Karen Donnellan is an Irish-born, artist based in Alfred, NY.
Her practice is concerned with illustrating that which cannot be physically held. While she uses a wide range of media, glass and sound are central to this endeavor. Donnellan has participated in residencies at Pilchuck Glass School; Toledo Museum of Art; Bullseye Glass Company; Edinburgh College of Art; the Creative Glass Center of America, and others. Her work has been shown at venues internationally, including the Irish Museum of Contemporary Art, Tushanwan Museum, and the Burchfield Penney Art Center. She recently embarked on a collaboration with artists Xu Bing and Andrew Deutsch for a participatory project titled Landscape Residue.
Donnellan earned a Bachelors of Design from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, and an MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology, NY. She is Assistant Professor of Glass, and Co-Director of the National Casting Center at Alfred University, NY.
