Trisha Donnelly

Trisha Donnelly
Born	(1974-04-22) April 22, 1974 (age 51) San Francisco, US
Education	Yale University
Style	Photography, drawing, audio, video, sculpture, performance

Trisha Donnelly (born April 22, 1974) is an American contemporary artist who is particularly well known as a conceptual artist. Donnelly works with various media including photography, drawing, audio, video, sculpture and performance. ^[1] Donnelly is also a Clinical Associate Professor of Studio Art at New York University. ^[2] She currently lives and works in San Francisco, California. ^[3] Trisha Donnelly is represented by Galerie Buchholz, ^[4] Matthew Marks Gallery, ^[5] and Galerie Eva Presenhuber. ^[6]

Early life

Trisha Donnelly was born on April 22, 1974, in San Francisco. In 1995, Donnelly received a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from the University of California in Los Angeles. ^[3] In 2000, she attained a Masters in Fine Arts from Yale University. ^[3]

Career

Donnelly has been on the faculty at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development 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. ^[7] 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."' ^[8] The exhibition included works by artists such as Eliot Porter, Joe Goode, Gertrude Kasebier, Wendy Carlos, and John Whitney. ^[9] 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... [They] are 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." ^[9]

Select solo exhibitions

• Casey Kaplan gallery, New York, USA (2002) ^[10]
• Air de Paris, Paris, France (2002)
• Casey Kaplan gallery, New York, USA (2004)
• The Wrong Gallery, New York, USA (2004)
• Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany (2005)
• Art Pace, San Antonio, USA (2005)
• Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland (2005)
• Trisha Donnelly, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK (2007) ^[1]
• Trisha Donnelly, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA (2008) ^[11]
• The Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA (2008) ^[12]
• Bologna Museum of Modern Art, Bologna, Italy (2009) ^[13]
• Portikus, 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, Zurich, Switzerland (2013)
• Artist's Choice, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (2013) ^[14]
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA (2013) ^[15]
• Serpentine Galleries (2014) ^[16]
• Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (2015) ^[17]
• Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal (2016) ^[18]
• 2017 Wolfgang Hahn Prize, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2017) ^[19]
• Galerie Buchholz, Cologne (2018) ^[20]
• The Shed, NYC (2019) ^[21]
• The Drawing Center, New York, NY (2025) ^[22]

Select group exhibitions

• The World as a Stage (2007)
• Venice Biennale (2011 and 2013) ^[3]
• Documenta 13 (2012) ^[3]
• One on One (2012 and 2013) ^[23]
• Life Itself: On the question of what it essentially is; its materialities, its characteristics…, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (2016) ^[24]
• Less Than One, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA (2016) ^[25]
• Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (2017)
• In Tune with the World, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France (2018) ^[26]
• Other Mechanisms, Secession, Vienna, Austria (2018) ^[27]

Public collections

Donnelly's work can be found in a number of public collections, including:

• Museum of Modern Art, New York ^[28]
• Tate ^[29]
• Walker Art Center ^[30]
• Marciano Art Foundation (private collection open to public)
• Julia Stoschek Collection (private collection open to public)
• Pinault Collection at the Palazzo Grassi (private collection open to public)
• Fondation Louis Vuitton ^[31]

Recognition

In 2010, Donnelly was awarded with the LUMA Foundation Photography Prize. ^[16]

In his 2012 Review "The Best of the Basement", critic Jerry Saltz recognized Donnelly as "a rare case of artistic love at first sight". ^[32]

In 2012, Donnelly was awarded the inaugural Faber-Castell International Drawing Award by the Neues Museum.

In 2017, Donnelly was awarded the Wolfgang Hahn Prize by the Museum Ludwig. 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." ^[19]

References

1. Cotter, Suzanne. "What's On: Trisha Donnelly" Archived 2014-10-06 at the Wayback Machine , Modern Art Oxford, Retrieved 5 October 2014.
2. "Trisha Donnelly - Faculty Bio", New York University, Retrieved 5 October 2014.
3. "Donnelly", Casey Kaplan Gallery, Retrieved 5 October 2014.
4. Buchholz, Galerie. "Trisha Donnelly — Galerie Buchholz". www.galeriebuchholz.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-07-01.
5. "Trisha Donnelly | Matthew Marks Gallery". Trisha Donnelly | Matthew Marks Gallery. Retrieved 2024-07-01.
6. "Trisha Donnelly - Artists - Galerie Eva Presenhuber". www.presenhuber.com. Retrieved 2024-07-01.
7. "Artist's Choice: Trisha Donnelly", Museum of Modern Art, Retrieved 5 October 2014.
8. Saltz, Jerry "The Best of the Basement" New York Magazine online, December 9, 2012.
9. Russeth, Andrew (3 December 2013). "Voice Over: Trisha Donnelly on Her 'Artist's Choice' Show at MoMA". Observer. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
10. Lovatt, Anna. "Wavelength: On Drawing and Sound in the Work of Trisha Donnelly", Tate Papers, Retrieved 5 October 2014.
11. "ICA - Trisha Donnelly", Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, Retrieved 5 October 2014.
12. "The Renaissance Society". Renaissancesociety.org. Archived from the original on 1 November 2013. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
13. "Trisha Donnelly". Caseykaplangallery. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
14. "Artist's Choice: Trisha Donnelly in the Making", Museum of Modern Art, Retrieved 5 October 2014.
15. "New Work: Trisha Donnelly", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Retrieved 5 October 2014.
16. "Trisha Donnelly", Serpentine Galleries, Retrieved 5 October 2014.
17. exhibit-E.com. "Exhibition - Trisha Donnelly - Matthew Marks Gallery". www.matthewmarks.com. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
18. Seara.com. "Fundação de Serralves - Serralves". Serralves. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
19. Ludwig, Museum. "Trisha Donnelly: 2017 Wolfgang Hahn Prize - Museum Ludwig, Cologne". www.museum-ludwig.de. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
20. "Trisha Donnelly, Galerie Buchholz".
21. "Trisha Donnelly". The Shed. 2019. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
22. "The Drawing Center: Trisha Donnelly". The Drawing Center: Trisha Donnelly. 2025-07-14. Retrieved 2025-07-14.
23. "One on One". One on One.
24. "Life Itself – Moderna Museet i Stockholm". Moderna Museet i Stockholm. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
25. "Less Than One". walkerart.org. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
26. "In Tune with the World". www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
27. "Other Mechanisms « secession". www.secession.at. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
28. "Trisha Donnelly | MoMA". www.moma.org. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
29. "Trisha Donnelly", Tate, Retrieved 5 October 2014.
30. "Trisha Donnelly - Collections", Walker Art Center, Retrieved 5 October 2014.
31. "Trisha Donnelly". www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
32. Saltz, Jerry "The Best of the Basement" New York Magazine Online, December 9, 2012.

External links

• Trisha Donnelly at NYU