Tara Donovan

WE ARE EXCITED TO WELCOME ARTIST, TARA DONOVAN, TO THE MCA MAX MIX RUNWAY SHOW ON MAY 2, 2020.

Tara Donovan received her BFA from the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design in 1991, and her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1999. She has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; St. Louis Art Museum, MO; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN; Milwaukee Art Museum, WI; Parrish Museum, NY; Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; and Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Germany. Her work is included in the collections of major institutions such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. In addition to the MacArthur Genius Award, she received the annual Calder Prize in 2005. She lives and works in Brooklyn.

MCA was honored to curate and host Tara Donovan: Fieldwork, which recorded the most visitors in the history of the museum. The exhibition was about how, through labor (especially repetitive action), order and structure can give way to the unpredictable, where reason yields to faith, and the mundane cedes to the marvelous—truly employing the creative act to seduce visually and, in doing so, override what we know to be factual.

As a VIP sponsor of the MCA MAX MIX Runway Show & Benefit on May 2, 2020, you will have the opportunity to meet Tara at an invite-only cocktail party before the show!