Peres Projects

Donna HUANCA (b. 1980 in Chicago, US)

• Lives and works in Berlin, DE

Education

2009

• Städelschule, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt, DE

  2006

• Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, US

  2004

• Bachelor of Fine Arts Painting, University of Houston, US

Current Solo Exhibitions

• OJOS OBSIDIANOS, Museo de Arte Zapopan, Zapopan, MX
• HAYUMARCA OJOS, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, ZA

Upcoming Solo Exhibition

• BLISS POOL, Space K, Seoul, KR

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022

• MAGMA SLIT, curated by Shamim M. Momin, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, US
• CUEVA DE COPAL, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
• LÁGRIMAS SECAS, Travesía Cuatro, Mexico City, MX

2021

• ESPEJO QUEMADA, curated by Daisy Nam, Marfa Ballroom, Texas, US
• OBSIDIAN MIRROR, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE

2020

• WET SLIT, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK

2019

• OBSIDIAN LADDER, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
• LENGUA LLORONA, curated by Aukje Lepoutre Ravn, Copenhagen Contemporary, DK

2018

• PIEDRA QUEMADA, curated by Stella Rollig, Belvedere Museum, Vienna, AT
• Cell Echo, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, CN

2017

• LENGUA DE BARTOLINA SISA, Travesia Cuatro, Madrid, ES

2016

• Scar Cymbals, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
• Surrogate Painteen, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE

2015

• Poly Styrene's Braces, curated by Anne Barlow, Art in General, New York in collaboration with kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, LV
• Muscle Memory, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE (with Przemek Pyszczek)
• Water Scars, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, FR
• Echo Implant, Joe Sheftel Gallery, New York, US

2014

• Psychotria Elata, ABC Berlin, presented by Brand New Gallery, Berlin, DE
• Sade Room (formerly reclusive), MoMA PS1, New York, US
• Seeing Auras, ltd, Los Angeles, US

2013

• Maenad Cymbals, Open Forum, Berlin, DE
• Scrying Threats, Queer Thoughts, New York, US
• CRUSHING (hard), Access Gallery, Vancouver, CA

2012

• Panic Fear Crying Fits, Preteen Gallery, Mexico City, MX
• The myth is neither bad nor good, its potentials are unlimited, curated by Andrew Rebatta, CCS Bard Galleries, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, US

2011

• Unearthing, Various Locations, PE

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022

• Perrotin Grand Opening Dubai, Perrotin, Dubai, AE
• Christen Sveaas Art Foundation: PORTAL DE PLATA, Selected by Donna Huanca, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
• ARS22: Living Encounters, curated by Leevi Haapala and João Laia, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, FI
• SPRING, Peres Projects, Seoul, KR

2021

• Utopia, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE
• Womanology. José Ramón Prieto Collection, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao, ES
• CARNIVALESCA: What painting might be, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, DE

2020

• On the Frontline of Contemporary Art: from the Taguchi Art Collection, Shiomonoseki Art Museum, Yamaguchi, JP
• Together, curated by Philip Huyghe, M HKA, Antwerp, BE

2019

• Time For Change: Art and Social Unrest in the Jorge M.Pérez Collection, curated by José Roca, El Espacio 23, Miami, US
• Transformer: A rebirth of wonder, curated by Jefferson Hack, The Store X 180 Strand, London, UK
• Glow Like That, K11 Art Foundation, curated by Venus Lau, Hong Kong, HK
• Universal Gravitation, works from the collection of David Chau, Cc Foundation & Art Centre, Shanghai, CN
• Road to the Unconscious, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE

2018

• New Acquisitions, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, US
• Strange Messengers, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Galerie Clemens Gunzer, Wädenswil, CH
• I Am Large, I Contain Multitudes, curated by Nadia Pilchowski, Galerie Wedding, Berlin, DE
• What’s Up: Forms of Abstraction, curated by Lawrence Van Hagen, Pedder Building, Hong Kong, HK
• Programme de performances en partenariat avec Plateforme 10, Arsenic - Contemporary Arts Center, Lausanne, CH

