Donna Moylan was born in Boston, then moved to Rome, Italy at the age of 19. In 1992, she went to live and work in New York City and today lives in the historic town of Kinderhook. Over the last three decades she has never hesitated to wrestle with the big themes of art history. She employs strategies of depicting art-historically richly emblematic iconography, to make work in which she reaches for the timeless questions of where we stand in relation to time, storytelling and personhood in art, philosophy and life, She is unashamed of her theatrically symbolic languages and motifs drawn for all eras of art history, from classic opera stage designs, painted ceilings from grand Venetian Palazzos and even science fiction movies with pseudo scientific diagrams emblematic of the limits of rational thought. Each painting is replete with poetic titles in ways that call to mind classic literature and films

Her paintings have been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Newsweek, The Boston Globe, ArtForum, Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, and other publications. She has had over 25 solo exhibitions in Rome, Italy, New York City, Boston, Houston and in Chatham and Hudson, NY. Her work is included in many private collections as well as The Whitney Museum of American Art, The New York Public Library, La Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia, and the Museo Civico di Siracusa. Donna Moylan lives and works in Brooklyn and in Kinderhook, NY and is represented by Pamela Salisbury Gallery.