Alison O'Daniel
Associate Professor, Suraj Israni Endowed Chair in Cinematic Arts
aodaniel@ucsd.edu
Website
https://alisonodaniel.com
Biography
Alison O’Daniel is a visual artist and filmmaker who lives and works in Los Angeles, Calif. She is d/Deaf/Hard of Hearing and explores access and complex embodiment.
O'Daniel has screened and exhibited in galleries and museums internationally, including the Academy Museum, Commonwealth and Council, Redcat, MOCA, JOAN and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow; the Wexner Center, Columbus, OH; Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR; Centro Centro, Madrid, Spain; Renaissance Society, Chicago; Berlin Arsenale, Berlin; Art in General, New York; MCA San Diego; NTU Center for Contemporary Art, Singapore; Centre d’art Contemporain Passerelle, Brest, France; Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia; Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha.
She has received grants from Ford Foundation; Sundance; Creative Capital; Field of Vision; ITVS; Chicken & Egg; SFFILM; Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation; Rema Hort Mann Foundation; Center for Cultural Innovation. She has attended residencies at the Wexner Center Film/Video Studio Program; the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown; and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
O’Daniel was included in Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” Articles on her work have appeared in The New York Times Magazine; Artforum; Los Angeles Times; BOMB; and ArtReview, among others.
O’Daniel’s film “The Tuba Thieves” premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, and has been included in many other festivals, including MOMA Doc Fortnight, CPH Dox, SFFILM, Sydney Film Festival, Kaleidoskop, Biografilm, and others. O’Daniel is a United States Artist/Mellon Foundation 2022 Disability Futures Fellow, a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow in Film/Video, and a 2019 Creative Capital fellow.
She received an MFA from UC Irvine (2010), a postgraduate diploma in fine arts at Goldsmiths College, University of London (2005), and a bachelor’s degree from Cleveland Institute of Art (2003).