Donald Sultan

Quick Facts

Full Name	Donald Sultan
Occupation	Painter
Date Of Birth	May 5, 1951(1951-05-05)
Age	73
Birthplace	Asheville
Country	United States
Birth City	North Carolina
Horoscope	Taurus

Donald Sultan Biography

Donald Sultan is one of the most popular and richest Painter who was born on May 5, 1951 in Asheville, North Carolina, United States.

Donald K. Sultan (born 1951) is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker, particularly well-known for large-scale still life paintings and the use of industrial materials such as tar, enamel, spackle and vinyl tiles. He has been exhibiting internationally in prominent museums and galleries, and his works are included in important museum collections all over the globe. Sultan is the recipient of numerous honors and awards for his artistic achievements.

Sultan’s use of industrial materials in this way is striking and innovative, and Vivien Raynor has made this point in The New York Times stating that “Donald Sultan is descended from the Process artists of the late 1960s in that he makes art out of materials that are very much a part of contemporary life. Yet even as his coeval, Julian Schnabel, has cornered plates as a medium, Sultan seems to have been the first to work in tar, combining it with spackle and latex on a ground consisting of vinyl tiles attached to Masonite.” It is through the use of these industrial materials, as well as through the deconstruction of his subjects into basic forms, that Sultan’s paintings are enriching and elevating the still-life tradition. He is exploring the medium further through techniques of gouging, sanding, and buffing to create flatness, depth, gloss, and texture. The paintings are made of the same materials as the building in which the viewer stands; the architecture participates in the paintings. Weighty and structured, they are minimal and expressionist at the same time, while his images contradict their common association with fragility. “Sultan pushes the boundaries of painting as he virtually sculpts the painting into pictures that are minimal but opulently rich,” notes columnist R. Couri Hay, a former editor of Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine in his 2011 profile of Sultan for the Hamptons Magazine. The process of making these painting, suggests The New York Times, is technically so complex and, consequently, so painstakingly slow, that finishing “a single painting can take up to a month, so that Mr. Sultan’s annual output is 12 to 18 paintings.”

Donald Sultan Net Worth

Donald Sultan is one of the richest Painter from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Donald Sultan 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Donald Sultan was born in Asheville, North Carolina in 1951. Both of his parents were interested in the arts. His father was a tire company owner who painted abstract paintings as a hobby, and his mother, Phyllis actively pursued theatre. It was through his mother that Sultan developed an early interest in theatre. “I was acting and then I learned how to make theatrical sets and paint them,” he recalled, “I did apprenticeships in different professional theaters.” With his father’s encouragement, however, Sultan chose to pursue art professionally, and he earned a BFA degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1973 and an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1975. While still in school, Sultan grew dissatisfied with traditional methods of painting and began experimenting in technique, surface, and media, which eventually led him to use industrial tools and materials.

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Since 1977, Sultan has shown work in galleries in France, Japan, the Russian Federation, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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Donny Ranked on the list of most popular Painter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Donald Sultan celebrates birthday on May 5 of every year.

As Studio 54’s co-founder Steve Rubell famously observed in 1985, “artists [were] becoming the stars of the 1980s, like the rock stars of the 1960s or the fashion designers of the 1970s,” and this astute observation fully applied to Sultan. “In the late 1980s”, writes Geraldine Fabricant in The New York Times, “Donald Sultan was riding high. He was represented by a prestigious gallery, some of his paintings were selling for more than $100,000 each.” These paintings, explains the British art historian and author Ian Dunlop, “fall into two groups: the first group consists of bold, brightly colored pictures with well-defined shapes and crisp outlines forming a clear silhouette; the second group consists of dark, hard to read pictures full of menace and often inspired by disastrous industrial events such as warehouse fires, airplane crashes, and freight train derailments. In both cases the pictures make a strong, immediate visual statement.”