Born in Sydney, Australia, Toronto based artist Dara Gellman’s video / installation works have been presented across Canada and internationally in over 80 exhibitions and screenings. Dara’s practice is concerned with the feminist intersections between appropriation and adaptation, exploring the possibilities of transforming text to image, image to screen, and screen to space.
Dara’s work has premiered at prestigious venues that include the Sydney International Film Festival (Australia), International Festival of Films on Art (Montreal), Centre d'Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie (France), and has been exhibited and screened at numerous international venues including Oakville Galleries (Canada), The Power Plant (Toronto), Anthology Film Archives (New York), Transmediale (Berlin), Warsaw International Media Art Bienniale (Poland) and Image Forum Festival (Japan) amongst many others.
Dara completed her Master of Visual Studies at the University of Toronto in 2008, was a 2009/2010 recipient of Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council production grants for her new installation work pearlmaiden, as well as a 2011 Canada Council Scriptwriting Grant recipient towards an as yet untitled project. Dara was a 2010 Banff New Media Institute Liminal Screen co-production resident, and her work was featured in a limited edition print in the 2010 academic journal Interfaces: Image, Text, Language co-published by the Université Paris 7 and College of the Holy Cross. Dara’s four screen video installation Reaching Out was recently exhibited at Diaz Contemporary (Toronto) in Summer 2011, and her new work pearlmaiden will be exhibited in a solo exhibition at Diaz Contemporary in early 2012.
  
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