DONNA HUANCA
Born Chicago, USA
EDUCATION
2009 Städelschule, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt, Germany
2006 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
2004 Bachelor of Fine Arts Painting, University of Houston, Texas
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
MAENAD CYMBALS, KSF BERLIN
2012
PANIC FEAR CRYING FITS, PRETEEN Gallery, Mexico City
THE MYTH....CCS BARD, Annadale on Hudson, New York
2011 POP UP SHOP, PG Gallery, Houston, Texas
2008 Secret Museum of Mankind, Women and Their Work, Austin, Texas
2007 Philosophy of The World: New York, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, New York
2005 Warscapes, Plush, Dallas, Texas
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013
ELEVATION, Arnhem Fashion Biennale, Arnhem, Netherlands
Pioneer Voices, Gallery of Northern Norway, Harstad, Norway
RAW MATERIAL, Malmö Konsthalle, Sweden
BRAIDS, Access Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
BREAKING POINT, CTSQ, NYC, New York
Social Fabric, CAFAM, Los Angeles, California
2012
SADE on DMT, KEX Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
Reduction of Form, Exile, Berlin, Germany
Lightness of Being, Present Company, Brooklyn, New York
LOL, Truck 72, Madrid, Spain
Baby, I lost my Hand Shoes, Fórum da Maia, Maia, Portugal
2011
Baby, I lost my Hand Shoes, Kurant, Tromsø, Norway
Yo Era Tu y Nunca lo Supe, PUNO MoCA, Puno, Peru
2010
Festive Anthropophagy through Reflected Imagery, Winkleman Booth, Miami Basel, Florida
SKELETON, (with Rachel de Joode) Brigit Ostiemer Gallerie, Berlin, Germany
☿ ♀ ♁ ♂ ♃ ♄ ♅ ♆☿ ♀ ♁ ♂ ♃ (with Rachel de Joode) HBC, Berlin
RUNDGANG, Städelschule, Frankfurt, Germany
2009
Incehon Biennale, Incehon Art Platform Incehon, Korea
Exhibition, 211 Elizabeth, New York, New York
Global Fabrics, Common Threads, ISE Foundation, New York, NY
2008
Etapa #2, Network of Love (with AIDS-3D), Exit Art, New York, New York
2007
Philosophy of the World: Houston, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas
World View, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
Jerusalem 2012 (with AIDS-3D), Program, Berlin
2006
Manic and Wasted,LMCC Swing Space, New York, New York
Flex Your Textiles, John Connelly Presents, New York, New York
STOP TRASHING HOUSTON, VersionFest, Chicago, Illinois
Sampler Stitch, Dam, Stuhltrager, Brooklyn, New York
RESIDENCIES
2013: Access Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2009: LMCC SwingSpace, 77 Water, New York, New York
2008: Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California
2008: Art Omi International Artist Residency, Ghent, New York
2007-08 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, New York
2007 Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas
2006 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
AWARDS / GRANTS
2012 Fulbright Scholarship for research in Mexico City, Washington DC, USA
2011 ART MATTERS Grant, New York, NY
2009/10 DAAD Artist Grant, DAAD, Bonn, Germany
2008 Francis Greenberg Award, Art OMI, Omi, New York
2007 Artist Stipend, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas
2006 Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
2004 DeGolyer Grant Recipient, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2013 Sydsvenskan Malmö, Sweden, 6-week Performance featured on Front Page May 3rd, 2013
2012
DOSSIER Journal, New York, On Conversation with Donna Huanca July 2012
DIGITAL DAZED, London, UK: PANIC FEAR CRYING FITS Review,
2011
In search of unknown memories: Donna Huanca, Interventions Journal, Columbia University Blog
RUA MINX: POP UP SHOP, ARTLIES, Issue 68
Donna Huanca: Based in Berlin-Artist Studio Visit: Berlin Art Link, Berlin, Germany
2010
Michael Jackson Smock, BRITISH VOGUE, Jan 2010 Issue pp.115
2009
‘Younger Than Jesus: Aritst Directory’, Lauren Cornell, Massimiliano Gioni, and Laura Hoptman, New Museum & Phaidon Press, 2009
2008
’Artist Issue’, City Magazine, New York, New York
’IN THE MIX’ Ed Halter, Rhizome.com
“Weekend Picks: Donna Huanca in Austin’, Caroline Kinneberg, ARTINFO.com,
‘Secret Museum of Mankind’, [catalog], Women and Their Work Press, Austin, Texas
2007
Report from Austin, Charles D Michell, Art in America, Dec 2007
PLUSH HEROICS, Whitney May, NY Arts Magazine, New York, NY, July-August Issue
Donna Huanca: Philosophy of the World, Wendy Dembo, Cool Hunting, New York, NY
Donna Huanca, Whitney Klassel, Alarm Press, Issue #24, Chicago, IL
Featured artist (Cover Art), The Literary Review, Fall Issue, New Jersey, ISBN# 25274-75343
2005
Donna Huanca Goes To War with a Needle and Thread at Plush, Charles Dee Mitchell, Dallas Morning News
Global Ear: Houston, John Fenn, The Wire, Issue #255, May 2005, London, UK
LECTURES
2013 Visiting Artist, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
2012 SOUND WORKS Conversation with HERMANN NITSCH, KEX, Vienna, Austria
2008 Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California
2008 Visiting Artist, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana
2007 Painting in Fabric Workshop, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas
2006 'Nomadic Art Practice', University of Houston, Houston, Texas
2005 Visiting Artist: New Painting Process: Richland College, Dallas, Texas-Fabric Workshop with Adults with Traumatic Brain Injury, Orange Show Houston, Texas
PROJECTS
2003-2006 Sound Curator, Station Museum, Houston, Texas
2001-Current RUA MINX: alias for sound experiment
2006-2011 SMOCKSHOP, (now GFKAS) with Andrea Zittel, AZ West/AZ East
2005
-SOUND SERIES: Hermann Nitsch’s: Orgies Mysteries Theater, Station Museum, Houston Curated aural responses to Nitsch’s Orgies Mysteries Theater
-ART HOUSE: Co-Founded art relief center for young evacuees from Hurricane Katrina, Lasted 11 days, Reliant Center/Astrodome, Houston, Texas