Guggenheim Fellow 2025
I'm thrilled to announce that I was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
"At a time when intellectual life is under attack, the Guggenheim Fellowship celebrates a century of support for the lives and work of visionary scientists, scholars, writers, and artists." -Edward Hirsch, Poet and President of the Guggenheim Foundation
Artist Talk with Hirshhorn's José Roca
Jonathan Harker and I recently had the opportunity to discuss our collaborative work with José Roca, Estrellita B. Brodsky Curator-at-Large of Latin American and Diasporic Art at the Hirshhorn Museum.
See the full conversation here.
From the Ashes at the Norton Museum of Art
Click here to see a video where Sarah Bass and I speak about From the Ashes in "Surroundings: Video Encounters of Nature at the Norton Museum of Art" (July- Sept 2024).
Coexistence in the Met Bulletin
Click here to read the online version of "Human / Nature: Lessons for Coexistence," written by Brinda Kumar for the Spring 2024 edition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin "Leadership and Society" (pp. 10-12). I am honored and humbled by this piece of scholarship.
The Poetry of Everyday Life: a conversation with Donna Conlon
It was super fun to be interviewed by Daniela Galan for Amalgama's wonderful podcast series "Women Artists from Latin America"
See the interview here
Latin American Artists from 1785 to Now
My work Coexistence is featured in this new Phaidon compendium of modern and contemporary Latin American Artists.
The video's title comes from the timeless words of Jawaharlal Nehru: "The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction."
Diecisiete años de videoarte y colaboración
Esther Arjona describes our exhibition "This is All We Got, a seriously playful retrospective by Donna Conlon and Jonathan Harker" at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá, co-produced with Casa Santa Ana and co-curated by Juan Canela and Sandino Scheidegger.
Click here to read Esther's article in La Estrella de Panamá (23 July 2023)
An Aviary For Today
My first solo show with Espacio Mínimo, Madrid. From March 25 to May 27, 2023.
This show brought together an aviary of inter-related works, each centered on birds as present day allegorical symbols of the fragility, vulnerability and impermanence of nature and of human coexistence with the rest of the natural world. The bird-scale works exist in a world of shadow and imprint, presence and absence, reflection and nostalgia.
See more images and information about the show here.
Anonymous Was a Woman 2022 Grant Recipient
I was chosen as one of 15 artists to receive AWAW's unrestricted grant, "given in recognition of an artist's accomplishments, artistic growth, originality and potential."
As ArtNews states, "Anonymous Was a Woman picks most diverse group of winners to date for beloved artist grant program."
“¿Podemos realmente observar y no simplemente voltear los ojos?”
Miguel Lopez interviewed me for the Conversaciones en aislamiento section of TEOR/éTica's online magazine (29 May 2020), Buchaca generosa:
Donna Conlon & Jonathan Harker: "Debemos transformar nuestro modelo civilizacional por completo"
Jonathan and I were interviewed by Arteinformado (26 May 2020).
click here to read full interview
foto por Luis Cantillo
Ni Una Piedra Sin Voltear
Esther Arjona interviewed me about my show No Stone Unturned at DiabloRosso for La Estrella de Panamá (16 Feb 2020).
Interview with Donna Conlon & Jonathan Harker
When we were in San Francisco for our show Secret Passages at Kadist, Amanda Nudelman interviewed us about our work and processes (June 2018).
See the kind of silly video interview, complete with some circular ping pong, here
Directed by Mik Gaspay
Conlon and Harker: A Playful Collaboration
The Guggenheim commissioned some of the artists in Under the Same Sun to self-produce video interviews and it was a pretty fun task! (2014)
See our video interview here
Interviewer: Mónica Kupfer
