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Donny Nie

Artist member since 2019
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Toronto, Ontario

Donny Nie is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist. She received a BFA from OCAD University, and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

From large-scale oil painting, monotype, digital projection, to small-scale ceramic and glass form, her interdisciplinary abstractions coalesce to manifest an intuitive, gestalt experience. Nie’s mediums examine proximity as a visual and metaphorical instrument to simplify or complicate information over different courses of materialities, and eventually inform each other in the same exhibition space.

Work

Drawing
Route 2
  • Donny Nie
  • 7.5" x 11"
  • $200 buy — $50 try
#abstract #line #color
Stamp
  • Donny Nie
  • 7.5" x 11"
  • $200 buy — $50 try
#color #mixed media #abstract
Stamp (Lighter)
  • Donny Nie
  • 7.5" x 11"
  • $200 buy — $50 try
#abstract #color #mixed media
Violet
  • Donny Nie
  • 12" x 9"
  • $250 buy — $50 try
#color #abstract #transparency
Luncheon
  • Donny Nie
  • 12" x 9"
  • $200 buy — $50 try
#color #abstract
Route 1
  • Donny Nie
  • 12" x 9"
  • $200 buy — $50 try
#color #line #abstract
Oil Painting
Oval
  • Donny Nie
  • 30" x 24" x 1.5"
  • $1800 buy — $180 try
#color #abstract
Slush
  • Donny Nie
  • 30" x 24" x 1.5"
  • $1800 buy — $180 try
#abstract #color
Scale
  • Donny Nie
  • 24" x 30" x 1.5"
  • $1800 buy — $180 try
#abstract #color #impasto
Glass Heart Pendant
  • Donny Nie
  • 18" x 18"
  • $600 buy — $90 try
#abstract #glossy #color
Purple Mirror
  • Donny Nie
  • 18" x 18"
  • $600 buy — $90 try
#texture #color #abstract
Velvet Crimson
  • Donny Nie
  • 24" x 24"
  • $800 buy
#painting #colour #abstract
Mount Cross
  • Donny Nie
  • 20" x 20"
  • $600 buy — $90 try
#color #sketch #abstract
Blue Moon
  • Donny Nie
  • 32" x 48"
  • $2600 buy — $300 try
#abstract #colour #painting
Quilt Water
  • Donny Nie
  • 60" x 72"
  • $5910 buy — $800 try
#painting #abstract #colour
Mask
  • Donny Nie
  • 18" x 24" x 1.5"
  • $800 buy — $100 try
#color #abstract #impasto
Cashmere
  • Donny Nie
  • 18" x 24" x 1.5"
  • $800 buy — $100 try
#abstract #color
Tinge
  • Donny Nie
  • 18" x 24"
  • $790 buy — $120 try
#abstract #painting #colour
Exude
  • Donny Nie
  • 18" x 24"
  • $750 buy — $120 try
#painting #colour #abstract
Solar
  • Donny Nie
  • 18" x 24" x 1.5"
  • Sold
#color #impasto #abstract
Glass
Crown Light
  • Donny Nie
  • 9.5" x 4.5" x 3.5"
  • $900 buy
#glass #abstract #colour
Fish Cushion
  • Donny Nie
  • 7.5" x 3.5" x 3.5"
  • $500 buy
#abstract #glass #colour
Eye of a Plum
  • Donny Nie
  • 7" x 14" x 5"
  • $1400 buy
#glass #colour #abstract
Monoprint
Destined
  • Donny Nie
  • 35" x 28"
#abstract #colour
A Dark Song
  • Donny Nie
  • 29.5" x 41"
  • $1200 buy
#abstract #colour
Leave
  • Donny Nie
  • 29.5" x 41"
  • $1200 buy
#abstract #colour
Other
Old Silk
  • Donny Nie
  • 8" x 10"
  • Sold
#abstract #contemporary #colour #oil painting
Overflow
  • Donny Nie
  • 48" x 72"
  • Sold
#abstract #colour #oil painting
Marie Antoinette
  • Donny Nie
  • 48" x 72"
  • Sold
#painting #abstract #colour
Whipped
  • Donny Nie
  • 48" x 48"
  • Sold
#abstract #colour #oil painting
Terrine
  • Donny Nie
  • 48" x 48"
  • Sold
#large #oil painting #colourful #abstract
Fat
  • Donny Nie
  • 24" x 24"
  • Sold
#colour #abstract #painting
Smoke
  • Donny Nie
  • 24" x 24"
  • Sold
#colour #abstract #painting
Ribbon
  • Donny Nie
  • 24" x 24"
  • Sold
#abstract #colour #painting
Flat
  • Donny Nie
  • 60" x 36"
  • Sold
#painting #abstract #colour
Love
  • Donny Nie
  • 36" x 48"
  • Sold
#abstract #colour #painting
Pale Rose
  • Donny Nie
  • 36" x 48"
  • Sold
#colour #abstract #painting
Chantilly
  • Donny Nie
  • 16" x 20"
  • Sold
#abstract #painting #colour
Tart
  • Donny Nie
  • 16" x 20"
  • Sold
#painting #abstract #colour
Blue Peonies
  • Donny Nie
  • 24" x 24"
  • Sold
#colour #painting #abstract
Brocade
  • Donny Nie
  • 8" x 10"
  • Sold
#colour #contemporary #oil painting #abstract
Glass Field
  • Donny Nie
  • 66" x 48"
  • Sold
#abstract #colourful #oil painting
Membrane
  • Donny Nie
  • 36" x 36"
  • Sold
#abstract #painting #colour
Gleam
  • Donny Nie
  • 36" x 48"
  • Sold
#colour #painting #abstract
Mineral Chiffon
  • Donny Nie
  • 36" x 48"
  • Sold
#abstract #painting #contemporary #colour
Halo
  • Donny Nie
  • 9" x 12"
  • Sold
#watercolour #abstract #drawing
Tuna Graph
  • Donny Nie
  • 48" x 36"
  • Sold
#colour #watercolour #abstract
Blue Sun
  • Donny Nie
  • 108" x 58"
  • Sold
#painting #abstract #colour

