For over fifty years, Dona Nelson has made series of different kinds of paintings, distinguished by a variety of approaches to both image and material.Nelson was born in Grand Island, Nebraska in 1947. She received a B.F.A. from Ohio State University (1968), and studied at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (1967). She is a Professor of Painting and Drawing at Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, where she has worked since 1992. Her paintings are included in museum collections such as The Carnegie Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, The Pompidou, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Museum of New South Wales in Australia. Among other grants, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1994 and in 2011, she received a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.

The Night of the 25th of May, 2022. Acrylic and acrylic media on canvas. 80 x 80 inches.

The Night of the 25th of May, 2022. Acrylic and acrylic media on canvas. 80 x 80 inches.

Surveyor's Lunch, 1981-1982. Oil on canvas, 72 x 78.5 inches.

Untitled05, 1978. Oil on canvas. 32 x 17 inches.