Re(Re)Production, SPACES, Cleveland, OH
  EDUCATION
2005   University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL,
Master of Fine Arts Degree, Studio Arts
1998 Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
Five-year  Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, Drawing

 

 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 ExtraSensory, The International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, IL
  Re(Re)Production, SPACES, Cleveland, OH
2007 Alternative Anatomies Mini Exhibition, POLVO, Chicago, IL
2004 Christa Donner: New Works on Paper, Kravets-Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Nervous Systems, William Busta Gallery, Cleveland, OH
  Christa Donner, ACME Art Gallery, Columbus, OH
1999 Pretty On the Insides, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH

 

 

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Out of Sequence, Krannert Art Museum, Urbana-Champaign, IL
  Outlaw Printmakers, Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis, Saint Louis, MO
  Phenomena, SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2007 The Girl's Room, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY
  2007 Drawing Invitational with the Pierogi Flatfiles, Kent State University Galleries, Kent, OH
  Joined at the Hip, Country Club Chicago, Chicago, IL
2006 Endless Forms: Engaging Evolution, Work Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  Narratives, Sequences, Characters, Dogmatic Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 Drawn Out, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
  Christa Donner, Rick Gribenas, Mathias Kristersson, Wuthering Heights Gallery, Malmo, Sweden
  Delinquent Systems , Warren Robbins Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2004 The Armory Show, Kravets-Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, originating Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA; traveling to New Orleans, LA; Denton, TX; Lakeland, FL
  Body Politic / Fotofiesta, Centro Columbo Americano, Medellin, Colombia
  AIR: Artists in Residence Exhibition, Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH
  Isms, Pound Gallery, Seattle, WA
  Man, I Feel Like a Woman, SPACE 1026, Philadelphia, PA
2002 Body Politic, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
  Relative Objects, POST Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  Bitch School: Artists Explore Our Attitudes Toward Strong Women, the Longwood Arts Project, Bronx, NY
  Cut & Paste: Christa Donner and Dexter Davis, Progressive Insurance Corporate
Headquarters, Cleveland , OH
2001 Photographs by Artists, Artists Image Resource, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA
2000 48 Hours of Making Art, Lake Erie College, B.K. Smith Gallery, Painesville, OH
  Reading Visual/Text: Regional Volumes, Brew House SPACE 101, Pittsburgh, PA
  8-Hour Drawings, Part III, Allegheny College, Bowman & Penelec Galleries, Meadville, PA
1999 Faster than a Speeding Bullet: Superheroes in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
1998 New and Improved, McCullough Center, Cleveland, OH
1997 Team Adventure, New York Studio Program, New York, NY
1996 Girl Potion, McCullough Center, Cleveland, OH

 

 

 

PUBLIC PROJECTS
2004 Re:Productive, interview-based zine project,SPACES World Artist Program, Cleveland, OH
2006 Alternative Anatomies, collaborative public intervention and community zine project, Blue Sky Project, McHenry County, IL
2004 Dreamland Artist’s Club, hand-painted signage,Creative Time, Coney Island, NY
  Art/Action/AIDS, four public billboards, Cleveland AIDS Taskforce, Cleveland
2003 Open(ed) Spaces, permanent wall installation, Hudson Vallery Community College, Troy, NY

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2008 Curator, with Dr. Andrew Yang, Biological Agents, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
  Adjunct Lecturer, Screenprinting + Social Spaces; Intaglio Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
2005 - 07 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Printmaking I ⅈ Advanced Topics in Drawing, Topics in Seriality and Replication, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
2007 Instructor, Narrative Ink: Drawing for Comics, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2006 Visiting Lecturer & Critic, University of MA, Amherst, MA; University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
2005 Visiting Lecturer, 6-city West Coast Lecture and Performance Tour of WA, OR, and CA
1999 - 06 Editor, Publisher, Ladyfriend Zine, Free Advice Zine
2004 Visiting Lecturer, 7-city East Coast Lecture and Performance Tour of IL,IN, OH, PA, MA,and NY
  Lecturer, Panelist, College Art Association Conference, Seattle, WA
  Visiting Lecturer, Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL
1999 - 03 Exhibition and PR Coordinator, SPACES Gallery, Cleveland
2003 Curator, with Chris Conti (Wexner Center for the Arts), Page Me: The Art of Zines, Comix and Other Artist-Made Books, SPACES Gallery
  Visiting Lecturer, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland
  Visiting Lecturer, Case Western Reserve University, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland
2002 Freelance Writer, BUST, Friction, Venus, and Dialogue Magazines
  Adjunct Professor, Creative Drawing, The Cleveland Institute of Art
  Juror, Brewhouse SPACE 101 Gallery, Pittsburgh
  Panelist, AIDA Art and Activism Workshop, Greater Cleveland Roundtable, Cleveland
  Workshop Instructor, “Your Body as Art” Workshop, Taking Charge of Today, Reaching for Tomorrow Conference for Girls, Planned Parenthood, Cleveland
2001 Visiting Lecturer, The Cleveland Institute of Art
  Instructor, “Pushing the Boundaries of Drawing” course, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Continuing Education Program
2000 Panelist, Beauty Bites: Creating and Critiquing the Image of Girl Power, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art
  Workshop Instructor, “Body Languages” and “If it Glitters, It’s Good” workshops, Insides Out Conference, The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art
  Juror, Wendy L. Moore Emerging Artist Competition, The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art

