Dore Bowen, PhD, is Research Professor in Art History in the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University. She writes on modern and contemporary art, focusing on photography and installation, as well as precursors, such as the diorama and other modern spectacles. In her research Bowen examines how artists employ various media to reflect on the limits of experience within modernity, or to propose new kinds of experience. Her writing explores methods of visual analysis that highlight the experiential, including phenomenology and queer feminist art history.
In 2019 Bowen published Bruce Nauman: Spatial Encounters, with Constance M. Lewallen (University of California Press)—a book project instigated by her 2018 reinstallation of Nauman’s San Jose Installation (Double Wedge Corridor with Mirror) (1970). Currently, she is completing a monograph examining the diorama from 1822 to the present. Bowen also publishes in anthologies and peer-reviewed journals, as well as art and culture magazines, including Art in America, Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, and Camerawork Quarterly. She is an editor-at-large for the Brooklyn Rail.
Prior to serving as lead curator for Nauman’s San Jose Installation, Bowen curated or co-curated several exhibitions, including her 2009 Early Man on a Modern Road—a five-part museum intervention at the Musée de Prehistoire des gorges du Verdon (Quinson, France); Soit dit en passant and Not Given: Talking of and Around Photographs of Arab Women (La Compagnie, Marseille, 2006/Camerawork, San Francisco, 2007), both of which focused on the way keywords lend a gendered meaning to photographs in the Arab Image Foundation collection, and; Agitate: Negotiating the Photographic Process (Camerawork, 2003), featuring camera-less photography. These and other projects have been supported by fellowships and grants from the Camargo Foundation, Clark Art Institute, Centre Allemand d’histoire de l’art, and the Getty Center.
Dore Bowen can be contacted at dore.bowen@duke.edu
CV is here.
In 2019 Bowen published Bruce Nauman: Spatial Encounters, with Constance M. Lewallen (University of California Press)—a book project instigated by her 2018 reinstallation of Nauman’s San Jose Installation (Double Wedge Corridor with Mirror) (1970). Currently, she is completing a monograph examining the diorama from 1822 to the present. Bowen also publishes in anthologies and peer-reviewed journals, as well as art and culture magazines, including Art in America, Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, and Camerawork Quarterly. She is an editor-at-large for the Brooklyn Rail.
Prior to serving as lead curator for Nauman’s San Jose Installation, Bowen curated or co-curated several exhibitions, including her 2009 Early Man on a Modern Road—a five-part museum intervention at the Musée de Prehistoire des gorges du Verdon (Quinson, France); Soit dit en passant and Not Given: Talking of and Around Photographs of Arab Women (La Compagnie, Marseille, 2006/Camerawork, San Francisco, 2007), both of which focused on the way keywords lend a gendered meaning to photographs in the Arab Image Foundation collection, and; Agitate: Negotiating the Photographic Process (Camerawork, 2003), featuring camera-less photography. These and other projects have been supported by fellowships and grants from the Camargo Foundation, Clark Art Institute, Centre Allemand d’histoire de l’art, and the Getty Center.
Dore Bowen can be contacted at dore.bowen@duke.edu
CV is here.