Scott McMahon grew up in Connecticut and now resides in Columbia, Missouri where he is an Associate Professor of Art at Columbia College. He received his MFA from Massachusetts College of Art & Design in Boston, Massachusetts, and his BFA from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He has completed artist residencies at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine; iPark Artists’ Enclave in East Haddam, Connecticut; Border Art Residency in La Union, New Mexico and Main Street Arts in Clifton Springs, New York.
Selected exhibitions include:
Poetics of Light, Palace of the Governors New Mexico History Museum Santa Fe, NM & National Media Museum in Bradford UK
Amerykanskie Metafory, Galeria Pusta, Katowice, Poland & Old Gallery ZPAF, Warsaw, Poland
Forgotten Attributes, Three Columns Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
The Bioluminescent Firefly Experiment, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Second Nature, The Halide Project, Philadelphia, PA
Response Time, Sol Mednick Gallery, Philadelphia, PA