DANA DONATY Miami Beach Artist

Miami Art Scene™
111 SW 3rd Street
Miami, Florida 33130
Phone: (786)571-6112

DANA DONATY Miami Beach Artist

Dana Donaty (b. Columbus, Ohio), Colombian-American, raised in New Jersey. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing from Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia, PA. After twelve years of living in London, England, Dana relocated to South Florida. She is currently completing her MFA at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York.

Through a research-based interdisciplinary approach Donaty’s work explores women-centered experiences, the complexities of identity, and the challenges of inequality. She infuses her maximalist, color-pumped playground-like aesthetics with humor mirroring life's absurdities and exposing culture's dark side by subverting the intended use of materials. Similarly, in prior work, gigantic canvases depict larger-than-life human figures imposed on a playground of tiny fantastical creatures, speaking to the paradoxes of freedom and equality in an out-of-scale, absurd world.

Selected solo shows: The Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs, Fl, The Cornell Museum of Art, Delray, Fl, and Paul Fisher Gallery, Palm Beach, Fl. Selected group shows; The Armory Art Center in Palm Beach, SVA Gramercy Gallery, Manhattan, NYC, The Palm Beach Cultural Council, Lake Worth, FL., The Arts Warehouse, Delray, FL, The Audrey Love Gallery Miami, FL., The Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL, The Art & Culture Center, Hollywood, FL, The Coral Springs Museum of Art, Locust Projects, Miami, FL; and The Galleries at Moore, Philadelphia, PA. Art fairs: American International Fine Art Fair, Scope, Red Dot, Art Palm Beach, and Art Boca Raton. Her work is in the permanent collection of The Coral Springs Museum of Art, Government agencies, and private collections in the US and Europe.

She has an artistic lineage that includes maternal family members, notably, her mother, her aunt-painter Esther Cárdenas, her cousin-painter Santiago Cárdenas, and her grandfather Eduardo Cárdenas, who was invited to emigrate to the United States as the first editor of Selecciones del Readers Digest [Spanish version of Readers Digest]