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Dore Bowen is a visual theorist who specializes in modern and contemporary art. Writing on an international group of artists--including Yael Bartana, Dan Graham, Akram Zaatari, Bruce Nauman, Elín Hansdóttir, and Lydia Ourahmane--Bowen publishes in a variety of venues, including Art in America, Culture et Musées, Intermédialités, Afterimage, and Camerawork Journal. In 2019 she published Bruce Nauman: Spatial Encounters, with Constance M. Lewallen (University of California Press). Currently, she is completing a monograph examining the diorama as an instrument of counter-modernism from 1822 to the present.

These projects have been supported by fellowships and grants from the Camargo Foundation, Clark Art Institute, Centre Allemand d’histoire de l’art, Getty Center, and San José State University, among other institutions.

Bowen has worked as a curator in France and the United States. Exhibitions include Agitate: Negotiating the Photographic Process (SF Camerawork, 2003), which ushered in a wave of interest in cameraless photography, and Soit dit en passant (La Compagnie, Marseille, 2006) which focused on the way keywords gender photographs from the Arab Image Foundation in Beirut. In 2018-19 she served as lead curator for the reinstallation of Bruce Nauman's immersive San Jose Installation (Double Wedge Corridor with Mirror).

Bowen is Research Professor in the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University.

She can be contacted at dore.bowen@duke.edu

CV is here.

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