BIO
Lisa di Donato is a visual artist based in New York.
She works with mapping, mirroring, entropy and displacement through photographic processes ranging from the historic to 3D photogrammetry and machine vision. Architecture, landscape, anatomy, and artifacts are depicted as being no longer, nor have they become something else, yet; realized with a certain autonomy from any previously known thing.
She studied Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts. She is a 2022 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Photography. Recent exhibitions include the Brooklyn Artists Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, 2024; with site-specific installations at SITU Festival #5, Modica (IT), 2024; MEET Digital Culture Centre, Milano (IT) with the artist group One&Seven, 2022; and The Makeable Mind, Noorderlicht Festival (NL), 2021. Her work has been featured in Tied to Light Vol 2, Urbanautica, Der Greif, Lenscratch, Fragmented Magazine, and New Observations, to which she has also contributed writing.
She is the Associate Director at Penumbra Foundation, New York.
SELECTED RECENT EXHIBITIONS
2025
Loom | curated by Camilla Szabo | Mutuus Studio | Seattle, WA
Worlds Aglow | curated by Caroline Voagen Nelson | LIC-A Artspace / The Factory Long Island City, NY
2024
Brooklyn Artists Exhibition | Brooklyn Museum
SITU Festival #5 | site-specific installation | Modica, IT
2023
Unbound 12! | Candela Gallery | Richmond, VA
Embodied Knowledge | Ely Center for Contemporary Art | New Haven, CT
2022
Breathing Staircases | multimedia site-specific installation with the artist group One&Seven | MEET Digital Culture Center | Milano, IT
SIGNAL | Site Site Parasite | Berlin, DE
Reimaging Likeness and Landscape | curated by Joni Sternbach | Penumbra Foundation | New York
2021
Material Index | curated by Keren Moscovitch | Affordable Art Fair | New York
The Makeable Mind | Noorderlicht Photo Festival | Friesland, Netherlands
Asynchronous Viewing | Heroes Gallery | New York
Flat File 2021 Exhibition | Ortega y Gasset Projects | Brooklyn
2020
Jammed into a Paradox | 601 Gallery | New York | online
WRITING
Ontic Glow: Material Photography in an Immaterial Landscape | ARCADE Magazine issue 41.1 | Editor: Camilla Szabo | July 2025
Darkness Above, Light Below | New Observations issue #133 Real ≠ Reality, The Transgression of Fact | Publisher: Mia Feroleto | Guest Editor: Leah Poller | January 2020 | pg. 7-8 | ISSN #7037-5387
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Tied to Light Collective | Vol 2. | 2024
Change | Keren Moscovitch | SVACE Summer 2022: Special Issue | May 4, 2022
The Makeable Mind | Noorderlicht Festival | August 10, 2021 (catalogue)
Lisa Di Donato. A Space for Meditation | Urbanautica Journal | Steve Bisson | June 2021
Caught in the Dark New of Our Own Past- Breaking Free of What Holds Americans Hostage | New Observations Magazine issue #137 | Publisher and Editor: Mia Feroleto | pg. 49 | ISSN #7037-5387 | January 2021
Location | Fragmented Magazine issue #01 | Dec 2020
Aferro Publication | No. 12: tek’tanik | Evonne E. Davis and Lawrence Cappiello | March 2010 (catalogue)
Becker, Colleen | Movers and Shakers | NYArts Magazine | January-February 2006
Gelber, Eric | Brooklyn Shakers: Paintings and Photographs | Artcritical.com | October 2005
Katherine Kingsley | Collision Machine | New York Press | August 28th, 2005
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
SITU Festival #5 | Modica, IT | 2024
NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Photography | 2022
Visual Arts Fellowship finalist | Center For Emerging Visual Arts | Philadelphia, PA | 2021
Urbanautica Institute Awards shortlist | Urbanautica Journal of Anthropology and Cultural Landscapes | 2020
Fusion Gallery | Torino, IT | 2019
EDUCATION
B.F.A Painting | Rhode Island School of Design | Providence, RI | 2002