Artist Bio

Darren Douglas Floyd was born in Ann Arbor, MI in 1972.  He received his B.A. in Women’s Studies from the College of Wooster in 1994 and his M.F.A. in Film and Media Arts from Temple University in 2001. Darren is an artist whose studio practice combines animation, digital video and zines. His creative practice redeploys subversive feminist production strategies to interrogate masculinity.  CancerGram, his 2017 Instagram diary based on having stage 4 cancer, is an experimental storytelling practice disseminated through social media.  His 2020 social media essay, Drastic Treatment, considers the Donald Trump era through the lens of androgen deprivation therapy.