Bonnie Fortune
Copenhagen, DK
Bonnie Fortune is an artist, designer, and writer.
Her art work has been shown at the Smart Museum (Chicago), the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago), Charlottenborg (Copenhagen, Roskilde Museum for Contemporary Art, and the Frist Center for the Visual Arts( Nashville). She also makes public projects for municipalities, such as Bat House, an ecological habitat project for the city of Urbana, IL created in collaboration with her husband, Brett Bloom.
Recently, she has taught art at Det Fynske Kunstakademi and the University of Malmö. She blogs regularly on art, ecology, and being an artist parent at www.mythologicalquarter.net. Her writing is also published with make/shift and AREA:Chicago (Art, Research, Education, Activism).
Fortune has received artist grants from the Statens Kunstråd of Denmark, City of Urbana, the Gender Equity Council at the University of Illinois, and the Nashville Cultural Arts Project. Her curatorial work around images of women's health, EveryBody! has been noted by the New York Times.