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Diana Warren

Daina Warren is a contemporary Indigenous artist and curator.She is currently the Gallery Director of Urban Shaman, located in Winnipeg, Canada.

Background
Diana Warren is from Akamihk Cree Nation in Maskwacis (Bear Hills), Alberta, Canada. Warren graduated from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 2003. Warren was the Associate Curator and Administrator at [[[|grunt gallery]]] a Canadian artist-run centres in Vancouver, Canada from 2000-2009. She received a Master of Arts degree in Critical and Curatorial Studies at University of British Columbia in 2012.

Writing
Lorna Brown contributes essays, reviews, and interviews to publications such as Fillip and The Capilano Review.

Her writing also appears in exhibition catalogues, journals and books.


 * Supplement: Critical and Bibliographic Review. 2009.Montreal Artexte Editions.
 * Ethics of Luxury: Materialism and Imagination, Jeanne Randolph, Ihor Holubizky and Anthony Kiendl, Toronto, YYZ Books, and Winnipeg, Plug In Editions, 2007.
 * Detained by the Camera, Catalogue Essay: “Don Gill’s D’Arcy Island”, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alta.
 * Directional Language, Off Printing: Situating Publishing Practices in Artist Run Centres, Conference Proceedings, RCAAQ, Quebec, 2005.
 * Public Ideals, Prefix Photo 9, May 2004.
 * Unfinished Business, The Rain Review of Books, Issue 4:2, Summer Autumn 2006, Vancouver.

Collections

 * National Gallery of Ottawa
 * Surrey Art Gallery (Searchable through artefacts Canada national database)
 * Canada Council for the Arts - Art Bank (searchable through the Art Bank database)
 * British Columbia Arts Council (collection not searchable online)

Awards and Honours

 * Canada Council for the Arts Paris Studio Award, 2000 (searchable in their database)
 * Recipient of the Vancouver Institute for the Visual Arts, 1996

Reviews

 * Robin Laurence, Lorna Brown captures a dying language with Carets, strike-outs, underlines and dots. Georgia Straight. September 2, 2014.
 * Digital Natives, edited by Lorna Brown and Clint Burnham. Review by Andrew Pel. C Magazine, International Contemporary Art. Winter 2012/13
 * Threshold/Cont. esse, 2009.
 * Robin Laurence, of small gear and big titles. Georgia Straight, September 15–20, 2005.
 * Robin Laurence, Feminist art provides more than a flashback. Georgia Straight. March 18, 2004.
 * Sarah Milroy, Women of the World Unite, Saturday, November 7, 1998. Globe and Mail.
 * Robin Laurence, Exploring the plight of women in urban settings. Weekend Sun, January 27, 1996.
 * Robin Laurence, Not Necessarily the best of '94. Saturday Review, The Weekend Sun, Sunday, December 31, 1994.
 * Robin Laurence, Fresh, Forceful works explore creation of identity. The Weekend Sun, Saturday, March 5, 1993.
 * Ann Rosenberg, Wiles and will of women. The Vancouver Sun, December 12, 1992.
 * Ann Rosenberg, Lifting the veil on a sexual mystery. The Vancouver Sun, Saturday, February 8, 1992.