EDUCATION
2000 MFA, Open Media, Concordia University, Montréal, PQ
1994 Diploma, Sculpture, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, AB
AWARDS
2007 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Artistic Research and Creation
2006 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Travel Grant
2005 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Travel Grant
2004 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Artistic Research and Creation
2003 Canada Council Travel Grant
2002 Canada Council Travel Grant
2000 Best Comedy/Audience Choice Award for "How to Fake an Orgasm" PlanetOut Queer Short Movie Awards
RESIDENCIES
2004 Charles Street Video and Images Festival project, "Fear Factory", Toronto, ON
2004 Studio 303, "The Home Show", Montréal, PQ
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND FEATURED SCREENINGS
2008 Episodes 3 and 4 of Hot Hot Gossip, a 6-part theatrical series, presented by Edgy Women Workshop Productions and Studio 303, Montreal, PQ
2008 Episodes 1 and 2 of Hot Hot Gossip, a 6-part theatrical series, presented by Edgy Women Festival and Studio 303, Montreal, PQ
2007 queerotic FAQ! festival, Krakow, Poland
2005 "Pleasure Zone" as part of the LHOOQ programme at Le Festival de Films Gays et Lesbiens de Paris, France
2003 "An Evening with Video and Performance Artist Dayna McLeod", Groupe Intervention Vidéo, Cinémathèque Québécoise, Montréal, PQ
2000 "Stalk Me", Cinéma de Sève, Concordia University, Montréal, PQ
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (PERFORMANCE AND VIDEO)
2008 Get Real Queer, Babylon, Ottawa, ON
2008 "Gender Alarm: New Feminisms In Contemporary Art", La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal, PQ
2008 "Factory Project", Eastern Bloc, presented by OUT Productions and Studio 303, Montreal, PQ 2008 "Art Dissident Art", The Art and Anarchy Volunteer Collective, Montreal, PQ
2008 DADA Cabaret, Festival Voix d’Amériques Sala Rossa, Montreal, PQ
2007 "Car Wash!" Grand Prix Intervention, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal, PQ
2006 "Global Queeries: Sexualities, Globalities, Postcolonialities", University of Western Ontario Conference, London, ON (Curator: Anthea Black)
2006 "Prairie Tales", touring Albertan video artist programme organized by Metro Cinema Society, Edmonton, AB (Curator: Paul Williams)
2006 "Signal and Noise: a celebration of sonic and media inspirations", Video In Studios, Vancouver, B.C.
2006 "Transit Traversées" touring program for GIV's 30th anniversary, Groupe Intervention Video/Video In, Vancouver, B.C.
2006 "Edgy Women XIII", Studio 303: Sala Rosa, Montréal, PQ
2006 "Classical/Digital: part two-new developments in animation art", Art Gallery Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS
2005 "Flesh of the Word", Ed Video, Guelph ON (Curator: Robert Brandstetter)
2004 "Hysteria: A Festival of Women", Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto, ON
2004 "Vidéos de femmes dans le parc/Videos by Women in the Park", Groupe Intervention Video outdoor screening at Théâtre de Verdure du Parc La Fontaine, Montreal PQ (programme touring to: Daïmõn: Hull PQ, Paraloeil, Rimouski PQ, and Vaste et Vague, Carleton ON)
2004 "Fear Factory", Images Festival, Toronto, ON
2004 "Edgy Women XI", Studio 303, Montréal, PQ (collaboration with Jackie Gallant)
2004 "The Home Show", Studio 303, Montréal, PQ (Curators: Paul Caskey and Miriam Ginestier)
2003 "VROOM! video/velocity v=d/t", The Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, NS
2003 "Gobsmacked! A revel of offbeat expression", Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON (Curator: Jenn Goodwin)
2003 "Networkings - interpersonal dimensions in new media art", Centre for Art Tapes, Kyber Media Centre, NSCAD, Halifax, NS (Curator: Liz MacDougall)
2003 "Body Arts: Insides, Outsides and Sidesteps", Media Forum, Moscow, Russia (Curator: Katherine Liberovskaya)
2003 "Screenwise: Sites And Scenarios for Contemporary Feminist Film and TV Studies", Vienna, Austria (Curator: Mikki Muhr)
2003 "Best of Show", The Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI
