Allison Grimaldi Donahue
b. 1984, Middletown, Conn. USA
Lives Bologna, Italy
Select Performances and Exhibitions
2022 (forthcoming in 2 parts) The History of Breathing, performance and posters, Kunsthalle Bern, CH
2022 Collective feminist singing and song, Sommerakademie Paul Klee, Bern, CH
2022 Translating Alice Ceresa in Switzerland, Sonnenstube, Lugano, CH
2022 Fondazione Sandretto, poster works in show Camminiamo sul ciglio di un istante, Piemonte, IT
2022 Libretto for Benni Bosetto’s Stultifera, ArtCity, Bologna, IT
2022 Poems for Giulia Niccolai, MAMbo, Bologna, IT
2021 Our Slice of Time Together, Performanc @FLIP, curated by Federico Del Vecchio, Napoli, IT
2021 Silence and the Utterance, reading/performance, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, IT
2021 Transformations, in collaboration with artist Helena Hladlilova, Almanac, Turin, IT
2021 And The Flowers Too, poetry performance, Orto Botanico di Roma, Rome, IT
2021 Short Theatre, Performance on Language and Gruppo 63, National Theatre, Rome, IT
2021 Traffic Festival, The Hills of Desire, Poetry Performance on Rurality and 1960s avant-gardes, Marches, IT
2021 Poetry reading and chapbook, “New to Age,” Edicola, curated by Jo Melvin, MACRO, Rome and Mahler Lewitt Studio, Spoleto, IT
2021 Performance of Poetry for Queer Dada, John Cabot University, Rome, IT
2020 Reading with Julia Hölzl at Diskussion und Kunst, Vienna, AT
2019 Performative Lecture, Gavin Brown Rome, IT
Books
2021 Self-portrait, by Carla Lonzi, translation from Italian, Divided Publishing, London, UK
2021 Blown-Away, by Vito M. Bonito, translation from Italian, Fomite Press, Burlington, VT, USA
2022 Extended Prose Poem with Davide Savorani’s drawings for artist’s book, Bruno Editions, Venice, IT
2016 Body to Mineral, a collection of poems, Publication Studio Vancouver, CAN
2019 On Endings, coauthored with J. Hözl and J.H. Davy, poetry and essay, Delere Press, Singapore/Berlin, DE
Curating & Literary Editing
2022 Curator of Giulia Niccolai: Visual Sound Poet, MAMbo, Bologna, IT (ArteFiera 2022, with Caterina Molteni)
2022 Curator of Poetry in Conversation: A Series of Dialogues with Young Poets, IUNO, Rome, IT
2020 Curator of Poets in the Museum, MAMbo, Bologna, IT
2017 present Translation editor, ANMLY Press, Providence, RI, US
2021 present, Translations editor, Hunger Mountain Journal, Vermont, US
2015-20 Fiction editor, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, London, UK
Select Publications
2022 (forthcoming) essay on Patrizia Vicinelli for audio edition Axis Axis Press, Turin, IT
2022 Essay on Dodie Bellamy for FlashArt Italia, Rome, IT
2022 translation of Alice Notley into Italian for Queer Sicilia Film Festival, Palermo, IT
2022 (forthcoming) Forward essay on Canadian poet Tiziana LaMelia, for Archive Books, Berlin, DE
2021 essay on Women in Concrete Poetry and Bonotto Archive, Tripwire Journal, US
2021 Book review of Last Summer in Rome, Words Without Borders, US
2021 Telling Stories: Jill Johnston, essay, FlashArt Italia, Rome, IT
2021 #dearyou Mail Art show, for MAMbo, Bologna, IT
2021 Essay on Cecilia Mangini’s Legacy, Another Gaze Journal, London, UK
2021 Interview in JuxtaPress Online with Teresa Kittler on translating Carla Lonzi, Milan, IT
2020 Telling Stories: Wayne Koestenbaum, essay, FlashArt Italia, Rome, IT
2020 On Suellen Rocca at Vienna Succession, essay, FlashArt International, NY, US
2020 Every Illness Recalls Another, Prairie Schooner Magazine, US
2020 Translation: The Failing Test, Ruth.onl, Rome, IT
2020 Making Art Making Break: In the Studio, Nero Editions Magazine, Rome, IT
2020 Bathtub Readings: Pleasure and Participation in the Text Nero Editions Magazine, Rome, IT
2020 Essay Dormant Desire, Queer History, Evergreen Press, New York, US
