Jason E. Bowman

Jason E. Bowman is an artist with a curatorial practice. He is currently a Senior Lecturer and in Fine Art at the HDK-Valand Academy where he also is the Programme Director of the MFA in Fine Art As an artist his projects interrogate the coercion of publics and counter-publics, for which he employs participation as a method. His curatorial work circulates around questions of how artistic practices may be curated, as much as what those practices produce. His research has been previously funded by the Swedish Research Council as Principal Investigator of Stretched: Expanded Notions of Artistic Practice via Artist-led Cultures (2015-20). Three exhibitions were a framework for researching how exhibition-making may be conceived of to challenge dominant limitations, within the field of curating, that often render organisational and administrative activities, modalities of collaborative artistic labour, and the production of socialities to be antecedental, process-centric or extra-artistic to how exhibition-making displays artistic practice. His next body of research departs from the question: how are people curated in art’s social turn. Jason E. Bowman: Talk to the Hand, an exhibition of prototypes for new thoughts and for previous thoughts being re-thought opens at Galleri Cora Hillerbrand, Gothenburg, Sweden on Friday 17 November, 2023.