Artist's Bio
Nancy Donskoj picked up her first camera in 1972 and has been looking at life through the lens ever since. While roaming the streets of Manhattan with her camera, she took courses at the International Center for Photography, Fashion Institute of Technology, attended a summer seminar at Hampshire College while working at various jobs in the photography industry from PR photography to catalogue work to commercial color printing. She moved to the Hudson Valley in the early 80s and soon after opened her own commercial photography business and art gallery.
Donskoj has exhibited widely in the Hudson Valley including the Carrie Haddad Gallery, Samuel Dorsky Museum, Barrett House and the Reher Center of Immigrant Culture and History. She exhibited abroad in Cologne, Germany, and had one person show in Belfast Northern Ireland.
Recently retired from her photography business she now has the time to devote to her own work. Attracted to both the symmetry in nature and urban decay she continues to explore the world around her with her singular vision to present both the beauty and the absurd.
She is a member of the Women Photographers Collective
Exhibitions
2020 ARTS SOCIETY OF KINGSTON, Kingston, NY
"Kingston Annual: 2020" group show
2019 REHER CENTER GALLERY, Kingston, NY
"Immigrant Stories: The Making of La Transazione"
2018 REHER CENTER GALLERY, Kingston, NY
"The Story Continues: Portraits of Today's Immigrant Businesses
2016 GREENKILL GALLERY, Kingston, NY
"The Itsy Bitsy Biennale" group show
2011 THE STOREFRONT GALLERY, Kingston, NY
"Night and Day" one person show
2007 SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART, New Paltz, N.Y.
“Uncanny Valley” group show
2007 PRITZKER GALLERY @ Casa del Arte, Highland, N.Y.
“Powerful Woman” group show
2006 DONSKOJ & COMPANY, Kingston, N.Y.
“In-House” two person photography show
2005 STRAY DOG GALLERY, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
“Seeing the Light” group show
2004 DONSKOJ & COMPANY, Kingston, N.Y.
“From Germany” recent photographs
2003 Abtei Brauweiler, Cologne, Germany
“Potluck” Rhine-Hudson Bridge artists’ exchange
2003 Galerie Im Turm, Cologne, Germany
“Potluck” Rhine-Hudson Bridge artists’ exchange
2002 YMCA, Kingston, N. Y.
“There and Back”
2001 City of Kingston Bus System
“In Transit” photographs exhibited in the city’s buses
2001 BARRETT HOUSE, Poughkeepsie, NY
“Derry Discourse”
2000 E3 GALLERY, New York City
"Plastic Fantastic" - group exhibition
2000 ARTS SOCIETY OF KINGSTON, Kingston, NY
"Portraits of the Artist-Northern Ireland"
1999 CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY, Hudson, N.Y
solo show - upstairs gallery
1998 BELFAST EXPOSED, Belfast, Northern Ireland
one person show - “Shades of Gray”
1998 THE LOFT GALLERY, Kingston, N. Y.
group show – “Silent Pictures”
1997 LORRAINE KESSLER GALLERY
group show - “From Kingston to Poughkeepsie”