Exhibition 165

Trisha Donnelly

04/02/– 05/23/2010 



Trisha Donnelly shows at Portikus:

Two drawings on paper: 

Untitled, 2009, pencil on paper, 66,5 x 47,7 cm

Untitled, 2009, pencil and colour crayon on paper, 66,5 x 47,7 cm

A work with fabric and enamel:

Untitled, 2007, enamel on fabric, 140 x 90 cm

Four large marble slabs with carved parts:

All: Untitled, 2009, Carved black and white Labradorite bianca marble, 280 x 180 x 3 cm

A smaller work made of marble

A video work:

Untitled, 2009, video, 0:28 min, loop

A sound piece 

Two prints


Trisha Donnelly, born 1974 in San Francisco, lives and works in New York


Exhibitions (solo): 2009: Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna (MAMbo), Bologna; 2008: Centre d’édition Contemporain, Bâtiment d’art Contemporain, Geneva; Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, Philadelphia; Renaissance Society, University of Chicago; The Douglas Hyde Museum, Dublin; 2007: Modern Art Oxford, Oxford; Casey Kaplan, New York; 2006: Air de Paris, Paris; 2005: artpace, San Antonio, Texas; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich; 2004: Casey Kaplan, New York; The Wrong Gallery, New York; 2002: Casey Kaplan 10-6, New York; Air de Paris, Paris

Group exhibitions (selection): 2009: The Object of the Attack, David Roberts Art Foundation, London; Il Tempo del Postino, A Group Show, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist et Philippe Parreno, Theater Basel, Basel; La recherche, Air de Paris, Paris; The Quick and the Dead, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Desenhos A - Z, Colecção Madeira Corporate Services, Museu da Cidade de Lisboa, Lisabon; No Sound, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen; Every Revolution is a Roll of the Dice, organized by Bob Nickas, Paula Cooper Galerie, New York; 2008: Time Crevasse, Yokohama 2008 - International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama; Meet Me Around the Corner, works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo; Blasted Allegories, Werke aus der Sammlung Ringier, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern; Self-Storage, The Hardware Store Gallery, San Francisco, California; The artist is a mysterious entertainer, De Appel, Amsterdam; The Sound of Things: Unmonumental Audio, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City; Uncertain States of America, curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Gunnar B. Kvaran, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Songzhuan Art Center, Beijing; 2007: 00’s, L’histoire d’une décennie qui n’est pas encore nommée, Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, Lyon, curated by Stéphanie Moisdon and Hans-Ulrich Obrist; Depth of Field: Modern Photography at the Metropolitan, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The World as a Stage, Tate Modern, London.

With thanks to Josef Dalle Nogare Collection, Bolzano, Air de Paris, Paris and Casey Kaplan, New York, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Stephan Zimmermann Lightsolutions.

We would like to thank the BHF-BANK-Stiftung for their generous support. 

Images: Katrin Schilling