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Dana Schmerzler grew up making artwork alongside her father. She was influenced by Wassily Kandinsky, Louise Nevelson and Edward Steichen from an early age, which set the tone for the multimedia work that she currently creates. Schmerzler received her BFA in Photography from SUNY New Paltz in May 2015. She currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.
Her photographs have been featured in various group exhibitions, including VideoFreex: The Art of Guerrilla Television at The Samuel Dorksy Museum of Art, The Annual Photography Exhibition at Greenpoint Gallery in Brooklyn, NY and Art through the Lens at Yeiser Art Center in 2015. In 2014, Schmerzler solo curated The Tipping Point at the Center for Photography in Woodstock and organized Exit at ARTBAR Gallery in Kingston NY in 2015. Dana Schmerzler has work included in The Samuel Dorksy Museum of Art’s Permanent Collection. Schmerzler spent 2020 volunteering in Israel-Palestine and created a body of work about Lod/Lyd - a mixed Israeli and Palestinian city twenty minutes outside of Tel Aviv. She participated in the Nocefresca art residency in Sardinia in 2022.