Donna Tadelman (born 1952) has been a Chicago based painter. Initially self-taught, she received formal training in painting and drawing at the Kansas City Art Institute (KCAI) in the early 1970s. From the 1970s through the early 2000s, she focused on representational work with an emphasis on color. In 2006, she took a decade-long break from painting, returning in 2016 with a major shift in both medium and style. Abandoning oil paint and still lifes, she embraced water-based materials and began exploring abstraction. Between 2017 and 2025, Tadelman experimented with new techniques, resulting in a diverse body of abstract work. Her later pieces range from reductive yet painterly stripe paintings to color-focused cuboid compositions and mixed-media works using unusual materials such as commercial paint samples and unfolded boxes as readymade painting supports. Her evolving style reflects the full arc of her artistic journey across decades.