2002 "Genres d'à côté ASBL", Brussels, Belgium
2001 Dunlop Art Gallery's Art Research Centre, Regina, SK
2001 "The Aural Sound Festival", The Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, NS
2000 "Queerks", Ed Video, Guelph, ON (Curators: Hilary Martin and Kris Zalite)
2000 "Video Pranksters", YYZ, Toronto, ON (Curator: Dara Gellman)
SELECTED FESTIVAL SCREENINGS
2007 Big Gay Canada, Ed Video, Guelph, ON
2007 "DAUGHTERS OF JOY! Cinema Soiree", Syracuse Experimental Festival, NY
2007 LGBT Independent Film Screening, SHANGHAI PRIDE!, China
2007 queerotic FAQ! festival, Poznan, Poland
2007 kino.LAB, Modern Art Museum, Warsaw, Poland
2007 entzaubert festival, Berlin, Germany
2007 "The Pleasure Zone", 21st London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, London, UK
2007 Reel Femme '07, Edmonton Women's Film Society, Edmonton, AB
2007 Reelout 2007 queer film+video festival, Kingston, ON
2006 "899 Project", the red house, Vancouver, BC
2006 Kick the Trash Festival, Madrid, Spain
2006 “Femmeuses”, Parc Saint Léger, Centre d’art contemporain, Paris, France
2006 City of Women International Festival of Contemporary Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenija
2006 Impakt Festival, Utrecht, the Netherlands
2006 European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany
2006 Alucine Toronto Latino Film and Video Festival, Toronto, ON
2006 MUFF: Montreal Underground Film Festival, Montreal, PQ
2006 Florence Queer Festival, Italy
2006 Pink Screens, Bruxelles, Belgium
2006 Herland Feminist Film and Video Festival, Calgary, AB
2005 Festival de Experimentación Artística en Valencia, Spain
2005 Hi Mom! Film Fest, Chapel Hill, NC
2005 Inside Out, Toronto, ON
2005 Festival of Forbidden Fruit, Victoria BC
2005 Lower West Side Film Festival, New York, NY
2005 Reelout Queer Film and Video Festival, Kingston, ON
2005 Cinemarges, Bordeaux, France
2004 Bergen International Film Festival, Norway
2004 Oslo Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Norway
2004 Connecticut Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
2004 Queer City Cinema, Regina, SK
2004 Turin International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Turin, Italy
2004 ANIMA 04: A Canadian showcase for computer animation, Montreal, PQ,
2004 London Lesbian And Gay Film Festival, London, England
2003 MIX Brasil Festival Of Sexual Diversity, São Paulo, Brasilia, Rio, Brazil
2003 Reeling Chicago Film Festival, Chicago IL
2003 Kombat: Queer Feminist Film Festival, Stockholm, Sweden
2003 The New Festival, New York, NY
2003 Women in the Director's Chair, Chicago, IL
2003 Images Festival, Toronto, ON
2003 DC Underground Film Festival, WA
2003 11a Edizione del Festival Internazionale del Cinema Lesbico, Milan, Italy
2002 Female Eye Festival, Toronto ON
2002 Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québecois, Montréal, PQ
2002 "5e Manifestation Internationale Vidéo et Art Électronique", Champ Libre, Montréal, PQ
2002 11th Turku Film Festival, Vinokino, Finland
2002 Tampa International Film Festival, FL
2002 15th Instants Video de Manosque, Paris, France
2002 Out-In-Africa Film Festival, Cape Town, South Africa
2002 26th San Francisco International Lesbian And Gay Film Festival
2002 Mardi Gras Festival, Darlinghurst, Australia
2002 Feminale International Women's Film Festival, Cologne, Germany
2002 Oldenburger Filmtage, Germany
2002 Sex and Death Short Film Festival, Toronto, ON
2001 MIX, New York, NY
2001 The Austin Film Festival, TX
2001 Femme Totale: 8th International Women’s Film Festival, Germany
2000 Cineffable, Paris, France
2000 Berlin Lesbian Film Festival, Germany
2000 Seoul Queer Film And Video Festival, Korea
2000 Outfest, Los Angeles, CA
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2007 Artist Talks: queerotic FAQ! festival: Poznan, Krakow, and Warsaw, Poland
2006 Panalist: "Transgression in Canadian and Québec Queer Cinemas", Montréal, PQ
2005 Artist Talk: Festival de Films Gays et Lesbiens de Paris, France
2005 Short Film and Video Jury Member: Image+Nation Montréal, PQ
2004 Artist Talk: Concordia University, Montréal, PQ
2003 Artist Talk: Concordia University, Montréal, PQ
