Eleana Daniel was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, and now lives and works in Chicago. She holds a BFA with honors in Visual Communication from Columbia College Chicago. After an almost decade-long career in advertising as an art director working for agencies such as Ogilvy and Leo Burnett, she returned to painting in 2019. She is currently a second-year MFA candidate in the Painting and Drawing Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Eleana’s work has been featured at Co-Prosperity Sphere, Dragonfly Gallery, Fulton Street Collective, Paper Hat Gallery, Split Rail, Zhou B Center for the Arts, and most recently at Woman Made Gallery where she placed first in the Midwest Open juried show. In 2024 she will participate in a group show In Here Out There at The Plan opening March 1. Eleana has also been the curator of mozart house, a series of DIY group art shows, and a volunteer graphic designer for Comfort Station Logan Square.