2020 Translation of excerpt of Carla Lonzi’s Autoritratto, Los Angeles Review of Books, US
2020 Art Criticism, “On Frida Orupabo at Gavin Brown,” FlashArt Italia, Rome, IT
2020 Afterward to What if every farewell…by Giulia Crispiani, Union Editions, Rome, IT
2020 Interview with Lisa Robertson in BOMB Magazine, New York, US
2019 Translation of comic book excerpt with N. Cocchi, A Life with Alexandra David-Néel by Fred Campoy & Mathieu Blanchot in The Arkansas International, US
2019 Review of Me & Other Writing by Marguerite Duras in Words Without Borders, US
2019 Essay on Beauty and Gender Binarism in Art History for “Museum Beauty Contest” Catalogue, Galleria Nazionale, Rome, IT
2019 The History of Breathing, poems and essay (chapbook), Gavin Brown Enterprises, NY
2019 Petulant Grace, Salt Fever, poetry pamphlet, HyperMaremma Art Show, Tuscany, IT
2019 Art Criticism, on Laura Owens at Gavin Brown Rome, FlashArt Italia, Rome, IT/New York, US
2019 Review of Keeping/ the window open, Words Without Borders, US
2019 Review of Thinking of Lampedusa in Tripwire Journal, Oakland, US
2019 Translation, In a Land Strange to Us by Leyla Khalil, The Literary Review, US
2018 Essay, Carol Rama and Sappho Glossalia—of the Broken Tongue, “Women Out of Joint,” National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome, IT
2018 Essay, “Poetry’s Intrinsic Ontology of Change,” Public Seminar, The New School, US
Select Academic Panels and Artist Talks
2022 Artist Talk at Cornell University Rome, IT
2022 Guest Speaker on Translating Carla Lonzi, “The Art of Translation” Symposium Series, Smith College, Massachusetts, US
2022 Guest Speaker on Carla Lonzi at the Libreria delle Donne, Milan, IT
2022 Guest lecture on Carla Lonzi and feminism in Italy today, Lyceum Club, Florence, IT
2022 Book Presentation and Discussion, Carla Lonzi in Translation, Galleria Nazionale, Rome, IT
2021 Artist talk on Dora Garcia, at Mattatoio, Rome, IT
2021 Artist talk on painting and poetry, Galleria Nazionale, Rome, IT
2021 Talk on Carla Lonzi and Self-portrait, Kunstverein, Hamburg, DE
2021 Talk on the Archives and Carla Lonzi, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, IT
2021 Talk on Translations of Dante and Influence, John Cabot University, Rome, IT
2020 Performative Lecture with artists Vincenzo Simone on Morandi’s Flowers,
MAMbo, Bologna, I
Fellowships, Residencies, Awards, and Accolades
2021-22 Fellow, Sommerakademie Paul Klee, Hochschule der Künste, Bern, CH
2022 Resident Artist, Alchemilla, Bologna, IT
2022 Resident Writer, IUNO, Rome, IT
2020 Artist in Residence, MAMbo, Museum of Modern Art Bologna (July-Jan 21), Bologna, IT
2019 Judge for the Italian Prose Translation Award from the American Literary Translators’ Assoc., US 2018 Fellow, The Hudson Home School, Poetry Workshop, Hudson, NY, US
2018 Juror for Vermont Studio Center Writing Residency Applicants, Johnson, VT, US
2017 Writer-in-Residence, British Centre for Literary Translation Summer School, Norwich, UK
2016 Writer-in-Residence, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA), US
2016 Writer-in-Residence, New York Center for Book Arts, Letterpress and Book Arts Fellowship, US 2015 Fellowship, Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference, Katherine Bakeless Nelson Scholarship, US
2013 Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, Residency at Vermont Studio Center Literature, US 2012 Fellow, New York State Writer’s Institute, workshop with Amy Hempel and Mary Gaitskill, US
Education
2021 PhD Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought, The European Graduate School, CH
With dissertation on Translation Theory, Catherine Malabou supervisor
2016 MFA Fiction and Translation, Vermont College of Fine Arts, US
2007 MA Italian, Middlebury College, US
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