Nicole Donnelly

Nicole Donnelly is a Philadelphia-based painter, hand papermaker, and installation artist. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa in 2009 and her BA from Bennington College. She has received grants and fellowships to complete residencies at the Vermont Studio Center (2011) and the Women’s Studio Workshop (2010), and was invited in 2013 to exhibit at the University of Nevada Reno for a two person show, “Two by Land”. Her collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock, a PEW recipient and Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, “Very Different Animals” (2013) was reviewed in the New York Times ArtsBeat. Donnelly’s artwork has been exhibited throughout the United States, and in Canada, Mexico, South Korea, Germany, and the UK.

2009 MFA Painting & Drawing, University of Iowa
2002 BA Visual Art and Japanese Language, Bennington College

2013
Two by Land, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV
The Art and Soul of Paper, Anteros Arts Foundation, Norwich, UK
Surface as Signifier, UD@Crane, Philadelphia, PA

2012
Nicole Donnelly & Andrew Chalfen, Seeds Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Art in the Open, Schuylkill River Trail and Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Message + Medium, PhilaMOCA, Philadelphia, PA

2011
Mercury Retrograde, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA

2010
place : memory : here, Warehouse 414, Topeka, KS
Paper Road, Chi’ang Art Center, Wonju, South Korea

2009
Stories of Waterfalls, MFA exhibition, Arts Iowa City, Iowa City, IA