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Deanna Bowen is a descendant of Black pioneer families from Amber Valley, Campsie, Alberta, born in Alabama, Kentucky. Bowen’s family history is a central pivot in her interdisciplinary auto-ethnographic works since the early 1990s, using a repertoire of artistic gestures to define the Black body and trace its presence and movement through place and time. She has been recognized for her contributions to the visual arts, receiving the 2021 Scotiabank Photography Award, the 2020 Governor General’s Award in Visual Media Arts, and several grants including the 2018 Canada Council Research Creation Grant and the Ontario Arts Council Media Arts Grant in 2017. In 2016, she was awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and received the William H. Johnson Prize in 2014. Deanna is an Associate Professor within Concordia University’s Studio Arts program where she continues to explore themes related to photography, experimental film and video, media art history, performance, installation, and interventions. Her writing, interviews, and artworks have been published in notable journals including Canadian Art, Capilano Review, Black Prairie Archives, and Transition Magazine. She also served as the editor for the 2019 publication 'Other Places: Reflections on Media Arts in Canada.'
Administered by the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema; focuses on cinematic arts practice and research-creation.