Trisha Donnelly (born April 22, 1974) is an American
contemporary art
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ist who is particularly well known as a
conceptual artist. Donnelly works with various media including
photography
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,
drawing
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,
audio
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Sound
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*Audio frequency, a frequency in the audio spectrum
*Digital audio, representation of sound ...
,
video
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,
sculpture
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and
performance
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Performance has evolved glo ...
.
[Cotter, Suzanne]
"What's On: Trisha Donnelly"
, Modern Art Oxford, Retrieved 5 October 2014. Donnelly is also a Clinical Associate Professor of Studio Art at
New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational ...
. She currently lives and works in
San Francisco
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,
California
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.
["Donnelly"](_blank)
Casey Kaplan Gallery, Retrieved 5 October 2014. Trisha Donnelly is represented by
Galerie Buchholz
Galerie Buchholz is an art gallery specializing in international contemporary art with exhibition spaces in Cologne, Berlin and New York City. The gallery was founded in Cologne in 1986 by Daniel Buchholz, and today is run jointly with Christophe ...
,
Matthew Marks Gallery
Matthew Marks is an art gallery located in the New York City neighborhood of Chelsea, Manhattan, Chelsea and the Los Angeles neighborhood of West Hollywood. Founded in 1991 by Matthew Marks, it specializes in Modern art, modern and contemporary a ...
, and
Galerie Eva Presenhuber
Galerie Eva Presenhuber is a contemporary art gallery, owned by Eva Presenhuber, with locations in Zurich, Switzerland (since 2003) and Vienna (since 2022).
History
Eva Presenhuber founded Galerie Eva Presenhuber in October 2003 in Zurich, with an ...
.
Early life
Trisha Donnelly was born on April 22, 1974, in
San Francisco
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. In 1995, Donnelly received a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from the
University of California in Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school then known as the southern branch of the Cal ...
.
[ In 2000, she attained a Masters in Fine Arts from ]Yale University
Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...
.[
]
Career
Donnelly has been on the faculty at New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational ...
's since 2008. She is a Clinical Associate Professor of Studio Art.
In 2012, Donnelly was the tenth artist to curate ''Artist's Choice'', an exhibition curated by artists of artworks from the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street (Manhattan), 53rd Street between Fifth Avenue, Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, a ...
. In the exhibition, "she was after 'striking voices'" she couldn't let go of, "'paths of encounters and building poetic structures... images that go beyond images themselves."' The exhibition included works by artists such as Eliot Porter, Joe Goode, Gertrude Kasebier, Wendy Carlos, and John Whitney. The audio guide provided for the show was art historian Robert Rosenblum discussing MoMA's 1989 Picasso retrospective. Donnelly explained, "The feeling when listening to these audio guides was, this was a great work of art... or work of whatever, work of another entity, or another state and dimension, existing... heyare so beautiful... It's like the Taj Mahal of languages, building it himself. By the end, I don't need the exhibition at all. I'm awash in this ocean of his funny, brilliant voice."
Select solo exhibitions
* Casey Kaplan gallery, New York, USA (2002)[Lovatt, Anna]
"Wavelength: On Drawing and Sound in the Work of Trisha Donnelly"
''Tate Papers'', Retrieved 5 October 2014.
* Air de Paris, Paris, France (2002)
* Casey Kaplan gallery, New York, USA (2004)
* The Wrong Gallery, New York, USA (2004)
*Kölnischer Kunstverein
The Kölnischer Kunstverein is an art museum in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia state, Germany. It is named after the historical art society of the same name.
The ''Kölnischer Kunstverein'' was a " Kunstverein" established in Cologne in 1839 ...
, Cologne, Germany (2005)
* Art Pace, San Antonio, USA (2005)
*Kunsthalle Zürich
The Kunsthalle Zürich is a kunsthalle (a contemporary art exhibition centre) in Zürich, Switzerland. Founded in 1985, it is located on Limmatstrasse, near the city centre. A number of temporary exhibitions are organized each year.
Directors
* ...
, Zurich, Switzerland (2005)
*''Trisha Donnelly'', Modern Art Oxford
Modern Art Oxford is an art gallery established in 1965 in Oxford, England. From 1965 to 2002, it was called The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.
The gallery presents exhibitions of modern and contemporary art. It has a national and international ...
, Oxford, UK (2007)[
*''Trisha Donnelly'', Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA (2008)
* The Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA (2008)
*]Bologna Museum of Modern Art
The Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna or MAMbo is a purpose-designed modern and experimental art museum in Bologna, Italy — and which includes The , a collection of more than 250 works by noted painter, Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964).
Histor ...
, Bologna, Italy (2009)
* Portikus
Portikus is an exhibition hall for contemporary art in Frankfurt am Main, that was founded in 1987 by Kasper König. The museum is part of Frankfurt's Museumsufer (Museum Riverbank). Portikus presents the work of both internationally renowned ar ...
, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2010)
* Casey Kaplan gallery, New York, USA (2010)
* Air de Paris, Paris, France (2010)
* Les Rencontres d'Arles, France. Exhibition and Discovery Award laureate (2010)
*Galerie Eva Presenhuber
Galerie Eva Presenhuber is a contemporary art gallery, owned by Eva Presenhuber, with locations in Zurich, Switzerland (since 2003) and Vienna (since 2022).
