donna anderson kam

Donna Anderson Kam currently lives and works in San Francisco, California. She received degrees in Painting, Art History and Design from the University of Colorado, Boulder and The Art Center in Pasadena, California. While Kam’s focus was on painting her interests in design, art history and social anthropology were strong influences and continue to inform her work today.
Kam creates large scale works in pastel that investigate modern social issues and tensions. This work although heavily rooted in the contemporary experience is in dialogue with artists across history including, Pontormo, Ingres, Delacroix as well as contemporaries, Paula Rego, Daniel Richter and Muntean/Rosenblum.
Kam was selected as a Bay Area Currents Artist by Pro Arts California in 2009, and awarded a residency at the Recology Artist in Residence Program in San Francisco in 2012. The Residency was followed by a summer exhibition at the Catharine Clark Gallery San Francisco, and a solo exhibition at Chandra Cerrito Contemporary in Oakland, California.
Recently, Donna’s work was featured in the 2022-23 exhibition Color Into Line, Pastels From the Renaissance to the Present at the Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco.
Anderson Kam has exhibited her work in Las Angeles, Seattle, Minneapolis, Brooklyn, NY. San Francisco and Washington DC.
Donna’s work is represented in the Recology San Francisco Collection and The Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco.