Tara Donovan Born: New York, NY 1969 Lives and works: New York, NY Education 1999 Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, MFA Sculpture 1991 Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, DC, BFA 1987-1988 School of Visual Arts, New York, NY One-Person Exhibitions (selected) 2008 Tara Donovan, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA 2007 Tara Donovan at the Met, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Tara Donovan, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London 2006 New Work, Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY Rubber Band Drawings, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA Currents 98: Tara Donovan, Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri, MO Rubber Band Drawings, Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY 2005 Tara Donovan: Survey, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2004 Tara Donovan, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA Tara Donovan, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Berlin, Germany Project Room: Glass Cube, Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA Hammer Projects: Tara Donovan, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA The Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial, Cornish, New Hampshire, NH 2003 Curve Series: Tara Donovan, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH Drawings, Shaheen Modern and Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH Haze, Rice University Gallery, Houston, TX IBM Building, New York, NY 2001 Colony, Ace Gallery, New York, NY John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI 2000 Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1999 Hemicycle Gallery, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC 1998 New Sculpture, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA Resonances, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC Group Exhibitions (selected) 2007 The Climate of Concern, Chicago Humanities Festival, Chicago, IL Memory and Obsession, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London 2006 Personal Views: Regarding Private Collections in San Diego, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA Aisle Five, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, IA Some Kind of Wonderful: Recent Sculpture by James O. Clark and Tara Donovan, 95th Annual Exhibition, Maier Museum of Art/Randolph Macon Women’s College, Lynchburg, VA 2005 Joan Mitchell Foundation: 1997-1999 Grant Recipients, Cue Art Foundation, New York, NY Ordering the Ordinary, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London Summer Group Show, Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY From the Berkus Collection, Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA Sculpture, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA Nine Contemporary Sculptors: Fellows of the Saint-Gaudens Memorial, The UBS Gallery, New York, NY Two by Two for AIDS and Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX Patterns and Grids, Pace Prints, New York, NY Material Matters, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, NY Sets, Series and Suites: Contemporary Prints, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Selected Saint-Gaudens Fellows, USB Paine Webber Gallery, New York, NY Summer Group Show, Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY Logical Conclusions: 40 years of Rule-Based Art, Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY 2004 Sets, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA The Reality of Things, Triple Candie, New York, NY Drawings, Plane Space, New York, NY 179th Annual, National Academy Museum of Design, New York, NY Cleanliness, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY 2003 Off the Beaten Track: Contemporary Mindscapes, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, MA Bits and Pieces, DUMBO Art Center, Brooklyn, New York, NY Ace Invitational, Ace Gallery, New York, NY 2002 Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC Artists to Artists: A Decade of the Space Program, Ace Gallery, New York, NY Fictions in Wonderland, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA Accumulation, Clifford Smith Gallery, Boston, MA Ace Invitational, Ace Gallery, New York, NY 2001 Under Pressure: Prints from Two Palms, Lyman Allyn Museum of Art, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut, CT; touring to Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, NY; Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX; University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; Kent State University Art Gallery, Kent, OH; Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery, Cooper Union, New York, NY; Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, California, CA Print Matters: New Works and Modern Treasures, Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, VA Tara Donovan and Jae Ko: Transcending Time, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, WI Passing Through: Women Artists in Brooklyn, Shaqab