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b. 1959, Yorkton, Saskatchewan
First Nations Affiliation: Lakota Sioux

Dana Claxton is socially committed in her work as a photographer, illustrator, performance artist and filmmaker. Rich in symbol, metaphor, and analysis of language and stereotypes, her work in film and video addresses the destruction and grief wrought by the imposition of Euroamerican values, customs, and systems upon the original inhabitants of the Americas. Claxton also works outside traditional ‘fine art’ spaces and addresses general audiences on television, in shopping malls, and city streets.

 

R E C E N T   E X H I B I T I O N S / P E R F O R M A N C E S

1998 Red Interiors: A Look into First Nations Video.
Surrey Art Gallery, British Columbia

Beauty and the Beast.
Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta
1996-97 Topographies: Aspects of Recent British Columbia Art.
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
1996 Reviewing Canadian Video.
Open Space, Victoria, British Columbia

Urban Fictions.
Presentations House, North Vancouver, British Columbia
1995 New View 95.
Media Arts Centre, Columbia, South Carolina; Herland Festival, Calgary Status of Women; Women's International Film and Video Festival, Winnipeg, Manitoba
1994 SA (revisited).
Treaty 4, Standing Buffalo, Saskatchewan

Bench Remarks. Public Art of the Bus Benches.
Society for Non-Commercial Art, Vancouver, British Columbia

Racing Thru Space.
Artspeak, Vancouver, British Columbia

Walking with Ancients.
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1993 Tree of Consumption.
Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
1991 Ten Little Poems.
Neo-Nativist Pitt Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia


S E L E C T E D   B I B L I O G R A P H Y

Bell, Lynne. Urban Fictions. Essays by Rosa Ho; prose works by Marilyn Dumont & Larisa Lai. North Vancouver, British Columbia: Presentation House Gallery, 1997.

Mastai, Judith. "The elevation of BC art." C Magazine, no. 52 (February - April 1997): 24-27.

Richardson, Joan, Robin Metcalfe, and Charlotte Townsend-Gault. "Full houses." Canadian Art 14, no. 1 (Spring 1997): 62-71. [Reviews of: Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art '96, London Life Young Contemporaries '96, and Topographies: Aspects of Recent BC Art]

Vancouver Art Gallery. Topographies: Aspects of Recent British Columbia Art. Vancouver, British Columbia: Douglas & McIntyre, 1996.

 
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