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Notes from "An Exoduster’s Archive"
Deanna Bowen, born in Oakland and now living in Toronto, is a descendant of the Alabama- and Kentucky-born Black prairie pioneers of Amber Valley and Campsie, Alberta. She is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist, recipient of the 2014 William H. Johnson Prize, awarded annually to an early-career African American artist; and, in 2016, of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship to Assist Research and Artistic Creation. Her work has been exhibited internationally in numerous film festivals and museums, including the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; the Images Festival, Toronto; Flux Projects, Atlanta; Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival; Oberhausen Film Festival; the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; and the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, Halifax.
Image courtesy of the artist.
Contact:
Jarrett Duncan | jarrett.duncan@uleth.ca