Dayna McLeod is a middle-ageing queer performance and video artist. She is a Settler Canadian who has lived and worked in Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal/Montreal for the past 20+ years. She approaches pop culture, queerness, age, and feminism with humour using performance-based practices.
Dayna’s work has been presented at Impakt Festival in Utrecht Netherlands, the Mardi Gras Festival in Darlinghurst Australia, MIX Brasil Festival Of Sexual Diversity in São Paulo Brazil, the Modern Art Museum in Warsaw Poland, Le Centre d’art contemporain in Paris, the Abrons Art Center in NYC, the Tang Teaching Museum in Saratoga Springs, the OFFTA and Les Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois in Montreal, and the Summerworks Theatre Festival in Toronto. She is also part-time faculty at the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at McGill University, and at Concordia University in various humanities and fine arts departments. She has a PhD from The Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture at Concordia University.
P. Lantz Initiative for Excellence in Education & the Arts 