Bonnie Devine was born on April 12,1952 and is a Serpent River Ojibwa installation artist, performance artist, sculptor, curator, and writer from Serpent River First Nation, who lives and works in Toronto, Ontario.
12 Facts About Bonnie Devine
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Bonnie Devine is currently an associate professor at OCAD University and the founding chair of its Indigenous Visual Cultural Program.
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Bonnie Devine was born in Toronto and is a status member of the Serpent River First Nation.
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In 1997 Devine graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design, with degrees in sculpture and installation, and she earned her Master of Fine Arts degree at York University in 1999.
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Bonnie Devine has taught studio and liberal arts at York University, Queen's University, and the Centre for Indigenous Theatre.
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Bonnie Devine joined OCAD University as a full-time instructor in 2008 and was a founding chair of the university's Indigenous Visual Culture program.
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Bonnie Devine has fashioned full-sized canoes from paper and works with natural materials such as reeds in her 2009 piece, New Earth Braid.
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Bonnie Devine's work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Canada, the US, South America, Russia and Europe.
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Bonnie Devine's work is featured in the Art Gallery of Ontario's exhibition Before and after the Horizon: Anishinaabe Artists of the Great Lakes.
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Bonnie Devine has received numerous awards, including 2002 Best Experimental Video at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, the Toronto Arts Awards Visual Arts Protege 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.
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Bonnie Devine has been chosen for the 2011 Eiteljorg Museum fellowship.
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Bonnie Devine received a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2021.