2024

Baltimore Museum of Art, Dana Claxton: Spark, Baltimore MD

2023

Henry Museum, Monsen Lecture Presentation, Seattle, WA

V-Tape at Bachir/Yerex Presentation Space, The Dreaming: Dana Claxton’s video art, curated by Winston Xin, Toronto ON

2021

Ryerson Image Center, Scotiabank Photography Award: Dana Claxton, Toronto ON

2018

Vancouver Art Gallery, Fringing the Cube, Vancouver Canada

The Bentway with Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, A Forest of Canoes, Toronto ON.

2017

Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Dana Claxton: The Camper, Oshawa ON

MacKenzie Art Gallery, The Sioux Project, Regina SK

2016

Audain gallery, Made to be Ready, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver Canada

2015

Tribe & AKA, Dana Claxton: Revisited, Saskatoon SK

2014

28 Billboards Across Canada, INDIAN CANDY

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, INDIAN CANDY, Victoria Canada

Your KONTINENT, VIDEO TIPI, Media Arts Festival, Richmond Canada

2013

Media Gallery, University of Concordia, ON SET – THE MUSTANG SUITE, Montreal QC

Winsor Gallery, INDIAN CANDY, Vancouver Canada

2012

Wanuskewin Heritage Park Gallery, The People Dance, Saskatoon SK

Urban Shaman Gallery, TXT4WPG, Winnipeg MB

2011

Gallery@501, Sitting Bull and the Moose Jaw Sioux, Sherwood Park AB

2010                     

Winsor, New Works by Dana Claxton, Vancouver Canada

2009                     

University of Lethbridge Gallery, To Mark on Surface, Lethbridge AB

On Main, The Barbarian, Vancouver Canada

2008 

Keyano Art Gallery, Dana Claxton Video Art 1994-2007, Fort McMurray AB

Alternator Gallery, The Mustang Suite, Kelowna Canada

2007                     

Grunt Gallery, Starting From Home, Vancouver BC. Online Retrospective

Thames Art Gallery, Sitting Bull and the Moose Jaw Sioux, Chatham ON

Esplanade Art Gallery, Sitting Bull and the Moose Jaw Sioux, Medicine Hat AB

2006                     

Prince Albert Art Gallery, Sitting Bull and the Moose Jaw Sioux, Prince Albert SK

Swift Current Art Gallery, Sitting Bull and the Moose Jaw Sioux, Swift Current SK

2005                     

Surrey Art Gallery, Art of the Canadian Landscape, Surrey Canada

2004 

Moose Jaw Art Gallery, Sitting Bull and the Moose Jaw Sioux, Moose Jaw SK

2003                     

Rialto Gallery, Untitled, Venice, Italy

Change Gallery, The Heart of Everything That Is, Rome, Italy

2002                     

Estevan Art Centre, Buffalo Bone China, Estevan SK

Oboro, Waterspeak, Montréal QC

2000                     

Artspeak, Waterspeak, Vancouver Canada

Kamloops Art Gallery, The Heart of Everything That Is, Kamloops Canada

Vancouver Art Gallery, Dana Claxton: The Red Paper, Vancouver Canada

1997                     

Tribe & AKA, Buffalo Bone China, Saskatoon SK

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Benjamin Lumb Art House, The Portfolio Show, Vancouver Canada

Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Resistance, Oshawa ON

Phillips New York, New Terrains: Contemporary Native American Art, New York, NY

Javits Center, The Armory Show, New York City, NY

National Gallery of Canada, Radical Stitch, Ottawa ON

Art Gallery of Alberta, Records and Remembrance: A Selection of Recent Acquisitions, Edmonton AB

2023                      

Minneapolis Institute of Art, In Our Hands: Native Photography, 1890 to Now, Minneapolis, MN

Hessel Museum of Art, Indian Theater: Native Art, Performance and Self-Determination since 1969, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Santa Monica Airport, Frieze LA, Los Angeles, CA

Heard Museum, Early Days: Indigenous Art from the McMichael, Phoenix AZ

2022

Owens Art Gallery, The Baroness Elsa Project, Sackville NB

2021

Art Gallery of Alberta, Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts 2020, Edmonton AB

Carleton University Art Gallery, The Baroness Elsa Project, Ottawa ON

2019

Minneapolis Institute of Art, Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists, Minneapolis, MN

Walter Phillips Gallery, Carry Forward Tour, Banff AB

Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950 to Now, Durham, NC

2018

Dunlop Gallery, Carry Forward Tour, Regina SK

Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Beginning with the Seventies, Vancouver Canada

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now, Bentonville, AR

2017

Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Carry Forward, Waterloo ON

Onsite Gallery, Raise a Flag: Works from the Indigenous Art Collection, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto ON

