Fiona Bowie, b. K'emk'emeláy̓ (Vancouver), a first generation Canadian, culturally Scottish/Italian (Nonno, nacido Ravello; Nonna, nacida Sorrento). Currently working and living on the stolen, unceded, ancestral and current territoriesof the əəθkʷə̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵw̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and sə̓lil̓wətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. with acknowledgementand support for their and all indigenous aeons-long nationhood, cultures, & all their relations.
Fiona Bowie is a sound and media-based visual artist.
Fiona creates immersive worlds. She writes and directs her narrative works and variously employs photography, film, video, text, and sound to create immersive gallery installations, evolving public art and web-based projects, and pursues land restoration projects.
Fiona's gallery and public artworks are motivated by a desire to challenge the mechanisms of atrophied social systems by creating works that confront them, and at the same time defy old framing habits of commercially available technology. As a result, she frequently designs and builds unique imagesystems and 360 degree/omni-directional projectors for her evolving public artworks and her omni-directional gallery-based works.
Writing, archiving practice, and web-based forms of outreach factor into many of Fiona's works to increase public access to and visibility of the subjects therein.
Motivated by compassion (and lifelong interests in physics and nature), Fiona identifies as a multi-spēcial, intermolecular being to normalize that, on a subatomic scale, there is structurally no separation between us and everything else in existence. Respecting thatall beings experience existence in their own way, Fiona's work centres on interconnectivity with other life forms and social equity withthem, therefore suggesting alternative ways of understanding oneself in contrast to ubiquitous hierarchical narratives.

She has lived in and operated her studios in K'emk'emeláy̓ (Vancouver); Samara, Costa Rica and Sitges, Barcelona Province.

Education:
MFA,(1998) Interdisciplinary Studies, Simon Fraser University (Chris Welsby, Greg Snider, Alison Clay)
BFA (1990), University of British Columbia (Jeff Wall, Maureen Ryan, Serge Guilbaut)

Academia:
Professor Emerita, Emily Carr University
2002-2015 - Tenured Faculty, Emily Carr University Dynamic Media, Film + Screen Arts|Graduate Studies

see examples of her work, award winning multi-year projects and her CV at fionabowie.org, including https://flowvancouver.com/flowvancouver.html, https://www.fionabowie.org/slip.html, https://flowvancouver.com/flowarchive.html, among many others.