Dana Claxton

Dana Claxton is a critically acclaimed artist working in film, video, photography, video installation, performance art and curation. Her practice investigates the body, the socio-political and the spiritual. Her work has been shown and collected internationally and she has received the Govern Generals Award, VIVA Award and the Eiteljorg Fellowship.

Claxton has peer-reviewed books and articles, edited a peer reviewed book and she is widely published. She has presented talks at the Getty Institute (LA), Art College Association (USA) and the Opening Week Forum of the Biennale of Sydney. She held the Ruth Wynn Woodward Research Chair in the Women’s Studies Department at SFU and the Global Television Chair in the School of Journalism at the University of Regina.

Professor and Head of the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia, her family reserve is Wood Mountain Lakota First Nations.