Nathaniel Donnett received his B.A. in Fine Arts from Texas Southern University and his MFA from Yale University School of Art. He is currently a Project Row Houses Artist-in-Residence (2026). He is the recipient of a Support for Artists and Creative Individual Grant (2025), the Mitchell Center Scholar in Residence at the School of Art (2024-25), the Houston Region Affiliated Fellowship at the American Academy of Rome (2024), and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2022). He was also awarded the Helen Frankenthaler Scholarship from Yale University (20202021), a Dean's Critical Practice Research Grant, and an Art and Social Justice Initiative Grant, both from Yale (2020), the Houston Arts Alliance Individual Artist Grant (2017), among others. Donnett founded and published "What's the New News," a newspaper and project that reframed the narratives of historical neighborhoods (2010-2019). His work has been exhibited nationally at the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA; the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA; the Mennello Museum, Orlando, FL; Project Row Houses, Houston, TX; the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA; Houston, TX; the Kemper Contemporary Arts Museum, Kansas City, MO; the Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT; the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX; and the New Museum, New York, NY, among others.