Deanna Bowen

Quick Facts

Full Name	Deanna Bowen
Occupation	Visual Artist
Date Of Birth	Nov 5, 1969(1969-11-05)
Age	55
Birthplace	Oakland
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Scorpio

Deanna Bowen Biography

Deanna Bowen is one of the most popular and richest Visual Artist who was born on November 5, 1969 in Oakland, California, United States. Bowen is a descendants from African Americans who migrated north to Canada from Alabama and Kentucky (via Oklahoma and Kansas) during the first half of the twentieth century. The year 1909 was the time her grandparents assisted in the establishment of Amber Valley, one of four Black immigrants’ settlements in Alberta. She was brought up by her grandparents in Vancouver by her grandparents and mother and later earned the Diploma of Fine Art from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 1994. After moving to Toronto where she graduated, she earned the Masters in Art and Visual Studies at Toronto’s University of Toronto in 2008.

In the year 2010, Bowen produced the video called : sum of the parts: what could be called, where she provides a very thorough oral history of the experiences of slavery and immigration through her family. The video was commissioned by Vtape the video was shown during Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival (2011) and Oberhausen Film Festival (2012). Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival (2011) as well as the Oberhausen Film Festival (2012) In 2012, the curator Srimoyee Mitra selected it for inclusion in Project 35_Vol.

2. Project 35 is an international traveling exhibition organized through Independent Curators International.

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Images Festival of Independent Film, Video & New Media in 2012, Bowen produced The Paul Good Papers, an interdisciplinary installation/performance work co-commissioned by Images and Gallery 44. The Paul Good Papers was installed at Gallery 44 and featured video, archival materials, performance, performance documentation, as well as audio/sound sculpture. From April 5 to April 21, 2012, Bowen and actor Russell Bennett staged daily performances based on an audio-recorded interview between U.S. journalist Paul Good and Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard Robert Shelton. The exhibition also included the premiere presentation of a 24-minute looping video projection focused on Good’s recording of the 1964 campaign to integrate high schools in Notasulga, Alabama.

Addressing many of the recurring themes in her autobiographical, process- driven practice, Bowen’s expansive solo exhibition, Invisible Empires, was exhibited at The Art Gallery of York University in 2013. Featuring Ku Klux Klan archival material including photographs and documents, as well as replicas of Klan banners and robes, the exhibition received a fair amount of media attention as many considered the work to be controversial, although Bowen was clear on the goals of the work:

Bowen initially became famous for her single-channel video work which explore family issues as well as race, gender and sexuality. Some of them include the milk fed (1997), “an astounding balance of conceptual clarity and emotional power,” sadomasochism (1998) as well as Deutschland (2000). Her first dual- channel video piece, Grist in 2002, then followed by two multimedia video installation pieces Gospel (2008) in addition to Shadow on the Prairie (2009) which were exhibited together in the exhibition Stories to tell …, that toured various museum spaces across Canada between the years 2009 and 2012.

Deanna Bowen Net Worth

Deanna Bowen is one of the richest Visual Artist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Deanna Bowen 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Deanna Bowen (born November 5 1970) is an artist from a variety of disciplines her work encompasses video installations, films performance, drawing, photography and sculpture. Her work explores questions of memory and trauma by examining the personal as well as official history that relate to American immigration, slavery as well as in particular, the Civil Rights Movement and the Ku Klux Klan. Bowen is an American citizen who is a dual citizen of the US as well as Canada. She is a resident of Toronto.

Bowen first showed her art in the late 1990s Her first group exhibitions included exhibitions in A Space Gallery in Toronto in 1997, as well as at Forest City Gallery in London, Ontario in 1999. Her first solo show, Home, was held in 1994 at Pitt Gallery in Vancouver, BC. Her work was also featured in group exhibits in The Thames Art Gallery (2006) and in the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC (2011) The Canadian Museum of Civilization at Pier 21 in Halifax, NS (2013) The McMaster museum of art located in Hamilton, ON (2014) and the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA (2015), the MacLaren Art Centre (2016) and the Art Museum of at the University of Toronto (2016) as well as The Art Gallery of Windsor, the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (2017), and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (2017).

Major solo exhibitions include The Paul Good Papers, a 2012 solo exhibition/residency at Gallery 44 in Toronto, Ontario, in partnership with the Images Festival, Invisible Empires at the Art Gallery of York University in 2013, and On Trial The Long Doorway at Mercer Union (2017), also in Toronto. Her films have screened at Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival (2011) and Oberhausen Film Festival (2012).

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Bowen has received numerous grants and awards over the course of her career, most notably from the B.C. Cultural Services, Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, Telefilm, and Canada Council. She is a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow and was the recipient of the 2014 William H. Johnson Prize, an annual award for early career African American artists. She was also awarded project sponsorship from Partners in Art for her 2013 solo exhibition, Invisible Empires at the Art Gallery of York University and her 2017 solo exhibition On Trial The Long Doorway at Mercer Union .

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Deanna Ranked on the list of most popular Visual Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Deanna Bowen celebrates birthday on November 5 of every year.

In 2020, Bowen was named one of eight winners of the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts, an annual award for outstanding contributions to Canadian creativity. The award is administered by the Canada Council for the Arts and juried by accomplished peers.

What did Deanna Bowen do?

Deanna Bowen, visual artist (born 5 November 1969 in Oakland, California). Bowen is a multidisciplinary artist whose work addresses African migration, personal and community histories, genealogy and the history of enslavement, often drawing on archival documents to create works that witness traumatic histories.

Where was Deanna Bowen born?

Oakland, CA