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A pioneer of installation art, Donna Dennis is known for her complex sculptural installations with sound. BLUE BRIDGE/ red shift, a 24-foot-long evocation of railway drawbridges was exhibited at NYC’s SculptureCenter in 1993. Her subway-inspired Deep Station filled the lobby of the Brooklyn Museum in 1987. In 2007, an outdoor installation, Tourist Cabins on Park Avenue, was seen on Park Avenue, NYC. In 2013, Coney Night Maze, a complex mixed media installation with sound that drew inspiration from the maze of layered fences, gates, ramps and barriers nestled beneath the Cyclone roller coaster, was at the Neuberger Museum. In 2018 Ship and Dock/Nights and Days or The Gazer, incorporating video into a sculptural installation showed at Lesley Heller Gallery, New York. In 2023 an expanded version of the work was exhibited at Private Public Gallery in Hudson, NY. In 2024, the legendary O’Flaherty’s Gallery on New York’s Lower East Side mounted an exhibition of early works from the 1970s and one work from the 1990s, Houses and Hotels. Also, in 2024, Max Levai’s The Ranch, in Montauk, NY, exhibited Deep Station which was first shown at the Brooklyn Museum in 1985.

Dennis has collaborated with poets Anne Waldman, Kenward Elmslie, Daniel Wolff and Ted Berrigan and with performance artist/puppeteer Dan Hurlin. In 2023 Monacelli Press published a career-spanning monograph, Donna Dennis: A Poet in Three Dimensions and in 2024 Bamberger Books released Writing Toward Dawn: Selected Journals 1969-1982. Dennis was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2025. She is currently at work on a temporary sculpture to be installed in Times Square in the Fall of 2027.