About
Donna J. Wan
Donna J. Wan was born in Taiwan and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She earned her BA in Economics, Phi Beta Kappa, from Stanford University and MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has been shown at venues, including the Museum of Photographic Arts, New Mexico Museum of Art, RISD Museum of Art, and Southeast Museum of Photography. Awards include the 2012 and 2014 Critical Mass Top Finalist, The CENTER 2012 Project Launch and 2013 Gallerist’s Choice, 2012 Lucie Foundation/APA Scholarship, 2013 Kolga International Award, and CDS/Honickman First Book Prize Finalist. The New York Times Style Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, PDN, Feature Shoot, Profifoto, Wired.com, La Journal De La Photographie, and Real Simple have featured her work. She was an artist-in-residence at The Center for Photography at Woodstock and was invited by Catherine Opie to lecture at UCLA. Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; BNY Mellon Bank; Museum of