Tara Donovan

Tara Donovan is a contemporary American artist best known for her site-specific installations. Employing disposable materials such as Scotch tape, toothpicks, drinking straws, and Styrofoam cups, she creates forms resembling biological masses. "It is not like I'm trying to simulate nature. It's more of a mimicking of the way of nature, the way things actually grow,” the artist’s said. Born in 1969 in Queens, NY, Donovan received her BFA from the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington D.C. and her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Donovan has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including the Alexander Calder Foundation's first annual Calder Prize in 2005, and the MacArthur Fellowship in 2008. She participated in the 2000 Whitney Biennial, and her works have been exhibited at Pace Gallery in New York, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. The artist lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.