Tara Donovan (b. 1969, New York) is an American artist.
Tara Donovan grew up in Nyack, New York. Her studies began at the School of Visual Arts, New York in 1987-88. Donovan received her BFA at the Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, D.C. in 1991, and earned her MFA at Virginia Commonwealth University in 1999. Before attending Virginia Commonwealth University, Donovan tended bar and waited tables for six years, and didn't quit her day...
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Tara Donovan (b. 1969, New York) is an American artist.
Tara Donovan grew up in Nyack, New York. Her studies began at the School of Visual Arts, New York in 1987-88. Donovan received her BFA at the Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, D.C. in 1991, and earned her MFA at Virginia Commonwealth University in 1999. Before attending Virginia Commonwealth University, Donovan tended bar and waited tables for six years, and didn't quit her day job until 2003, when her first New York solo show, at Ace Gallery, proved a breakout success.
Tara Donovan lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Tara Donovan has been represented by PaceWildenstein, New York since 2005 and by Stephen Friedman Gallery, London since 2007.
Donovan's work uses everyday manufactured materials such as Scotch tape, Styrofoam cups, and drinking straws to create large scale sculptures that often have a biomorphic quality. Her sculptures must be assembled and disassembled carefully, which sometimes involve an...
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