Education MFA, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA BFA, Maryville University, St. Louis, MO
EXHIBITIONS Solo 2024 Selected Works, Art Alliance Window Gallery, Red Bank, NJ 2019 Interconnected, Portion Gallery, New York, NY 2012 Discover Jersey Arts, JerseyArts.com Online Gallery Featured Artist, ABstract EXpressions Contemporary Art Gallery, Mount Holly, NJ 2007 Sculptures, Design Within Reach, Princeton, NJ 2004 Liaisons, Treasure Room Gallery, The Interchurch Center, New York, NY 2003 Trans Figured, Vartali, New York, NY 1999 Selections, Soho Kitchen, Long Branch, NJ 1990 Déjà vu, Interchurch Center Gallery, New York, NY
Two Person Shows 2019 Eber/Payton, Educational Testing Service Staff Lounge, Princeton, NJ 2018 Window Exhibition, Atlantic Highlands Arts Council, Atlantic Highlands, NJ 2015 Off The Canvas, Stuart Country Day School, Princeton, NJ Channelled Passages, 12 Farms, Hightstown, NJ 1998 Monoprints, Soho Kitchen, Long Branch, NJ 1983 Zinkow/Payton, Pepperdine University Art Gallery, Malibu, CA
Group Shows 2024 Featured Artist, Contemporary Women Artists Exhibition, Peto Museum, Island Heights, NJ 2023 Local Artists, GB Gallery, Montclair, NJ Autumn Salon, Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ TAWA at 45, Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ Clio Art Fair, New York, NY Train of Thoughts, Lower Level Gallery, Arts Council of Princeton, NJ 2022 NFT Exhibition, Portion.io 2021 Put Together, Online, New Hope Arts Center, PA Contemporary and Digital Art Fair, Online Liquid Arts Empty Venue 4, Online 2020 Resurgence, Online Invitational Art and Music: Touching Sound, Taplin Gallery, Arts Council of Princeton, NJ 2019 Trilogy: This, That and the Other, Arts Council of Princeton, NJ 2018 Just a Big Mix-Up! Oyster Point Hotel, Red Bank, NJ Sculpted, BSB Gallery, Trenton, NJ 2017 Animal Architects: Influences on Human Creativity, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ Animal Architects: Influences on Human Creativity, Princeton Day School, NJ 2016 Movements in Nature: Perspectives of Being, Alfa Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ The Retrieval of the Beautiful, The Painting Center, New York, NY TAWA Invitational, Lakefront Gallery RWJ Hospital Hamilton, NJ Wild Designs: Animal Constructions, D&R Greenway, Princeton, NJ 2015 Animal Architects: Influences on Human Creativity, Arts Council of Princeton, NJ Please Add To And Return To, Printed Matter Inc., New York, NY SACRED, Artworks, Trenton, NJ Please Touch! Sculpture Exhibition, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ Wide Open 6, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY 2014 Outside the Box, Hill Country Art Gallery, Mountain Home, AR MASS assembly: MASS production to MASS appeal, Arts Council of Princeton, NJ Primary Colors – Black and White, New Century Artists, New York, NY COLLECTIONS The International Museum of Collage, Mexico Southeastern Banks of Florida Citibank of Florida Cleveland Clinic, Florida New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ New Jersey State Council on the Arts Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ AtlantiCare, NJ Novo Nordisk, Princeton, NJ Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Princeton, NJ Arts Council of Princeton, NJ Hill Country Art Gallery, Mountain Home, AR
PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS Tri City News, Abstractions of Math and Nature, January, 2024 Art Dealer Street.com, Inside The Studio: Donna Payton, November 2023 Visual Perspectives with Donna Payton: Online Vibrnz Video Interview, February 2021 Wait, Did Blockchain Just Get A Little Hipper? Forbes,com, May 2019 Influences on Human Creativity, Bard College Language and Thinking Program, August 2018 Urban Agenda Magazine: Animal Architects Influences on Human Creativity, Summer 2017 Asbury Park Press: Monmouth Museum Presents Animal Architects, June 2017 Princeton Packet TimeOFF: Build It and They Will Come, June 2016 U.S. 1 Newspaper: Artists Go Wild and Let Nature Lead in Design Creation, May 2016 The Scientist Magazine: Channeling Animals, November 2015 Town Topics: Animal Architects, Princeton, NJ November 2015 U.S. 1 Newspaper: Off The Canvas, October 2015 New York Magazine Cover: Opening of the New Whitney Museum, 2015 The Photo Review, 2014 Competition Issue U.S. 1 Newspaper: Artists Repurpose Junk Into Inspiration in Princeton, NJ May 2014 eXel Photography, Winter, 2014 Town Topics, Princeton, NJ July 2012