Deanna Bowen

Bio:

Deanna Bowen is an artist based in Toronto, Canada. Since the

1990s, Bowen’s family history has been the central pivot of her auto-ethnographic interdisciplinary works, and has involved a rigorous examination of her family’s connections to the Black Prairie pioneers of Alberta and Saskatchewan, the Creek Negroes and “All-Black” towns of Oklahoma, the extended Kentucky/Kansas Exoduster migrations, and the Ku Klux Klan. Examining race, migration, historical writing, and authorship, her practice makes use of a repertoire of artistic gestures in order to define the Black body and trace its presence and movement in place and time.