Dana Claxton

Claxton's photograph in this auction is part of a series entitled The Mustang Suite, inspired by Black Elk's vision of the Horse Dance. The young warrior pictured wears track pants in place of traditional Sioux leggings, thus creating a moment of collapse between the contemporary and the traditional, reinforcing how traditional cultures thrive in contemporary realities.

Dana Claxton works in film, video, installation, photography, performance art, curation and the aboriginal broadcast industry. Her video installations and photography are held in such public collections as The National Gallery of Canada, Vancouver Art Gallery, Winnipeg Art Gallery, MacKenize Art Gallery, Art Bank of Canada, Eitlejorg Museum, Caixiforum Fundacio la Caixa, Barcelona, Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery and The Saskatchawen Arts Board. Her works have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art (NY), Walker Art Centre (MN), Sundance Film Festival (UT), and Microwave (Hong Kong). She is a recipient of the Shadbolt Foundation's VIVA Award and in 2007 became an Eiteljorg Fellow supported by the Lily Foundation. In 2008 Claxton presented her new series of work The Mustang Suite as part of a panel discussion at the Getty Institute in LA. The Mustang Suite is currently on exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada as part of the exhibition Stealing the Gaze.