Artists

Travis MacDonald

Press release

Contemporary Fine Arts presents Had a Farm, a solo exhibition by Travis MacDonald opening on the occasion of Gallery Weekend Berlin 2026. The show occupies the upper floor of the gallery and brings together new paintings that extend his ongoing inquiry into countercultural aesthetics. For the artist, this process filters research through lived experience. What begins as study turns into narration. Across these works, long-haired androgynous figures inhabit a setting suspended between rural life and subcultural staging. Rooted in hippie movements, these protagonists also function as analogues of the artist himself. MacDonald returns to this type of figure to explore how self-portraiture can take on different roles. Hair operates on several levels here. It carries associations of style and refusal, but it is equally bound to the material demands of his process.