Alison O’Daniel
Alison O’Daniel is a visual artist and filmmaker who works with moving image, performance, sculpture, and large-scale installation. Informed by her experiences of being d/Deaf/Hard of Hearing and collaborations with others across the d/Deaf spectrum, including composers, athletes, musicians and actors, O’Daniel builds a visual, aural, and haptic vocabulary that reveals (or proposes) a politics of sound that exceeds the auditory. She has screened and exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. O’Daniel is a United States Artist 2022 Disability Futures Fellow and a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow and has received grants from Ford Foundation; Sundance; Creative Capital; Field of Vision; ITVS; Chicken & Egg; SFFILM. She was included in Filmmaker Magazine’s 2019 25 New Faces of Independent Film issue. She is represented by Commonwealth and Council in Los Angeles. Her film “The Tuba Thieves' premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.