Donna Conklin King

Donna Conklin King is a contemporary American artist known for her concrete sculptures. Her public sculptures can be found in the Underwater Museum of Florida, the Summit Public Art Program, Wildflower Sculpture Park, and the Turtleback Zoo in Essex County, NJ. Donna and her Installation “Cave Painting” were recently featured on an episode of “Art Nation” on the Smithsonian Channel. She is the recipient of a Fellowship in Sculpture from the NJ State Council on the Arts, a Creative Capital Professional Development Fellowship, and a Vermont Studio Residency. She has exhibited throughout the United States, with solo shows at the Monmouth Museum, Index Art Center in Newark, Johnson and Johnson in New Brunswick, and Educational Testing Center in Princeton. Her work can be found in the Museum of Modern Art’s Artist’s Book collection, the Newark Public Library, and Skidmore College. Donna credits her childhood spent in the woods building forts from scavenged wood as her first inspiration for making sculpture. As a teen, she took clay and stone carving classes before receiving a B.S. in Studio Art from Skidmore College, an apprenticeship at the Johnson Atelier Fine Art Foundry, and an M.F.A. in Sculpture from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts. In addition to her studio practice, Donna is an adjunct Professor at Montclair State University and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Donna maintains a ground-floor studio at Manufactures Village in East Orange, NJ, and lives in Essex County.