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EDUCATION
MFA, Sculpture, Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of Art, New Brunswick, NJ
Bachelor of Science, Studio Art (with honors), Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Apprentice, Johnson Atelier, Fine Art Foundry, Trenton, NJ
Studio Assistant, Sculptor Louis Lieberman (CEO, Aqua Resin)
HONORS, AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2018 Fellowship, Creative Capital Professional Development Program
2018 Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT,
1993 Residency, US Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Printmaking, exhibition, lecture
1992 Fellowship in Sculpture, New Jersey Council on the Arts/Department of State
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Concrete Sky, Emerging Artist Series, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ
2020 Now Can You See The Monument? Index Art Center, Newark, NJ
2015 Rooted; Activate: Market Street 7, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ
1993 Queens, Newark Museum, Arts Workshop Gallery, Newark, NJ
1991 Paper Dolls and Dresses MFA Thesis, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
1988 Ceilings, Walls and Floors, Johnson Atelier Extension Gallery, Mercerville, NJ
1987 Drawings by Donna Conklin, Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ
Amekak and Others, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ
1985 Drawings by Donna Conklin, Egos Gallery, Mullica Hill, NJ
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Summit Public Art Program, Summit, NJ
Reeves Reed Arboretum, Summit, NJ
Evanescence, DuCret School Of Art, Plainfield, NJ
2022 NJ Arts Annual; Reemergence, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Out Left Art, Round Table Cultural Seminars, New York, NY
2021 Hope and Possibility, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Benefit exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
Patterns In Nature, WOArt (online gallery) (Curator Christina Massey)
Creative Resilience, Newark Arts Festival, Newark, NJ (Curator: Adrienne Wheeler)
Much Too Much, NJCU University, Jersey City, NJ, (Curator: Eileen Ferara)
NJ Arts Annual, “ReVision and Respond”, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Mending:Art On The Trails, Beals Preserve, Southborough Mass; (Juror: Sarah Montross)
5th Element, Outlander Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
2020 NJ Arts Annual; Dissonance, Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
Heliotrope: Turning Towards The Light, (Virtual)ArtFront Galleries, Newark, NJ (Curator: Kymba Nijuck)
Prayers for the Pandemic (Virtual and Print Catalogue), The Drawing Rooms, Jersey City NJ
Free Enterprise (Virtual), BSB Gallery, Trenton
Radical Women-Fighting For Power And The Vote In New Jersey!, Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ; (Curator: Noelle Williams)
2019 Newark Arts Festival: “Spread Spectrum - A Modulation of Women Artists Speak, Newark, NJ
(Curator: Armisey Smith)
Anything If You Dare…, Index Art Center, Newark, NJ (Curator: Asha Ganpat)
Between Wisdom and Madness: Works in Sculpture, Index Art Center, Newark, NJ
(Curators: Agnes Degna & Sarah Walko
2018 Gashapon, Creativity Caravan, Montclair, NJ (Curator: Asha Ganpat)
Terror & Pleasure En Plein Air, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ (C: Greg Leshe/Sandy Martiny)
Approaching Vibrancy, Morris Arts and NJ Center for Visual Arts, Morristown, NJ
(Curators: Mary Birmingham and Sarah Walko)
Transitions, Paul Robeson Gallery, Rutgers, Newark, NJ(Curator: Gladys Grauer/Adrienne Wheeler)
The Big Small Show, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ (Curator: Anne Trauben)
A Women's Movement, Collaborative Dance/Sculpture with Donna Scro of FreeSpace Dance,
10/27/2017 Premier Westminster Art Center, Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, NJ
2017 Women Warriors, The Hive Gallery, Chester, NJ
On Belonging and the Void In Between, Aferro Gallery, Newark, NJ (Curator: Asha Ganpat)
Women in the World: A Visual Perspective, Monmouth University Gallery, Monmouth NJ
Queen of Angels: When a Church Dies, Art and Artifacts of Newark, Newark, NJ
The Big Small Show,Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
2016 Guide Ropes and Live Wires; Faculty Exhibit, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
Women Like Jazz; New Jersey Performing Art Center, Newark, NJ
Women Like Jazz, Rutgers University, Paul Robeson Gallery, Newark, NJ
2015 Rooted; Activate: Market Street 7, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ
2014 I Live Here, Lemmerman Gallery, NJCU, Jersey City, NJ
Thou Art Mom, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ
Nexxus; International Juried show; Arts Guild NJ, Rahway, NJ
Limited Editions, Index Art Center, Newark, NJ
Viewpoints, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
Content in Absence, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ
2011 PCNJ Members Exhibition, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ
Artists Talk, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ
Printmaking Center of New Jersey, Somerville, NJ
PUBLIC ART/ COMMUNITY PROJECTS/COMMISSIONS
2015/16 Restore; Wildflower Sculpture Park, South Mountain Reservation, South Orange, NJ/Essex
County Parks Dept.; Featuring a 20’ Gold Leaf and concrete sculpture in the earth. Inspired by the
Japanese art of Kintsugi (golden repair), Restore symbolically honors the restoration of the land in
the Preserve. The sculpture connects a tree on each side of the fence, either emerging from the
ground or returning to it, evoking the cycle of life and our responsibility to care for the land.
2014 King Snake Mosaic /Turtle Back Zoo; Essex County NJ Parks Department
West Orange, NJ; The Mosaic Tiling of a 45’ x 4.5’ round King Snake: Concrete, Ceramic
Tile, Glass tile and Cast Glass located at the entrance of the Education Center
2009 Tree of Life, 22” x 14”; Mosaic Commission for Valeria Erdosi-Mehaffey
2008 Mosaic Stepping Stone Project Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy, Livingston, NJ
2008 Mosaic Planter Project; Kings Daughter Day School, Plainfield, NJ
COLLECTIONS
Newark Public Library, Book Arts Collection
Museum Of Modern Art, Artists Books Collection
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Egos Gallery, Mullica Hill, NJ
C. Houston Associates, Princeton, NJ
Kim Collins and Len Catanzaro, S. Orange, NJ