Dana Claxton

Dana Claxton is an interdisciplinary artist whose work includes film and video, installation and performance art. Her work is held in public collections, including the Vancouver Art Gallery and numerous international libraries. Claxton is an adjunct professor at Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, and a founding director of the Indigenous Media Arts Group (Vancouver). She was awarded the prestigious VIVA Award from the Doris and Jack Shadbolt Foundation for her commitment to contemporary art in Vancouver. Claxton is of Lakota Sioux descent and her family reserve is Wood Mountain, Saskatchewan.