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Born in San Antonio, TX
Lives and works in New York

Education
Trinity University, B.A. Art, B.A. Biology




Solo Exhibitions 
2022
• DONALD MOFFETT + NATURE CULT + THE McNAY, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
• NATURE CULT (early freeze, late sleet), Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
2021
• NATURE CULT, Whitestone Gallery, Hong Kong
2020
• The Hollow, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
2019
• ILL (nature paintings), Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, New York
2018
• NATURE CULT, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, California
2016
• ​Any fallow field, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, New York
• Donald Moffett, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas

2015
• Donald Moffett, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
2014
• head. Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
2012

• Radiant Future and Mr. Gay in the USA, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio
• The Radiant Future, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
2011
• Richmond Terrace, Anthony Meier Fine Art, San Francisco
• The Extravagant Vein, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas; Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York; The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2010

• Whitman's Corner, Frieze Art Fair, London
2008

• Easy Clean, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York


2007

• Gutted, Anthony Meier Fine Art, San Francisco 

• Fleisch, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London


2006

• Impeach, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
2005

• Hippie Shit, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
2004
• Paintings from a Hole, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco 

• D.C., Stephen Friedman Gallery,
 London

2003
• The Extravagant Vein, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York


2002

• Donald Moffett: What Barbara Jordan Wore,
 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago 


2001

• Mr. Gay in the USA, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco
• What Barbara Jordan Wore (part 1), Texas Gallery, Houston
2000

• The Incremental Commandments, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London 

• The Ten Commandments, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles 

1999

• Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York
1997
• Blue (NY) Beaver College of Art, Glenside, Pennsylvania
1996
• A Report on Painting
, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
1991

• I Know What Boys Like Texas Gallery, Houston
• Wet Dreams Simon Watson, New York
• Wet Holes Wessel O’Connor Gallery, New York
1990

• Oh-Oh-Harder-Oh-Oh Wessel O’Connor Gallery, New York 

1989

• I Love It When You Call Me Names, Wessel O’Connor Gallery, New York 



Selected Group Exhibitions and Projects
2021
• Annotations and Improvisations, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, New York
• Friends & Family, Magenta Plains, New York, New York
• Texas Biennial: A New Landscape, A Possible Horizon, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
• Brighten the Corners: Art of the 1990s from the Tang Teaching Museum Collection, Saratoga Springs, New York
• APMA, CHAPTER THREE—From the AMPA Collection, Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
2019
• United by AIDS—An Exhibition about Loss, Remembrance, Activism and Art in Response to HIV/AIDS, Migros Museum für Gegenwartkunst, Zurich Switzerland
• cart, horse, cart, Lehmann Maupin, New York, New York
• Manifesto: Art x Agency, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
• 100 sculptures, anonymous gallery, Paris France
• Nobody’s World, Gordon Robichaux, New York, New York
2018
• Billboard: think Science, For Freedoms, Lexington Kentucky
• Everything is Connected: Art and Conspiracy, The Met Breuer, New York, New York
• COUNTERPOINT: Selections from The Peter Marino Collection, Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, New York
• It’s Not a Prop, David Zwirner, New York, New York
• Give a damn, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
• Snarl of Twine, Magenta Plains, New York, New York
• Texas, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
• Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
• Monuments to Us, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
2017
• Tonic of Illness, Boesky West, Aspen Colorado
• OCCUPY MANA: Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale That Society Has the Capacity to Destroy, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, New Jersey
• Range: Experiments in New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
• Botanica, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
• An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
• Wormwood, Ellis King, Dublin, Ireland
• Touchpiece, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, California
• Voice = Survival, The 8th Floor, New York, New York
• New Ruins, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center

2016
• Pioneer Lust, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
• Erik Hanson 'Two Years of Looking', New Art Projects, London, United Kingdom
• In the Making, Luxembourg & Dayan, New York, New York
• Floss: Pino Pascali & Donald Moffett, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, New York
2015
• Greater New York, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York
• Painting at the Very Edge of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs
• America is Hard to See, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
• The Triumph of Love: Beth Rudin DeWoody Collects, Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, Florida
• Geometrics On and Off the Grid: Art from 1950 to the Present, The Warehouse, Dallas, Texas
2014
• Pictures, Before and After: An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
• Bloodflames Revisisted, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
• NYC Makers: The MAD Biennial, Museum of Arts and Design, New York
• Unbound: Contemporary Art after Frida Kahlo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
• Pace Gems: Selections from the Linda Pace Foundation Permanent Collection, The Linda Pace Foundation Gallery, San Antonio
• A Chromatic Loss, Bortolami Gallery, New York
2013
• Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Industry City, Brooklyn, New York
• personal, political, mysterious, The Flag Art Foundation, New York; Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
• ICA Collection: Expanding the Field of Painting, The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston
• Old Black, Team Gallery, New York
• NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, New Museum, New York
• Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
• Swing State, Thrust Projects, Pop-up Location, 119 Hester Street, New York
• I, You, We, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
• Playing with Process: Experimental Prints at the MFAH, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
• Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Aul, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst Basel, Switzerland
2012

