Resumé

Education

1968 Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, B.F.A.
1968 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York City

Selected Grants and Awards

2000 Tesuque Foundation Grant. Peer nominated.
1994 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
1987 NEA Painting Grant
1979 NEA Painting Grant
1971 Theodoran Purchase Award, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City

Solo Exhibitions

2010 VOLTA NY—Solo Booth, March 4–7, 2010.
2008 in situ: paintings 1973–present Thomas Erben Gallery, April 24–May 31, 2008
2006 Brain Stain Thomas Erben Gallery, New York City
2003 Tactile Image Cheim and Read, New York City
2001 Stations of the Subway Cheim and Read, New York City
2000 Dona Nelson: The Stations of the Subway, Octopuses and Arrangements. Weatherspoon Art Gallery. University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC. Curator, Ron Platt. Catalogue Essay by Klaus Kertess
1999 Parks and Portraits: Dona Nelson, 1983–88 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Essay by Sanford Schwartz.
1996 Michael Klein Gallery, New York City
1993 Michael Klein Gallery, New York City
1990, 1989 Scott Hanson Gallery, New York City
1985 A room of painting at P.S.1, Long Island City, New York
1983 Hamilton Gallery, New York City
1982 Oscarsson Hood Gallery, New York City
1975 Rosa Esman Gallery, New York City

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010 40, Texas Gallery, June 15–July 31, 2010.
2010 Animate Matter, Pia Maria Martin, Dona Nelson, Richard Staub, Rose Wylie, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York City
2009

Pushing Paint, Museum of Nebraska Art, Fall, 2009.

Spaced Out/On Time, September 11–October 11, Canada Gallery, New York City.

2008

Thomas Erben Gallery at Chatterjee & Lai, Mumbai, India. August 2008. Affinities Redux, Ramapo College, November 2008, curated by Kate McNamara.

Charismatic Abstraction, Chris Martin, Moira Dryer, Mike Cloud, John L. Moore Richmond Center for Visual Arts, University of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, MI.

2007 CCS Bard Spring Exhibitions, March, Bard College
2006

Scope Art Fair/Miami, Thomas Erben Gallery

Still Life, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York City

2005 Field Questions, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia.
2004 Art/Basil/Miami, Cheim and Read Gallery
2002

WTC, Living in the Shadows, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY

Wall Street Rising—Art Downtown, New York City

Fordham University at Lincoln Center, New York City

Jump,The Painting Center, New York City

2001

Vivid, Richard Salmon Gallery, London, England. Traveled to Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Center, Conventry (4/27–6/28/02) and to Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sutherland (7/12–8/23/02)

2000 Beyond the Mountains: The Contemporary American Landscape, Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
1998

Group Exhibition at Marlborough Gallery/Chelsea, New York City Small Paintings, Cheim and Read Gallery, New York City

View II, Mary Boone Gallery, New York City. Curated by Klaus Kertess

1997 Essential Gestures, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS. Curated by Bruce Hartman
1996

Face to Face: Recent Abstract Painting, M.I.T. List Visual Art Center, Cambridge, MA

Painting All-Over Again, Palacia de Montemuzok, Zaragoza, Spain. Curated by Saul Ostrow

Method and Multiclicity, Apex Art, New York City. Curated by Richmond Burton

1995 25 Americans: Painting in the 90's, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, MI
1991 American Narrative Painting and Sculpture: The 1980's, from the Collection of
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
1985

Four Artists, Artists Space, New York City. Curated by Elizabeth Murray

Ripe Fruit, P.S.1, Long Island City, New York City. Curated by Lisa Liebmann

1984 The Figure in Paint, Cable Gallery, New York City. Curated by Klaus Kertess
1983 The Painterly Figure, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York. Curated by Klaus Kertess
1982

Body Language: Recent Figuration, Hayden Gallery, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA

Contemporary Painting: Figuration, USCB, Santa Barbara, California

1971

26 Contemporary Women Artists, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Conencticut. Curated by Lucy Lippard.

10 Young Artists: Theodoran Awards, Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York City

1968 Whitney Independent Study Program, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City

Selected Bibliography

2010

Susie Kalil, “Woman power:Texas Gallery's 40 sends a welcome jolt through the Houston art scene,” Culturemap Houston.

Wendy Vogel, “40, Texas Gallery Houston,” Art Lies, Issue 66

2008

Roberta Smith, “Art in Review, Dona Nelson,” The New York Times, May 23, p. E26.

