Dana Salisbury is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans visual art, performance, and writing, unified by a lifelong investigation into perception, sensory experience, and the unseen dimensions of human awareness.

Her early career in visual art explored spatial disorientation and perceptual play through mixed-media installations and dimensional paintings exhibited at venues like The Drawing Center, DeCordova Museum, and Real Art Ways. Series like Wahconah Reconstruction and Forests and X-Reflections examined the instability of seeing and the impossibility of a fixed point of view.

In the 1990s and 2000s, Salisbury extended these ideas into dance, site-specific work, and participatory performance. Major works include Unseen Dances, Stone’s War, and Whoopee in the Dark, performed throughout New York City and beyond. Her acclaimed Dark Dining Projects—in which blindfolded guests dined in complete darkness transformed eating into an act of heightened awareness—unfolded at venues such as Camaje Bistro in NYC, Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, Science Gallery in Dublin, and KO Festival of Performance in MA. She is a recipient of a New York Dance and Performance Award (“Bessie”) and numerous residencies and fellowships.

Salisbury’s recent focus turns to language as a site of perception and transformation. Her poems and prose have appeared in Temporal Lobe, LIT Magazine, Meat for Tea, The Ekphrastic Review, Months to Years, and Nashville Review.

She lives in Easthampton, Massachusetts.