 

 

 

AWARDS & HONORS

2007, 08 Chicago Cultural Center CAAP Grant, Chicago, IL
2007 SPACES World Artist Program Residency, Cleveland, OH
2006 Blue Sky Project Residency, McHenry County, IL
2005 UIC Provost Award, Chicago, IL
2004 UIC University Fellowship, Chicago, IL
2003 UIC Navona Award, Chicago, IL
  Zygote Press Artist Residency, Cleveland, OH
2002 Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship, Columbus, OH
1999 Wendy L. Moore Emerging Artist Award, Cleveland, OH
1998 Keller Award in Drawing, Cleveland, OH

 

 

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
 

Hubner,Matthias;  Klante, Robert, & Ehmann, Sven, Eds. Tactile, Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin, 2007, pp. 98, 148
 

Rhoades, Alison, “ Bodies Without Boundaries: The Work of Christa Donner, MADE, Fall 2007, Vol.1, Issue 2, pp 40 - 43
 

Weinberg, Lauren, “ A Drawing Show” at Lisa Boyle, Time Out Chicago, Aug 16 – 22, 2007
 

Stabler, Bert, “Critics Picks 2006” coverage of Christa Donner at Polvo, The Chicago Reader, Dec 22, 2006, Section One, pp. 24
 

Gribenas, Rick, Ed. Participatory Autonomy, New Image Press, Pittsburgh, 2006 pp.  68 - 73
  Hixson, Katherine, “Drawn Out at Gallery 400” in Art on Paper, Sept-Oct issue, 2005
  Ferrara, Annette,“Beyond Pencil and Paper” in Time Out Chicago, p. 55, Issue 18, June 30 - July 7, 2005
  Moore, Anne Elizabeth, “Christa Donner” interview in Punk Planet, p. 68 – 72, May-June 2005
  Bush, Haydn, “Body Shop,” The Chicago Journal, p. 15 , 20, March 31, 2005
  Johnson, Ken “Christa Donner,” The New York Times, p. E 34, April 16, 2004
  Gerstein, Julie, “ Eyes Wide,” Anthem , p. 69, Issue 011, Fall 2003
  Wagle, Richard, “ Christa Donner: Nervous Systems” Dialogue, p. 76, Jul - Aug, 2001
  Utter, Douglas Max, “Inside Out: Christa Donner’s Work Returns the Gaze” The Cleveland Free Times, May 16-22, 2001
  Litt, Steven, “Pretty on Insides is a bold assault on ideas of beauty”, The Plain Dealer, January 30, 2000
  Chambers, Stoller and Karp, Christa Donner: Pretty on the Insides exhibition catalog, the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, December, 1999

 

 

 

PUBLISHED WORK

  Re:Productive, limited edition zine project with spray stenciled cover and 48-page xeroxed interior, examining issues of fertility and identity through interviews with a diverse range of women, Cleveland, OH, 2008
 

Ladyfriend Zine #1 - 10, biannual, self-published zine with contributions from a diverse range of contributors on a variety of issues related to female friendship and experience, approx 44 pages per issue; Chicago, IL, 2001 - 2007

  Translucent Transformation, limited edition zine project with silkscreen and spray stenciled cover and 50-page xeroxed interior, created collaboratively with a team of seven teenagers in rural Illinois focusing on issues of health, illness, disability and body image; Woodstock, IL, 2006
  Why Have There Been No Great Women Comics Artists? 2-page duotone comic, with Anne Elizabeth Moore;Tin House, Issue #29, 2006
  Free Advice Zine, 24-page self-published zine with text collected by the artist from 47 strangers on topics ranging from serious illness to airline anxiety; Chicago, IL, 2003
  Tryptich, 13-page self-published minicomic; Chciago, IL, 2003
  On Your Mark…, limited edition coloring book with silkscreened cover and 16-page xeroxed interior, printed during residency at Zygote Press; Cleveland, OH, 2002
  “My Mysterious Illness” comic, America Now: Short Readings from Recent Periodicals, Sixth Edition, Robert Atwan (Ed.), 2005, Chicago, IL: Bedford-St. Martin’s Press
  “Rashlight” full-page 3-color comic, Chicago Reader, pp. 26, Vol 34, No. 13; Chicago, IL, Dec 24, 2004
  “My Mysterious Illness,” full-page comic, Chicago Reader, pp.15, Vol 33, No. 12; Chicago, IL, December 19, 2003
  “Curator’s Essay,” Page Me: The Art of Zines, Comix , and Other Artist-Made Books exhibition catalogue, SPACES Gallery, Jan 2003
  “Midwest Comics as Contemporary Art,” Dialogue, Vol 25, No 4, pp. 26 – 31; Columbus, OH, November/December 2002
  “10 Reasons Why Being Single Completely Rocks,” 2-page duotone comic, Bust, pp.72-73; New York, NY, Summer 2001