About

Léa Donnan is an artist, curator and educator specializing in interdisciplinary and culturally hybrid practices. Championing greater visibility for artists of all backgrounds, she is passionate about empowering young artists and viewers alike in both traditional and hybrid spaces.

She is focused on socially engaged educational and curatorial collaborations, most recently working with a groundbreaking American institution recognized nationally byt The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Christian Science Monitor, The Boston Globe, and on National Public Radio.

Her personal practice draws on a range of personal and multicultural experiences, engaging in detailed research that references wider fields of activity in science, technological theory, and folk discourse. Seeking to understand human nature through migratory systems, network theory, and poetics, she positions herself as a new-world artisan, investigating both domestic and industrial ‘patterning’ entangled in the shifting tides of technology and global culture. Her practice catalogues and remixes the communal history of materials as part of a wider cultural narrative.

A French born Australian citizen, who has spent a large portion of life semi nomadic, her work has been influenced by personal experiences while embedded in foreign communities around the world, placing her at the interstice of continually interwoven global culture reflecting systems of exchange in all forms. She currently resides in Western Massachusetts, USA