B. D. OWENS
Mobile: +44 7572 488 495
Education
MFA Art, Society & Publics, With Distinction
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee
BFA Sculpture Major, With Great Distinction
Concordia University, Montréal
BA Technical & Production Arts
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow
Exhibitions: Group [G] | Solo [S] | Performance [P] | Collaboration [C]
2020 Gare Loch Duality and the #UndesiredLine, NEoN, Ars Electronica Festival [P/C/G]
2020 Reflections Upon Nuclear Materiality, Gare Loch Duality and the #UndesiredLine, solo exhibition, Nomas* Projects, Dundee [S]
2019 Dìlseach, sound work, Screams and Whispers, CRUISING THE SEVENTIES, Edinburgh College of Art [G]
2018 #undesiredline text-work, Twitter, The Undesired Line [S]
2018 The Undesired Line, walking performance/ sculpture, Shandon and Faslane Nuclear Submarine Base [S/P]
2018 Slowing the Lines, video screening at BetOnfest Festival, betOnest, Stolpe, Germany [P/C], [G]
2017 #youshouldbesolucky Scratch Card Vendor, Buchanan St, Glasgow [S/P]
2017 you should be so lucky: a polysemy, sound work, Radiophrenia shorts 7, CCA, Glasgow [G]
2017 Dìlseach, sound work, Radiophrenia shorts 5, CCA, Glasgow [G]
2017 Slowing the Lines, collaboration with Lilianna Kane, betOnest, Stolpe, Germany [C/P]
2017 Beside the Field, collaboration with Lilianna Kane, Stolpe, Germany [C/P]
2017 Tainted Luck installation, DJCAD Masters Show, Cooper Gallery, Dundee University [G]
2017 Salm Walk: 1, Gaelic prayer walking performance with Jamie Ross, The Law, Dundee [C/P]
2015 Ephesians 6:14, Still Rolling With The Times, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow [G]
2013 Entropic Elevation 2 & 3, exterior sculpture installation, Champ des Possibles, Montréal [S]
2012 Phallopastry video installation, MIX NYC, Film Festival, video installation exhibition, Brooklyn [G]
2012 Multiple works, In Cahoots, Sculpture show, The Grover Building Gallery, Montréal [G]
2012 Multiple works, WORK, interdisciplinary show, The Grover Building Gallery, Montréal [G]
2012 Altar For Entropic Scapegoat, Visual Arts Building courtyard, Concordia University, Montréal [S]
2012 Fight Club, X POSE, Radical Queer Semaine, Fresh Paint Gallery, Montréal [G]
2008 The Mustache Project by Coral Short, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montréal [C/P]
Artist Talks, Symposia, Readings, Panel Discussions
2020 ‘Arts Activism Amidst Climate Crisis’, panel discussion at The Workers Theatre Festival: Something Has To Happen
2019 ‘Watching Me, Watching You: Reflections Upon Surveillance, Gare Loch Duality & the #UndesiredLine’, paper presentation and panel discussion at the NEoN Festival Re@ct: Social Change Art Technology Symposium at the V&A Dundee.
2019 We Were Always Here: Queer Times, poetry reading & panel discussion at GoMA, Glasgow
2018 Artist talk at Fife Fine Arts Society, St Andrews
Writing
2019 ‘Water Makes Us Wet’, review/article, commissioned by eco/art/scot/land blog
2019 ‘Fathers, do not exasperate your children – Ephesians 6:4’, WE WERE ALWAYS HERE: A Queer Words Anthology, 404 Ink
2019 ‘Tornados Sweep Ballat Cross’, WE WERE ALWAYS HERE: A Queer Words Anthology, 404 Ink
2018 Text contribution in Non- Regular: Precarious Academic Labour at Emily Carr University of Art +Design by Terra Poirer, UNIT/PITT, Vancouver
2016 ‘Home Coming’. Talking About Lobsters: New Writing Scotland, Issue 34, Association for Scottish Literary Studies, Glasgow University
2016 ‘An Ear Trumpet for the Earth’. Short listed for Jupiter Artland, Inspired to Write Competition
Curation
2012 Censorship and Oral History. An event at Concordia University which included a lecture by Aerlyn Weissman (Archival Materials and Oral Histories in Popular Culture) a screening of Big Brother V’s Little Sisters, 2002, and a panel discussion on censorship of Film, Art and Literature in Canada.
2011 Accidental Activists. A screening programme for World AIDS Day at Concordia University. Silver Lining, 1994, and I See The Fear, 2010
Scholarships, Grants & Residencies
2019 Cove Park Independently-Funded Residency
2017 Fife Fine Arts Society Prize (award to fund an artist residency)
2017 betOnest Artist Residency (one month) Stolpe, Germany
2016 I.A.T.S.E Local 891 Student Scholarship Award
2012 Fine Arts Student Alliance Special Project Grant, Concordia University
2011 Donald L. Boisvert Scholarship for Gay & Lesbian Studies, Concordia University
2011 Fine Arts Student Alliance Special Project Grant (Sculpture Installation)
2010 J. Terrence Brennan & Kevin T. Thornhill Scholarship, Concordia University
Technician / Assistant
2014 Technician /assistant to Coral Short for Nest, Encuentro, Montréal
2012 Technician /assistant to Trevor Gould for Gods Window, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal
Volunteering
2016 – Present Scottish Artists Union, Executive Committee
2017 GLITCH Festival, CCA, Glasgow
2015 GLITCH Festival, assistant to Dr Vaginal Davis, CCA, Glasgow