Daina Higgins is a multimedia artist based in New York, NY. She is originally from Columbus where she graduated from the Fort Hayes High School. She attended pre-college programs at The Ohio State University, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Pratt Institute, before going to the School of Visual Arts in New York, where she received her BFA in 2001, followed by an MFA from the Queens College CUNY in 2009. Her works have been exhibited in galleries and museums around the country including Contemporary Art Matters, Columbus, OH, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York City, NY, The Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH, The Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY, the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia, PA, SUNY Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY and The Cosmopolitan Club of Philadelphia, PA. She has been awarded multiple Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grants, as well as the Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA grant and the Silas H. Rhodes Merit Scholarship. In 2021, Daina had a solo exhibition, Pandemic/Protest, at Contemporary Art Matters, Columbus, OH and in 2023 was part of a virtual exhibition Summertime 2023: A Virtual Exhibition with Contemporary Art Matters, Columbus OH.