Dana Donaty, Colombian American, was raised in New Jersey. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing from Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia, PA. After living in London, England, for twelve years Dana relocated to South Florida. She is currently an MFA candidate at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Through an interdisciplinary practice of painting, sculpture, and assemblage Donaty’s work responds to life’s most vexing issues. She explores the complexities of identity in her vibrant maximalist shrine-like playgrounds and provocative canvases with unusual narratives, which she refers to as memorycapes. She pokes at culture’s dark side through color stories and material metaphors.
She has an artistic lineage that includes many maternal family members. Notably, her mother, her aunt-painter Esther Cárdenas, her cousin-painter Santiago Cárdenas and her grandfather Eduardo Cárdenas, who was invited to emigrate to the United States as the first editor of Selecciones del Readers Digest [Spanish version of Readers Digest]
Selected solo shows: The Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs, Florida, The Cornell Museum of Art, Delray, Florida, and Paul Fisher Gallery in Palm Beach, Florida. Group exhibits; The Armory Art Center in Palm Beach, Audrey Love Gallery in Miami, Bakehouse Art Complex in Miami, The Art & Culture Center in Hollywood, The Coral Springs Museum of Art, Locust Projects in Miami, and The Galleries at Moore in Philadelphia.
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Dana Donaty, Colombian American, was raised in New Jersey. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing from Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia, PA. After living in London, England, for twelve years Dana relocated to South Florida. She is currently an MFA candidate at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Through an interdisciplinary practice of painting, sculpture, and assemblage Donaty’s work responds to life’s most vexing issues. She explores the complexities of identity in her vibrant maximalist shrine-like playgrounds and provocative canvases with unusual narratives, which she refers to as memorycapes. She pokes at culture’s dark side through color stories and material metaphors.
She has an artistic lineage that includes many maternal family members. Notably, her mother, her aunt-painter Esther Cárdenas, her cousin-painter Santiago Cárdenas and her grandfather Eduardo Cárdenas, who was invited to emigrate to the United States as the first editor of Selecciones del Readers Digest [Spanish version of Readers Digest]
Selected solo shows: The Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs, Florida, The Cornell Museum of Art, Delray, Florida, and Paul Fisher Gallery in Palm Beach, Florida. Group exhibits; The Armory Art Center in Palm Beach, Audrey Love Gallery in Miami, Bakehouse Art Complex in Miami, The Art & Culture Center in Hollywood, The Coral Springs Museum of Art, Locust Projects in Miami, and The Galleries at Moore in Philadelphia.
Works exhibited at art fairs and in the public realm; American International Fine Art Fair, Scope, Red Dot, Art Palm Beach, and Art Boca Raton. Her work is in the permanent collection of The Coral Springs Museum of Art, Government agencies, and private collections in the US, and Europe.
Residencies
Arts Warehouse, Delray, FL
Frozen Music, Jaipur, India
Kriti Gallery, Varanasi, India
Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL
South Florida Ford, Miami, FL
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