Born in Athens, Greece, Claudia McDonough is the daughter of a diplomat. She received her BA from Hampshire College in Massachusetts and her MFA from Southern Methodist University in Texas in 1988. Now based in Baltimore, Claudia’s work explores the interplay of memory, emotion, and material, focusing on the intangible connections between personal and collective experience. 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 reviewed in publications including The Baltimore Sun, City Paper, Winston-Salem Monthly, and Winston-Salem Journal.