2003 Artist Talk: Nova Scotia Collage of Art and Design, Halifax, NS
2003 Artist Talk: Khyber Media Centre, Halifax, NS
SELECTED MEDIA AND PRESS REVIEWS
Estelle Rosen: Upstage, CKUT 90.3 fm, Montreal, PQ, (Radio Interview), July 24, 2008
Lina Harper: Montréal Mirror, July 31, 2008
Isa Tousignant: "Dyke drama!" Hour, March 6, 2008
Elizabeth Perle: "PERFORMANCE: Juggling, rope spinning and melodrama", The McGill Tribune, Volume 27, Issue 27, April 8, 2008
John Custodio: Queercore, CKUT 90.3 fm, Montreal, PQ, (Radio Interview), March 21, 2008
Mél Hogan: “Performing Politics: An Interview with Dayna McLeod”, www.artthreat.net, September 19, 2007
Nathalie Fougeras: “Post-féminismes et performativités exposés”, www.lacritique.org , February 27, 2007
Thomas Waugh: Movers and Shakers. The Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas , (pp.467). Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006
Christian Zyp: Moving Radio, CJSR FM 88.5 fm, Edmonton, AB (Radio Interview), Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
Nardwuar the Human Serviette: CITR 101.9 fm, Vancouver, BC (Radio Interview), Friday, April 21, 2006
Eleanor Brown: "PayPal's sex panic comes to Canada", www.OpinionatedLesbian.com, May 30, 2005
Sasha: "The Ass Alley Anglers vs. the Pussy Packers!", Montréal Mirror, April 28, 2005
Leila Peacock: "Freedom found in ungartered territory", The McGill Daily, Issue 44, March 24, 2005
Philip Szporer: "Crossing the Line", Hour, March 17, 2005
Gail Scott: "A Sense of Place", Time (Canadian Edition), Volume 164; Issue 19, November 8, 2004
Katherine Gombay: "Art Talks" CBC Radio One, Montreal, PQ(Radio Interview) Saturday, February 20, 2004
Caroline Künzle: CKUT 90.3 fm, Montreal, PQ, (Radio Interview) January 27, 2004
Moira Sullivan: "Special Report: Cineffable Lesbian Film Festival 2002, Paris France", Movie Magazine International, November 2002
Esther Pilon: "Porno Pour Lesbos", ICI, Vol. 5, No 44, Août 2002
Matthew Hayes: "Queer as Film Folk", Montréal Mirror, September 20, 2001
Victoria Stanton and Vincent Tinguely: Impure: Reinventing the Word: The theory, practice, and oral history of ‘spoken word’ in Montréal, Montréal, Conundrum Press, 2001
Victoria Stanton and Vincent Tinguely: "Is Spoken Word Literature?", Matrix, Vol 57, Summer/Fall 2000
Thomas Hirschmann: "Sex, Smurfs and video tapes", National Post, p. W 14. July 8, 2000
SELECTED PUBLISHED WRITING
"Straight Queerness and Alternative Models for Manhood: Paul Litherland, Absolutely Fabulous", CV Photo Magazine, "Mutations", Vol. 75, Spring 2007
“Pierre Tremblay: Portraits in a Sentence”, exhibition essay, Galerie Observatoire 4, Montréal, PQ, Nov. 2005
“Pierre Dalpé: Personae”, exhibition essay, Galerie Observatoire 4, Montréal, PQ, May, 2005
"Performance and Photography" Review of exhibition at Dazibao, CV Photo Magazine, "Portraits", Vol. 65, Fall 2004
"Stretching Identity to Fit: the Many Faces of Photographer Nikki Lee", CV Photo Magazine, "Persona", Vol. 63, Spring 2004
"Tattooed innocence with post-punk appeal", CV Photo Magazine, "Corps/Bodies", Vol. 58, Summer 2002 (Feature article on photographer Marissa Portolese)
"Alexa Wright" Review of exhibition at Articule, CV Photo Magazine, "Identités / Identities", Vol. 53, Winter 2001
"Alive and Kicking", Hour, January 25, 2001 (Interview with Coco Fusco)
"Conversion Stories: A Silo/A Boarding House/A Foundry", MIX Magazine, Vol. 26 No. 2, fall 2000 (Cover Story on in-situ artist projects in Montréal)
1999-2001: Arts Writer for Hour Magazine
Wrote over 150 articles and reviews on cultural events, exhibitions, and artists. Highlights include interviews with Pipilotti Rist, Coco Fusco, Massimo Guerrera, Valérie Lamontagne, Ike Ude Kids in the Hall.
COLLECTIONS
Ace Art, Winnipeg, MA
Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, AB
Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC
The Museum of New Art (MONA) Detroit, MI
Outfest Legacy Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive, Los Angeles, CA
Windsor Feminist Theatre, ON
Obra Social Fundación “la Caixa”, Barcelona, Spain
Bildkraft, Berlin, Germany
Private Collections
