Donna Huanca’s paintings are recognizable for their vibrancy, boldness, and brightness in their use of blues, yellows, oranges, and greens. Central to Huanca’s practice are the body and the skin, which remain continuous focal points in the construction of her body of work. She utilizes them as both imagery and as a surface for her compositions. Surrounded by Huanca’s studio paintings, her performers immerse themselves in her constructed environment, their painted bodies melding and merging with the backdrop. This bridging between static painted backdrop and living, sentient bodies is a vehicle for exploring the fragmented nature of identity. Huanca draws on these durational performances to construct her paintings. She begins by covering the canvases with collaged images of prior performances and works, and then paints over the surface with oil, sand, and raw pigments. Her intention is to obscure this documentation, the archive of her practice, hiding it in plain sight, and also constructing a perpetual performance on the surface of her canvases.

Galerie Kandlhofer

New York City

Berlin

Croydon

Chicago

Miami

Art Miami

Basel

Art Basel

Los Angeles

Alac

Art Berlin

London

Frieze

Art New York

Simon Lee Gallery

Peres Projects

Madrid

Travesía Cuatro

October Gallery

Paris

Valentin

Queer Thoughts

Sprüth Magers

Marfa

Ballroom Marfa

Hamburg

Kunstverein Hamburg

Shanghai

Yuz Museum

Julia Stoschek Collection

Rome

Macro

Zabludowicz Collection

David Roberts Art Foundation - Draf

Art In General

MoMA

Sammlung Boros

New Museum of Contemporary Art

Nanjing

Sifang Art Museum

Rubell Museum

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Washington

Hirshhorn Museum

Donna Huanca

Moma Ps1

San Francisco

Headlands Center For The Arts

DIOSAS de CUEVA VERDE EMOCIÓNALES, (D.F. Copal) [5]

OBSIDIAN LADDER