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b. 1974, San Francisco
Trisha Donnelly was born on April 22, 1974, in San Francisco. She received a B.F.A. from the University of California in Los Angeles in 1995 and an M.F.A. from Yale University in 2000. The artist first attracted attention for an untitled video of 1998–99, in which she moves in and out of the frame, bouncing on an unseen trampoline, at the apex of each leap gesturing in the mode of a different, unidentified rock star. In recent projects, she has used photography and video to present fragments of "lost" performances or collaborations; in Blind Friends (2000), for example, a photograph of a group of people at a beach is all that remains of a project in which blind people were taken to a beach and asked to follow the direction of the wind. For her first solo show in New York, at Casey Kaplan Gallery in 2002, Donnelly staged a "demonstration" on the opening night in which she rode into the crowded gallery on a horse and voiced a cryptic declaration of defeat. The show also featured the video work Canadian Rain, the photograph The Black Wave, and the sound installation Howl, a looped recording of a wolf's howl (all 2002). Donnelly has had solo exhibitions at Air de Paris (2002) and again at Casey Kaplan Gallery (2004), and has participated in group shows such as Moving Pictures at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (2002 and 2003), Venice Biennale (2003), and Carnegie International (2004). Donnelly lives and works in Los Angeles.
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