Dore Bowen writes on modern and contemporary art, focusing on practices that probe the texture of ordinary life with new methods of creative production and distribution. She has written on an international group of artists—such as Yael Bartana, Dan Graham, Akram Zaatari, Bruce Nauman, Elin Hansdottir, and Lydia Ourahmane, among others—and her research areas include Fluxus, photography, interdisciplinary art, phenomenology, and queer feminism.
Recently, Bowen served as lead curator for the reinstallation of Bruce Nauman's 1970 San Jose Installation, which culminated in her monograph Bruce Nauman: Spatial Encounters (with Constance M. Lewallen, University of California Press, 2019), and she is completing a book on the history of the diorama from the19th century to contemporary installation art. These and other scholarly projects have been supported by fellowships and grants, including the Camargo Foundation, the Clark Art Institute, the Centre Allemand d’histoire de l’art, and San José State University.
As Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Art History and Visual Culture program at San José State University, Bowen teaches seminars on contemporary art and the archive, contemporary craft, the history of perception, the spectacle, and art historical methods. Her undergraduate courses include the history and theory of new media, introduction to visual culture, the art of the 1960s and 70s, and issues of materiality in contemporary art (called "The Thing"). More information about the program at San Jose State can be found here.
She can be contacted at dore.bowen@sjsu.edu.
CV is here.
Recently, Bowen served as lead curator for the reinstallation of Bruce Nauman's 1970 San Jose Installation, which culminated in her monograph Bruce Nauman: Spatial Encounters (with Constance M. Lewallen, University of California Press, 2019), and she is completing a book on the history of the diorama from the19th century to contemporary installation art. These and other scholarly projects have been supported by fellowships and grants, including the Camargo Foundation, the Clark Art Institute, the Centre Allemand d’histoire de l’art, and San José State University.
As Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Art History and Visual Culture program at San José State University, Bowen teaches seminars on contemporary art and the archive, contemporary craft, the history of perception, the spectacle, and art historical methods. Her undergraduate courses include the history and theory of new media, introduction to visual culture, the art of the 1960s and 70s, and issues of materiality in contemporary art (called "The Thing"). More information about the program at San Jose State can be found here.
She can be contacted at dore.bowen@sjsu.edu.
CV is here.