Gallery 44, What Does One Do With Such a Clairvoyant Image?, Toronto ON

2016

Audain Museum, Inaugural Exhibition, Whistler Canada

Nuit Blanche, Modest Eyes, Montreal QC

2015

Monte Clark gallery, Traces That Resemble Us, Vancouver Canada; in conjunction with artists’ picks of relating movies shown at the Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver Canada: Dog Day Afternoon by Sidney Lumet

Remai Modern Art Gallery, Sky Doodle, Saskatoon SK

Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Plains Indians Sky and Land, New York NY, USA

IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native American Arts, You Are On Indian Land, Santa Fe NM, USA

2014

Ottawa Art Gallery, In the Flesh, Ottawa ON

Ryerson Image Centre, GHOST DANCE: ACTIVISM. RESISTANCE. ART. Toronto ON

Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Beat Nation, Montréal QC

2013

Nuit Blanche, The Uplifting, The Offering, The Crawl, video installation, Toronto ON

Power Plant, Beat Nation, Toronto ON

Mendel Art Gallery, Steeling the Gaze, Saskatoon SK

Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art à Paris, Contemporary Art & Indigenous Identities, Paris, France

2012

Kelowna Art Gallery, Steeling the Gaze, Kelowna Canada

2011

Vancouver Art Gallery, Beat Nation, Vancouver Canada

Vancouver Art Gallery, The Audain Collection, Vancouver Canada

Samstag Museum, Stop(the Gap): International Indigenous Art, Adelaide Australia

Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Steeling the Gaze, Thunder Bay ON

McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Steeling the Gaze, Kleinburg ON

Dalhousie Art Gallery, Steeling the Gaze, Halifax NS

Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Fierce: Women’s Hot-Blooded Video and Film, Oshawa ON

2010

McMaster Museum of Art, Fierce: Women’s Hot-Blooded Video/Film, Hamilton ON

Oakville Galleries, Diabolique, Oakville ON

Galerie de I’UQAM, Diabolique, Université du Quebec, Montréal QC

MOCCA, The Mechanical Bride, Toronto ON

2009

National Gallery of Canada, Steeling the Gaze, Ottawa ON

Dunlop Art Gallery, Diabolique, Regina SK

Mackenzie Art Gallery, Buffalo Bone China, Regina SK

2008

Art Gallery of Alberta, Face the Nation, Edmonton AB

Winnipeg Art Gallery, 18 Illuminations Contemporary Art and Light, Winnipeg MB

2007

Eiteljorg Museum, Eiteljorg Fellowship, Indianapolis IN, USA

St. Mary’s University Gallery, 18 Illuminations Contemporary Art and Light,  Halifax NS

MacLaren Art Centre, 18 Illuminations Contemporary Art and Light, Barrie ON

2006

Vancouver Art Gallery, 75 Years of Collecting: First Nations Myths and Realities, Canada

Robert McLaughlin Gallery, 18 Illuminations: Contemporary Art and Light, Oshawa ON

Art Gallery of Peterborough, 18 Illuminations: Contemporary Art and Light, Peterborough ON

2005

Tom Thomson Gallery, 18 Illuminations: Contemporary Art and Light, Owen Sound ON

Winnipeg Art Gallery, Back/Flash, Winnipeg MB

Walter Phillips Gallery, Back/Flash, Banff AB

2004

MOCCA, A History Lesson, Toronto ON

Guangdong Museum of Art, Gatherings: Aboriginal Art -WAG Collection, Guangzhou, China

2003

Walter Phillips Gallery, BACK/FLASH, Banff AB

Museum of Natural History, Gatherings: Aboriginal Art -WAG Collection, Taipei, Taiwan.

Folly Gallery, Vancouver Video, Lancaster, United Kingdoms

Huashan Arts District, Magnetic North, Taipei, Taiwan

Power Plant, Magnetic North, Toronto ON

Centre d’art Contemporain Basse-Normandie, Video Art Plastique, Hérouville-Saint-Clair, France
Cube Microplex, Bluescreen Presents: Redscreen, Bristol, United Kingdoms

2002

Galleria di Nuova Icona, Vancouver Video, Venezia Italia

2001

Plug In, Magnetic North, Winnipeg MB

Art Gallery of Hamilton, Magnetic North, Hamilton ON

Harvard Film Archives, Magnetic North, Cambridge MA, USA

 Canadian Trade Office, Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan

TRIBE, Beyond Tonto II, Saskatoon SK

2000

Walker Arts Centre, Magnetic North, Minneapolis MN, USA

Video Pool, Magnetic North Tour, Winnipeg MB

Vancouver Art Gallery, From the Collection -The Red Paper, Vancouver Canada

Mackenzie Art Gallery, New Acquisitions Buffalo Bone China, Regina SK

Hong Kong U of Science & Technology, Centrifugal Vision-Video Circle, Hong Kong, China

