Born 1980 in Chicago, IL; lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Donna Huanca completed her education at the University of Houston; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine; and Städelschule, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She has completed several residencies, including at SmackMellon, Brooklyn; Access Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; and Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco. Huanca is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship; Art Matters Grant, New York; Francis Greenberg Award, Art OMI, New York; DeGolyer Grant, Dallas Museum of Art; and a 2016 Hirshhorn Artist Honoree. She has had solo exhibitions at the Marfa Ballroom; Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China; and Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria. Huanca has featured her work in group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium; Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha; Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland; and Malmö Konsthalle, Sweden. Her work is held in the collections of the Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China; Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria; and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.