Donna Conlon

Donna Conlon (U.S.A., 1966) lives and works in Panamá City, Panamá. In 1991 she received a Masters degree in biology from the University of Kansas (USA) and in 2002 earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Rinehart School of Sculpture (Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore). Although she began her artistic career as a sculptor, in recent years she has worked with video, installation, photography, and performative interventions.

In 2003 Conlon was awarded the Residency Prize at the Caribbean Biennial (Dominican Republic) and also received Second Prize in the First Central American Emerging Artists Exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design in Costa Rica. In 2004 she received First Prize at the IV Biennial of Visual Arts of the Central American Isthmus.

Conlon participated in the 51st Venice Bienniale (Italy) in 2005, in the exhibition Always a Little Further, curated by Rosa Martínez, as well as in the exhibition of the Italo-Latin American Institute, Warp and Weft, curated by Irma Arestizábal.

In 2007 she received a grant for emerging Latin American artists from the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), and in 2008 she will be participating for the second time in the Panamanian Biennial of Art (the eighth edition, curated by Magali Arriola).

Her work has also been shown in Ecuador, Brazil, Spain, Australia, Taiwan, Switzerland, Norway and the Netherlands, among other countries.