Donasia Tillery (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and cultural worker whose work centers art as a mode of radical honesty, individual healing, and collective liberation. She earned her B.A. in Philosophy from Lehigh University, her M.A. in Africana Studies from New York University, and is a recipient of MOZAIK Philanthropy’s Future Art Writers Award (2022). Her writing has been featured in Artforum, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, Artillery Magazine, and Curate LA. She is the Assistant Editor of Artforum.com.
Education
New York University, MA, Africana Studies, 2016
Lehigh University, BA, Philosophy, 2011
PUBLICATIONS
Tillery, Donasia. “Stacy Lynn Waddell on Finding Home in the Age of Extinction,” Artforum, 2023
Tillery, Donasia. “Paul Stephen Benjamin at Efaín López,” Artforum, 2023
Tillery, Donasia. “Lauren Halsey at The Metropolitan Museum of Art,” Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, 2023
Tillery, Donasia. “Kenturah Davis at OXY Arts,” Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, 2023
Tillery, Donasia. “a time to tear and a time to mend at Wönzimer,” Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, 2023
Tillery, Donasia. “Ben Sanders at OCHI,” Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, 2023
Tillery, Donasia. “From Lagos with Love: The Far-Reaching Vision of Adenrele Sonariwo,” Artillery Magazine, 2023
Tillery, Donasia. “Carlos Martiel at Steve Turner,” Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, 2022
Tillery, Donasia. “God is Change, the Future is a Return,” MOZAIK Philanthropy, 2022
Tillery, Donasia. “Amelia Carley at Otra Vox,” Artillery Magazine, 2022
Tillery, Donasia. “Post-Frieze LA: The KNOW Contemporary,” Artillery Magazine, 2022
Tillery, Donasia. “Artist Gabriela Ruiz on Fantasy, Time Travel, and the Audacity to Imagine.” CurateLA, 2021
Tillery, Donasia. “Annie Lapin: Actualizing the Otherworldly.” Spinelli Kilcollin, 2021
Tillery, Donasia N. "The Work of Resilient Survival." Electric Revival 2017: Print.
Welchman , John C, and Dagny Janss Corcoran. Richard Jackson. Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2020.
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AWARDS
Future Art Writers Award, MOZAIK Philanthropy (2022)
Henry M. MacCracken Fellowship, New York University (2013-2015)
Social and Cultural Analysis Research Grant, New York University (2014)
Technology, Research, and Communication Fellowship, Lehigh University (2009-2011)
College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Grant, Lehigh University (2010)
Williams Prize for English Composition, Lehigh University (2011)
WAVES Towards Gender Equity Award, Lehigh University (2010)
speaking engagements
Artillery Magazine: Black Diaspora Emerging, Los Angeles, 2023
4th International Association for Visual Culture Biennial Conference, Boston University, 2016
Endings Conference, Stony Brook University, 2014
Department of Philosophy Conference, Lehigh University, 2010
Feminism in Practice Conference, Lehigh University, 2010