Devon Ward is an artist who creates digital and living systems to explore concepts of time, place and identity. He serves as Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Auburn University where he teaches Intro to Design and Interactive Media. He has exhibited internationally in Australia, China, Japan, Ireland, UK and the United States.
Education
2015 Master of Biological Arts, The University of Western Australia, AU
2010 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Florida, US
Selected Exhibitions
2022 Defining the Undefined, MACAA Virtual Gallery, US
2021 Biodiversity-Cultural Diversity, Hugh N. Ronald Gallery, Portland, US
2021 Ball State Faculty Triennial, Gloria Griner Gallery, Ball State, Muncie, US
2020 Designs for Different Futures, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
2020 Faculty Biennial 2020, University Galleries, Illinois State, US
2020 Urban Screening, Melbourne Design Week, Melbourne, AU
2019 Designs for Difference Futures, Philadelphia Museum of Art, US
2019 Urban Screening, Perth Cultural Centre, Perth, AU
2019 Growing ZHI, Zhi Art Museum, Chengdu, CN
2019 Gnawing Fields, The Lobby, Perth, AU
2019 Quasi-Nature, Hyundai Motor Studio, Beijing, CN
2019 Growing, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, CN
2019 The Tempering, Cool Change Contemporary, Perth, AU
2018 Dark Skies Ahead, Paper Mountain, Perth, AU
2018 Fake, Science Gallery Dublin, Dublin, IE
2017 Fremantle Biennale: High Tide, Fremantle, AU
2017 This is Not Art (TiNA), Critical Animals, Newcastle, AU
2017 Transart, Roe St Footbridge, Perth, AU
2017 Co•–st•–l W•–ve Tr•–nsl•–tor, Elizabeth Quay, Perth, AU
2016 Scrapped (curation), Aartlab, Perth, AU
2016 Protistopia and Posthuman Mythologies (curation), Aartlab, Perth, AU
2015 Futile Labor, John Curtin Gallery, Perth, AU
2015 Busied & Bruised with Looking, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth
2014 Nerves in Patterns on a Screen, Paper Mountain, Perth, AU
2014 Repetitions of Observation, ArtLaab, Perth, AU
2013 Marqeu d’ironie, Light Locker, Perth, AU
2010 Tales of a Man-myth, Reitz Union Gallery, Gainesville, US
2010 Musical Chairs, Eleanor Blair’s Studio, Gainesville, US
2010 Ligature 19, Focus Gallery, Gainesville, US
2009 Proof of Unicorns, WARP Gallery, Gainesville, US
2009 Made in Japan, Design Festa Gallery, Tokyo, JP
2008 Ligature 17, Focus Gallery, Gainesville, US
Publications + Conference Presentations
2023
Ward, Devon “The Art of Environmental Personhood and the Possibility of Environmental Statehood” In: Pau Alsina & Andrés Burbano (coords.). “Possibles”. Artnodes, no. 32. UOC. https://doi.org/10.7238/artnodes.v0i32.411208
2023
Zeigler, Eric; Gaskins, Whitney; Scarpelli, Andy; Sheth, Nandita; Carpenter, Brian and Devon Ward “Culturing Biodesigners: Pedagogical Approaches to Biodesign” In 17th International Conference on Design Principles an Practices. Lisbon Polytechnic.
2022
Ward, Devon “The Conversational Approach to Design” In Watershed: Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) 2022. Maryland Institute College of Art: Maryland, US.
2022
Ward, Devon “In Sight of Allo-States: Tracing the Path from Environmental Personhood to Agentials, Performances of Personhood and Other Artworks on the Agency-Personhood Continuum (APC)” In 27th International Symposium for Electronic Art. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya: Barcelona.
2022
Ward, Devon and Kirill de Lancanstre Jedenov. “Education in the Expanded Field of Design: Biological Design” In Proceedings of the 37th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student. Ball State University: Muncie.
2022
Ward, Devon. “The Expanded Field of Design: Speculative Biodesign” In Defining the Undefined: 2022 Mid- America College Art Association Virtual Conference. Slippery Rock University: Slippery Rock
2021
Ward, Devon. “Vital Signs: Representations of agency and the art of nonhuman personhood.” In Vitality: Conference for Society for Literary, Sciences and the Arts 2021. Michigan University: Detroit.
2019
Ward, Devon, and Kynan Tan. “Dislocated Agency: Methods for Web-Based Sound Generation.” In Signal Culture Cook Book, Vol. 2, edited by Jason Bernagozzi, 122-145. Owego: Signal Culture. 2018-jul Ward, Devon, “Wave Translator.” In Proceedings of the First Digital Naturalism Conference. edited by Andrew Quitmeyer, 146–149. Koh Lon: Digital Naturalism.
2017
Ward, Devon, Robert Cameron, Loren Kronemyer, and Kirill de Lancanstre Jedenov. “Biological Systems: Outcomes in Architectural Design Studios.” In Back to the Future: The Next 50 Years: 51st International Conference of the Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA). edited by Marc Aurel Schnabel, 343–355. Wellington: Victoria University of Wellington.
2017
Robert Cameron, Kirill de Lancanstre Jedenov, Devon Ward and Loren Kronemyer. “Responsive Systems and Electronic Spatial Interfaces: Outcomes in Architectural Design Studios.” In Back to the Future: The Next 50 Years: 51st International Conference of the Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA). edited by Marc Aurel Schnabel, 743–752. Wellington: Victoria University of Wellington.
2015 Ward, Devon. “DIY Neurohacking with YouTube: Transcranial Direct Stimulation.” Presented at Neolife 2015: Society for Literature, Science and the Arts. Perth: The University of Western Australia.
Awards + Grants
2022 Living Posters, SEED Grant, CADC, Auburn University.
2022 The Other Film Festival: WA. Advertising Award Graphis Gold Award
2022 The Other Film Festival: WA. American Design Award GD USA
2021 Biomess. 58th American Design Award GD USA
2021 A New Calibre. 58th Annual American Design Award GD USA
2021 Biomess. 21st Annual American Webdesign Award GD USA
2019 UWA Award for Excellence in Teaching,UWA, Perth, AU
2017 _Foundations_2100_ TransArt Commission ($12,000) City of Perth, AU
2015 Future Bees Fund Poster Series. Poster Competition Graphis Silver Award
Residencies + Conference Presentations
2018 Digital Naturalism, Phuket, TH
2017 Back to the Future: The Next 50 Years, 51st International Conference for Architecture, Wellington, NZ
2016 Ars Bioarctica Residency, University of Helsinki, Kilpisjärvi, FI
2015 SymbioticA, UWA, Perth, AU
2015 Neolife Conference, UWA, Perth, AU
Workshops
2018 BYO Lab, Spectra + ANAT, Adelaide, AU
2015 Hack the Lab, SymbioticA + Perth Modern, UWA, Perth, AU
2015 Didactic Tools, The Fremantle Art Centre, Fremantle, AU
2015 Spark_Lab, Perth Institute for Contemporary Art, Perth, AU
2013 SymbioticA, School of Indigenous Studies, UWA, Perth, AU
Selected Interviews, Talks and Seminars
2017 Back to the Future: The Next 50 Years, 51st International Conference of the Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA), University of Victoria Wellington, Wellington, NZ
2015 Neolife Conference, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA
2015 Perth Centre for Photography, Perth, WA
2015 Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts, UWA, Perth, WA
2014 SymbioticA, Artist Talk, Perth, WA
2014 Paper Mountain, Artist Talk, Perth, WA
2014 RTRFM, Artbeat, Radio Interview, Perth, WA