Donna Conlon
Bio
DONNA CONLON (Atlanta, USA, 1966), lives and works in Panama. In 1991 she obtained a master's degree in biology from the University of Kansas and in 2002 in sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She was also a Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture residency scholarship in 2002.
She has exhibited widely, both his individual work and his collaborations with Jonathan Harker, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2022), Tate St. Ives (2021), Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (2020), Met Breuer, NY (2019), Kadist, San Francisco (2018), Pérez Art Museum, Miami (2014), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY (2014), El Museo del Barrio, NY (2011), Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach (2011), Istanbul Modern Art Museum (2006), and in events such as Prospect New Orleans (2017), the Asunción Biennial, Paraguay (2015), the Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2011), and the Biennial of Venice (2005).
Conlon received a grant from Anonymous Was a Woman in 2022, and in 2007 she received an Emerging Artist Grant from the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation. In 2010, she received a Harpo Foundation Production Grant for her collaborations with Harker.
Her works, both individual and collaborative, are found in collections such as The Kadist Foundation, Metropolitan Art Museum of Art, Museo de Arte de Lima, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Tate Modern, among others. .
Statement
Her work is a socio-archaeological inquiry into her immediate surroundings. She observe details in her local environment and daily life, and then focus on them in ways that reveal the idiosyncrasies of human nature and the contradictions inherent to our contemporary lifestyle.
Additional information
Un pequeño candelabro hecho con dos plumas de punta roja que encontró en la calle el día que murió uno de los ornitólogos-ilustradores más reconocidos de Panamá. Es una oda a los naturalistas y a su práctica, basada en la observación, que es cada vez menos común, como lo son muchos de los organismos que estudian.
A tiny chandelier made with two red-tipped feathers she founds in the street the day one of Panama's most renowned ornithologist-illustrators died. It is an ode to naturalists, and to their observation-based practice that is less and less common, as are many of the organisms they study.