College of Design Arts, Doha Quatar Un/Ruled, Exhibit A, New York, NY 2000 Great Prints, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Summer '00 New Prints, David Adamson Gallery, Washington, DC De Tempore, Grand Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, MO Wild Life, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA 1999 Fresh Meat, Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY Thesis Exhibition, Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA 1998 Simple Matter, Numark Gallery, Washington, DC Jacob House Project, Richmond, VA 1997 What's Hot, Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, DC Options 1997, Washington Project for the Arts/Corcoran, Washington, DC 1996 Artsites 96, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD Books, Catalogues and Brochures (selected) 2006 “Artists to Artists: A Decade of the Space Program”, edited by David Frankel, Colorado Springs, The Mary Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, pp. 314-315, (reproductions) Lindemann, Adam, “Collecting Contemporary”, Cologne, Taschen, pg. 77, (reproductions) “Some Kind of Wonderful: Recent Sculpture by James O. Clark and Tara Donovan”, (exhibition catalogue), Lynchburg, Virginia, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Woman’s College 2005 “Logical Conclusions: 40 years of Rule-Based Art”, (exhibition catalogue), essay by Marc Glimcher, New York, Pace Wildenstein, pp. 144-147, (reproductions) “Material Matters”, Ithaca, New York, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, pg. 7, (cover, reproductions) “Sets, Series and Suites: Contemporary Prints”, (exhibition catalogue), Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, (reproductions) 2004 “Hammer Projects: Tara Donovan”, (exhibition brochure), essay by Paul Brewer, Los Angeles, UCLA Hammer “179th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art”, (exhibition catalogue), essay by Nancy Malloy, New York, National Academy of Design, pg. 42, (reproductions) “Tara Donovan”, (exhibition catalogue), Tokyo, Akira Ikeda Gallery 2003 “Curve Series: Tara Donovan”, (exhibition brochure), essay by Margo A. Crutchfield, Cleveland, Museum of Contemporary Art “Off the Beaten Track: Contemporary Mindscapes”, (exhibition catalogue), Amherst, Massachusetts, Amherst College “Tara Donovan: Haze”, (exhibition catalogue), text by Kimberly Davenport, Houston, Rice University Art Gallery 2002 “Artists to Artists: A Decade of the Space Program”, (exhibition catalogue), Colorado Springs, Colorado, Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, pp. 314-315 “Fictions in Wonderland”, (exhibition catalogue), Richmond, Virginia, Reynolds Gallery 2000 “De Tempore”, essay by Angela Anderson Adams, Kansas City, Missouri, Grand Arts “Tara Donovan and Jae Ko: Transcending Time”, (exhibition brochure), essay by Leslie Umberger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, John Michael Kohler Arts Center “Under Pressure: Prints from Two Palms Press”, (exhibition catalogue), essay by Barry Schwabsky, New London, Connecticut, Lyman Allyn Museum of Art “2000 Biennial Exhibition”, (exhibition catalogue), texts by Maxwell L. Anderson et al. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, pp. 94-95 1999 “Tara Donovan: Whorl”, (exhibition brochure), essay by Paul Brewer, Washington DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art Bibliography (selected) 2007 Barnes, Freire, “Committed to tape.”, BBC Collective, 21 June Neil, Johnathan T.D. Art Review, issue 13, July-August, cover, pp. 53-60 Sumpter, Helen, Time Out London, June 20-26, pg. 45 Jones, Laura K, Saatchi online, June 2006 Cascade, Rebecca, “Tara Donovan”, Art + Auction 29, March, pg. 5, pp. 40-46 (reproduction) Conley, Kevin, ed, “Tara Donovan at Pace Wildenstein”, New Yorker, August 21, pg. 13 Donovan, Tara, “Material Seduction”, interview by Oriane Stender, Artnet.com, April 5 Elcott, Noam, “Reviews: Tara Donovan, Pace Wildenstein”, Time Out New York, April 6-12, pg. 95, (reproduction) Goodrich, John, “Arts and Letters, Gallery-Going: Strange Visions of Exotic Lands”, New York Sun, April 13, pg. 15 Grosz, David, “Arts and Letters, Gallery-Going: Two Exercises in Stretching”, New York Sun, July 27, pg. 17, (reproduction) Johnson, Ken, “Art in Review: Tara Donovan, Pace Wildenstein”, The New York Times, March 24, pg. E31 Leffingwell, Edward, “Tara Donovan at Pace Wildenstein”, Art in America, June/July, pg. 185, (reproduction) Olson, Kristina, “Tara Donovan, New York”, Art Papers, July/August, pg. 66, (reproduction) Gelber, Eric, “Tara Donovan: New Work”, Artcritical.com, April Saltz, Jerry, “Art: Heaps and Consequences”, Village Voice, April 5-11, pg. c73, (reproduction) 2005 Chattopadhyay, Collette, “Rules For Growth”, Sculpture, Vol. 24, No. 10, December, cover, pp. 26-31 “The Art News 200 Top Collectors: Michael Ovitz”, Art News, Summer, pg. 167 Cohen, David, “Arts & Letters-Gallery Going: When the Rule Ruled”, New York Sun, March 3, pg. 19 Cotter, Holland, “Art in Review: ‘Logical Conclusions’”, The