2017

• Io sono qui!, curated by Lorenzo Bruni, Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Roma (MACRO), Rome, IT
• Monarchs: Inheritance, Migrations and Sovereignty in Native and Brown Contemporary Art, curated by Risa Puleo, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis; The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas; Blue Star Art Space, Texas; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska, US
• The Second Self, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE
• Jaguars and Electric Eels, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin, DE
• Brief Encounters ’17, curated by Chris Driessen, Fundament Foundation, Tilburg, NL
• Dialogues, curated by Dr. Barbara Jenner and Dr. Jenni Fulton, Verband der Automobilindustrie, Berlin, DE

2016

• On the Verge of an Image: Considering Marjorie Keller, The Gamble House, Pasadena, US
• Streams of Warm Impermanence, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK
• Cabaret der Künstler – Zunfthaus Voltaire, Manifesta 11, Zurich, CH
• Wild Style: Exhibition of Figurative Art, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE
• FACE TO FACE: Works from Ernesto Esposito Collection, curated by Eugenio Viola, Palazzo Fruscione, Salerno, IT

2015

• Performative Process, Halsey McKay, New York, US
• Volumes, Berthold Pott, Colonge, DE
• Rainbow, Queer Thoughts, across three different locations, NI

2014

• To The Happy Few, Jeanroch Dard, Paris, FR

2013

• Elevation, curated by Lidewij Edelkoort, Arnhem Fashion Biennale, MoBA Centraal, NL
• D, ZweiDrei, Berlin, DE
• Pioneer Voices, Galleri Nord-Norge, Harstad, NO
• 24 SPACES – a cacophony, Malmö Konsthall, Malmo, SE
• Braids, Access Gallery, Vancouver, CA
• Social Fabric, Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM), Los Angeles, CA

2012

• My safe reduction to form, EXILE, Berlin, DE
• Baby, I Lost my Handshoes, Fórum da Maia, Maia, PT; Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, AT
• Stoned Apes, Fórum da Maia, Maia, PT

2011

• Baby, I Lost my Handshoes, Gallery Kurant, Tromso, NO

2010

• Conjunction, HBC, Berlin, DE

2009

• So Close Yet So Far Away, Incheon Biennale, Incehon Art Platform, Incheon, KR

2008

• Etapa #2, Network of Love (with AIDS-3D), Exit Art, New York, US

Awards & Grants

2016

• Hirshhorn Artist Honoree, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, US

  2012

• Fulbright Scholarship for research in Mexico City, Washington DC, US

  2011

• Art Matters Grant, New York, US

  2009/10

• DAAD Artist Grant, DAAD, Bonn, DE

  2008

• Francis Greenberg Award, Art OMI, Omi, US

  2006

• Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, US

  2004

• DeGolyer Grant Recipient, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, US

Residencies

2016

• SmackMellon, New York, US

  2013

• Access Gallery, Vancouver, CA

  2009

• LMCC SwingSpace, 77 Water, New York, US

  2008

• Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, US

  2008

• Art Omi International Artist Residency, Ghent, New York, US

  2007-08

• Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, US

  2007

• Lawndale Art Center, Houston, US

  2006

• Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, US

Selected Collections

• Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection, New York, US
• Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
• B.LA Foundation, Vienna, AT
• Espacio 1414/Berezdivin Collection, Santurce, PR
• Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, US
• Rubell Family Collection, Miami, US
• Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, CN
• Yuz Museum, Shanghai, CN

Selected Publications

2023

• Levinas, Dani (ed.), Los guardianes del arte, Madrid: Editorial La Fábrica, 2023

2022

• Donna Huanca selects from the Christen Sveaas Art Foundation, London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2022
• Guerrero, Marcela, Nam, Daisy, Gutiérrez, Raquel and Tejada, Roberto, Donna Huanca: Espejo Quemada, Marfa: Ballroom Marfa; Los Angeles: Inventory Press, 2022
• Haapala, Leevi, Laia, João and Vanhala, Jari-Pekka (eds), ARS22: Living Encounters, Milan: Mousse Publishing, 2022
• Gisbourne, Mark and Tannert, Christoph, Dissonance: Platform Germany, Berlin: DCV Books, 2022

2021

• Molina, Manuela Mena y Ángela, Womanology: José Ramón Prieto Collection, Bilbao: Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, 2021

2019

• Davies-Crook, Susanna, Transformer: A Rebirth of Wonder, London: Push, 2019
• Beers, Kurt, 100 Sculptors of Tomorrow, London: Thames & Hudson, 2019
• James, Julian and Moss, Ceci, Donna Huanca: Obsidian Ladder, New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 2019
• Ravn, Aukje Lepoutre and Payaboon, Vi, Lengua Llorona, Copenhagen: Copenhagen Contemporary, 2019
• Honigman, Ana Finel and Rodeia, Kristelle, Cult Artists: 50 Cutting-edge Creatives You Need to Know, Beverly: White Lion Publishing, 2019

