Bonnie Devine Biography

Solo Exhibitions • Group Exhibitions • Publications • Curatorial • Teaching

BONNIE DEVINE

Ojibway, Serpent River First Nation

Education

Master of Fine Arts, York University, 1999

Associate of Ontario College of Art and Design, 1997

Awards, Felowships, Grants

Canada Council for the Arts Emerging Visual Artist Grant, 2003

Ontario Arts Council Emerging Visual Artist Grant, 2003

Best Experimental Video, ImagineNATIVE Media Arts Festival, 2002

Toronto Arts Awards, Visual Arts Protegé Award, 2001

Canada Council for the Arts Media Arts Production Grant, 2000

Ontario Society of Artists, Curry Award, 1999

Aboriginal Achievement Award, Tuition Scholarship 1998

Nancy Hushion Scholarship, York University, 1998

Ontario Graduate Scholarship, York University, 1998

Robert Markle Scholarship, First Nations Art, 1997

S.L.Simpson Scholarship. Portfolio Award York U, 1997

Criticism and Curatorial Practices Award OCAD, 1997

Sculpture Installation Faculty Award OCAD. 1997

Norman Jewison Foundation First Nations Scholarship OCAD 1997

Dorothy Hoover Award for Writing OCAD 1997

H.L.Rous Award for Sculpture OCAD 1996

Louis Odette Sculpture Award OCAD 1996

Sculpture Installation Program Award OCAD 1995

	Solo Exhibitions Stories from the Shield: Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste Marie Ont; Woodland Cultural Centre, Brantford Ont; Urban Shaman, Winnipeg Man. 2003; Art Gallery of Sudbury, 2004; Hart House U of T, Toronto Ont. 2004. Time/Space/Presence A Space Gallery, Toronto, Ontario 2000 Radiation and Radiance Gallery 1313, Toronto, Ontario 1999
	Selected Group Exhibitions The Personal is Political, Lieutenant Governors Suite, Queen’s Park, Toronto 2003 Tecumseh Festival Fort York Toronto 2002 Everyday Light Thunder Bay Art Gallery 2002 Gridlock Case Studies at HarbourFront, Toronto 2002 Pathways Inside/Outside The Station Gallery Whitby Ont 2002 Tsa’ de yoh dos (Multiples) Walter Philips Gallery Banff Alberta 2001 Tecumseh Arts Festival Fort York Toronto 2001 Objects of Admiration, Carelton University Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario 2001 Encuentro Internacional de Arte y Cultura Indigena Santiago, Chile 2000 Traditional/Contemporary Belgo Gallery, Montreal Quebec 1999 Sacred Earth, John B Aird Gallery, Toronto 1999
	Publications Robert Houle, Making Room, exhibition catalogue, contributing essayist, Eiteljorg Foundation, Indianapolis Indiana, 2003 Parsing the Visual Sentence, the Art of Mary Anne Barkhouse and Michael Belmore, exhibition catalogue essay, Art Gallery of Peterborough, 2003 An Artist’s Life in The Art Of Tim Jocelyn, contributing essayist, McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 2002 Robert Houle: Sovereignty over Subjectivity, contributing essayist, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1999 Sweet Grass Grows All Around Her, Native Women in the Arts Anthology, Toronto, 1997 Temple, Rebecca Belmore, Aboriginal Voices Magazine, 1996 Screenwriting and Directing Reading Light 2003 Rooster Rock the Story of Serpent River 2002 Theatre Set Decoration The Art Show, Native Earth Performing Arts Set and Costume Design, 2004 Public Speaking and Sumposia White Mountain Academy Elliot Lake Ontario 2003 Trent University Native Women in the Arts 2003 Aboriginal Peoples Television Network 2002 CTV ChatLine, Art and Memory 2001 Ontario College of Art and Design Guest Lecturer 2001 Native Canadian Centre, Guest Lecturer, 1999
	Curatorial ThinSkinned, A Space, Toronto, 2002 Neebing Nugushkeewauding, Toronto City Hall, 1996
	Teaching Centre for Indigenous Theatre Cultural History: Ways of Telling 1999-2003 Queens University, Aboriginal Teachers Preparation 2000 York University, Teaching Assistant, 1997 and 1998 Ontario College of Art and Design, Teaching Assistant 1998 The DonWood Institute, Arts and Crafts instructor at Addiction Rehabilitation Hospital 1996 to 1998