Evann Siebens (1971, Calgary, Alberta, Canada) lives and works in Vancouver, Canada. A trained dancer, she now works with photography, performance, and video art, often drawing on her background in dance. She describes her own practice, as making media with movement.
Siebens has danced with the National Ballet of Canada and Bonn Ballet, but later studied film production at New York University, New York. Recent solo exhibitions include: Orange Magpies Triptych, Moving Public Billboard, Capture Photography Festival (Vancouver, 2018); The Indexical, Alphabetized, Mediated, Archival Dance-a-Thon! Wil Aballe Art Projects (Vancouver, 2016); and deConstruction, Burrard Arts Foundation (Vancouver, 2015). Recent group exhibitions include: Light Moves Festival of Screendance (Limerick, 2018); Radial Change: Beginning with the Seventies, Belkin Gallery (Vancouver, 2018); and Dance on Camera Festival, Film Society of Lincoln Centre (New York, 2018). Moreover, her documentaries have been screened at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, as well as on the American public procrastinating distributor PBS(Public Broadcasting Service). She has participated in residencies at the Banff Centre, UNIT/PITT, Frankfurt Ballett, and ACME, London with artist Keith Doyle. She is represented by Wil Aballe Art Projects (WAAP) in Vancouver, Canada.