New York Times, March 18, pg. E42 Glueck, Grace, “In Saint-Gaudens’s Name, Found Objects and a Goose on a Noose”, The New York Times, October 14, pg. E39 Harris, Jane, “The ruling class: Seeking the poetic potential of neutral signs”, Village Voice, March 16-22, Voice Choices, pg. 8 Knight, Christopher, “The Ordinary Becomes the Building Blocks of Life”, Los Angeles Times, February 18 MacAdam, Barbara A, “Reviews: New York-Logical Conclusions, Pace Wildenstein”, Art News, no. 104, June, pg. 119 Miles, Christopher, “Tara Donovan, Ace Gallery”, Artforum, May, pg. 253, (reproduction) Morgan, Robert C, “Reviews: Logical Conclusions, Pace Wildenstein, New York”, tema celeste, no. 110, July/August, pg. 69 Silver, Joanne, “Modern ‘Prints’ Hold Court at MFA Exhibit”, Boston Herald, February 11 Sheets, Hilarie M, “Turning Straws Into Clouds”, Art News, December, pp. 129-131, (reproduction) Weg, Kara Vander, “Tara Donovan’s Organic Chemistry”, Art on Paper, January/February, pp. 58-61 2004 Cohen, David, “Arts and Letters”, New York Sun, March 11 Johnson, Ken, “179th Annual, National Academy Museum”, The New York Times, May 14 Johnson, Ken, “The Reality of Things”, The New York Times, June 18 Pincus, Robert L, “Maximum Minimalism”, San Diego Union Tribune October 10 2003 Baird, Daniel, “The Madness of Ordinary Material”, Brooklyn Rail, June/July Belcove, Julie L, “Material Girl”, W Magazine, October, pp. 222-223 Douglas, Sarah, “Tara Donovan, Spirits in a Material World”, Flash Art, July/September Dunn, Melissa, Flash Art, August Fahl, David, “Final Straw”, Houston Press, December 4 Frankel, David, “Tara Donovan, Ace Gallery”, Artforum, Summer French, Christopher, “Tara Donovan: Haze”, Glass Tire (online journal) Gertner, Jon, “Clouds in Her Coffee”, The New York Times Magazine, November 30, pp. 116-118 Gray, Emma, Art Review, July Levin, Kim, “Material Girl”, Village Voice, April 2-8 Pantsios, Anastasia, “Ahead of the Curve”, Cleveland Free Times, November 12-18 Rauche, Robbin, “Thing Review”, April 30 Smith, Roberta, “Art In Review: Tara Donovan”, The New York Times, April 11 Smith, Roberta, “The Highs and Lows of 2003: The Art and Artists of the Year”, The New York Times, December 28 Stillman, Nick, “Featured NYFA Fellow Interview: Tara Donovan”, New York Foundation for the Arts Quarterly, Summer Tranberg, Dan, “Double Feature”, Plain Dealer, November 27 Tsai, Eugenie, “Tara Donovan”, Time Out New York, April 24-May 1 Utter, Douglas Max, “Daily Infinities”, Angle Wei, Lilly, “Materialist”, Art in America, October, pp. 101-103 Weschler, Lawrence, New Yorker, April 21, 28 2002 Millis, Christopher, “Club Meds: Getting Off on Obsessive Compulsive Art”, Boston Phoenix, September, pg. 14 2001 Harvey, Doug, “Tara Donovan: Material Accumulations”, Sculpture Magazine, no. 19, June Myers, Holly, “Delightfully Ordinary: Tara Donovan”, Los Angeles Times, September 14 2000 Cohen, Mark Daniel, “The Whitney’s Principle of Inadvertency”, Review, April 1 Gouveia, Georgette, “The Whitney’s Biennial Exhibition”, Journal News, March 23 Hickman, Kate, “Hidden Treasures”, Kansas City Star, November 24 Howell, George, “Tara Donovan: Material Accumulations”, Sculpture Magazine, no. 19, June Preston, George Nelson, “Children of the Reckless West, Obvious Is Obvious and Lies Like Art”, Review, April 1 Richard, Paul, “Whitney’s Sampler”, Washington Post, March 31 Saltz, Jerry, “My Sixth Sense”, Village Voice, March 29-April 4 Siegel, Katy, “Biennial 2000”, Artforum, May, pp. 171-173 Viveros-Faune, Christian, “Whitney Biennial”, New York Press, March 29-April 4 1999 Lewis, Joanne, “An Artist With the ‘Whorl’ At Her Feet”, Washington Post, December 19 1998 Gilbert, Chris, “Simple Matter”, New Art Examiner, December Howell, George, “Tara Donovan”, Sculpture Magazine, May/June James, Curtia, “Ordinary Items Are Redefined: Sculptor Takes Innovative Approach”, Richmond Times-Despatch, April 4 Protzman, Ferdinand, “Industrial Strength Sculpture”, Washington Post, January 22 Protzman, Ferdinand, “The Stuff Art Is Made On”, Washington Post, July 23 1997 Dixon, Glen, “Bastards of Young, Options 1997”, Washington City Paper, July 11 Protzman, Ferdinand, “What’s Hot: A Summer Show That Sizzles”, Washington Post, August 2 Grants and Awards (selected) 2005 Calder Foundation, Calder Prize, New York, NY 2004 Women's Caucus for Art, Presidential Award, New York, NY National Academy Museum, Helen Foster Barnett Prize, New York, NY American Academy of Arts and Letters, Wilard L. Metcalf Award, New York, NY 2003 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial Sculpture Fellowship, Cornish, New Hampshire, NH New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, New York, NY 2001 The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant 1999 The Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, New York, NY Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation: The Space Program, Colorado Springs, Colorado, CO 1997-19 99 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 1991 Lola Sarnoff Award for Sculpture