Value Scale, 2024, pen on paper, 16.5” x 11.5” (each)


CV


macbalentine@gmail.com


b. 1989, Atlanta, GA
lives and works in Taos, NM


EXHIBITIONS
2023
Speedo International Unlimited, Parent Company, Brooklyn, NY
2022
Jumbo Shrimp, Take it Easy, Atlanta, GA
OFFSCREEN, P.A.D., New York, NY
Objects, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Gimpo, South Korea
Silver Sight, whitespec, Atlanta, GA (solo)
2021
Light, ATHICA, Athens, GA
Whistling in the Dark, Athenaeum, Athens, GA
2020
Bend the Column, Lupin Foundation Gallery, Athens, GA
Chronos Eats Kids, Camayuhs, Atlanta, GA (solo)
Beyond the Faun, SCREEN_, screen-space.info (solo)
Time Capsule, Glass Gallery, Athens, GA
2019
The Fool-ecomy, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA (solo)
Shared Dissonance, snakes4gardens, Athens, GA
Congeal, Margie E. West Gallery, Athens, GA
2018
Pant-ing Athena, snakes4gardens, Athens, GA
Abernathy Arts Center, Atlanta, GA
LaGrange Art Museum, LaGrange, GA
2015
Minneapolis Art Lending Library (co-founder),  American Swedish Institute, Minneapolis, MN
2013
Made Here, Block E, Minneapolis, MN
AIS 123...4, SooLOCAL, Minneapolis, MN
New Work, The Ledge Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (solo)
2012
Whittier Artists in Storefronts, Minneapolis, MN
Provoke, Leeds College, Leeds, England
Day Job: Georgia, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
2011
Alias, Centre International d'Art Contemporain, Pont-Aven, France


EDUCATION
2021
​MFA, Studio Art, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA
2012
BFA, Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2011
Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art, Pont-Aven, France


PRESS/PUBLICATIONS
ICON & SPIRIT, edited by William Major with forward by Robert Gipe, January 2022
Burnaway, Mood Ring: Hall of the Eye
Burnaway, "The Fool's Journey: A Conversation with Mac Balentine" by Logan Lockner, Oct 3, 2019
Flagpole Magazine, "Material (Re)Orientation" by Alden DiCamillo, Sept 25, 2019
Some Tips for Effective Social Practice by Ellen Mueller, 2019
young space, "Minneapolis Art Lending Library" by Kate Mothes, April 19, 2016


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Tom of Finland Foundation, Los Angeles, CA


RESIDENCIES
2014
Prairie Center of the Arts, Peoria, IL


AWARDS
2020
University of Georgia, Willson Center for the Humanities and Arts
2019-2021
​Lamar Dodd School of Art, Dorothy Alexander Roush Scholarship
2018-2019
Lamar Dodd School of Art, Whitehead Scholarship
2014
Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, Community Arts Grant, Saint Paul, MN
2012
San Francisco Art Institute, Outstanding Undergraduate Academic Achievement Award
2008-2012
San Francisco Art Institute, Partnership Scholarship
San Francisco Art Institute, Deans Scholarship


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2021-2023
Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Part-time Faculty in Studio Art Core, Painting & Drawing
2013-2015
Minneapolis Art Lending Library, Co-founder