Bonnie Devine

Bonnie Devine is a visual artist, writer, curator, and educator. Born in Toronto and raised as an off-reserve member of the Anishinaabek of Serpent River First Nation, Genaabaajing, Devine’s work emerges from the storytelling and object-making traditions that are the root of Anishinaabe culture. Her cross-disciplinary practice engages sculpture, painting, writing, and video to express her preoccupation with land and story. Though formally educated in sculpture and installation art at the Ontario College of Art and Design and York University, her most enduring learning came from her grandparents who were trappers on the Canadian Shield in northern Ontario. Devine’s installation, video, and curatorial projects have been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada, the Smithsonian Institute’s National Gallery of the American Indian, the Peabody Essex Museum, and the 2026 Venice Biennale. She is an Associate Professor Emerita at the Ontario College of Art and Design University and the Founding Chair of OCAD University’s Indigenous Visual Culture program. Institutional recognition of Devine’s practice includes an Ontario Lieutenant Governor’s Heritage Award and OCAD University’s Distinguished Research/Creative Practice Award in 2019, and a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2021.