Mack McFarland
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Mack McFarland | |
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| Education | University of Bergen, Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design (KMD) |
| Occupation | Curator |
| Movement | Tactical Media, Photography |
Mack McFarland is a curator and artist living in Portland, Oregon.[1] He is the Director of Center for Contemporary Art & Culture at Pacific Northwest College of Art.[2]
As the curator for PNCA, McFarland has worked with several Tactical media artists, including The Yes Men,[3] Critical Art Ensemble,[4] Brian Holmes[5] and Eva & Franco Mattes.[6] McFarland's other projects with PNCA include solo exhibitions with Luc Tuymans,[7] Wangechi Mutu,[8] Joe Sacco,[9] Cauleen Smith,[10] Sandow Birk,[11] James Rosenquist, David Horvitz,[12] Sue Coe,[13] Thomas Zummer,[14] and many others. His work focuses on issues of class, representation, information environments, and phenomenological perception.[15]
In 2006 McFarland teamed with Dennis Nyback in the Portland Portland Institute for Contemporary Art Time Based Art project the Portland That Was.[16]