Tara Donovan

Tara Donovan
b. 1969 Queens, NY
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

Tara Donovan was born in 1969 in Queens, New York. She received her BFA from the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design, Washington D.C. in 1991, and her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia in 1999. She has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; St. Louis Art Museum, Missouri; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana; Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin; Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Germany; and Parrish Museum, New York. Her work is included in the collections of major institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among many others. She received the prestigious MacArthur Foundation Award in 2008 and the first annual Calder Prize in 2005. She lives and works in Brooklyn