Donna Green wrestles with coils of stoneware, manipulating and prodding to create anthropomorphic gestural shapes that burst and stretch into space. Her physical experimentation challenges the properties of the clay, resulting in works that seem to be in a constant state of growth and transfiguration; heroically scaled urns undulate and drip with layer upon layer of glaze.
DONNA GREEN
Australian, b.1960
EDUCATION
2018
“The Vessel as Metaphor” with Tony Marsh, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO, USA
2017-2018
New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture, NY, USA
2000
“The Handbuilt Vessel” with John Gill, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO, USA
1997
The National Art School, Sydney, Australia
1995
“Fire Up” with Janet Mansfield, Gulgong, Australia
1988-1990
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, USA
1986-1988
The New School, New York, NY, USA
1986-1988
Sydney College of the Arts, Australia, Bachelor of Arts, Industrial Design
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
At Last, No More, HB381, New York, NY, USA
2022
Vessels, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2021
Donna Green, Hostler Burrows, New York, NY, USA
2018
Clay, Sculpture Space, Long Island City, NY, USA
2015
Vessels, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
2013
Vessels, Storefront Gallery at Greenwich House, New York, NY, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Sydney Contemporary 2023, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia
Friends of the Garden, Leiber Collection, East Hampton, New York, USA
2022
Industrialism, SIZED Studio, New York, NY, USA
Vessels, SIZED Studio, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Kari Dyrdal/Donna Green, Hostler Burrows, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2021
Clay Dynasty, Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney, Australia
Stone, Green, Watson: Contemporary Ceramics, Utopia Art Sydney, Australia
2020
Forest Primeval, Hostler Burrows, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Ceramics Now, Jane Hartsook Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Form, Utopia Art Sydney, Australia
It's not FAIR, Utopia Art Sydney, Australia
2019
Australian Landscapes, Utopia Art Sydney, Australia
Sydney Contemporary 2019, Utopia Art Sydney, Australia
Dobrinka Salzman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Clay 5, Utopia Art Sydney, Australia
Sculpture Space, Long Island City, NY, USA
Kimcherova Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2018
RE:CONSTRUCTION, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
Sydney Contemporary 2018, Australia
Clay 4, Utopia Art Sydney, Australia
The Small Works, Malia Mills and Folioeast, East Hampton, NY, USA
Hampton Good Design, Wainscott, NY, USA
Sculpture Space, Long Island City, NY, USA
2017
Sydney Contemporary 2017, Carriageworks, Australia
Museum III, Utopia Art Sydney, Australia
Alternative Museum, Utopia Art Sydney, Australia
Winter Salon, Malia Mills, East Hampton, NY, USA
2016
Clay 3, Utopia Art Sydney, Australia
Weird Ceramic, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Australia
The Last Hurrah, Utopia Art Sydney, Australia
2015
Clay 2, Utopia Art Sydney, Australia
Collectible, Utopia Art Sydney, Australia
2012
Home, Umbrella Arts, New York, NY, USA
2011
Made in Clay, Greenwich House, New York, NY
2009
Please Handle the Pots, Legge Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1997
Ceramics, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney, Australia
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney, Australia
RESIDENCIES
2019
Artist Fellowship, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY, USA
Resident Artist, Center for Contemporary Ceramics, California State University Long Beach, CA, USA
