Donnelly Marks is a New York City–based sculptor and photographer whose work explores the flow of consciousness through transience, imperfection, and material transformation. Guided by intuition and chance, Marks creates new visual narratives from found materials—crushed cardboard, concrete, and metal—allowing spontaneous connections to shape the creative process.

Marks earned a BFA in Sculpture and Fine Art Photography from Carnegie Mellon University and has lectured on photography at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Their work has been exhibited at the Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center (a Smithsonian Affiliate, MD); Westbeth Gallery; Prince Street Gallery; Queens College Art Center; Jamaica Arts Center; Montana Modern Fine Art; and Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, among others.

Featured in Canvas Rebel (2024) and Art Lives Here, Vol. 1 (2024), Marks continues to develop an evolving dialogue between matter, gesture, and perception from their Long Island City studio.

Studio visits by appointment.

Selected Exhibitions

2027

Solo Show, Gallery 310, Riverside Drive, New York, NY

2026

Solo Show, Garage Art Center, Queens, NY

2025

Rust, Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY

2024

Pop, Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center – Smithsonian Affiliate, Solomons, MD
Prince Street Gallery 2024 Annual Juried Show, New York, NY
Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow, Blue, Juried Show, LIC-A Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Collecting, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
Metamorphosis, Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center – Smithsonian Affiliate, Solomons, MD
Present in the Modern World, Art Lives Here, New York, NY
Small Works Exhibition, SLA Gallery, New York, NY
Femina Creativa, Queens College Art Center, Flushing, NY

2023

Abstraction, LIC-A Gallery, Queens, NY
Members Exhibition, Flushing Town Hall, Queens, NY
Sense Making, Curated by Karen Fitzgerald, live on Artsy (June–December 2023)
Queens Rising Open Studios, Group Show, 31-51 12th Street, 2nd Floor, Long Island City, NY 11106
Small Works Exhibition, Local Project, Long Island City, NY (June 2–25)
Luminous Elsewheres, Group Exhibition, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY (March 31–April 28)
Birr, Spliced Connector’s Winter Exhibition, Artsy (Dec 2, 2022 – June 1, 2023)

2022

Art Fair 14C, New Jersey Armory with Spliced Connector
Invitational Group Exhibition, Jamaica Art Center, Queens, NY
Members Exhibition, Flushing Town Hall, Queens, NY
A Queens Fine Art Spring Affair, Culture Lab / The Plaxall Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Heritage, Juried Exhibition, Queens College Art Center, Flushing, NY
Alternative Processes, Other Ways of Seeing, Juried Photo Exhibition, Plaxall Gallery, LIC, NY
Artists Invite Artists, Invitational Exhibition, Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY

2021

Viva La Memento Mori, Juried Exhibition, AHA Fine Art Gallery, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
Recycle, National Juried Show, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY
September Member Showcase, Long Island City Artists Alliance
Threads That Bind, National Juried Show, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY
Spring Exhibition, Long Island City Artists Alliance
Heritage, Juried Exhibition (virtual, later installed at Queens College in 2022), LIC Artists Alliance
Juried Exhibition, Rockland Arts Festival, Rockland County, NY
The Sky Continues Beautiful, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY

2020

USPS Art Exhibition, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
Teaism, Juried Competition, Montana Modern Fine Art
Group Show, BWAC (Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition), Brooklyn, NY
Group Show, Atlantic Gallery, New York City
Group Show, Flushing Town Hall, Queens, NY

2019

Off the Wall, Affordable Art Fair, The Plaxall Gallery, Long Island City, NY (Nov 2019)
10x10 Art Fundraiser, The Factory Building, Long Island City, NY (Nov 2019)
LIC Fear III: Revisiting Death, Juried Competition, The Plaxall Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Creative Mosaics, The Plaxall Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Burn This, Juried Exhibition, The Factory Building, Long Island City, NY
Summer Exhibition, Group Show, The Factory Building, Long Island City, NY
Untitled Exhibition, Juried Group Show, Raw Gallery at The Factory, Long Island City, NY
The Closer, Presenter, New Photographic Works at PhotoShelter, New York, NY

2017

Members Group Show, Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY

2014

Solo Exhibition, Ground Floor Gallery, Standard Motor Building, Long Island City, NY
LICArts Festival, Open Studios

2013

LICArts Festival, Open Studios

2012

LICArts Festival, Open Studios