photo by Michelle Lanning
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b. 1987
Lives and works in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, CA
EDUCATION
2019 MFA, University of California, Santa Barbara
2010 Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art, Pont-Aven, France
2009 BA, Connecticut College, New London, CT
2007 Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy
SOLO exhibitions & PUBLICATIONS
2025 the taut and the lush, Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara
2023 ‘attagirl, The Dirty Emerald, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Art & Life with Madeleine Eve Ignon, VoyageLA magazine
2018 re:writing, Glassbox Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2018 pages, Minibox Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2017 she swims, Keystone Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, January 4–17, 2017
2015 featured in Entityy Magazine Issue III
2015 locus Los Angeles County Store, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP exhibitions
2025 tl:dr: text in art, Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2024 The Weight of Return (with Stephanie Dotson), Taft Gardens & Nature Preserve, Ojai, CA
2024 changing natures (with Stephanie Dotson), Riviera Beach Hotel (satellite of the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara
2023 Group Text, Left Field Gallery, Los Osos, CA
2022 Beta Epochs, 1258 space, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Over the Fence, Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara, CA
2022 Water is Thicker Than Blood, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2021 strewn CA53776V2.gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2021 pop-up art show with Elisa Ortega Montilla, Community Arts Workshop, Santa Barbara, CA
2020 Joyride Ojai, Ojai, CA
2020 UCSB MFA 20/20, Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2019 The Illusion Real, 2-person show with Adam Jahnke, CSU Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA
2019 Paradise Tossed, Keystone Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Temporary Clash, ADA Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
2019 SoCalMFA (Helen Molesworth, juror), Millard Sheets Art Center, Pomona, CA
2019 GLAMFA: Open Relationships, CSU Long Beach Art Galleries, Long Beach, CA
2019 POV: Tosh Clements, Madelene Eve Ignon, Tom Pazderka & Art Soto, SBCAST, Santa Barbara, CA
2018 dreamteam, Red Barn Project Space, Santa Barbara, CA
2018 SHE-DEN, Red Barn Project Space, Santa Barbara, CA
2018 Still Free, Glassbox Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2015 group show, Limited Ink Studios, Los Angeles, CA
2015 (in conversation) (with Cara Bonewitz), galerie 8031, Los Angeles, CA
2015 locus, Los Angeles County Store, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Hygienic Arts XXX Art Show, Hygienic Arts, New London, CT
2009 PRIMA LUX, New London, CT
2007 Student Exhibition, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2023 Group Text, Left Field Gallery, Los Osos, CA (in collaboration with Alex Lukas)
2022 Beta Epochs, 1258 space, Los Angeles, CA (in collaboration with Alex Lukas)
awards/honors
2024 Summer 2024 artist workshop with Enrique Martínez Celaya, Los Angeles, CA (scholarship awarded)
2023 Summer 2023 artist workshop with Enrique Martínez Celaya, Los Angeles, CA (scholarship awarded)
2022 Summer 2022 artist workshop with Enrique Martínez Celaya, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Diversity and equity seed grant, University of California Multicampus Placemaking Initiative
2019 College of Creative Studies Teaching Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara
2018 Levitan Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara
2018 Lead Teaching Assistant, University of California, Santa Barbara
2017 Block grant, University of California, Santa Barbara
2009 Leo & Ann Higdon Annual Art Award, Connecticut College
2009 Salvatore Stephen Figliomeni ‘82 Art Award, Connecticut College
RESIDENCIES
2023 Taft Gardens and Nature Preserve 9-month artist-in-residence, Ojai, CA
2021 Spring Creek Project Collaborative Retreat (with Lucas Black), through Oregon State University
2016 Starry Night Programs, Artist Grant Recipient, Truth or Consequences, NM
2016 Vermont Studio Center, Artist Grant Recipient, Johnson, VT
2016 Drop Forge & Tool, Hudson, NY
Madeleine Eve Ignon is a multimedia artist and graphic designer who works in a variety of techniques. Her work explores the ways painting, graphic design, and craft can be combined, both conceptually and formally. She has been awarded residencies at Starry Night Program (Truth or Consequences, New Mexico), Vermont Studio Center, Drop Forge & Tool (Hudson, NY) and Spring Creek Project at Oregon State University, and has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her work has been featured in LUM Art Magazine (a publication she has also written for) as well as Carpinteria magazine. She teaches graphic design at Santa Barbara City College and art at UC Santa Barbara’s College of Creative Studies. She earned her MFA from UCSB in 2019. She is one-half of the experimental curatorial collaborative Beta Epochs, and was a 2023–24 artist-in-residence at Taft Gardens and Nature Preserve in Ojai, CA.
contact: madeleineignonart@gmail.com
instagram: @madeveart