Donna Gottschalk
Born 1949 in the United States of America
Lives in Vermont, US
Donna Gottschalk is an American photographer and a lesbian activist born in 1949. She grew up in New York City, in the Lower East Side. She joined the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1969. The same year she joined the Gay Liberation Front, becoming an active member of the movement. In 1970, she and other activists organised the Lavender Menace action during the National Organisation for Women congress, to protest against the exclusion of lesbians from the women's liberation movement. In 1971, she moved to San Francisco with her sisters Myla and Mary where she worked as a taxi driver. She then joined a photographic printing company before moving to Connecticut where she established her own lab with a partner. In the late 1990s, she became a nursing auxiliary and moved to Vermont. In 2018, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in New York organised the first retrospective exhibition dedicated to her work. Throughout her life, Donna Gottschalk kept photographing her loved ones, her siblings, butch, fem, trans, gay activists, comrades and friends.
Education
1969
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, US
Solo Exhibitions
2025
Le Bal, Paris, FR, Nous autres
2023
Marcelle Alix, Paris, FR, Ce qui fait une vie
2018
Leslie Lohman Museum, New York, US, Brave, Beautiful, Outlaws
Group Exhibitions
2024
Bozar, Bruxelles, BE, Love is Louder
CRAC Alsace CREDAC, Altkirch, Ivry-sur-Seine, FR, L'amitié : ce tremble
2023
Sultana Summer Set, Arles, FR, Nous buvons le soleil
2019
Marcelle Alix, Paris, FR, de l'amitié
