Bree Gant - April 2022

bree gant is an artist and thinker from the westside of Detroit. She cultivates a critical, embodied practice that engages art as a form for care and knowledge production. Using photography, film, movement, and installation, bree remarks on the social forces that shape and distort relationship to self and other. Their work is rooted in research and ritual and a legacy of Black queer performance. bree studied film at Howard University while gentrification paved over Washington, DC, and moved back to Detroit, when the city filed for bankruptcy, to see the cranes had followed her home. She has held residencies and fellowships with Art Matters, Kresge Arts in Detroit, Red Bull Arts, People in Education and Detroit Narrative Agency, and exhibits her artwork nationally. Some of their most transformative experiences were collaborative, improvisational performances with The Gathering, Visions of the Evolution, and The Fringe Society. bree is currently researching bus transit, binge watching early 2000s sci fi, and likely at a city park dancing in the snow.