California based artist Alison O'Daniel was born in 1979 and at age three was diagnosed with 60% binaural loss of hearing; her later work would focus on sound as a topic, an image, and an organizing principle.She studied at the University of California in Irvine and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio in 2003, more recently she has been involved with the California College of the Arts in the Bay Area.Her current projects involve gallery installations,and activist engagement with the deaf and hard of hearing communities.