Works
3.7.20, 2020
Hand cut pattern on deacidified newspaper with gold leaf
17 x 16 inches (43.2 x 40.6 cm) Sheet
The Migrant Series
5.27.19, 2020
Hand cut pattern on deacidified newspaper with gold leaf
16 x 12 7/8 inches (40.6 x 32.7 cm) Sheet
The Migrant Series
10.19.18, 2018
Hand cut pattern on deacidified newspaper with gold leaf
18 1/4 x 12 3/8 inches (46.4 x 31.4 cm) Sheet
The Migrant Series
9.14.15, 2015
Hand cut pattern on deacidified newspaper
17 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches (45.1 x 29.2 cm)
The Migrant Series
4.12.17, 2017
Hand cut pattern on deacidified newspaper
14 x 12 1/4 inches (35.6 x 31.1 cm)
The Migrant Series
7.3.17, 2018
Hand cut pattern on deacidified newspaper with gold leaf
15 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches (40 x 29.2 cm)
The Migrant Series
Stop Press, 2016
Hand cut newspaper, from the final print edition of The London Independent
14 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches (36.2 x 29.2 cm)
La Prensa 6, 2019
Unique dye sublimation on laser cut blanket
59 x 46 inches (149.9 x 116.8 cm)
Chainlink, 2019
Unique dye sublimation on felt with ink
42 x 65 inches (106.7 x 165.1 cm)
Tijuana Babies, 2019
Unique dye sublimation on laser cut blanket
42 x 56 inches (106.7 x 142.2 cm)
El Diariao Oaxaca, 2019
Unique dye sublimation on laser cut blanket
42 x 56 inches (106.7 x 142.2 cm)
Mexicali, 2019
Unique dye sublimation on felt with ink
42 x 67 inches (106.7 x 170.2 cm)
Senate, 2019
Laser cut watercolor and Stonehenge paper with thread
10 1/2 x 8 inches (26.7 x 20.3 cm)
Its Own Importance, 2019
Laser cut watercolor and Stonehenge paper
30 x 22 inches (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
Enlightened Statesmen, 2019
Laser cut watercolor and Stonehenge paper with thread
10 1/2 x 8 inches (26.7 x 20.3 cm)
Frieze 21, 2019
Burn and gold leaf on handmade paper
28 x 21 inches (71.1 x 53.3 cm) Sheet
Daniel, 2017
Archival pigment print
27 x 22 inches (68.6 x 55.9 cm)
Edition 1 of 3 + 1 AP
Two State Blues, 2017
Archival pigment print
32 x 35 inches (81.3 x 88.9 cm)
Edition 2 of 3 + 1 AP
Exhibitions
If 6: RWFA Artists and Guests
2021
The Subject Speaks its Own Importance
2021
The Qualities of Light: The Story of a Pioneering New York City Photography Gallery
2020
Circles & Squares
2019
Other News
2019
RWFA at AIPAD 2018
2018
RWFA at Pulse Miami Beach
2017
Nigerian Identities and the Migrant Series
2017
CV
Donna RUFF
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023 Focal Point, Saint Kate The Space, Milwaukee, WI
Terra Incognita, Deering Estate, Miami
Based on a True Story, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco
2020 The Subject Speaks its Own Importance, Rick Wester Fine Art, Inc., New York, NY
Utopia, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019 Extraño, Laundromat Art Space, Miami, FL
For You Were Strangers, Miami Beach JCC, Miami, FL
2018 Processed Prose with Jeff Wallace, Swenson Gallery, Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL
2017 The Migrant Series, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY
2014 London14 Art Fair: London First, with Wendy Wolf at Fitzroy Knox Gallery
2009 Dialogue, Experimental Space, Juvenal Reis Studios, Long Island City, NY
Es-tu comme moi?, BravinLee Projects Artist Book Program, New York, NY
2007 On the Seventh Day, PVCC Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2005 Tempo, ArtSPACE, New Haven, CT
Garden Journal, NEXT Gallery, Metropolitan College, New York, NY
2004
Donna Ruff, Westchester Art Workshop, Westchester, NY
Glimpse, Norwalk Community College, Norwalk, CT
2003 Nephesh, Eldridge Street Project, New York, NY
2002 NJ Printmaking Council, Branchburg, NJ
2001 Hallway Project, PS 122, New York, NY
1997 Barry University, Miami, FL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Brooklyn: "Disrupting the Grid,” Kentler International Drawing Space
2023 Harumi Abe, Lauren Shapiro, and Donna Ruff, Bridge Red Studios
2022 At the Edge, Oolite Arts, Miami
Baggage we Carry, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami
2021 If 6: RWFA Artists and Guests, Rick Wester Fine Art, Inc., New York, NY
Known and Strange, Photographs from the Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum
Artful Books 2021, MOAS Dayton Beach, FL
In the Weeds, Collective62, Miami
Fit to Print, The Print Center, Philadelphia
2019The Artful Book, LnS Gallery, Miami, FL
Spheres of Meaning, Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU, Miami, FL
CONstitutionX, Box Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
2018 Hollywood Art & Culture Center, Florida Biennial 2018
Cut it Out!, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA
Sunrise, Sunset, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL
2017 The Times, FLAG Foundation, New York, NY
Cut Up/Cut Out, Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
2016 Reduce, Blue Spiral Gallery, Asheville, NC
Recently Acquired, Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL
Mapping Spaces: Carte Blanche, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, Dita Amory, curator
Cut it Out, 21Pop, FOG Design + Art Fair, San Francisco
2015 GOING BIG, Curated Suzan Shutan and Susan Carr, Central Booking Gallery, New York, NY
Axle Indoors, Peters Projects, Santa Fe, NM
Stubborn Matter, curated by David Leigh, Wade Wilson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2014 Hunting and Gathering, Recent Acquisitions, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
Paper Unbound, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
Psyched, Central Booking Gallery, New York, NY
(Re)Motivated, Usable Space Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Fold, Paper, Scissors, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, AZ
All the News That’s Fit to Print, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2013 Transformed Volumes, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
My Favorite Things, CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Brother, Can You Spare a Stack, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
