Empowering the femme body with performance and paint.
Donna Huanca blends performance and paint to defy the male gaze and decolonise contemporary art. Her multidisciplinary installations show painted models - which the artist refers to as ‘skin paintings’ - amidst serene environments created with sculpture, painting, photography, sound and scent. Symbolic gestures suffuse throughout: rectangular free-standing paintings represent phone screens or digital interfaces, while cobalt blue embodies female power. Huanca uses a range of materials including silicone, plastic, clay, sand, textiles, hair, turmeric and metal. This mix of artificial and organi...
Bio
Donna Huanca was born in 1980 in Chicago, USA, and now lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
At Auction
Her painting PISCES (BROWS) sold at Sotheby's for $41,184 in 2019, more than triple its upper estimate.
Did you know?
Huanca creates a bespoke scent for every show, designed to recall particular memories - from bleach and burnt feathers to a bustling market in Mexico City.