History
Eva Presenhuber founded Galerie Eva Presenhuber in October 2003 in Zurich, with an ...
, Zurich, Switzerland (2013)
*''Artist's Choice'', Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street (Manhattan), 53rd Street between Fifth Avenue, Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, a ...
, New York, USA (2013)
*San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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, San Francisco, USA (2013)
*Serpentine Galleries
The Serpentine Galleries are two contemporary art galleries in Kensington Gardens, Westminster, Greater London. Recently rebranded to just Serpentine, the organisation is split across Serpentine South, previously known as the Serpentine Galler ...
(2014)["Trisha Donnelly"](_blank)
Serpentine Galleries, Retrieved 5 October 2014.
*Matthew Marks Gallery
Matthew Marks is an art gallery located in the New York City neighborhood of Chelsea, Manhattan, Chelsea and the Los Angeles neighborhood of West Hollywood. Founded in 1991 by Matthew Marks, it specializes in Modern art, modern and contemporary a ...
, Los Angeles, USA (2015)
* Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal (2016)
*''2017 Wolfgang Hahn Prize'', Museum Ludwig
Museum Ludwig, located in Cologne, Germany, houses a collection of modern art. It includes works from Pop Art, Abstract and Surrealism, and has one of the largest Picasso collections in Europe. It holds many works by Andy Warhol and Roy Lic ...
, Cologne (2017)
*Galerie Buchholz
Galerie Buchholz is an art gallery specializing in international contemporary art with exhibition spaces in Cologne, Berlin and New York City. The gallery was founded in Cologne in 1986 by Daniel Buchholz, and today is run jointly with Christophe ...
, Cologne (2018)
* The Shed, NYC (2019)
Select group exhibitions
*The World as a Stage (2007)
*Venice Biennale
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(2011 and 2013)
*Documenta
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Documenta was founded by artist, teacher and curator Arnold Bode in 1955 as part of the Bundesgarte ...
13 (2012)[
*One on One (2012 and 2013)
*''Life Itself: On the question of what it essentially is; its materialities, its characteristics…,'' ]Moderna Museet
Moderna Museet is a state museum for modern and contemporary art located on the island of Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm, opened in 1958. In 2009, the museum opened Moderna Museet Malmö in Malmö.
History
The museum opened in Stockh ...
, Stockholm, Sweden (2016)
*''Less Than One'', Walker Art Center
The Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center in the Lowry Hill, Minneapolis, Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is one of the most-visited modern and contemporary art museums in ...
, Minneapolis, USA (2016)
*Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (2017)
*''In Tune with the World'', Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France (2018)
*''Other Mechanisms'', Secession, Vienna, Austria (2018)
Public collections
Donnelly's work can be found in a number of public collections, including:
*Museum of Modern Art, New York
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*Tate
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*Walker Art Center
The Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center in the Lowry Hill, Minneapolis, Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is one of the most-visited modern and contemporary art museums in ...
*Marciano Art Foundation
The Marciano Art Foundation (formally named the Maurice and Paul Marciano Art Foundation) is a 501(c)(3) organization, non-profit arts foundation located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles, Mid-Wilshire neighborhood of Los Ang ...
(private collection open to public)
*Julia Stoschek Collection (private collection open to public)
*Pinault Collection at the Palazzo Grassi
Palazzo Grassi (also known as the Palazzo Grassi-Stucky) is a building in the Venetian Classical style located on the Grand Canal of Venice (Italy), between the Palazzo Moro Lin and the campo San Samuele.
History First owners
During the 16th ...
(private collection open to public)
* Fondation Louis Vuitton
Recognition
In 2010, Donnelly was awarded with the LUMA Foundation Photography Prize.
In his 2012 Review "The Best of the Basement", critic Jerry Saltz
Jerry Saltz (born February 19, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American art critic. Since 2006, he has been senior art critic and columnist for ''New York magazine, New York'' magazine. Formerly the senior art critic for ''The Village Voice'', ...
recognized Donnelly as "a rare case of artistic love at first sight".[Saltz, Jerry "The Best of the Basement" New York Magazine Online, December 9, 2012.]
In 2012, Donnelly was awarded the inaugural Faber-Castell International Drawing Award by the Neues Museum
The Neues Museum (, ''New Museum'') is a listed building on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin, Germany. Built from 1843 to 1855 by order of King Frederick William IV of Prussia in Neoclassical and Renaissance Revival styles, ...
.
In 2017, Donnelly was awarded the Wolfgang Hahn Prize by the Museum Ludwig
Museum Ludwig, located in Cologne, Germany, houses a collection of modern art. It includes works from Pop Art, Abstract and Surrealism, and has one of the largest Picasso collections in Europe. It holds many works by Andy Warhol and Roy Lic ...
. Suzanne Cotter, director of Mudam Luxembourg, said of Donnelly in recognition of the award: “Trisha Donnelly is without doubt one of the most compelling artists of our time whose work offers entirely new ways of experiencing and thinking about form, at once synaesthesic and disruptively transporting."
References
External links
Trisha Donnelly at NYU
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1974 births
Living people
21st-century American women artists
American conceptual artists
American women conceptual artists
UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture alumni
Yale School of Art alumni
San Francisco Art Institute faculty
New York University faculty
Artists from Los Angeles
American women academics