Bonnie Devine

Bonnie Devine
Born Bonnie Devine
April 12, 1952
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nationality Canadian
Known for Installation, performance, sculpture, writing

Bonnie Devine is an Anishinaabe/Ojibwa installation artist, performance artist, sculptor, curator, and writer from Serpent River First Nation, who lives and works in Toronto, Ontario.[1] She is currently an Associate Professor at OCAD University and the Founding Chair of its Indigenous Visual Cultural Program.[2]

Background

Bonnie Devine was born in Toronto and is a member of the Serpent River First Nation.[1] In 1997 Devine graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design, with degrees in sculpture and installation,[3] and she earned her master of fine arts degree at York University in 1999.[4] She has taught studio and liberal arts at York University, Queen's University, and the Centre for Indigenous Theatre. She joined OCAD University as a full-time instructor in 2008,[2] and helped to develop the Aboriginal Visual Culture Program upon her employment at the university in 2008.[5]

Artwork

As a conceptual artist, Devine works a variety of media. At a 2007 solo exhibition, Medicine River, at the Axéneo 7 art space in Quebec, she created eight-foot long knitting needles and knitted 250 feet of copper cable to bring attention to the contamination of the Kashechewan water system.[6] She has fashioned full-sized canoes from paper and works with natural materials such as reeds in her 2009 piece, New Earth Braid. She also created land-based installations.[7]

Exhibitions

Devine's 2010 solo exhibition, Writing Home, curated by Faye Heavyshield, was reviewed in Border Crossings.[8] A solo exhibition of Devine's work, Bonnie Devine: The Tecumseh Papers was held at the Art Gallery of Windsor from September 27, 2013 to January 5, 2014.[9] Her work is featured in the Art Gallery of Ontario's exhibition Before and after the Horizon: Anishinaabe Artists of the Great Lakes.[10]

Awards and recognition

Devine has received numerous awards, including 2002 Best Experimental Video at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, the Toronto Arts Awards Visual Arts Protégé Award in 2001, the Curry Award from the Ontario Society of Artists in 1999, a variety of awards from the Ontario College of Art and Design, as well as many grants and scholarships.[4] She has been chosen for the 2011 Eiteljorg Museum fellowship.[11]

Published work

  • Devine, Bonnie, Duke Redbird, and Robert Houle. The Drawings and Paintings of Daphne Odjig: A Retrospective Exhibition. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2007. ISBN 978-0-88884-840-6.

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Bonnie Devine." Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art. (retrieved 30 Nov 2010)
  2. 1 2 OCAD University. "Bonnie Devine | OCAD UNIVERSITY". www2.ocadu.ca. Retrieved 2017-03-18.
  3. ↑ "About the Artist: Bonnie Devine." Archived October 4, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. University of Toronto (retrieved 30 Nov 2010)
  4. 1 2 "Bonnie Devine Biography." Archived October 4, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. University of Toronto (retrieved 30 Nov 2010)
  5. ↑ "University offering new options for art students." Windspeaker, Feb. 2013, p. 14. Academic OneFile, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A319976795/AONE?u=usocal_main&sid=AONE&xid=2fa59d8b. Accessed 8 Mar. 2018.
  6. ↑ "Medicine River: Bonnie Devine." Archived July 6, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Axéneo 7. 2007 (retrieved 30 Nov 2010)
  7. ↑ Rubisova, Lena. "Faculty Profile: Bonnie Devine." Archived January 3, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Ontario College of Art and Design. 11 Jan 2010 (retrieved 30 Nov 2010)
  8. ↑ Karlinsky, Amy. "Bonnie Devine." Border Crossings vol.29, no.2 (May 2010)
  9. ↑ "Bonnie Devine: The Tecumseh Papers." Art Gallery of Windsor (retrieved 27 September 2014).
  10. ↑ "Before and after the Horizon: Anishinaabe Artists of the Great Lakes." Art Gallery of Ontario (retrieved 27 September 2014).
  11. ↑ "Five artists named 2011 Eiteljorg Fellows." Archived 2011-07-26 at the Wayback Machine. Eiteljorg Museum. 2010 (retrieved 30 Nov 2010)

References

  • Fox, Suzanne G. and Lucy R. Lippard, eds. Path Breakers: The Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art, 2003. Indianapolis, IN: Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and West, 2004. ISBN 978-0-295-98369-1.


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