Canada House, UK/Canadian Video Exchange 2000, London, United Kingdoms

Western Front, Scope, Vancouver Canada

1998

Open Space, Red Interiors, Victoria Canada

 Walter Phillips Gallery, Beauty and the Beast, Banff AB

Surrey Art Gallery, Red Interiors, Surrey Canada

EM MEDIA, Red Interiors, Calgary AB

Nanaimo Art Gallery, Red Interiors, Nanaimo Canada

Tribe, Beyond Tonto, Saskatoon SK

1996

Vancouver Art Gallery, topographies, Vancouver Canada

Presentation House, Urban Fictions, North Vancouver Canada

Audain Collection

Art Gallery of Alberta

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

Baltimore Museum of Art

Caixiforum Fundacio la Caixa, Barcelona Spain

Canada Council Art Bank

CDN Trade Office Taipei

Colby College Museum of Art

Dalhousie University Art Gallery

Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis IN  

Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada

Forge Projects

Getty Museum

Henry Art Gallery

The Image Centre

Kamloops Art Gallery

MacKenzie Art Gallery

McMichael Canadian Art Collection

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery

Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery

Museum of Modern Art

National Gallery of Canada

Native and Inuit Art Collection, Ottawa ON

Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art

Private and Corporate Collections

Remai Modern, Saskatoon, SK

The Robert McLaughlin Gallery

Saskatchewan Arts Board

Scotiabank Fine Art Program

Seattle Art Museum

Surrey Art Gallery

TD Bank Collection

Tom Thomson Gallery

University of Arizona State Gallery

University of Toronto

University of Wyoming Art Museum

Vancouver Art Gallery

Winnipeg Art Gallery

Bishop’s University

California Institute of the Arts

Camosun College

Carleton University SSAC

Concordia University

Emily Carr University

First Nations University of Canada

Kwantlen University

McMaster University

Michigan State University

Mount Royal College

Nova Scotia College of Art & Design

Okanagan University

Ontario College of Art & Design

Queens University

Rochester Institute of Technology

Simon Fraser University

Trent University

University of British Columbia

University of Calgary

University of Lethbridge

University of Manitoba

University of New Brunswick

University of Oklahoma

University of Ottawa

University of Regina

University of Saskatchewan

University of Saskatoon

University of Texas

University of Toronto

University of Victoria

University of Washington

University of Western Ontario

University of Winnipeg

Vancouver Public Library

White Mountain Academy

Xwi7xwa Library/UBC

York University

2023

imagineNATIVE Film+Media Arts Festival, Centre for Aboriginal Media, Toronto, ON

2019

imagineNATIVE Film+Media Arts Festival, Centre for Aboriginal Media, Toronto, ON

2018

imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, Centre for Aboriginal Media, Toronto ON

2013

imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, Centre for Aboriginal Media, Toronto ON

Art Star 5 Video Biennial, SAW gallery, Ottawa ON

Cold Cuts Video Festival, Dawson City YT

2012

Queer City Cinema 9, Saskatchewan FilmPool Cooperative, Regina SK

UNCP’s Biennial American Indian Art Series, U of North Carolina, Pembroke NC, USA

2010

Vancouver Queer Film Festival, Out on Screen, Vancouver Canada

Terres en Vues, Festival Présence Autochtone, Montréal QC

WNDX, Festival of Moving Image, Winnipeg MB

Sydney Underground Film Festival, the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Antimatter, Open Space Arts, Victoria Canada

2008

9th imagineNATIVE Film and New Media Festival, Centre for Aboriginal Media, Toronto ON

21st Images Festival, Toronto ON

Aboriginal Film Fest, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops Canada

Regent Park Film Festival, Toronto ON

Edges Film & Video Festival, MediaNet, Victoria Canada

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Paris France

Dreamspeakers First Nations Film and Video Festival, Edmonton AB

Vancouver International Film Festival, Cineworks, Vancouver Canada

2007

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Paris France

Métis Media Fest, Ottawa ON

2006

Imagine Native: Transmediale Festival for Art and Digital Culture, Berlin,

Six of One, A Half Dozen of the Other, Images Festival of Independent Film and Video, Anthology Film Archives, New York City NY, USA

“Spatial Poetics,” Powell Street Festival, Vancouver Canada

Terres en Vues, Festival Présence Autochtone, Montréal QC

Video de Femmes dans le Parc, Groupe Intervention Video, Montréal QC

2005

Victoria Independent Film & Video Festival, Victoria Canada

Art Star Video Art Biennial, SAW Gallery, Ottawa ON

Microwave International Media Art Festival, Hong Kong, China

IMAGeNation 7th Annual Film & Video Festival, Indigenous Media Arts Group, Vancouver, Canada

