Claudia McDonough is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the intersection of memory, material, and emotion. Through textile, photography, sculpture, and found objects, she creates experiential pieces that reflect on impermanence, personal and collective trauma, and resilience. Drawing from dreams, family history, and everyday life, her work invites viewers into spaces where sorrow lingers, stories surface, and meanings shift over time.
McDonough lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland. She has been awarded multiple Maryland State Arts Council Artist Grants and has participated in residencies at the BEMIS Center for Contemporary Art (Omaha, NE) and School 33 Art Center (Baltimore, MD). Her work has been exhibited nationally at venues such as Area 405 (Baltimore, MD), Salem College (Winston-Salem, NC), Arlington Museum of Art (Arlington, TX), and the Meadows Museum (Dallas, TX), and has been reviewed in The Baltimore Sun, City Paper, Winston-Salem Monthly, and the Winston-Salem Journal.