“After decades as a known presence in the global art world, Donna Moylan has at long last been recognized as a modern master. Trained in Boston, Moylan moved to Rome in the 1970s where she entered the city’s charged art circles and developed a practice grounded in myth, metaphor, and shifting narratives. This experience, coupled with the gallery she exhibited at—led to her misassociation with the Italian Transavanguardia which Moylan has insisted as always having been “outside of”—on account of being both a woman and an American. Her current studio in Kinderhook, NY, offers a space where light, landscape, and memory converge and shift. Moylan has said, “Deep culture is similar to wild nature because the effect of each is so strong,” and her paintings channel that energy—figures built from scribbled tangles, fragments of architecture, flickers of light and matter that resist resolution—subtle, layered, and unmistakably her own.”
-Bill Arning
Donna Moylan was born in Boston. At 19 she moved to Rome, Italy, where she lived for 23 years. Upon returning to the United States in the early 90’s, she settled in New York City. Over the course of her career, she has had more then 25 solo exhibitions: in European cities such as Rome, Milan, Naples, and Amsterdam; In the U.S., she has shown in New York City, Boston, Los Angeles and Houston, as well as in upstate New York.
Her work is included in many private collections and in the Whitney Museum of American Art, The New York Public Library, La Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia, and in the Museo Civico di Siracusa.
Donna lives and works in Brooklyn and in Kinderhook, NY.