• Too Old for Boys, Too Young for Toys, OHWOW, Los Angeles

• Rorschach, Phillips de Pury & Co. New York
• Stretching Painting, Galerie Lelong, New York
• This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980’s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2011

• Night Scented Stock, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
• Absentee Landlord, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
• All that Glisters, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
• Unpainted Paintings, Luxembourg Dayan, New York
• "dwelling", Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
2010

• Mixed Use: Photography and Other Practices in Manhattan, 1970’s to the Present, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
• Reflection, Nathan A. Bernstein & Co. LTD, New York
• Robert Beck and Donald Moffett, Range, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
• Stripped, Tied and Raw: Jorge Eielson, Donald Moffett, David Noonan, Steven Parrino, Salvatore Scarpitta, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
2009
• Benches and Binoculars, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
• Americana, NGBK, Berlin

• ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis 1987 – 1993, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• The Collection and Then Some, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
• Everywhere. Sexual Diversity Policies in Art, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2008
• Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flanerie, Neuberger Museum or Art, Purchase, New York
• The Collection and Then Some, Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth, Texas
2007

• Crimes of Omission, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
• Sparkle Then Fade, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington


2006

• Trifecta, Bellwether Gallery, New York
• The Eighth Square: Gender, Life and Desire in Art since 1960, Museum Ludwig,
 Cologne
2005

• Around About Abstraction, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
• ex.05.03.06103, The Cartin Collection, Hartford, Connecticut 

• Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London 


2004

• Seeing Other People, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
• North Fork / South Fork: East End Art Now, Part II, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
• Hidden Histories, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
2003

• Image Stream, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
• puddle-wonderful, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York
• Site Specific, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago 

• International Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York 

2002
• Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain: Selected Works from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
• Interstate, Texas Fine Arts Association, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin
• Penetration, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
• VAPOR, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
• Paintings, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles 


2001

• The Inward Eye: Transcendence in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
• Snap! Photography from the Collection, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
• Camera Works, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York 


• American, Postmasters, New York


2000

• 00, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
• Dope, American Fine Arts, New York 

• Drawing, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London

• More, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York

• Photography About Photography, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York

• Power Up with Sister Corita Kent, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
• The Sea and the Sky, Royal Hibernian Academy and Glenside, PA, Beaver College Art Gallery, Dublin

1999

• Monochrome, Patrick Callery, New York

• Drawings, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York

• with Jesse Amado, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX

1998

• Sculpture from the Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• AIDS World, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva
• Insite 98, Mysterious Voyages: Exploring the Subject of Photography, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore
• WACK-O: Extreme Politics & the Poster, St. Lawrence University, New York
1997

• Matrix 134, Power Up with Sister Corita Kent, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
• Public Notice, Exit Art, New York
• Marc Foxx
 Gallery, Los Angeles 


1996

• Bare Bones, TZ Art, New York 

• Fifteen Paintings,
 Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles 

1995

• The Masculine Masquerade: Masculinity and Representation, M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• In a Different Light, University Art Museum, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California
• Temporarily Possessed: The Semi-Permanent Collection, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

1994

• Works on Paper: Selections from the Permanent Collection, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
• The Social Fabric, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, Pennsylvania
1993
• Whitney Biennial 1993, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
• Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Prospect, 1993, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt , Germany
1992

• Sculpture, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
• Dissent, Difference and the Body Politic, Portland Fine Arts Museum, Portland, Oregon
• Object Choice, Hallwalls, Rochester, New York
• Gegendarstellung, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
• Promises, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, New Jersey
• Structural Damage, with Joel Otterson, Gary Simmons, and Charles LeDray, Blum Helman Warehouse, New York
1991

• The Interrupted Life, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
• (Dis)member, Simon Watson, New York
• When Objects Dream and Talk in Their Sleep, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York 

• Situation, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
• Someone or Somebody, Meyers/Bloom, Los Angeles 

• Group Material’s AIDS Timeline, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
• Erotic Desire, Perspektief Centre for Photography, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1990

• U.B.C., with Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
• Looking at Revolution, Simon Watson, New York
• Eros/Thanatos—Death and Desire, Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York
• The Indomitable Spirit, The International Center of Photography, New York
• Into the Street, with David Wojnarowicz, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and John Lindell, NGBK, Berlin
1989

• Founded BUREAU, "a trans-disciplinary studio"

• To Probe and To Push: Artists of Provocation, Wessel O’Connor Gallery, New York
• Erotophobia: A Forum on Sexuality, Simon Watson, New York 

1988

 • Founding Member of Gran Fury, "an AIDS activist collective"

• Group Material: AIDS and Democracy, Dia Art Foundation, New York

Public Collections
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
Artpace, San Antonio, Texas
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt, Germany
Hammer Museum, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, New Jersey
List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York