BIO
Lisa di Donato is a visual artist based in New York.
She works with mapping, mirroring, entropy and displacement through photographic processes ranging from the historic to 3D photogrammetry and machine vision. Architecture, landscape, anatomy, and artifacts are depicted as being no longer, nor have they become something else, yet; realized with a certain autonomy from any previously known thing.
She studied Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts. She is a 2022 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Photography and a 2021 CFEVA Visual Artist Fellow finalist. Recent work includes installation and public art, including Breathing Staircases at MEET Digital Culture Centre, Milano, with the artist group One&Seven, 2022; and The Makeable Mind, Noorderlicht Festival (NL) in 2021. She has been featured in the Urbanautica (IT), Der Greif (DE) and New Observations (US) journals.
EXHIBITIONS
2023
Unbound 12! | Candela Gallery | Richmond, VA
Embodied Knowledge | Ely Center for Contemporary Art | New Haven, CT
2022
Breathing Staircases | multimedia site-specific installation with the artist group One&Seven | MEET Digital Culture Center | Milan, Italy
SIGNAL | two-person exhibition with Olivia Martin Moore | Site Site Parasite | Berlin, Germany
Reimaging Likeness and Landscape | curated by Joni Sternbach | Penumbra Foundation | New York
2021
Images for the Information Age | curated by Willy Ndatira | Der Greif | online
Take Care Project | Fondazione 107 | Turin, Italy
Material Index | curated by Keren Moscovitch | Affordable Art Fair | New York
These Years | curated by Keren Moscovitch | Photoville Festival | Brooklyn
The Makeable Mind | Noorderlicht Photo Festival | Friesland, Netherlands
Asynchronous Viewing | Heroes Gallery | New York
Guest Room | curated by Mirjam Kooiman | Der Greif | online
Landscape Exploring the Built and Grown | Site Gallery | Brooklyn | online
Continuous Monument | Heroes Gallery | New York | online
Telephone | global art conversation organized by Nathan Langston | online
Flat File 2021 Exhibition | Ortega y Gasset Projects | Brooklyn
2020
Jammed into a Paradox | 601 Gallery | New York | online
Women Photographers Today | juried by Andrea Star-Reese, Julia Fullerton-Batten, and Laura Pannack | Gallery Valid Foto | Barcelona, Spain
2017
Present Bodies | curated by Lauren Comito | Ribuoli Digital | New York
2016
View From Above | Rabbithole Gallery | Brooklyn
2014
UNICEF Benefit Auction | Aperture Foundation | New York
2010
Dioramas of the 21st Century | Ann Street Gallery | Newburgh, NY
Decidedly Ambivalent | WORK Gallery | Brooklyn
2009
tek’tanik | curated by Evonne Davis | Gallery Aferro | Newark, NJ | catalogue
2008
Decidedly Ambivalent | New Art Center | Newton, MA
Sky’s the Limit | juried by Janet Echelman | Creative Arts Workshop |
New Haven, CT
2007
inScape|outScape | Memorial Hall Gallery | Rhode Island School of Design| Providence, RI
Rhode Island School of Design Alumni Biennial | XO Projects | Old American Can Factory Brooklyn | catalogue
2005
Starving Artists Ball | Angel Orensanz Foundation | New York
Brooklyn Shakers | Wooster Arts Space | New York
Collision Machine | bi-monthly salon event | D&S Knitwear | Brooklyn
2004
The Mutable | *solo exhibition | curated by Raphy Sarkissian | Globe Institute of Technology | New York
Collision Machine | bi-monthly salon event | D&S Knitwear | Brooklyn
2002
North to South | curated by Raphy Sarkissian | Globe Institute of Technology | New York
Senior Exhibition | Woods-Ghery Gallery | Rhode Island School of Design | Providence, RI
2001
Outside the Bubble | The Space | Providence, RI
WRITING
Darkness Above, Light Below | New Observations issue #133 Real ≠ Reality, The Transgression of Fact | Publisher: Mia Feroleto | Guest Editor: Leah Poller | January 2020 | pg. 7-8 | ISSN #7037-5387
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Change | Keren Moscovitch | SVACE Summer 2022: Special Issue | May 4, 2022 | pg. 12-13
One and Seven in a Universe of Singularities | Silvio Wolf | SVACE Winter 2021: Reinvention | December 9, 2021 | pg 6-7
Affordable Art Fair x SVACE: Lisa Di Donato | Michael Bilsborough | SVA Blog | September 10, 2021
The Makeable Mind | Noorderlicht Festival | August 10, 2021 | pg 4-5
Lisa Di Donato. A Space for Meditation | Urbanautica Journal | Steve Bisson | June 2021
Caught in the Dark New of Our Own Past- Breaking Free of What Holds Americans Hostage | New Observations Magazine issue #137 | Publisher and Editor: Mia Feroleto | pg. 49 | ISSN #7037-5387 | January 2021
Location | Fragmented Magazine issue #01 | Dec 2020 | pg. 14, 82
Parrot, Max | LIC Gallery asks, how will we be remembered? | Queens Chronicle |
September 24th, 2020
Brodsky, Michael | Wraithworld | Sunstorm Arts | December 2012
Aferro Publication | No. 12: tek’tanik | Evonne E. Davis and Lawrence Cappiello | March 2010
Birke, Judy | Diverse CAW Exhibit Offers Visual and Cerebral Treats | New Haven Register | May 3rd, 2009
Becker, Colleen | Movers and Shakers | NYArts Magazine | January-February 2006
Gelber, Eric | Brooklyn Shakers: Paintings and Photographs | Artcritical.com | October 2005
Katherine Kingsley | Collision Machine | New York Press | August 28th, 2005
AWARDS
NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Photography | 2022
Visual Arts Fellowship finalist | Center For Emerging Visual Arts | Philadelphia, PA | 2021
Urbanautica Institute Awards shortlist | Urbanautica Journal of Anthropology and Cultural Landscapes | 2020
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2020
Someone will remember us even from another time | Plaxall Gallery |
Long Island City, NY
2013
Pleasure Victim | Rabbithole Gallery | Brooklyn
2012
Wraithworld | co-curated with Ian Colletti and Caleb Nussear | Vaudeville Park | Brooklyn
Onion’s Milk | Vaudeville Park | Brooklyn
reConstruction | Vaudeville Park | Brooklyn
2011
Kiss My Action | WORK Gallery | Brooklyn
Albatross | WORK Gallery | Brooklyn
Andrew Prayzner: New Paintings | WORK Gallery | Brooklyn
Yusukue Nishimura | WORK Gallery | Brooklyn
Shapes | WORK Gallery | Brooklyn
Museum of (Un)Natural History | WORK Gallery | Brooklyn
Low Fat Pop | WORK Gallery | Brooklyn
Spatial Smarts | WORK Gallery | Brooklyn
Decidedly Ambivalent | co-curated with Anna Mogilevsky | WORK Gallery | Brooklyn
2010
Error, Fate, Chance | WORK Gallery | Brooklyn
Objects + Outposts | WORK Gallery | Brooklyn
2009
Decidedly Ambivalent | co-curated with Anna Mogilevsky | New Center |
Newton, MA
2008
inScape|outScape | co-curated with Anna Mogilevsky | Memorial Hall Gallery |
Rhode Island School of Design | Providence, RI
EDUCATION
B.F.A Painting | Rhode Island School of Design | Providence, RI | 2002
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