Donna’s work has been included in several recent national sculpture exhibitions including The McClelland Contemporary Sculpture Survey and Award; The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Prize; The National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia. She has held several exhibitions in both public and private galleries in Australia and overseas including Cod at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; Dozens at Dianne Tanzer Gallery Melbourne and Home of Memory at Gallerie Tammen and Busch Berlin.
Recent group exhibitions include Fathoming, a nationally touring exhibition of the work of seven Australian sculptors, and Temperature, a survey of Queensland sculpture at the Museum of Brisbane. In 2003 she was resident at Australia Council London Studio.
Her work is held in many public and private collections in Australia and overseas. In 2003 the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane published the monograph Donna Marcus: 99% Pure Aluminium. Donna collaborated with Denton Corker Marshall on a major public artwork for Brisbane Square (Steam) which was installed in 2006.