Danielle April studied at the École des beaux-arts de Québec. She has worked in numerous media including printmaking, sculpture, painting, installation, and photography. Her work has been exhibited extensively in Québec as well as elsewhere in Canada and in Europe. Danielle April is often commissioned to create site-specific artwork for public buildings throughout Québec. After having taught for fifteen years in the arts, Danielle now works exclusively on her art practice. She has also spent three years as the president of le Regroupement des Artistes en Arts Visuels du Québec (RAAV) which is the professional association devoted to advocating the rights of visual artists in Québec. Danielle has received numerous grants and awards.

Her main preoccupation, in the past four years, has been with photography. Her specific interest is with the duality of the essence of photography; which she sees as a dyslexic medium, in that it is a medium of double meanings: a positive and a negative; reality and its reproduction. In the universe everything has its double; what we see in the world is only the reflection of another reality. In her photographic work Danielle considers photographs as strata; she works with layers of time in an attempt to shift boundaries which appear too fixed. She wants to subvert the underlying belief in the photograph as evidence of truth.