Mack McFarland

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{{Short description|American curator of contemporary art}}

{{notability|Bio|date=March 2017}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Mack McFarland

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| education = University of Bergen, Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design (KMD)

| nationality = American

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| occupation = Curator

| movement = Tactical Media, Photography

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Mack McFarland is a curator and artist living in Portland, Oregon.{{cite web

| title=Pacific Northwest College of Art {{hyphen}} Faculty List

| url=http://www.pnca.edu/faculty/meet/mmcfarland

| website=www.pnca.edu

| publisher=PNCA

| url-status=dead

| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170719004459/http://www.pnca.edu/faculty/meet/mmcfarland

| archive-date=July 19, 2017

| access-date=March 27, 2018

}} He is the Director of Center for Contemporary Art & Culture at Pacific Northwest College of Art.

{{cite web

| title = About: Center for Contemporary Art & Culture

| url = http://ccac.pnca.edu/about

| website = ccac.pnca.edu

| publisher = PNCA

|access-date = March 27, 2018

}}

As the curator for PNCA, McFarland has worked with several Tactical media artists, including The Yes Men,

{{cite web

| url=http://www.portlandmercury.com/events/876015/the-yes-men-keep-it-slick|website=Portland Mercury

| title = The Yes Men: Keep it Slick

| author = (staff)

| publisher = Portland Mercury

| date = September 4, 2008

|access-date = March 2, 2018

}} Critical Art Ensemble,

{{cite web

|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/art/index.ssf/2013/04/acceptable_losses_exhibit_expo.html

|title='Acceptable Losses': Exhibit exposes vet suicide epidemic

|author = John Motley

|date = April 12, 2013

|website = www.oregonlive.com

|publisher = The Oregonian

|accessdate = March 27, 2018

}} Brian Holmes{{cite journal |last1=Półtorak |first1=Arkadiusz |title=You Never Step in the Same River Twice. Quixotic futures of tactical media. Interview with Brian Holmes by Arkadiusz Półtorak |journal=Przegląd Kulturoznawczy |date=2018 |volume=2 |issue=26 |pages=199–208 |doi=10.4467/20843860PK.18.011.9189|doi-access=free }} and Eva & Franco Mattes.

{{cite web

| url = http://www.arshake.com/en/eva-e-franco-mattes-breaking-banality/

| last1 = Giulia Rossi

| first1 = Elena

| title = Eva & Franco Mattes: "Breaking Banality"

| date = January 7, 2015

| website = www.ArShake.com

| publisher = ArShake

| access-date = March 27, 2018

}} McFarland's other projects with PNCA include solo exhibitions with Luc Tuymans,

{{cite web

| title = Let Them Look: An Interview with Luc Tuymans

| url = http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2014/06/transcription_l.html

| author = Amy Bernstein

| website = www.portlandart.net

| date = June 2, 2014

| publisher = PORT

| accessdate = March 27, 2018

}} Wangechi Mutu,

{{cite web

| last1 = Kook-Anderson

| first1 = Grace

| title = Wangechi Mutu and the revolt of the female form

| url =http://www.orartswatch.org/wangechi-mutu-and-the-revolt-of-the-female-form/

| date = March 9, 2016

| website = www.orartwatch.org

| publisher = Oregon Arts Watch

| accessdate = March 27, 2018

}} Joe Sacco,

{{cite web

| url = http://blog.oregonlive.com/visualarts/2008/01/art_review_joe_sacco_at_pnca.html

| last1 = Libby

| first1 = Brian

| title = Art Review: Joe Sacco Retrospective at PNCA

| website = www.oregonlive.com

| date = January 24, 2008

| publisher = The Oregonian

|access-date = March 27, 2018

}} Cauleen Smith,

{{cite web

| last1 = Green

| first1 = Kate

| title = Cauleen Smith

| url = https://www.artforum.com/picks/id=65181

| website = www.artforum.com

| publisher = Artforum International Magazine

| location = New York, NY

| access-date = March 27, 2018

}} Sandow Birk,

{{cite web

| last1 = Row

| first1 = D.K.

| title = Interview: Sandow Birk on the Iraq War and beyond

| url = http://www.oregonlive.com/art/index.ssf/2009/11/interview_sandow_birk_on_the_i.html

| date = November 5, 2009

| website = www.oregonlive.com

| publisher = The Oregonian

| location = Portland, Or

| access-date = March 27, 2018

}} James Rosenquist, David Horvitz,

{{cite web

| title = David Horvitz Talk

| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afYSLFqAK8o

| website = www.youtube.com

| type = Video

| date = July 7, 2016

| publisher = PNCA

| access-date = March 27, 2018

}} Sue Coe,

{{cite web

| title = Sue Coe Lecture

| url = http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2007/02/sue_coe_lecture.html

| author = Jenene Nagy

| date = February 25, 2007

| website = www.portlandart.net

| publisher = Portland Art.net

| access-date = March 27, 2018

}} Thomas Zummer,

{{cite web

| last1 = Lechner

| first1 = Jenna

| title = Thomas Zummer at PNCA

| url = http://dailyserving.com/2012/07/thomas-zummer-at-pnca/

| date = July 27, 2012

| website = www.dailyserving.com

| publisher = Daily Serving. com

| access-date = March 27, 2018

}} and many others. His work focuses on issues of class, representation, information environments, and phenomenological perception.{{cite web |title=KMD |url=https://kmd.uib.no/en/studies/Curatorial-practice/studenter/mack-mcfarland}}

In 2006 McFarland teamed with Dennis Nyback in the Portland Portland Institute for Contemporary Art Time Based Art project the Portland That Was.{{cite web |url=http://pica.org/event/mcfarland-nyback/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402123256/http://pica.org/event/mcfarland-nyback/|archive-date=2 Apr 2015|title=The Portland that Was |website=pica.org |access-date=2019-04-25}}