American Painter, Donna Bruni, creates atmospheric, elemental oil paintings that hold references to places known, remembered or imagined, suspended within layered surfaces of color. Her New City series focuses on perception of time and space through the painting process. The compositions are based on changing light patterns, movement and form of urban landscape viewed from her sixth floor studio windows. Exhibitions at Artwork Network Gallery, Denver, Colorado (City & Sea 2014) Mill City Clinic Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota (Reflection & Renewal 2015) featured the paintings.

Her series, Floating to the Surface (2010-2013), influencd by travel to memorial sites in Gernika, Spain, EL Mozote, El Salvador and New York City, pushed towards pure abstraction in search of visual poetry. The canvases explore physical and spiritual form, looking at stages of loss, transitions, boundaries, balance and harmony. Solo exhibitions at Gallery One|BMW of MInneapolis, Studio 600, Minneapolis and inclusion in Art on the Plains IX at Plains Art Museum in Fargo, North Dakota (2012) highlighted the series. Bruni's work has appeared in Studio Visit magazine, an international juried selection of visual artists, American Art Collector and many local publications. Her work is held in private and public collections throughout the United States.

Donna Bruni grew up in Yardley, Pennsylvania. She studied graphic design at Endicott College and the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She began her career in the arts working as a freelance graphic designer in New York City in the pre-digital age of advertising and publishing. After relocating to the Midwest, she studied painting with several influential teachers and completed a two year mentorship with Minneapolis artist, Jantje Visscher. An advocate for arts integration in community wellness programs, Bruni holds a B.A from the University of Minnesota, where she studied use of imagery in cross-cultural traditional healing practices.

She lives and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota.