Bio
Dayna McLeod is queer performance-based media artist. Her work uses humour, and capitalizes on exploiting the body’s social and material conditions using cabaret, duration, remix, video, and installation practices.
Her interests of artistic and theoretical research are in media representations of sexuality, queer identity, and how bodies marked female are perceived as public property.
She won numerous awards, including Le Prix Powerhouse from La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse in 2014 that celebrates mid-career women artists who have significantly contributed to the cultural life of Montréal, various Audience Choice Awards at film and video festivals like the Prix du Public in the Experimental category at Cineffable, Festival International du film Lesbian et Feminist de Paris in 2019, and Best Video Essay mentions from the British Film Institute in 2021, 2022, and 2023.