Margo MacArthur is a San Francisco Bay Area photographer. Her street photography practice has been influenced by a search for identity and discovery arising from various life transitions. She is drawn to themes of introspection, detachment, alienation, and quirk. Order is conferred via light, shadow, lines, and shapes thus lending structure to the unsettling and often melancholic feelings that arise from these themes.
Selected Juried and Gallery Exhibitions
2024
Mood Julia Margaret Cameron Awards: Honorable Mention in Non-Professional
Kobe Bento Street Photography
Saloon
2023
Mood Honorable Mention in Urban Observer, Click Voice Competition
Click Pro Photographers
Nines IdentityThrough the Lens of Attire: Women in Street
Curator: Saima Loan
Saloon Honorable Mention
The Streets at Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Juror: Robi Chakraborty
Dance Best Hands: Women in Street
Curator: Julia Coddington
Saloon In Sight: O’Hanlon Center for the Arts in Mill Valley, CA
Juror: Shana Lopes, Assistant Curator of Photography, SFMOMA
Kobe Bento In Sight: O’Hanlon Center for the Arts in Mill Valley, CA
Juror: Shana Lopes, Assistant Curator of Photography, SFMOMA
Saloon International Color Awards Nominee in People, Amateur
Break International Color Awards Nominee in Silhouette, Amateur
Mood Women Street Photographers Virtual Exhibition
Juror: Whitney Hollington Matewe, Photo Editor Time Magazine
2022
Saloon All About Photo Magazine #28: Streets: Merit Award
Juror: Sandrine Hermand-Grisel
Nines Flaunt It: Women In Street:
Curator: B. Jane Levine
Umbrage Show Me the Colors at Midwest Center for Photography
Mood Open Theme at Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Juror: Ann Jastrab, Executive Director at the Center for Photographic Arts, Carmel, CA
Mood International Color Awards Nominee in Fine Arts, Amateur
Portals International Color Awards Nominee in Architecture, Amateur
F100 Exposed 2022 at Marin Society of Artists, Marin County, CA
Juror: Ian Bornath, Photographer and Educator
Disband Dynamic: Shadow and Light at Black Box Gallery in Portland, OR
Curator: Todd Johnson, Founder and Director, Black Box Gallery
2021
Primary Portals 2021 at NYC4PA in New York City, NY
Juror: Traer Scott
Umbrage Focus: Trees and Water at Black Box Gallery in Portland, OR
Curator: Todd Johnson, Founder and Director, Black Box Gallery
Red Framed: Shadow and Light at Black Box Gallery in Portland, OR
Curator: Todd Johnson, Founder and Director, Black Box Gallery
Escape Shades of Gray at Black Box Gallery in Portland, OR
Curator: Todd Johnson, Founder and Director, Black Box Gallery
Mood Blue at O’Hanlon Center for the Arts in Mill Valley, CA
Juror: Jen Tough, Founder of Jen Tough Gallery in Santa Fe, NM
Nomad Focus: Portraiture at Black Box Gallery in Portland, OR
Curator: Todd Johnson, Founder and Director, Black Box Gallery
Group Exhibitions
2023
Saloon Group Exhibition at The Image Flow in San Anselmo, CA
Kobe Bento Group Exhibition at The Image Flow in San Anselmo, CA
2022
Teen Portrait shown in Pictures of People web Gallery and in-person at the DeYoung Museum
in conjunction with Alice Neel: People Come First
2021
Various A Celebration of Women’s Equality Day, Mill Valley, CA
2019
July 4th Group Photography Exhibition at The Image Flow in Mill Valley, CA
Contact Email:
margomacjames@gmail.com