Donnelly works with various media including photography, drawing, audio, video, sculpture and performance.
[3] Donnelly has been on the faculty at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development since 2008.
"'[8] The exhibition included works by artists such as Eliot Porter, Joe Goode, Gertrude Kasebier, Wendy Carlos, and John Whitney.
[9] The audio guide provided for the show was art historian Robert Rosenblum discussing MoMA's 1989 Picasso retrospective.
[16] In his 2012 Review "The Best of the Basement", critic Jerry Saltz recognized Donnelly as "a rare case of artistic love at first sight".