Dana Claxton is an interdisciplinary artist working with film and video, installation, performance and photography.

She has taught with the Indigenous Media Arts Group (Vancouver) and Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design (Vancouver). Claxton was the 2003 Global Television Chair at the University of Regina in the School of Journalism where she taught Television and Radio broadcasting from the perspective of critical thinking and experimentation with sound and images. Dana was awarded the prestigious VIVA Award from the Doris and Jack Shadbolt Foundation and in 2007 became an Eiteljorg Fellow sponsored by the Ford Foundation.

Her work is held in public collections, including the Vancouver Art Gallery, Winnipeg Art Gallery and the Art Bank of Canada and Caixiforum Fundacio la Caixa, (Barcelona). Her work has been screened internationally, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Walker Art Centre (Minneapolis), Sundance Festival (Utah) and Microwave in Hong Kong.

She is an active member in the arts community and has participated in panel discussions, juries, curatorial projects, advisory committees, mentoring youth and young artists.