Daniela Ortiz is a Mexican-born visual artist, currently leaving and working in Montreal. She explores issues of cultural identity, assimilation and dislocation through portraiture in a variety of mediums such as photography, drawing, embroidery and more recently animation.
She has an undergraduate degree in visual arts from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM), a certificate in photography from the International Centre of Photography and she is a recent graduate from the MFA program in studio arts-Intermedia at Concordia University.