photo credit Barry Schein
Commissions are approached with an eye for the client’s individual requirements, a passion for creating inspired works, an exceptional level of commitment, and a wealth of experience delighting the most exacting clients. Her creative artistry, fresh approach to projects, and incredible ability to transform clients’ wishes into a reality set her firm apart from all others.
Achievements include exhibiting in highly regarded designer showhouses and award-winning public art projects. Donaty has garnered multiple awards within the design industry and for high-profile residential and commercial projects.
Donaty (b. Columbus, Ohio) is an American artist of Colombian heritage who was raised in New Jersey. After twelve years in London, England, she relocated to South Florida. She holds a BFA in Drawing from Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia, PA, and an MFA in Art Practice from the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York.
Donaty has built upon her career in design with an interdisciplinary practice of painting, assemblage, installation, performance, and digital works. Donaty uses humor and absurdity to talk about the complexities of women’s social issues and identity. Using maximalist shrine-like playgrounds, she pokes at culture's dark side through material metaphors. Similarly, in prior work, gigantic canvases depict larger-than-life human figures imposed on a playground of tiny fantastical creatures, speaking to the paradoxes of freedom and equality in an out-of-scale, absurd world.
Donaty’s work is in the permanent collection of The Coral Springs Museum of Art, private collections, and she has been commissioned for fourteen public art projects. She has recently exhibited at The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY; Mattie Kelly Arts Center, Destin, FL; Hera Gallery, Wakefield, Rhode Island; Flatiron Gallery, New York, NY; The SVA Gramercy Gallery, New York, NY; The Camp Gallery, Miami, FL, The Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs, FL; The Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, FL; The Cornell Museum of Art, Delray, FL; The Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL; The Palm Beach Cultural Council, West Palm Beach, FL; The Arts Warehouse, Delray, FL; The Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL; The Galleries at Moore, Philadelphia, PA.
She has participated in Artist Residencies at The Arts Warehouse, Delray, FL; Frozen Music, Jaipur, India; Kriti Gallery, Varanasi, India; Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL; South Florida Ford, Miami, FL.