Donnelly has been on the faculty at
New York University's
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development since 2008. She is a Clinical Associate Professor of Studio Art. In 2012, Donnelly was the tenth artist to curate ''Artist's Choice'', an exhibition curated by artists of artworks from the permanent collection of the
Museum of Modern Art. In the exhibition, "she was after 'striking voices'" she couldn't let go of, "'paths of encounters and building poetic structures... images that go beyond images themselves."' The exhibition included works by artists such as Eliot Porter, Joe Goode, Gertrude Kasebier, Wendy Carlos, and John Whitney. The audio guide provided for the show was art historian Robert Rosenblum discussing MoMA's 1989 Picasso retrospective. Donnelly explained, "The feeling when listening to these audio guides was, this was a great work of art... or work of whatever, work of another entity, or another state and dimension, existing... [They] are so beautiful... It's like the Taj Mahal of languages, building it himself. By the end, I don't need the exhibition at all. I'm awash in this ocean of his funny, brilliant voice." •
Air de Paris, Paris, France (2002) •
Casey Kaplan gallery, New York, USA (2004) •
The Wrong Gallery, New York, USA (2004) •
Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany (2005) •
Art Pace, San Antonio, USA (2005) •
Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland (2005) •
Trisha Donnelly,
Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK (2007) •
The Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA (2008) •
Bologna Museum of Modern Art, Bologna, Italy (2009) •
Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2010) •
Casey Kaplan gallery, New York, USA (2010) •
Air de Paris, Paris, France (2010) •
Les Rencontres d'Arles, France. Exhibition and Discovery Award laureate (2010) •
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland (2013) • ''Artist's Choice'',
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (2013) •
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA (2013) •
Serpentine Galleries (2014) •
Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (2015) •
Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal (2016) •
2017 Wolfgang Hahn Prize,
Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2017) •
Galerie Buchholz, Cologne (2018) •
The Shed, NYC (2019) •
The Drawing Center, New York, NY (2025)
Select group exhibitions • The World as a Stage (2007) •
Venice Biennale (2011 and 2013) •
Life Itself: On the question of what it essentially is; its materialities, its characteristics…, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (2016) •
Less Than One,
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA (2016) • Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (2017) •
In Tune with the World,
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France (2018) •
Other Mechanisms, Secession, Vienna, Austria (2018) ==Public collections==