Born: Chicago, Illinois (1947)

Lives and works in New York City

Education: 1973 M.F.A. Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI; 1970 B.A. University of Wisconsin

Awards:
1993 American Academy of Arts and Letters
1992 National Endowment for the Arts, “The Bells” grant
1990 National Endowment for the Arts, Sculpture Grant
1988 Guggenheim Fellowship
1986 New York Foundation on the Arts
1984 Awards in the Visual Arts III
National Endowment for the Arts
1978 National Endowment for the Arts

Public Commissions:
1997-1998 The Yearling, site-specific installation at the Doris Friedman Plaza, Scholar’s Gate, Southeast Entrance to Central Park, sponsored by the Public Art
Fund, New York, NY
Commission for installation in Grand Central Station, New York, NY
1997 Commission for State University of New York, Purchase, NY
Consultant to Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York
1996 Commission for Concert Hall, LaGuardia High School for Music and Art and Performing Art, New York, NY

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
1999 Donald Lipski, Book Works, 1982-1997, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
1998 Donald Lipski, Book Works, 1982-1997,John Gibson Gallery, NY; Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1997 Donald Lipski: Pond Life, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL
The LaGuardia Suite, S.H. LaGuardia High School for Music and Art and Performance Art, New York, NY
Donald Lipski: The Yearling, temporary installation at the Southeast Entrance to Central Park, The Public Art Fund of New York
Donald Lipski: Sculpture, Cohen Berkowitz Gallery for Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
1996 The Cauldron: An Installation by Donald Lipski, Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton, NY
1995 Donald Lipski, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
Donald Lipski, Galleria Il Ponte, Roma, Italy
Donald Lipski, Piero Cavellini, Brescia, Italy
Donald Lipski: The Humidors, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MS
Donald Lipski, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1994 Oral History, Southeastern Contemporary Arts Center, Winston-Salem, NC
Donald Lipski: Sculpture, Tim Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Donald Lipski: Wall Works, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
1993 The Starry Night, Capp Street Project. San Francisco, CA
Pieces of String to Short to Save, Brooklyn Museum.Brooklyn, New York.
The Hunt Oil Works, The Museum of Fine Aaart Guise. Houston, TX.
The Texas Works. Davis/MacClain Gallery. Houston, TX.
Wave, Allen Center Gallery, One Allen Center. Houston, TX.
1992 The Bells, The Museum of Contemporary Art. Chicago, IL.
The Bells, PS 1, New York, NY.
1991 The Bells, The Contemporary Arts Center. Cincinnati, OH.
Flag Works and Other Recent Sculpture, Davis/MacClain Gallery. Houston, TX.
Galerie Lelong, New York, NY.
New York Experimental Glass Workshop. Brooklyn, NY.
Anselmo Alvarez Gallery. Madrid, Spain.
Rhona Hoffman Gallery. Chicago, IL.
Contemporary Art Center. Cincinnati, OH.
1990 Water Lilies, Davis/MacClain Gallery. Houston, TX.
Lennon Weinberg Gallery. New York, NY.
Paul Kasmin Gallery. New York, NY.
Donald Lipsky: Poetic Sculpture, Freedman Gallery, Albright College. Reading, PA.
Travelled to: University Galleries. Normal, IL. Academy of Arts. Honolulu, HI. Otis Art Institue of Parsons School of Design. Los Angeles, CA.
Hudson River Museum. Yonkers, NY. Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art.
1990 The Fabric Workshop. The Philadelphia College of Art & Beaver College.
Philadelphia, PA.
Dorothy Goldeen Gallery. Santa Monica, CA.
1989 Davis/McClain Gallery. Houston, TX.
1988 Germans van Eck Gallery. New York, NY.
Rhona Hoffman Gallery. Chicago, IL.
1987 Goldeen Gallery. Santa Monica, CA.
Galerie Pierre Huber. Geneva, Switzerland.
Anders Tornberg Gallery. Lund, Sweden.
Hillwood Art Gallery in cooperation with Grumman Aerospace. C.W.Post College-L.I.U.. Brookville, NY. (Catalogue).
Center of Contemporaray Art, in cooperation with Boeing International. Seattle, WA.
1986 Rhona Hoffman Gallery. Chicago, IL.
Edward Totah Gallery. London, England.

Selected Collections:
Art Museum of Southwest Texas, Midland, TX
Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
The City of Denver, Denver, CO
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH.
The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO.
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
S.H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Art, NY
Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO
Menil Collection, Houston, TX
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Minneapolis Museum of Fine Art, Minneapolis, MN
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Museum of Modern Art, Miami, FL
University of Oklahoma Museum of Art, Norman, OK
Panza Collection, Italy
The Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix, AZ
Polaroid Corporation, Boston, MA
The Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Heights, OH
Prudential Insurance Company of America
The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
San Antonio Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Shimmel Foundation
University of Hawai,, HA
Walker Art center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY