Bonnie Devine – CCCA Canadian Art Database

Bonnie Devine

Bonnie Devine is a Serpent River Ojibwa installation artist, performance artist, sculptor, curator, and writer from Serpent River First Nation. She is currently an associate professor at OCAD University and the founding chair of its Indigenous Visual Cultural Program. As a conceptual artist, Devine works with a variety of media, often combining traditional and unconventional materials. 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. 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. Devine's work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Canada, the U.S., South America, Russia and Europe. Her 2010 solo exhibition, Writing Home, curated by Faye Heavyshield, was reviewed in Border Crossings. 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. Her work is featured in the Art Gallery of Ontario's exhibition Before and after the Horizon: Anishinaabe Artists of the Great Lakes. 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. She has been chosen for the 2011 Eiteljorg Museum fellowship. She received a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2021.

Creator Id: 170
Social Media Link: Social Media Link
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Additional Statuses: First Nations
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Ontario
Year of Birth: 1952
City: Toronto
Country: Canada
Type of Creator: Artist, Writer
Gender: Female
Mediums: conceptual, fibre, installation, sculpture, textiles
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Work by Bonnie Devine

Smallpox Blankets

Work ID: 26605

Description: 5 pieces

Measurements: 5 ft x 2.5 ft each

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Date Made: 1995

Materials: mixed media

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Reclamation Project

Work ID: 26606

Description: Durham, Ontario

Measurements: 18 in x 20 ft

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Date Made: 1995

Materials: sod

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Pomo Basket

Work ID: 26604

Measurements: 5 ft x 2 ft

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Date Made: 1995

Materials: coaxial cable

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Reclamation Project

Work ID: 26609

Description: University Ave., Toronto

Measurements: 18 in x 20 ft

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Date Made: 1995

Materials: sod

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Reclamation Project

Work ID: 26608

Description: University Ave., Toronto

Measurements: 18 in x 20 ft

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Date Made: 1995

Materials: sod

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Reclamation Project

Work ID: 26607

Description: McCaul St., Toronto

Measurements: 18 in x 20 ft

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Date Made: 1995

Materials: sod

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Don’t Tell Me

Work ID: 26610

Measurements: 6 in x 3 in

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Date Made: 1997

Materials: wax, wood

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA, wood

Don’t Tell Me

Work ID: 26611

Measurements: 2 in x 2 in

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Date Made: 1997

Materials: glass, letraset

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Don’t Tell Me

Work ID: 26612

Measurements: 2 in x 1 in

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Date Made: 1997

Materials: fabric, thread

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Family Album

Work ID: 26613

Measurements: 8.5 in x 11 in

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Date Made: 1998

Materials: photo & collage

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Family Album

Work ID: 26615

Measurements: 8.5 in x 11 in

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Date Made: 1998

Materials: photo & collage

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Family Album

Work ID: 26616

Measurements: 8.5 in x 11 in

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Date Made: 1998

Materials: photo & collage

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Family Album

Work ID: 26614

Measurements: 8.5 in x 11 in

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Date Made: 1998

Materials: photo & collage

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Bound

Work ID: 26618

Measurements: 6 in x 3 in

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Date Made: 1999

Materials: rock, silk

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Earth Braid

Work ID: 26617

Description: York University, Toronto

Measurements: 3 ft x 35 ft

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Date Made: 1999

Materials: grass

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Bound

Work ID: 26619

Measurements: 1 in x 6 ft

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Date Made: 1999

Materials: stem, silk

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Don’t Tell Me (reprise)

Work ID: 26620

Description: 28 sheets

Measurements: 8.5 in x 11 in

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Date Made: 1999

Materials: paper, thread

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Book of Transformation

Work ID: 26623

Measurements: 8.5 in x 11 in

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Date Made: 1999

Materials: mixed media/paper

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Book of Transformation

Work ID: 26625

Measurements: 8.5 in x 11 in

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Date Made: 1999

Materials: mixed media/paper

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Book of Transformation

Work ID: 26628

Measurements: 8.5 in x 11 in

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Date Made: 1999

Materials: mixed media/paper

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Book of Transformation

Work ID: 26627

Measurements: 8.5 in x 11 in

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Date Made: 1999

Materials: mixed media/paper

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Book of Transformation

Work ID: 26626

Measurements: 8.5 in x 11 in

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Date Made: 1999

Materials: mixed media/paper

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Book of Radiance

Work ID: 26629

Measurements: 8.5 in x 11 in

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Date Made: 1999

Materials: mixed media/paper

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Book of Transformation

Work ID: 26624

Measurements: 8.5 in x 11 in

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Date Made: 1999

Materials: mixed media/paper

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Book of Radiance

Work ID: 26630

Measurements: 8.5 in x 11 in

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Date Made: 1999

Materials: mixed media/paper

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Gravity (installation)

Work ID: 26622

Measurements: 15 ft x 45 ft

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Date Made: 2000

Materials: paper/thread/projection

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Gravity (a performance)

Work ID: 26621

Measurements: 15 ft x 45 ft

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Date Made: 2000

Materials: paper, thread, ladders

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Rooster Rock (Video Set)

Work ID: 26631

Measurements: 5 ft x 3 ft

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Date Made: 2001

Materials: mixed media

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA