Daya Cahen was born in Amsterdam in 1969. She makes photographs, videos and video installations. She studied photography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and was selected as one of the four most promising recent graduates to have the opportunity to present her work at Rietveld Arsenale that was held during the Venice Biennale. Cahen’s work revolves around propaganda, indoctrination and the manipulative powers of the media. Her work was shown at the Moscow MoMa, De Appel Arts Centre (Amsterdam), Wiels Contemporary Art Centre (Brussels), Platform Garanti (Istanbul), Institut Néerlandais (Paris), and was nominated for a Golden Bear (short film) at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2007.