2018

• Rollig, Stella, Graw, Isabelle et al, Donna Huanca: Piedra Quemada, Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2018
• Puleo, Risa, Monarchs: Brown and Native Contemporary Artists in the Path of the Butterfly, Omaha: Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts ; Miami: [NAME] Publications, 2018

2017

• Banks, Grace, Play With Me: Dolls, Women, Art, London: Laurence King Publishing, 2017
• Pfau, Anna-Alexandra, Jaguars and Electric Eels, Berlin: Julia Stoscheck Collection, 2017

2016

• Maheshwari, Maitreyi, Scar Cymbals, London: Zabludowicz Collection, 2016

2009

• Cornell, Lauren, Gioni, Massimiliano, and Hoptman, Laura, Younger Than Jesus: Artist Directory, London: Phaidon, 2009

Selected Bibliography

2023

• Future Blossoms, Art in Culture, Global New Power Artists 60 Edition, January 2023

2022

• Interview: Donna Huanca On Extractive Economies & The Transportive Power Of Scent, Something Curated, September 12, 2022
• Body Language, Elephant Magazine, Issue 47, Spring-Summer 2022
• Ambrose, James, Donna Huanca, émergent magazine, Issue 8, Spring-Summer 2022
• Haimes, Helena, Donna Huanca: That Togetherness, That Riotous Sensuality, Flaunt Magazine, June 13, 2022
• Scateni, Ren, Observer and Observed: Donna Huanca’s Layered, Tactile Spaces, ArtReview, May 19, 2022
• Cepeda, Gaby, Mexico City: Donna Huanca, Artforum, vol. 60, no.9, May 2022
• Vamvouklis, Nicolas, Donna Huanca in conversation with Nicolas Vamvouklis, Fondazione Imago Mundi, Features #5, March 2022
• Imaginative Power, The Bristol Magazine, Issue 207, February 2022
• Sargentone, Federico, The Intricate Cosmology of Donna Huanca, Highsnobiety, February 2, 2022

2021

• Donna Huanca: Desert Deities, Sculpture Magazine, December 21, 2021
• Cheung, Karma, Enthusiastically presents keen insights on the body and skin: American artist Donna Huanca shares a collaboration with Louis Vuitton to create Artycapucines limited edition handbags, Vogue Hong Kong, September 13, 2021
• Minthe, Caterina, How to Bag Art the Louis Vuitton Way, Vogue Arabia, September 10, 2021
• Socha, Miles, EXCLUSIVE: These Artsy Vuitton Bags Are Conversation Starters, WWD, September 10, 2021
• Lim, Ai, Louis Vuitton’s Limited Edition Artycapucines Returns, Harper’s BAZAAR Malaysia, September 10, 2021
• López, Ianko, ARCO, ven y mira: nos colamos en el montaje de la edición más rara de la feria, Vanity Fair España, July 6, 2021
• Muñoz-Schaefer, Ursula, Ballroom Marfa reopens with ‘Espejo Quemada’ exhibition, The Big Bend Sentinel, June 30, 2021

2020

• Judah, Hettie, Donna Huanca: Making Her Mark, Phillips, April 14, 2020
• Greenberg, Cassandre, Donna Huanca: WET SLIT at Simon Lee, London, im labor, #002, April 1, 2020
• Rosen, Miss, Bolivian-American Artist Donna Huanca on Her Latest Exhibition, AnOther, March 2020
• Frankel, Eddy, Donna Huanca: Wet Slit Review, Time Out, February 28, 2020
• Bradley, Paige Katherine, Body Work, Garage, Issue 18, February 2020

