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Christa Donner

Lecturer in Art

Christa Donner

Contact

Hillyer 112

Biography

Christa Donner combines drawing, sound, and social exchange to investigate the human/animal body and the sensory worlds we inhabit. Donner's work is exhibited widely, including projects for the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art (Singapore); the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin, Germany); BankArt NYK (Yokohama, Japan); Chiaki Kamikawa Contemporary Art (Paphos, Cyprus); the Museum Bellerive (Zurich, Switzerland); the Centro Columbo Americano (Medellin, Colombia); and throughout the United States. 

Donner has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Northwestern University, Yale-NUS College in Singapore, and now teaches courses in drawing and creative research across the Five Colleges.

Office Hours

Fall 2025
By appointment

Education

MFA, University of Illinois at Chicago
BFA, Cleveland Institute of Art

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