Rowen Dinsmore (b. 1999) is an artist, curator and designer with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours degree from the University of Saskatchewan (2022). After graduating, she became the Co-Founder and Curatorial Director of The 525, a non-profit art organization in Saskatoon, while also establishing a career as a professional graphic designer.

 

Using a variety of mediums, including painting and video, Dinsmore explores self-portraiture as a means to investigate identity and the self. By developing layers that abstract and complicate the portrait, her work examines spectatorship, the gaze, and the feminine form. Influenced by both social media and art history, she considers what it means to be a woman in the modern era, offering a simultaneous critique and embrace of the female experience in a post-internet world.

 

Her practice — spanning artmaking, design, and exhibition curation — is rooted in a love for storytelling and sentimental archiving. Dinsmore's work aims to hold a mirror to her viewer, hoping they might see themselves and their experiences within it.