Deanna Bowen is a descendant of two Alabama and Kentucky born Black Prairie pioneer families from Amber Valley and Campsie, Alberta. Since the early 1990s Bowen’s family history has been pivotal to her auto-ethnographic interdisciplinary works, in which she defines the Black body and traces its presence and movement in place and time. She has received numerous grants and awards including the William H. Johnson Prize (2014), a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2016) and the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts (2020). Bowen lives and works in Montreal, where she is Assistant Professor of Intersectional Feminist and Decolonial 2D-4D Image Making at Concordia University. She is the editor of Other Places: Reflections on Media Arts in Canada (2019).