Education

1968

Ohio State university, Columbus, OH. BFA

1968

Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York City

Grants and Awards

2000. Tesuque Foundation Grant. Peer nominated

1994. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship.

1987. NEA Painting Grant.

1971. Thoedoran Purchase Award, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Solo Exhibitions

2006. Brian Stain, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York.

2003. Tactile Image, Cheim and Read, New York.

2001. Stations of the Subway, Cheim and Read, New York.

2000. Dona Nelson The Stations of the Subway, Octopuses and Arrangements, Weatehrspoon 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, PA. Essay by Sanford Schwartz.

1996. Michael Klein Gallery, New York.

1995, 1993, 1990. Michael Klein Gallery, New York.

1985. A room of painting at P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York.

1983. Hamilton Gallery, New York.

1982. Oscarsson Hood Gallery, New York.

1975. Rosa Esman Gallery, New York.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007. CCS BARD SPRING Exhibitions, March, Bard College, New York.

2006. Scope Art Fair/Miami, Thomas Erben Gallery.

2006. Still Life, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York.

2005. Field Questions, Rosenwald-wolf Gallery,The University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Curated by Sid Sachs.

2004. Basil/Miami, Cheim and read Gallery, New York.

2001. Vivid, Richard Salmon Gallery, London, England. Traveled to Mead gallery, Warwick Arts Center, Coventry (4/27 - 6/28/02) and to Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sutherland (7/12 - 8/23/02).1998. Group Exhibition at Marborough Gallery/Chelsea, New York.

1998. Small Paintings, Cheim and Read, New York.

1998. View II, Mary Boone Gallery, New York. Curated by Klaus Kertess

1997. Essential Guesture, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS. Curated by Bruce Harman

1996. Face to Face: Recent Abstract Painting, M.I.T. List Visual Art Center, Cambridge, MA.

1996. Painting All-Over Again, Palacia de Montemuzok, Zaragoza, Spain. Curated by Saul Ostrow.

1996. Method and Multiplicity, Apex Art, New York City. Curated by Richmond Burton.

1995. 25 Americans, Painting in the 90's Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI.

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. Curated by Elizabeth Murray.

1985. Ripe Friut, P.S.1, Long Island City, New York. Curated by Lisa Liebmann.

1984. The Figure in Paint, Cable Gallery, New York. Curated by Klaus Kertess.

1983. The Painterly Figure, The Parrish Art Museum, Southamption, New York. Curated by Klaus Kertess.

1983. Faces Since the Fifties: A Generation of American Portraiture, Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

1983. Painting from the Mind's Eye, Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, Brookville, New York.

1982. Body Language: Recent Figuration, Hayden Gallery, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA.

1982. Contemporary Painting: Figuration, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA.

1972. Grids, ICA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

1971. 26 Contemporary Women Artists, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT. Curated by Lucy Lippard

1971. 10 Young Artists: Theodoran Awards, Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York.

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

Selected Bibliography

2007

Edith Newhall, "Get Thee to Elkins Park," The Philadelphia Inquirer, 10/12.

2006

jameswagner.com, "Dona Nelson at Thomas Erben," 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 Chiem and Read," Art in America, June, pp. 117-118.

Jerry Saltz, "Ray of Light," www.artnet.com/magazine/features, January 27.

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 Tiems, January 31.

2001

Paul Mattick, "Dona Nelson at Chiem and Read," Art in America, June, pp. 124-125.

Edith Newhall, "Subway Series," The New Yorker, 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

Gerard Brown, "Review/Art," Philadelphia Weekly, January 27, p. 34.

1998

Ken Johnson, "Review/Art," The New York Times, May 1, p. E43.

1997

Faye Hirsh, "Abstracting the familiar [The Work of Dona Nelson]," Art in America, February.

Saul Ostrow, "Essential Guestures," Johnson County Community College gallery of Art, Overland Park, KS. Exhibition catalogue.

1996

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

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

Saul Ostrow, "Painting All-Over Again," Palacio de Montemuzo, Spain. Exhibition catalgue.

Helene Posner, "Face to Face: Recent Abstract Painting," M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA. Exhibition catalgue.

1995

Dean Sobel, "25 Americans Painting in the 90's" Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI. Exhibition catalgue.

James Auer, "Art Musuem Exhibit Embraces Pluralism," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, September 10.

Judith E. Stein, "Dona Nelson: Trying all the Flavors," ARTnews, October.

1994

Linda Yablonsky, "Dona Nelson at Michael Klein Inc.," Artforum, January, p.92.

Faye Hirsh, "Dona Nelson at Michael Klein," Art in America, May, pp.112-113.

Jerry Saltz, "A Year in the Life: Tropic of Painting," Art in America, October, p.99.

Richard Whelan, "Interview with Dona Nelson," Bomb Magazine, No. XXXXVI, Winter, pp.34-39.

1993

Charles Hagan, "Dona Nelson: New Paintings," The New York Times, October 15, p.C36.

unsigned, "Art," The New Yorker, October 18.

1990

Unsigned, "Art," The New Yorker, June 11, p.20.

Paul Mattick, "Dona Nelson," Arts Magazine, October, p.96.

Hearne Pardee, "In the Galleries," Art and Antiques, November, p.122.

1989

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

Calvin Reid, "Dona Nelson and Archie Rand at Scott Hansen," Art in America, November.

1985

Elizabeth Murray, "Four Artists," Artists Space, New York. Exhibition brochure.

Michael Benson, Review of "Four Artists," The New York Times, November 22, p. C25.

1983

Joseph Jacobs, "Faces Since the Fifties," Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisberg, PA. Exhibition catalogue.

Klaus Kertess, "The Painterly Figure," The Parrish Art Musuem, Southampton, NY. Exhibition catalogue.

1982

Roberta Smith, "Body Language," Hayden Gallery, M.I.T. Cambridge, MA. Exhibition catalogue.

Phyllis Plous and Michael Klein, "Figuration," University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA. Exhibition catalogue.

Grace Glueck, "Artists, Artists," ARTnews, November, p. 96.

1975

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

Unsigned, "Dona Nelson," Arts Magazine, March.

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

1971

Lucy Lippard, "26 Contemporary Women Artists," Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT. Exhibition catalogue.

Linda Shearer, "Ten Young Artists: Theodoron Awards" Solomom R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Exhibition catalogue.

Curatorial Activity

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

Public and Corporate Collections

Committee for the Visual Arts/M.I.T. Collection, Cambridge, MA.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA.

State University of New York, Albany, NY.

William & Uytendale Scott Memorial Study Collection, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA.

Nordstern, Cologne, Germany.

Chase Manhattan Bank Collection, New York.

General Electric Corporation, Connecticut.

Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, OH.

Shearson Leaman/Paine Webber, New York.

General Mills, Minneapolis, MN.

Microsoft Corporation, Seattle, WA.

The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC.