About

Léa Donnan is an artist, curator and educator specializing in interdisciplinary and culturally hybrid practicies. Her work centers on reshaping cultural tropes, fostering greater accessibility in the arts, and opening new possibilities through storytelling.

Currently she is focused on socially engaged and curatorial projects with a groundbreaking American institution recognized nationally by The White House, 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 experience, 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, weaving with decaying systems entangled in the shifting forces of global culture and technology. 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 from Indonesia to Saudi Arabia and Iceland placing her at the interstice of continually interwoven culture and politics. She currently resides in Western Massachusetts, USA