Deanna Bowen
Assistant Professor, Studio Arts

Phone: | (514) 848-2424 ext. 5231 |
Email: | deanna.bowen@concordia.ca |
Website(s): |
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I am a descendant of the Alabama and Kentucky born Black Prairie pioneers of Amber Valley and Campsie, Alberta. My family history has been the central pivot of my auto-ethnographic interdisciplinary practice since the early 1990s. I am a recipient of a 2020 Governor General Award for Visual and Media Arts Award, 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. My writing, interviews and art works have been published in Canadian Art, The Capilano Review, The Black Prairie Archives, and Transition Magazine. I am the editor of the 2019 publication Other Places: Reflections on Media Arts in Canada.
Publications
Refereed Publications
2019: Other Places: Reflections on Media Arts Practices in Canada. Ed. Deanna
Bowen. Toronto: PUBLIC Books, 2019
2018: “sum of the parts: what can be named,” in The Black Prairie Archives: An
Anthology. Ed. Karina Vernon. Toronto: University of Toronto
Press
2017: “Hunting the Nigs in Philadelphia: Or An Alternate Chronology of
Events Leading Up to and One Year Beyond the Columbia Avenue
Uprisings, August 28-30, 1964.” Transition, No. 124, “Writing
Black Canadas” (2017). Eds. Phanuel Antwi and David Chariandy.
Cambridge: Indiana University Press on behalf of the
Hutchins Center for African and African American Research
at Harvard University.
Non-Refereed Publications
2020: “A Centenary of Influence,” with Maya Wilson-Sanchez. Canadian Art Magazine, “Influence” Issue. Spring 2020
2017: “Cicely Nicholson and Deanna Bowen in Conversation.” The Capilano Review, Spring 2018/3.32
“Notes from The Long Doorway.” Six artist pages in Canadian Art Magazine “The Idea of History” Issue. Fall 2017