2019

• On Our Radar: Donna Huanca, Galerie Magazine, Live Artfully, no. 16, Winter 2019
• Zappas, Lindsay Preston, Interview with Donna Huanca, Contemporary Art Review LA (Carla) Magazine, Issue 17, August 2019
• Finkel, Jori, Bare Skin is the Canvas for Donna Huanca, New York Times, July 14, 2019
• Womack, Catherine, With semi-nude models, Donna Huanca brings femme power into a male art world, Los Angeles Times, June 28, 2019
• Malone, Callan, Donna Huanca Breathes New Life into Los Angeles, Cultured Magazine, June 2019
• Stuart, Gwynedd, Donna Huanca’s Color-Saturated ‘Skin Paintings’ are Set to Disrupt Marciano, Los Angeles Magazine, April 2019
• Busta, Caroline, Artist Donna Huanca’s Transcendant Installations Value Real Life Over Likes, Interview Magazine, March 5, 2019
• Shiner, Eric, Body Language, Office Magazine, March 2019

2018

• Murakami, Kenta, Donna Huanca. Picture Perfect, OSMOS Magazine, Issue 14, Winter 2018
• Gratza, Agnieszka, Critics Picks: Donna Huanca, Artforum, December 11, 2018
• Pramuk, Lyra, Top Ten, ArtForum, vol. 56, no.9, May 2018
• Lau, Venus, In Conversation with Donna Huanca, CURA Magazine, Issue 22, February 2018

2017

• Leclère, Lucas, Donna Huanca, Frog Magazine, no. 17, Fall-Winter 2017-2018
• Nordstrom, Leigh, Play With Me: Dolls and Female Objectification in The Age of Terry Richardson, WWD, November 2, 2017
• Moore, Susan, A place on the map, Financial Times, September 8, 2017
• Schumann, Sven, Purple Magazine, Issue 27, Spring-Summer 2017
• Steer, Emily, Eight Galleries to See at Art Basel, Elephant, June 14, 2017
• Elbaor, Caroline, Why Performance Has Become the Essential Art Medium of the 21st Century, Artnet News, June 5, 2017
• Canela, Juan, Donna Huanca’s LENGUA DE BARTOLINA SISA, Art Agenda, April 26, 2017
• Muñoz-Alonso, Lorena, Two Fairs Battle for Primacy in Brussels, Europe’s Rising Art Capital”, Artnet News, April 21, 2017
• Gottschalk, Molly, The 9 Best Booths at Independent Brussels, Artsy, April 20, 2017
• Gu, Ling, Donna Huanca, Modern Weekly, April 2017
• Arnold, Frances and Forbes, Alexander, The 15 Best Booths at Art Basel in Hong Kong, Artsy, March, 2017
• Kanai, Miki, Painting as a point of departure: an Interview with Donna Huanca, Bijutsu Techo, March, 2017
• Donna Huanca’s first exhibition in Spain, Metalocus, February 22, 2017
• Arrizabalaga, Julia Morandeira, Critic’s Guide: Madrid, Frieze, February 20, 2017
• Casey, Liam, Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Berlin Art Link, February 3, 2017
• Swenson, Eric, Art LA Contempory is the West Coast Art Basel, The Huffington Post, January 31, 2017

