Donnelly Marks earned a BFA in sculpture and fine art photography from Carnegie Mellon University. She is an active member of the vibrant, Long Island City arts community, home to MOMA PS1, The Noguchi Museum, CultureLabLIC, Socrates Sculpture Park, and many art galleries. Long Island City is a destination for artists, gallerists, curators and collectors.
Marks exhibits regularly including – Ann Marie Sculpture Center - Smithsonian Affiliate, Maryland; Westbeth Gallery, NYC; Prince Street Gallery NYC; Queens College Art Center, NYC; Jamaica Arts Center, NYC; AHA Fine Art, NYC; Montana Modern Fine Art, MT; Miller Art Gallery, PGH; Carnegie Museum of Natural History, PGH; and is represented on Artsy through Spliced Connector as well as Saatchi Art. She has lectured on photography at Savannah College of Art and Design and presented new photography work for The Closer at PhotoShelter in NYC.
Studio visits by appointment and during Long Island City Arts Festival Open Studios in the industrial art hub of Long Island City, New York.
Exhibitions:
2026 Solo show Garage Art Center, Queen, NYC
2026 Solo show Gallery 310 Riverside Drive, NYC
2025 Rust Atlantic Gallery, NYC
2024 Pop, Ann Marie Sculpture Center - Smithsonian Affiliate, Solomons, MD
2024 Prince Street Gallery 2024 Annual Juried Show
2024 Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow, Blue, juried show at LIC-A Gallery, Long Island City, NYC
2024 Collecting, Westbeth Gallery, NYC
2024 Metamorphosis, Ann Marie Sculpture Center - Smithsonian Affiliate, Solomons, MD
2024 Present in the Modern World, Art Lives Here, New York, NY
2024 Small Works Exhibition, SLA Gallery, New York, NY
2024 Femina Creativa, Queens College Art Center, Flushing, NY
2023 Abstraction, LICArtist Gallery, Queens, NY
2023 Flushing Town Hall members exhibition
2023 Sense Making curated by Karen Fitzgerald: live on Artsy June 2023 - December 31, 2023
2023 Queens Rising Open Studios Event featuring work of 8 artists, 31-51 12th Street, 2nd Floor, Long Island City, NY 11106
2023 Local Project, Small works exhibition, Long Island City, NY June 2 - June 25
2023 Westbeth Gallery, Luminous Elsewheres Group Exhibition, March 31 - April 28, 55 Bethune Street, New York, NY
2023 Artsy, Birr, Spliced Connector’s Winter exhibition, December 2, 2022 - June 1, 2023
2022 Art Fair 14C, New Jersey Armory with Spliced Connector
2022 Jamaica Art Center, Invitational group exhibition
2022 Flushing Town Hall members exhibition
2022 Culture Lab / The Plaxall Gallery “A Queens Fine Art Spring Affair”
2022 Queens College Art Center “Heritage” exhibition, juried exhibition celebrating culture, customs of artists working in Queens
2022 Plaxall Gallery at Culture Lab Lic “Alternative Processes, Other Ways of Seeing” juried exhibition of alternative process photography
2022 Prince Street Gallery, New York City “Artists Invite Artists” invitational exhibition
2021 AHA Fine Art Gallery, Bushwick Brooklyn, “Viva La Memento Mori” juried exhibition
2021 Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Redhook, Brooklyn “Recycle” National Juried Show
2021 Long Island City Artists Alliance September Member Showcase
2021 Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Redhook, Brooklyn “Threads That Bind” National Juried Show
2021 Long Island City Artists Alliance Spring Exhibition
2021 Long Island City Artists Alliance “Heritage” Juried Exhibition (virtual but will be installed Queens College in 2022)
2021 Rockland Arts Festival, Rockland County, New York Juried Exhibition
2021 Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Redhook Brooklyn “The Sky Continues Beautiful”
2020 Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven Connecticut, “USPS Art Exhibition”
2020 Juried competition, Montana Modern Fine Art “Teaism”
2020 BWAC group show, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Atlantic Gallery, New York City
2020 Flushing Town Hall Group Show
2019 Off The Wall, affordable art fair at The Plaxall Gallery, November 2019
2019 10 x 10 Art Fundraiser The Factory Building, Long Island City, New York November 2019
2019 Juried competition “LIC Fear III, Revisiting Death” The Plaxall Gallery Long Island City, New York
2019 “Creative Mosaics”, The Plaxall Gallery Long Island City, New York
2019 “Burn This” Juried Exhibition at The Factory Building, Long Island City, New York
2019 “Summer Exhibition” Group show at The Factory Building Long Island City, New York
2019 “Untitled Exhibition” Juried group show, Raw Gallery at The Factory Long Island City, NY
2019 Presenter invited to present new photographic works at “The Closer” PhotoShelter, New York City
2017 “Members Group Show” Flushing Town Hall Flushing, New York
2014 “Solo Exhibition” Ground Floor gallery of Standard Motor Building Long Island City, New York
2012 LICArts Festival Open Studios
2013 LICArts Festival Open Studios
2014 LICArts Festival Open Studios
1984 Guest lecturer, Savannah School of Art & Design, Savannah, GA
1980 Carnegie Museum of Natural History, First Place award for photography
1980 Miller Art Gallery Solo Exhibition Pittsburgh, PA
November 2020 Studio Installation
