Pamela MacDougal graduated this past Spring with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and a minor in Art History from Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Prior to attending Kendall, MacDougal served as an attorney providing tax consulting and structuring advice for large corporate transactions and created very little art. She left home for boarding school at the age of 13, received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Cornell University in 1994, and graduated from NYU School of Law in 1997.

For the past year, MacDougal has had two works included in the Art in the Legislature exhibition in Lansing, Michigan: Unfinding the Symbolic Subject, 2022, and Toast of Life, 2020. Her painting, Under Lithium Skies (Study), 2023, was included in an exhibition at 106 Gallery in Grand Rapids in May 2024. Her three part series, Inconvenient Truths, 2024, oil on largescale curved panels, was exhibited in a solo main floor gallery at the 2024 annual Kendall student exhibition. A video of this installation may be viewed by clicking the instagram icon at the upper left of this page.