Index

Born in Jacksonville, FL
Lives and works in San Francisco


+ E d u c a t i o n

1998 MFA, University of California, Berkeley, CA
1995 BFA, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
1993 Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts Summer Residency, Gatlinburg, TN


+ E x h i b i t i o n s - 2009

Winter Group Show, White Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Swipple and Gold, Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Aqua Art Miami, White Walls Gallery, Miami, FL
6th Annual Urban Art Silent Auction, Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Upstairs Is Where The Magic Happens, Gallery Three / White Walls Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
Swipple, Max Fish, New York, NY
Masters of the Impossible, Rare Device, San Francisco, CA
BFF Window Installation, HUF Store - San Francisco, CA
JOY RIDE ART SHOW, Bicycle Film Festival:
Galleria Patricia Armocida, Milan, IL
Market St. Gallery, San Francisco, CA
MCA Warehouse, Chicago, IL
Collective Hardware, New York, NY
Co-Lab, Austin, TX
Storefront Gallery, Los Angeles, CA


+ E x h i b i t i o n s - 2008

Is it a Fiber Show?, Bucheon Gallery, SF, CA
5th Annual Swipple Show, Max Fish, 178 Ludlow St. New York, NY
RamblinWorker + Treatzone = LittleZero, Echo Curio,
1519 Sunset Echo Park, CA
Steve MacDonald & Rachel Budde, Paper Boat Gallery,
2375 S. Howell Ave. Milwaukee, WI
Shipworm and Gribble, Mollusk Surf Shop, Brooklyn, NY
Devotion To Thread, Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee, WI
SF Bicycle Coalition 13th Annual Winterfest,
SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
JOY RIDE ART SHOW, Bicycle Film Festival:
SUPERSTUDIOPIU’, Milan, Italy
Space180, San Francisco, CA
STUDIO Gallery, Toronto, Canada


+ E x h i b i t i o n s - 2007

Thread, Johansson Projects Presents, Oakland, CA
Swipple Show, Max Fish, New York, NY
Digital to Physical Art Show, 9th and Liberty, Jacksonville, FL
Inspiration Art Exhibition, Jerusalem, Israel
Thread, Studio 411 Venice Beach, CA
Swipple, ill Fitting (27 Sizes), Residential College Art Gallery,
Ann Arbor, MI
SF Bicycle Coalition 12th Annual Winterfest,
SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
JOY RIDE ART SHOW, Bicycle Film Festival:
MAVERIK SHOWROOM, London, UK
Colette, Paris, France


+ E x h i b i t i o n s - 2006

AN ACCIDENT OF FREE WILL, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco CA
Destroy Everything, King Kog, Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
COME ON! Echo Curio, Los Angeles, CA
Deitch Art Parade 2006, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
Citations & Relocations, Needles & Pens, San Francisco, CA
2nd Annual Swipple Art Show, Max Fish,New York, NY
BIG DEAL, Visual Aid San Francisco, CA
Year_06 Art Projects, Bucheon Gallery, London UK
Timbuk2 Artist Originals Benefit, San Francisco, CA
DELUGE, Painters Painting with Watercolor, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco CA
PEEP! Red Ink Studios 1035 Market Street, San Francisco,CA
Untitled, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco CA
Modern Fiber, Gray Area Gallery, San Francisco,CA
Nova Art Fair, Bucheon Gallery, Chicago, IL
VELOTREE, Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA
JOY RIDE ART SHOW, Bicycle Film Festival:
STUDIO BEE Gallery Tokyo, Japan
Don O’Melveny Gallery, Los Angeles, CA


+ E x h i b i t i o n s - 2005

Good-bye Exclusive World, Outrageous Look Gallery, Brooklyn ,NY
Swipple, Max Fish, New York, NY
FRESH PRODUCE 05, Anno Domini San Jose, CA
“Is There Summer in San Francisco?” Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco,CA
Visual Aid’s Twelfth Annual BIG IDEA, SomaARTS Gallery, San Francisco,CA
Affair @ the Jupiter Hotel, Jupiter Hotel, Portland, OR
Check Point / Bicycle Art Show, Red Ink Studios, San Francisco,CA
Featured Artist, Smart Gals Speakeasy Hollywood, LA
Ramblin Worker, di Pietro Todd, San Francisco, CA


+ E x h i b i t i o n s - 2004

The White Show, Mikorp Gallery San Francisco, CA
KCAI, Alumni Show, Kansas City Downtown Alternative Space Kansas City, MO
(Untitled) Group Show, EDO San Francisco, CA


+ E x h i b i t i o n s - 2003

(Untitled) Solo Show, The Attic, San Francisco, CA
(Untitled) Group Show, Edo, San Francisco, CA


+ E x h i b i t i o n s - 2000

Roof Top Summer Film Festival, 300 Meserole, Brooklyn NY
Horse Show, Max Fish, New York, NY


+ A w a r d s / H o n o r s

Eisner Prize in Art, 1998 UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA


+ S e l e c t e d _ B i b l i o g r a p h y

M a g a z i n e s :
“15 Minutes.” Interview Magazine, New York. August, 2009
“Best Hood for an Escape.” San Francisco magazine, Dec, 2008
Melissa Goldstein.”7 Things To Know Right Now.” 7x7, SF, CA. July 2008
Lauren Basham and Scott Hocker, “Carrier Evolution.”
San Francisco magazine, July, 2008
Linda Lagunas, “Modern Seamster.” San Francisco, CA. Summer, 2008
Anna Dilemna, “Not Your Grandpa’s Embroidery.”
Craft Zine, San Francisco, CA. August, 2007
RK / Pai, “ ‘Ramblin Worker’: the pista bike bible.”
Smart Magazine, Tokyo, Japan. April, 2007

B o o k s :
Steve MacDonald, “Alphabet Skate Park.”
Dubai productions, Distributors, Last Gasp. SF, CA. Nov, 2009
Nadine Monem, “Contemporary Textiles.”
The Fabric of fine Art
Black Dog Publishing. London, UK. May, 2008
Jocko Weyland, “Elk No. 8.”
Elk Zine, Distributors Printed Matter New York. June, 2006

B l o g s :
White Walls, “Ramblin Worker Brews Some Magic.”
San Francisco, CA. September, 2009
www.whitewallsnews.com

Kristin Farr, “Sew Rad: Steve MacDonald at Gallery Three.”
KQED, San Francisco, CA. Oct, 2009
http://www.kqed.org/arts/visualarts/

Kristin Farr, “Masters of the Impossible.”
Art Business, SF, CA. September, 2009
www.artbusiness.com

Ashley Taylor, “Steve MacDonald @ Rare Device.”
Fecal Face, San Francisco, CA. September, 2009
www.fecalface.com/SF/index

Wendy Dembo, “Little Zero T-Shirts.” Cool Hunting, New York. May, 2008|
http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/

Laura Helms, “Zero In.” NYLON Magazine, New York. May, 2008
www.nylonmag.com

Razor Apple, “Steve MacDonald is the Ramblin Worker”
Razor Apple, New York. April, 2007
http://razorapple.com/

Matt Petty, “Thursday night art opening: Steve MacDonald.”
SFGate, SF, CA. June 24 2005
http://www.sfgate.com/blogs/culture

T e l e v i s i o n :
Adrienne Calo, “Kitka, May, Arts and the Economy.”
Spark, KQED. SF, CA. May, 2009
http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/spark/

“Fabric Fine Art.” KTVU. San Francisco, CA. January, 2008
http://www.ktvu.com/video/


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