Tara Donovan

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Tara Donovan (* 1969 in New York ) is an American artist. She lives and works in New York.

life and work

Tara Donovan first studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York and at the Corcoran College of Art, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts . 1999 received a Master of Fine Arts degree after graduating from Virginia Commonwealth University , Richmond, VA .

Tara Donovan uses inconspicuous everyday material such as straws, toothpicks, needles, nails and buttons for her sculptures, which often seem biomorphic and for her large -scale installations. From just one of these raw materials, she creates crystalline, delicate, monochrome structures that appear to have grown organically. Tara Donovan has received many awards in the USA, and in 2008 she received the prestigious MacArthur Prize .

In Europe, Tara Donovan's first solo exhibition took place in 2013, which was shown successively at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark and at the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck , Remagen.

Works by Tara Donovan can be found in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery , Buffalo, New York, the Birmingham Museum of Art , Alabama, the Brooklyn Museum , New York, the Center Pompidou , Paris, the Dallas Museum of Art , Texas , the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedala, Missouri, the Indianapolis Museum of Art , Indiana, the Institute of Contemporary Art. Boston, the Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, Virginia, the Milwaukee Art Museum , Wisconsin, the San Diego Museum of Art San Diego, CA, the Saint Louis Art Museum , Missouri, the Wadsworth Atheneum , Hartfort, Connecticut, the Whitney Museum of American Art , New York.

Prizes and awards

  • 1999 Joan Mitchell Foundation scholarship
  • 2001 winner of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Competition
  • 2003 scholarship from the New York Foundation for the Arts
  • 2003 Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant
  • 2004 American Academy of Arts and Letters, Willard L. Metcalf Award
  • 2004 National Academy Museum, Helen Foster Barnett Prize
  • 2005 Alexander Calder Foundation's first annual Calder Prize
  • 2008 MacArthur Scholarship

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2010 Tara Donovan: Untitled, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
  • 2009 New Drawings, The Pace Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2009 Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, OH
  • 2006/7 Tara Donovan: Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
  • 2006 Tara Donovan: Rubber Band Drawings, The Pace Gallery , New York, NY
  • 2006 Tara Donovan, Drawings and Sculptures, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA (solo)
  • 2006 Tara Donovan: New Work, The Pace Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2003/4 Curve Series. Tara Donovan, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH


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personal data
SURNAME Donovan, Tara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH new York