Gisela McDaniel (b. 1995, Bellevue, Nebraska) is a diasporic Indigenous Chamorro artist who lives and works in New York. Her multidisciplinary practice reclaims portraiture as a space for healing, collaboration, and decolonial storytelling. Working closely with women, non-binary, and femme-identifying collaborators, McDaniel combines painting, sound, and found materials to honor personal histories and reclaim agency for voices historically marginalized or silenced. Rooted in her Chamorro heritage from Guåhan (Guam), her work weaves together themes of identity, memory, resilience, and transformation.
McDaniel received her BFA from the University of Michigan in 2019. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is included in major collections such as the Baltimore Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, ICA Miami, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Frye Art Museum, and Blenheim Art Foundation, among others.