Herland Feminist Film and Video Festival, Calgary AB

Reel Femme Film Festival, Edmonton’s Women’s Film Society, Edmonton AB

Guelph International Film Festival, Guelph International Resource Centre, Guelph ON

Terres en Vues, Festival Présence Autochtone, Montréal QC

ImagineNATIVE Film Festival, Centre for Aboriginal Media, Toronto ON

Tallgrass Film Festival, Wichita KS, USA

2004

Herland Feminist Film and Video Festival, Calgary AB

ImagineNATIVE Film Festival, Centre for Aboriginal Media, Toronto ON

Reconstructing Canada Program, Northern Travelling Film Festival Russia, Canadian Cultural Embassy, Moscow, Russia

IMAGeNation Annual Film & Video Festival, Indigenous Media Arts Group, Vancouver, Canada

Terres en Vues, Festival Présence Autochtone, Montréal QC

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris France

Rim Shots Media Arts Festival, Cineworks, Vancouver Canada

2003

ImagineNATIVE Film Festival, Centre for Aboriginal Media, Toronto ON

Winnipeg Aboriginal Film and Video Festival, Winnipeg MB

WRO Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland

2002

4th Biannual Queer City Cinema, Saskatchewan FilmPool Cooperative, Regina SK

Herland Feminist Film and Video Festival, Calgary AB

Terres en Vues, Festival Présence Autochtone, Montréal QC

“Stealing to Subvert,” New Forms Festival, Vancouver Canada

2001

14th Annual Images Film Festival, Toronto ON

Herland Feminist Film and Video Festival, Calgary AB

ImagineNATIVE Film Festival 2001 and Tour, Centre for Aboriginal Media, Toronto ON

WIAM’s 12th annual One World Film Festival, Ottawa ON

Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto ON

2000

The Feminine in Indigenous Film and Video, the First Annual Iskwew Festival, Winnipeg MB

Film Festival Indian Summer, Staatliche Museen Zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

1999

Tranz-Tech, Toronto International Video Art Biennial, Vtape, Toronto ON

1998

ALL OVER THE MAP, Freewaves’ 6th Festival of New Media Art, Los Angeles CA, USA

IMAGeNation Annual Film & Video Festival, Indigenous Media Arts Group, Vancouver, Canada

1997

Dreamspeakers First Nations Film and Video Festival, Edmonton AB

2019

Toronto Biennial of Art, Toronto ON

2011

The Elsewhere, LIVE Bienalle, Western Front, Vancouver Canada

2010

Museum of Contemporary Art, The Distance of Beauty Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, 17th Biennale Sydney, Sydney, Australia

2007

Biennale de Montréal, Crack the Sky, Montréal QC

2006

Musée Malraux, Continuum, Biennale d’art contemporain du Havre, Le Havre, France

2023

Audain Prize for the Visual Arts, recipient.

2022 

Melva J. Dwyer Award for the publication The Sioux Project – Tatanka Oyate, recipient.

2020

Scotiabank Photography Award, recipient

Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts, recipient, nominated by Denise Ryner, Director/Curator of the Or Gallery

2019                     

Hnatyshyn Foundation Mid-Career Award, recipient

YWCA Woman of Distinction Award, Arts, Culture & Design, recipient

2017                    

bp Nichol Chapbook Award, Above/ground Press. Shortlisted

2016                     

Mayor’s Award for Art, City of Vancouver, recipient

Scotia Bank Photography Award, longlist, nominated by chief curator of the Vancouver Art Gallery Daina Augaitis

2014                     

Best Cinematography for “He Who Dreams”. Art film feature Director and Executive

Producer. Presence Autochthone Montreal First Peoples Festival Artistic Innovation

2013                     

Best Experimental for “He Who Dreams”. Feature Art film. Director and Executive Producer. ImagiNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival, Toronto Ontario.

2012                     

Artistic Innovation Award. WIFTW (Woman in Film and Television) Vancouver Canada

2007                     

Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art. Peer assessed granted by the Eiteljorg                             

Museum for American Indians and Western Art, sponsored by the Ford and Lily Foundations

2006                     

Outstanding Contribution Aboriginal Screen Culture. Indigenous Media Arts Group, Vancouver Canada. (Blanketed with a Pendleton Wool Blanket).

2005                     

VIVA Award. Peer assessed awards to given to Vancouver artists from the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation, Vancouver Canada.

2002                     

Best Multi Media “Ablakela – CDROM of performance work.” ImagiNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival.

1997                     

Best Experimental in Short Drama for “The Red Paper.” Dreamspeakers First Nations Film and Video Festival.