Q+A

Favourite artist(s) right now

Mark Bradford. Gustav Klimt.

Your favourite spot in Toronto right now

Queen Street West.

Favourite movie

Ong Bak (2003)

MOST VIEWED
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Eye of a Plum
Donny Nie
Upcoming Exhibitions
2023-10-13

Bemis Center, Omaha
Benefits Art Auction and Exhibition

Select Past Exhibitions
2023

Beatrice M. Haggerty Art Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving
Duets

2023

UNT CoLab Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton
UNT Faculty Art Exhibit

2023

Artspace, Richmond
Simultaneous Land(ing) - Solo Exhibition

2023

University of Houston-Clear Lake Art Gallery, Houston
Assemblage

2023

FLXST Contemporary, Chicago
Envisaged Potentials - Solo Exhibition

2023

RTown Art Gallery, Grapevine
Compressed Into Transparency - Solo Exhibition

2023

UNT CoLab Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton
Morsel - Solo Exhibition

2022

Visual Arts Mississauga,
Now Streaming

2022

SAIC Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
MFA Thesis Exhibition

2021

Guangdou Dow Technology Co., Ltd., China
Anonymous Crystal - Solo Exhibition

2021

School of the Art Institute of Chicago
It's All Right

2021

AGO, Toronto
Portraits of Resilience (online)

2021

SITE Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
A Residue You Find on Your Fingertip

2020

School of the Art Institute of Chicago
IDEAL: The World As We Want It

2020

I Like Your Work Podcast
Congruence

2019

OCAD U Learning Zone, OCAD University, Toronto
Toro - Solo Exhibition

2019

OCAD University, Toronto
GradEx 104

2019

OCAD University, Toronto
Beyond Borders - Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival

2019

Mackenzie Investments, Toronto
Creating Inclusive Spaces

2019

Woman's Art Association of Canada, Toronto
Exuberant

2019

Bau-xi Gallery, Toronto
Emerging Now

2018

Living Arts Centre, Mississauga
The Next Big Thing

2018

Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, Mississauga
Experiencing Perspectives

2017

Northern Contemporary, Toronto
A Festivus For TheRest of Us

Accolades

OCAD University, Toronto
Ada Slaight Scholarship (2015-2019)

Education
2022

School of the Art Institute of Chicago
MFA-Fiber and Material Studies

2019

OCAD University
BFA-Drawing and Painting & Minor in Illustration

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