Deanna Bowen
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- Associate Professor, Intersectional Feminist and Decolonial 2-D-4D Image Making, Studio Arts
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Supervised programs: Studio Arts (MFA), Humanities (PhD), Individualized Program (PhD)
Research areas: Photography, Experimental Film & Video, Media Art history, Performance, Installation, Interventions, Sculpture, Archives, Autoethnography, Afro-Indigeneity, White Supremacy, Decolonial and Abolitionist Pedagogies.
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Deanna Bowen is a descendant of two Black pioneer families from Amber Valley and Campsie, Alberta, born in Alabama and Kentucky. Bowen’s family history has been the central pivot of her interdisciplinary auto-ethnographic works since the early 1990s. She uses a repertoire of artistic gestures to define the Black body and trace its presence and movement across place and time.
She is a recipient of a 2021 Scotiabank Photography Award, a 2020 Governor General Award for Visual and Media Arts, a 2018 Canada Council Research and Creation Grant, an Ontario Arts Council Media Arts Grant in 2017, a 2016 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and the 2014 William H. Johnson Prize.
Deanna is an Associate Professor in Concordia University’s Studio Arts program. Her writing, interviews, and artworks have been published in Canadian Art, The Capilano Review, The Black Prairie Archives, and Transition Magazine. Bowen is the editor of the 2019 publication Other Places: Reflections on Media Arts in Canada.