Dana Claxton

Dana Claxton works in film, video, photography, video installation, and performance art. Her practice investigates Native American stereotypes, Indigenous beauty, the body, socio-political and historical contexts, and spiritual practices while stylistically drawing from the Vancouver School of conceptual photography as well First Nations filmmaker Loretta Todd, and Lakota visual traditions. “Dana Claxton: Spark”, a solo exhibition highlighting the artist’s fireboxes, is currently on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art as part of the initiative “Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum”. Claxton’s work has been exhibited internationally at the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Canada, Walker Art Centre and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, amongst others. In 2023, she was awarded the prestigious Audain Prize, and in 2021, the Scotiabank Photography Award. Claxton is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. Her family's reserve is Wood Mountain Lakota First Nations located in SW Saskatchewan. She resides in Vancouver, BC.