b/ Deanna Bowen, Speaker’s Bio

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Deanna Bowen is a descendant of the Alabama and Kentucky born Black Prairie pioneers of Amber Valley, Alberta. She is a Toronto based interdisciplinary artist and Sessional Lecturer at the University of Toronto, Scarborough, whose work has been exhibited internationally in numerous film festivals and galleries.  She has received several grants in support of her artistic practice and recent works have been shown at the Images Festival of Film, Video & New Media and the Art Gallery of Peterborough.  Her recently commissioned eighteen minute performed oral history sum of the parts: what can be named will be mounted in the exhibition Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection in August 2011 and her solo exhibition Stories to pass on… opened at the Kenderdine Art Gallery in Saskatoon in April 2011 and will continue to tour nationally in Canada through 2013.

“Paired Horns”, 2008,  installation by Deanna Bowen

She was recently awarded research/creation funding from the Canada Council for the Arts to develop and create “visitations,” an experimental video installation/dual portrait based on her mother’s stories of growing up in one of the few black families residing in Vancouver, BC through the 1950s-’80s. Bowen will premiere a major solo intervention/exhibition that unravels the Ku Klux Klan and its connections to Canada for a Spring 2013 @ the Art Gallery of York University (AGYU) in Toronto.

Please visit     http://www.deannabowen.ca