Donna Francis is an American photographer born in New York City who has been experimenting with photographic techniques, printing processes and archiving methods since the early 1980’s. Francis is fascinated with the photographic processes that build and erode time. Her practice deftly combines a systematic method of recording, forgetting and finding.

Francis engages themes of identity and resilience through her series of nude and wrapped bodies, abandoned buildings, forgotten graveyards, and man with gun multiplied.

Her large scale installations and extensive series of prints have been exhibited nationally and internationally in the Venice Biennale 2024, Anne Street Gallery, Newburgh New York (2024 and 2023), Apalazzo Gallery Brescia, Italy (2023), Time Space Limited Hudson NY (2023), Delta Axis Memphis Tennessee (1993), Artist in the Marketplace (1990), and Fashion Moda, Bronx N.Y. (1988).

Her work is in collections including the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City, and La Escuela de Diseño in the Dominican Republic.

Francis received the Olympus Camera Award (1991) from Woodstock Center for Photography, Artists Space Grants in (1988 and in 1991), and the Altos de Chavón Cultural Foundation Artist in Residence Award (1986) .