2016

• de Benito Fernández, Álvaro, Donna Huanca: Scar Cymbals. Zabludowicz Collection London, Arte al Día, December 16, 2016
• The Top Emerging Artists of 2016, Artsy, December 13, 2016
• Judah, Hettie, 50 Most Exciting Artist in Europe Right Now, Artnet News, November 23, 2016
• Pangburn, Dj, Body Painting and Performance Art Collide in ‘SCAR CYMBALS’, Vice, November 20, 2016
• Phillips, Sam, Six degrees of separation: From Victor Pasmore to Donna Huanca, Royal Academy of Arts, November 15, 2016
• Glover, Alexander, Donna Huanca: ‘Memory is perhaps the most permanent architecture’, Studio International, November 13, 2016
• Sherwin, Skye, Donna Huanca’s Nude, Statuesque Models Make A Colorful Splash At Frieze Week In London, W Magazine, October 10, 2016
• Bodin, Claudia, Frauenakt aus Frauenhand, Art Kunstmagazin, October 10, 2016
• Olbrich, Suze, How Artist Donna Huanca Uses the Naked Body As a Canvas, AnOther Magazine, October 7, 2016
• Dafoe, Taylor, Restless Bodies: Donna Huanca’s Ephemeral Installations, Blouin Modern Painters, October/November 2016
• Muñoz-Alonso, Lorena and Jovanovic, Rozalia, See The Top Ten Booth at Frieze London, Artnet, October 5, 2016
• Boutboul, Charlotte, Chiltern Firehouse, Donna Huanca, And The Globe: Lawrence Van Hagen’s London, Whitewall, October 5, 2016
• Donna Huanca, Donna Huanca: Sensory Exploration, Aesthetica, October 5, 2016
• Gavin, Francesca, Donna Huanca brings art to life through body paint, Dazed, October 4, 2016
• Kent, Paul Carey, What Else Is On In London During Frieze Week 2016, Artlyst, October 3, 2016
• Ten things you shouldn’t miss during Frieze Week in London, Artlead, October 3, 2016
• Gu, Ling, Review of Group Show, Artforum China, October 2016
• Contreras, Gerardo, Aesthetic And Philosphical Investigations Around The Sentient Body And Its Biochemical Wreckages, KALEIDOSCOPE, Issue 28, Fall 2016
• Emms, Stephen, Painted models are roaming this Kentish Town gallery for three months, Kentish Towner, September 30, 2016
• Judah, Hettie, Ayahuasca and anal beads: the hallucinogetic art of Donna Huanca, The Guardian, September 28, 2016
• Jansen, Charlotte, The Beauty of Donna Huanca’s Body Art is More Than Skin Deep, Artsy, September 16, 2016
• Steer, Emily, New Establishment: Donna Huanca, Elephant, Issue 28, Autumn 2016
• Bier, Arielle, Ritual Resurrection, Sleek Magazine, September 6, 2016
• Harrelson, Quinn, Spotlight on: Donna Huanca, Cultured Magazine, September 2016
• Elderton, Louisa, Review: Wild Style, Flash Art, Issue 310, September/October 2016
• Engel, Xynna, Künstler, die uns aufgefallen sind, Monopol, September 2016
• Scherz, Laurence, A selfless collection?, Metropolis M, no. 4, August/September 2016
• Fall Art Preview: 20 Museum Shows in Europe Everyone Should See, Artnet, August 30, 2016
• Greenberger, Alex, Donna Huanca at the Zabludowicz Collection, London, in Fall Preview: Museum Shows and Biennials Around the World, ARTnews, August 23, 2016
• Schwendener, Martha, Review: Independent Fair Is More Conventional But Still Eye Catching, The New York Times, March 4, 2016

2015

• Ascari, Alessio, Surf: A Mood Board, KALEIDOSCOPE, issue 25, Fall 2015
• Abrams, Amah-Rose, The 50 Most Exciting Artists in Europe Today: Part One, Artnet News, November 24, 2015
• Fei, Lai, Be a Body: Donna Huanca’s Body Theater, Leap Magazine, July-August 2015
• 30 Emerging Artists to Watch This Summer, Artsy, July 14, 2015
• Honigman, Ana Finel, Donna Huanca and Przemek Pyszczek, Artforum, July 2015
• Rafferty, Penny, “It’s pretty trippy being in an artwork for so long”, Exberliner, June 22, 2015
• Indresick, Scott, 5 Must-See Gallery Shows, Blouin ARTINFO, February 19, 2015

2014

• Forbes, Alexander, The 20 Best Booths at Art Berlin Contemporary, Artnet, September 18, 2014
• de Chirico, Domenico, Donna Huanca, DUST Magazine Blog, February 2014

2013

• Eler, Alicia, Divining the Future of the Past, Hyperallergic, October 14, 2013
• Donna Huanca at Queer Thoughts, Joshua Abelow ART BLOG, October 6, 2013
• Sargsyan, Tatevik, D at ZWEI DREI. Kaleidoscope 24 Spaces, Malmo Konsthalle, Contemporary Art Daily, September 24, 2013
• Lie, Helena, Review: Donna Huanca Raw Material at Malmo Konsthalle Review, Tidningen Kulturen, 2013

2012

• In Conversation with Donna Huanca, DOSSIER, issue 10, Fall/Winter 2012
• Cross, Leah, Donna Huanca: PANIC FEAR CRYING FITS, Dazed Digital, June 29, 2012

2011

• Nam, Dais, In search of Unknown Memories: Donna Huanca, Interventions Journal, vol. 1, issue 1, September 7, 2011
• Ester Ippolito and Russ, Anna, Berlin Art Link Studio Visit: Donna Huanca, Berlin Art Link, February 7, 2011

2008

• Halter, Ed, In The Mix, Rhizome, August 1, 2008

2007

• Mitchell, Charles D, Report from Austin, Art in America, no. 11, December 2007