Art on the Edge 2012, curated by Toby Kamps, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
2012 Booked, Williams Gallery, Lafayette University, Easton, PA
CutGlueFold, Axle Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Director’s Choice, Galleri Urbane, Dallas and Marfa, TX
Tribute to El-Mutanabbi Street, curated by Beau Beausoleil and Sarah Bodman, traveling exhibition
2011 Marked Differences, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
Uncommon Threads, Trenton Artworks, Trenton, NJ
An Exchange with Sol LeWitt, Mass MOCA, North Adams, MA
2010 Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
Fire Works, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
Reader’s Delight, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY
Speaking Volumes, John Michael Kohler Center for the Art, Sheboygan, WI
Unveil,Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2009 Threads: Interweaving Textu[r]al Meaning, Center for Books Arts, New York, NY
Independent Salon of Book Art, General Store, Sydney, Australia
2008 Resistance!, Annual Rutgers Book Art Symposium (presenter)
Bookverks2008, Information is not Knowledge, Grassroots Arts Facility, Jersey City, NJ
Locus, Gallery 230 Brooklyn, NY
PAPER[space], Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadeliphia, PA
Small Wonders, Garson Baker Fine Art, New York, NY
2007 Process, Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich, CT
Handgeschopft, Druckwerkstatt im Kulturwerk des bbk berlin, Berlin, Germany
Per Square Foot, Dieu Donné Paper Mill, New York, NY
2006 Disaster! One Year After, Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Feedback: Artist to Artist, German Consulate, New York, NY
New Directions, NJ Print Council, Branchburg, NJ
TEXTure, ALL Gallery, New Haven, CT
Invitational 2006, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT
Making your Mark: On Paper, BAC Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2005 Project Room Artists 2005, PS 122 Project Room, New York, NY
Word of Mouth, Rhys Gallery, Boston, MA
(re)creation, Guilford Art Center, Guilford, CT
Baker’s Dozen, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
Women, Words, and Images, Mills Pond House, St. James, NY
Translucence, Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CT
2004 Qville, Flux Factory, LIC, NY
Off the Wall, New Art Center, Newton, MA
The Print Show, Gallery 402, New York, NY
4th International Graphic Triennale Prague, Czech Republic
National Print Exhibition, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
Generations.04, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
Against Tradition: Trends in Contemporary Printmaking, Indiana State, University, Terre, Haute, IN
2003 M. Zilinkas Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
Salon Internacional de Grabado y Ediciones de Arte Contemporaneo, Estampa, Madrid, Spain
Papellon de Cristal del Recinto Ferial de la Casa de Campo, Madrid, Spain
Flying Carpet, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN
Printed and Bound, Robert Peck Gallery, Central Wyoming College
2002 Kaboom!, Korn Gallery, Drew University, Madison, NJ
National Print Exhibition, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
Reactions, ExitArt, New York, NY; Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
From Stone and Plate, California State University, Fresno, CA
2001 Bharat Bhavan Fifth International Biennial of Print Art, Bhopal, India
Feedback: artists by artists, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Zimmerli Art Museum: “Installed Collections/Collections Installed”
breaking the rules, art 2001, Katonah Art Museum, Katonah, NY
Humanity (Johnson & Johnson Purchase Award), New Jersey Printmaking Council, Branchburg, NJ
2000 Connecticut Biennial, Mattituck Museum, Waterbury, CT
Paper Trail, Mason Gross Art Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Paper Works, Connecticut Graphic Arts Center, Norwalk, CT
MFA Exhibition, College Art Association New York Area, New York, NY
International Juried Show, curated by Dan Cameron, New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2019 To the Letter, Laundromat Art Space, Miami, FL
2014 All the News That’s Fit to Print, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2009 Status Update, Heskins Laboratory, Yale University (co-curator Debbie Hesse)
2004 Off the Wall, New Art Center, Newton, MA
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Victoria & Albert Museum
Morgan Library
Smith College Museum of Art
Philip and Patricia Frost Art Museum
Yale Art Gallery Chasanoff collection of artists books
Library of Congress
Johnson & Johnson
Norwalk Community College
Zimmerli Art Museum
American Embassy, Berlin
Fidelity Investments
JP Morgan Chase
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant
ELLIES Creator Award
Oolite Arts Project Grant
New Art Center Curatorial Opportunity Grant
Manhattan Graphics Center Scholarship Grant
Studio space residency PS 122, New York
Johnson & Johnson Purchase Award
Vermont Studio Center Fellowship
Rutgers University Research Grant
Purchase Award, Artworks
Desi Award for Graphic Design
Society of Illustrators Commendation
RESIDENCIES AND WORKSHOPS
2020-2021 Deering Estate project residency, Miami, FL
2015 Escape2Create, Seaside, FL
2008-2009 Santa Fe Art Institute
2005 Artist in Residence, Montclair College
2002 Tamarind Institute
2001 Panelist, Digital Imaging Seminar, Fairfield University
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
1997 Vermont Studio Center
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2010-2014 Santa Fe University of Art and Design, Contributing Faculty
2002-2010 Westchester Art Workshop, Adjunct Professor
2000-2010 Norwalk Community College, Adjunct Professor of Art
2000-2001 Rutgers University, Part time Lecturer Graphic Design
1999-2000 Rutgers University, Teaching Assistant
EDUCATION
MFA, Rutgers University
MA, Florida State University, Art History
BA, University of Miami, Art