Margot Waller Madgett

Margot Waller Madgett is a Pacific Islander contemporary artist based in San Diego, California. Margot blends materials, methods and techniques to create contemporary abstracts, modular arrangements, and mixed media paintings and sculpture - to inspire mood, contemplation, and connection with oneself and the world around us.

Margot was born and raised on the island of Guam, until moving to San Diego with her family in the early seventies. She studied Art at SDSU and Santa Monica College before launching into a lifelong discipline of self-study, combining and experimenting with various mediums and techniques; including her signature portraiture commission series of children she coined “Art Image Portraiture”. She currently lives and works in coastal North San Diego County, California with her husband and two children. Margot has exhibited extensively throughout southern California and is in corporate and private collections. Art critic, Robert Pincus writes, “The CCG series is ethereal and absorbing, which evokes a series of prominent sources they include Cy Twombly and Brice Marden”.

Margot works in acrylic paint along with other media such as oil, pencil, charcoal, oil stick, gold leaf, solvent transfers, and some sculptura...

San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
University of California San Diego Craft Center, La Jolla, CA
Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA

Nordstrom Showcase, San Diego CA
Art in the Sky Penthouse Show San Diego, CA 2025
2025 Unfolding Visions Solo Exhibition, City of Encinitas Civic Art Program, Encinitas CA
North County Artist Collective, Encinitas CA
2023 Nordstrom Solo Art Showcase, San Diego CA
2023 Nordstrom Two Artist Showcase, San Diego CA
2019 Art San Diego Contemporary Art Fair, San Diego CA
2019 Things with Wings: Moving Free, Cardiff Library, solo exhibit, Cardiff CA
2018 It's All Therapy, solo exhibit, Cardiff CA
2014 Merge + Mix = Mingle, Trunk Gallery, Venice CA
2013 A Field Guide, the home show, Cardiff, CA
2012 Sustainability Matters, San Diego, CA
2007 Parisi Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Del Mar, CA
2006 Parisi Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Del Mar, CA
2005 Parisi Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Del Mar, CA
2004 Parisi Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Del Mar, CA
2004 Scripps Encinitas Healing for the Arts, Encinitas, CA
2003 Parisi Gallery & Sculpture Garden, two-person show, Del Mar, CA
2003 Sushi Performance & Visual Art, Solo exhibit, San Diego, CA
2003 Sushi Performance & Visual Art, Red Ball, San Diego, CA
2002 Parisi Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Del Mar, CA
2002 Salon Tonic, San Diego, CA
2002 Children’s Museum San Diego, s...