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
2024 Tom Peyton Memorial Arts Festival
2024 37th Annual September Competition Alexandria Museum of Art
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