Evann Siebens makes media, performance and photos with movement. Her lens-based practice negotiates the human body as an archival site and the politics of the female gaze. She danced with the National Ballet of Canada, the Bonn Ballett, Kunst-Stoff and Danzaisa before studying film production at New York University. She worked as a dance cinematographer in New York City for many years and shot dancers such as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Bill T. Jones and Lucinda Childs. Recent exhibitions include: Cloud Seven, (Brussels, 2024), PET Projects (Athens, 2022), Vancouver Art Gallery Offsite (Vancouver, 2021), MACBA (Barcelona, 2021), Kunstinstituut Melly (Rotterdam, 2020), Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow, 2020) and Belkin Gallery (Vancouver, 2019).
Evann’s documentary work previously screened at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC and was broadcast on PBS. Her work from 'A Performance Affair' in Brussels, Belgium was featured on the front page of the International New York Times in 2019. Evann will be releasing the book project 'Pedestrian Protest' published by the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2025. Represented by Wil Aballe, she is now based in Vancouver, Canada on the ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish people – xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh).