DONNA HUANCA

born Chicago, September 23
works Internationally, based in New York City

EDUCATION
2006 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2004 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting), University of Houston, TX


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008
Secret Museum of Mankind Women and Their Work, Austin Texas [catalog]

2007
Jerusalem 2012/12.23.12 (collaboration with AIDS-3D.com), Program, Berlin
Llamamdo a Papi/Spirit Calling (performance), Skolska 28, Prauge, CZ
Live Feed: World,L'Ecole du Baoum, Grenoble, France
Planeta de Fortuna, Meals and Suvs, London, UK
Philosophy of The World, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York

2006
Band (Sound Remitting Puppets), Lo-Fi Cleaners, Houston, TX
Interrupting Shopping PERFORMANCE (Inside Pyramid) Abasto Shopping SUBWAY TUNNEL, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nuevo Modelos (in Collaboration with Miguel Mitlag) PERFORMANCE (Inside Pyramid)
Braga Menendez Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Remitting Sound Back into the Woods, Skowhegan, Maine (performance/video)

2005
Warscapes, Plush, Dallas, TX
Forty Foot WARSCAPE, Richland College, Dallas, TX

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008

Stages Ensienos, LMCC, New York, NY
Jorge Galvan and Donna Huanca, Living Room Series, VBB, Houston, TX

2007

Material Culture, Longwood Arts Project, Bronx, NY
Femme Fantistique, Voliant Gallery, Austin, TX
World View, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX Press
Red Velvet, Vine Street Studios, Houston, TX

2006
Manic and Wasted, Swing Space, New York, NY
Flex Your Textiles, John Conelly Presents, New York, NY
Sugarcoated, Women and Their Work, Austin, TX
STOP TRASHING HOUSTON, VersionFest, Chicago, IL
CULTURE AND CONFLICT Imagining Ourselves, International Museum of Women, San Francisco, CA
Sampler Stitch, Dam, Stuhltrager, Brooklyn, NY
GRRRLZSTUFF, Plush, Dallas, TX
Art LA, Gescheidle Booth, Los Angeles, CA

2005
La Frontera, Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, IL
Casket Factory, Plush booth, Dallas, TX
AAFNYC, Plush booth, New York, NY
Frisbee Fair, Plush room #105, Miami, FL
Affair at the Jupiter Hotel, D!verseWorks Room, Portland, OR
Handmade In Texas, XIE, Houston, TX
ART CHICAGO, Plush, Chicago, IL
Wayward Delinquents, Commerce Street Artist Warehouse, Houston, TX
Performance Installation, SHFL, Houston, TX

2004
Wayward Girls, Plush, Dallas, TX
Ain't That a Groove, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
Temporary/Contemporary, The Orange Show for Visionary Art, Houston, TX
Post it Up, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
WARHEADS: THE DRAFT IS COMING, Performance, The Orange Show, Houston, TX

2003
Domestic Bliss, Video Installation, Raw Space, Houston, TX
Trailer Park Art Show, felt-assault series, Sound Installation, A Trailer, Pasadena, TX

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Donna Huanca in Austin By Caroline Kinneberg, 1) ART INFO.com
Secret Museum of Donna Huanca By Sarah Johnson, Daily Texan
3) Secret Museum of Mankind BY AMANDA DOUBERLEY, AUSTIN CHRONICLE

2007
Austin Review, Art in America, december Issue, Charles Dee Michell
Plush Heroics, Whitney May, NY ARTS, Feature, June 2007
Houston Noise Music, Olivia Florez Alvarez, Houston Press, April 12, 2007
Prize Winning Artists, Kelly Klassmeyer, Houston Press, April 5, 2007 2007

2006
Donna Huanca's Clean Start, Dusti Rhodes, Houston Press, 12/11/06 Issue
Donna Huanca, Whitney Klassel, Alarm Press, Issue #24, pp.66-67, Chicago, IL
Cover Art, 50th Anniversary Issue of The Literary Review, Fall 2006 Issue Vol. 50, ISB #2527475343, Madison, New Jersey
RUA TOUR 2006-2012 POSTER and LOVE LETTER, Penny Ante Lite, Issue #1, San Fransisco, CA

2005
Donna Huanca Goes To War with a Needle and Thread at Plush, Charles Dee Mitchell, Dallas Morning
News, March 16th pg.12E DallasNews.com
Global Ear: Houston, John Fenn, The Wire, Issue 255, May 2005,

2004
Art Life Monthly, Issue #254, Ventura, CA

RESIDENCIES
2008 Headlands Center for the Artis, San Francisco, CA
2008 Omi International Artist Residency, Ghent, NY

2007 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY
2007 L'Ecole du Baoum, July 2007, Grenoble, France
2007 Lawndale Art Center, January-June 2007, Houston, TX
2006 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, June-August 2006, Skowhegan, ME

AWARDS/GRANTS

2006 Skowhegan Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2004 DeGolyer Grant Recipient, Dallas Museum of Art

LECTURES/PROFESSIONAL

2008 Visiting Artist, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN
2006
'Nomadic Art Practice', University of Houston, Houston, TX

2005
Visiting Artist : New Painting Process: Richland College, Dallas, Texas
Fall: Fabric Workshop with Adults with Traumatic Brain Injury,
TIRR/Orange Show Houston, TX

PROJECTS

2006-current Master Smocker, Smockshop, AZ West/East, LA, NYC

2007 Chaos Creator (percussion), Indian Jewelry Tour, UK - June 2007
2006
Collaboration in Set Design for Touching Ed Sullivan: A Televisceral Puppet Show, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX

2005
ART HOUSE: Co-Founded art relief center for young evacuees from Katrina,
lasted 11 days, Reliant Center/Astrodome, Houston, TX

Hermann Nitsch’s: Orgies Mysteries Theater Sound Series, Station Museum, Houston, Texas
Curated aural responses to Nitsch’s Orgies Mysteries Theater

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