Krista-Leigh Davis

Krista-Leigh Davis is a visual artist working in video, animation, and sculpture, living between Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in territory (Dawson City, Yukon) and K’jipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia). With her practice Davis hopes to uncover creative, even fantastical strategies to shift human and non-human relationships towards a more ecologically just world.

Davis’ work explores sites of environmental harm and resistance; the wreckage of extractive systems; and inter-species entanglements through the lenses of post-humanism, animal studies, and queer ecology. Her work has been exhibited at galleries and festivals internationally. Recent highlights include a solo exhibition, The Icehouse Architect, at The Blue Building (Halifax, NS); a featured video projection on the National Arts Centre’s Kipnes Lantern (Ottawa, ON); and a group exhibition at the Beall Center for Art + Technology at UC Irvine (California, USA).

Davis’ media works have screened at film and media arts festivals including IFFF Dortmund/Köln (Germany), the Eugene Environmental Film Festival (Oregon, USA), and the Nunavut International Film Festival (Iqaluit, NU).

She holds a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and an MFA from Arizona State University (2019). Her work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Nova Scotia, and the Yukon Government's Advanced Artist Award.