Dona Nelson

Dona Nelson received a BFA from Ohio State University in 1968, attending the Whitney
Independent Study Program in 1967 while still an undergraduate. Among other grants, Nelson
received an Anonymous was a Woman Grant in 2015, an Artist Legacy Foundation Award in
2013, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant in 2011, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in
1994. In January/February of this year, they had a solo exhibition at Canada Gallery, in
conjunction with Thomas Erben. Nelson’s paintings are included in collections such as the
Whitney Museum of Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Des Moines Art Center, the
Carnegie Museum of Art and the new Princeton University Art Museum, where their painting,
Providence, 2023, is currently installed. In June, Thomas Erben will present Andrew Ross and
Dona Nelson in the Premiere Sector of Art Basel, Basel.