Donna J. Wan was born in Taiwan and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.  She received her BA in Economics and MBA from Stanford University.  After a few years working in the corporate world, Donna decided to pursue her love for art, taking her first photography class in 2002.  In 2008, she graduated from the MFA program at the San Francisco Art Institute.

Donna’s landscape photographs reflect a continual search for her to understand how perceptions and identities been shaped by the landscape.  She takes photographs in both the United States and Asia and in both the natural and built environments.   

Her work has been shown at the Klompching Gallery in New York, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and SFMOMA Artists Gallery in San Francisco, the PhotoCenter Northwest in Seattle, and the Newspace Center for Photography in Portland. She was selected by the Magenta Foundation as a Flash Forward 2007 Emerging Photographer and by ArtSeen as a 2008 Emerging Artist. Her work has been selected for awards by Lesley Martin, publisher of Aperture  and Karen Irvine, Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Photography.  Her work has also been published in Fraction Magazine, Lenscratch, Forward Thinking Museum, Time Out Chicago (print), Profifoto (print) and the Conscientious website by Joerg Colberg and written about by W.M. Hunt.  In 2009, she was awarded an artist residency at The Center for Photography at Woodstock and was invited by Catherine Opie to lecture at UCLA. Collectors of her work include the Pulitzer-Prize winning author