Donna Green in her studio, 2019
Donna Green wrestles with coils of stoneware, manipulating and prodding to create anthropomorphic gestural shapes that burst and stretch into space. Her physical experimentation challenges the properties of the clay, resulting in works that seem to be in a constant state of growth and transfiguration; heroically scaled urns undulate and drip with layer upon layer of glaze. Green draws inspiration from the ancient Jomon ceramics of Japan and Chinese Han Dynasty storage jars, as well as Gonshi, the naturally occurring scholars’ rocks, and Baroque garden grottos.
Donna Green was born in Sydney, Australia, and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Industrial Design in 1984 from Sydney College of the Arts in New South Wales. In 1985, Green moved to New York and joined Industrial Design Magazine as one of its editors. She began working in clay in 1988, studying at Greenwich House Pottery and the New School in New York, and in 1997 at the National Art School, Sydney. Green has participated in numerous workshops including “Fire Up,” 1995 with Janet Mansfield in Gulgong, New South Wales, working on-site with Danish artists Nina Hole and Jorgen Hansen, and “The Vessel as Metaphor” in 2018 with Tony Marsh at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO. In 2019, she was a Resident Artist at California State University Long Beach. Later that year, she undertook an Artist Fellowship at Greenwich House Pottery. Green has exhibited at Hostler Burrows, New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA; McClain Gallery, Houston, TX; Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY; Utopia Art Sydney, Australia; SIZED Studio, Los Angeles, CA; and the Leiber Collection, East Hampton, NY. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney, Australia. Green lives and works in New York.
DONNA GREEN
b.1960, Sydney, Australia
EDUCATION
2018 “The Vessel as Metaphor” with Tony Marsh, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass,
CO
2018 New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture, NY
2000 “The Handbuilt Vessel” with John Gill, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO
1997 The National Art School, Sydney, Australia
1995 “Fire Up” with Janet Mansfield, Gulgong, Australia
1990 Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
1988 The New School, New York, NY
1984 Sydney College of the Arts, Australia, Bachelor of Arts, Industrial Design
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 At Last, No More, HB381, New York, NY
2022 Vessels, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2021 Donna Green, Hostler Burrows, New York, NY
2018 Clay, Sculpture Space, Long Island City, NY
2015 Vessels, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
2013 Vessels, Storefront Gallery at Greenwich House, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Sydney Contemporary 2023, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia
Friends of the Garden, Leiber Collection, East Hampton, New York
2022 Industrialism, SIZED Studio, New York, NY
Vessels, SIZED Studio, Los Angeles, CA
Kari Dyrdal/Donna Green, Hostler Burrows, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Clay Dynasty, Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney, Australia
Stone, Green, Watson: Contemporary Ceramics, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2020 Forest Primeval, Hostler Burrows, Los Angeles, CA
Ceramics Now, Jane Hartsook Gallery, New York, NY
Form, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, Australia
It’s not Fair, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2019 Australian Landscapes, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Sydney Contemporary 2019, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Dobrinka Salzman Gallery, New York, NY
Clay 5, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Sculpture Space, Long Island City, NY
Kimcherova Gallery, New York, NY
2018 RE:CONSTRUCTION, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
Sydney Contemporary 2018, Sydney, Australia
Clay 4, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, Australia
The Small Works, Malia Mills and Folioeast, East Hampton, NY
Hamptons Good Design, Wainscott, NY
Sculpture Space, Long Island City, NY
2017 Sydney Contemporary 2017, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia
Museum III, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Alternative Museum, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Winter Salon, Malia Mills, East Hampton, NY
2016 Clay 3, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Weird Ceramic, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Australia
The Last Hurrah, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2015 Clay 2, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Collectible, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2012 Home, Umbrella Arts, New York, NY
2011 Made in Clay, Greenwich House, New York, NY
2009 Please Handle the Pots, Legge Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1997 Ceramics, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney, Australia
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney, Australia
RESIDENCIES
2019 Artist Fellowship, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY
Resident Artist, Center for Contemporary Ceramics, California State University, Long
Beach, CA