Unsigned. The New Yorker, May 19th, p.16.

2007 Edith Newhall, “Get Thee to Elkins Park,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, 10/12
2006

jameswagner.com. “Dona Nelson at ThomasErben,” 9/14.

Carrie Moyer. “Brain Stain,” The Brooklyn Rail, October.

Holland Cotter. “Art in Review; Dona Nelson,” The New York Times, 9/22.

Stephen Maine. “Dona Nelson at Thomas Erben,” Art in America, December, p. 149.

2003

Stephen Westfall. “Dona Nelson at Cheim & Read,” Art in America, June, pp/ 117–118.

Jerry Saltz. “Rays of Light,” www.artnet.com/magazine/features, January 27.

Unsigned. www.villagevoice.com/nightguide, January 29.

Unsigned. “Previews,” Contemporary, #47/48, p. 38.

Unsigned. “Art,” The New Yorker, February 3, pp. 19–20.

Ken Johnson. “Dona Nelson, Art Reviews,” The New York Times, January 31.

2001

Paul Mattick. “Dona Nelson at Cheim & Read,” Art in America, June, pp. 124–125.

Edith Newhall. “Subway Series,” New York Magazine, January 15, p.68.

Unsigned. “Art,” The New Yorker, January 29, p. 18.

Robert Mahoney. “Dona Nelson; 'Stations of the Subway',” Time Out, New York, January 25 February 1, p.64.

Ann Landi. “Dona Nelson,” ARTnews, April, p. 141.

Roberta Smith. “Dona Nelson,” Art Reviews, The New York Times, February 16.

Roberta Smith. “Last Chance,” The New York Times, February 23.

1999 Brown, Gerard. “Review/Art,” Philadephia Weekly, January 27, p. 34.
1998 Johnson, Ken. “Review/Art,” The New York Times, May 1, p. E43.
1997

Hirsh, Faye. “Abstracting the Familiar [The Work of Dona Nelson],” Art in America, February.

Ostrow, Saul. “Essential Gestures,” Johnson County Community College Gallery of Art, Overland Park, Kansas, exhibition catalogue.

1996

Smith, Roberta. “Dona Nelson: Paradox Lake,” The New York Times, March 29, p. 25.

MacAdam, Alfred. “Dona Nelson, ARTnews, June, p. 149.

Ostrow, Saul. “Painting All-Over Again,” Palacio de Montemuzo, Zaragoza, Spain, exhibition catalogue.

Posner, Helene. “Face to Face: Recent Abstract Painting,” M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, exhibition catalogue.

1994

Yablonsky, Linda. “Dona Nelson at Michael Klein Inc.,” Artforum, January. Hirsh, Faye.

“Dona Nelson at Michael Klein,” Art in America, May.

Saltz, Jerry. “A Year in the Life: Tropic of Painting, Art in America, October.

Whelan, Richard. “ Interview with Dona Nelson,” Bomb Magazine,
No XXXXVI, Winter.

1991

Lieberman, William. “American Narrative painting and Sculpture: the 1980's,” Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY, exhibition catalogue.

Smith, Roberta. “Review/Art,” The New York Times, August, p. C22. 1990

Unsigned. “Art,” The New Yorker, June 11, p. 20.

Pardee, Hearne. “In the Galleries,” Art and Antiques, November.

1989

Liebmann, Lisa. “Dona Nelson's Time Pieces,” Artforum, March, pp. 90-93.

Smith, Roberta. “Tales of Ordinary People Told in Bits and Pieces,” The New York Times, March 31, 1989.

Reid, Calvin. “Dona Nelson and Archie Rand at Scott Hanson,” Art in America, November.

1983

Jacobs, Joseph. “Faces Since the Fifties,” Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, exhibition catalogue.

Kertess, Klaus. “The Painterly Figure,” The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, exhibition catalogue.

1975

Kramer, Hilton. “Dona Nelson,” The New York Times, January 25.

Unsigned. “Dona Nelson,” Arts Magazine, March.

Nelson, Dona. [Letter to the Editor.] Artforum, September.

1971

Lucy Lippard. “26 Contemporary Women Artists,” Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, exhibition catalogue.

Shearer, Linda. “Ten Young Artists: Theodoron Awards,” Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, exhibition catalogue.

Curatorial Activity

The Fluid Field: Abstraction and Reference, October, 2007, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania

Public and Corporate Collections