA 

2008   Miniatures Exhibit, River Oaks Gallery Alexandria LA 

2008 One-man exhibit, GALLERY ONE EIIIEVEN Leesville LA 

2009   20x20x20 Exhibit LSU Union Gallery Baton Rouge LA 

2009   One-man exhibit, Wealth Planner’s Gallery Baton Rouge, LA 

2010   Tom Payton Memorial Arts Festival (Merit Award) Alexandria, LA 

2010 “Together Again for The First Time” Two man show 

LSMSA Gallery Natchitoches LA 

2011     Group Exhibit, RAD Gallery DeRidder LA 

2011    20x20x20 Exhibit LSU Union Gallery Baton Rouge 

2012 “Been There-Painted That” Three man show GALLERY ONE EIIIEVEN Leesville LA 

2012    Louisiana Contemporary Exhibit Ogden Museum of Southern Art New Orleans (painting)

2013   Beaumont Arts League Tri-State Exhibit Beaumont TX 

2013    Louisiana Contemporary Exhibit Ogden Museum of Southern Art New Orleans (sculpture)

2013   Tom Peyton Memorial Arts Festival (Merit Award) Alexandria LA 

2014   Tom Peyton Memorial Arts Festival (Merit Award) Alexandria LA 

2013 “Artists Among Us” Alexandria Museum of Art Alexandria LA 

2014 “Faculty and Friends” Alexandria Museum of Art Alexandria LA 

2015 “LUMINESENCE” (2-person exhibit) Orville Hanchey Gallery, Northwestern State University, Natchitoches LA 

2015 “Indigenous Images” exhibit with Dr. Bill Bryant and Charlie Viers, Norsworthy Gallery, Shreveport, LA 

2015   "Tony Does the Palace" (solo exhibit) Palace Gallery, Monroe LA 

2015   Masur Museum of Art Exhibition 

2015   Participant, 12th Havana Arts Biennial, Havana, Cuba

2016 “Faculty and Friends: Reminiscing” Alexandria Museum of Art

2016   River Oaks Art Center Miniatures Exhibit 

2017 “Cuba- Between Idea and Experience” (solo exhibit) Norsworthy Gallery, Shreveport LA

2017   Coordinator and moderator: “Downtown Shreveport Sketch Crawl”, Shreveport LA

2017   Alexandria Museum of Art participant, Annual September Competition Exhibit

2018   One Man Show GALLERY ONE EIIIEVEN Leesville LA

2018 “BLOOM” Exhibit, Norton Museum of Art, Shreveport LA

2019 MAYFEST INVITATIONAL EXHIBIT

2021 “Past and Future” Sculpture collaboration installed in Leesville Art Park

2022 “Wisteria Towers” Design and installation in Leesville Art Park

2023 “Four Artists from the Neutral Strip” Exhibit Carrefour 2000 Room, Le Grau du Roi, France

2023   Alexandria Museum of Art “Four Artists from the Neutral Strip” Alexandria LA

2023   Pop Up Exhibit One Man Show, Wooten Theater DeRidder LA

2023   1911 Historic City Hall Gallery “Four Artists from the Neutral Strip” Lake Charles LA

2023 “Four Artists from the Neutral Strip – Coming Home” GALLERY ONE EIIIEVEN Leesville

2023 “Kisatchie” Monumental Sculpture Leesville Art Park (Collaboration)

2023 34th Annual September Competition Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria LA

2023 5x5x5 exhibit River Oaks Art Center Alexandria LA

2024 “Art in the Third Dimension” Sculpture exhibit

 

Other-

·       Founding Member, Vernon Arts Council

·       Past Board President, Leesville Main Street Board of Directors

·       Past Board President, City of Leesville Historic District Commission

·       1995 Adjunct professor at NSU for “Watercolor in Italy” held in Rome and Naples

·       1997 Adjunct professor at NSU, student painting trip, Ghost Ranch, New Mexico 

·       2011 recipient “Arts Awareness and Education Award” presented by the Arts Council of Central Louisiana for work with the Arts and art education in the community.  

·       2017 Panelist “Forgotten Spaces: A Forum on the Cuban Art Institute” Louisiana Architectural Foundation, Baton Rouge

·       2019 “Le docent terrible” Renegade Tour Director, Alexandria Museum of Art

 

My work is featured in private and public collections across the country and abroad.

    

Tony McDonald lives in and works from his studio in Leesville, Louisiana