Skip to main contentBiographyBonnie Devine is an installation artist, video maker, curator, writer, and educator. A member of the Anishinaabek of Genaabaajing (Serpent River) First Nation, on the north shore of Lake Huron, Devine’s work emerges from the storytelling and image-making traditions that are central to Anishinaabe culture. Using cross disciplinary approaches and iterations of written, visual, and performative practice Devine explores issues of land, environment, treaty, history, and narrative. Though formally educated in sculpture and installation art at the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD U) and York University, Devine’s most enduring learning came from her grandparents, who were trappers on the Canadian Shield in northern Ontario.
Recent public acknowledgements of Devine’s practice include a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2021, a 2019 Ontario Lieutenant Governor’s Heritage Award, and OCAD University’s 2019 Distinguished Research and Creative Practice Award. Her installation, video, and curatorial projects have been shown in solo and group exhibitions and film festivals across Canada and in the USA, South America, Russia, Europe, and China, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Berlin Film Festival, the National Museum of the American Indian, and Today Art Museum in Beijing China. She lives and works in Toronto.
Bonnie Devine
Serpent River First Nation / Anishinaabe / Ojibwa, born 1952
Recent public acknowledgements of Devine’s practice include a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2021, a 2019 Ontario Lieutenant Governor’s Heritage Award, and OCAD University’s 2019 Distinguished Research and Creative Practice Award. Her installation, video, and curatorial projects have been shown in solo and group exhibitions and film festivals across Canada and in the USA, South America, Russia, Europe, and China, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Berlin Film Festival, the National Museum of the American Indian, and Today Art Museum in Beijing China. She lives and works in Toronto.
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