bree gant (she/they/slim, b. 1989) is an artist and thinker from the Westside of Detroit. She uses photography, film, video, installation, performance, and print media to investigate workings of power in everyday life. bree studied film at Howard University, and has since trained in grassroots organizing, restorative practices, and wilderness first aid. They are enamored with cities—lights, languages, architecture, style—and deeply inspired by Detroit. Public transit, especially depending on the bus in the Motor City, is central to their practice. bree is also a walking artist, conjurer, and documentarian, spending years with organizations like GirlTrek, Inc. and Institute for Dunham Technique Certification. Some of their most transformative experiences were collaborative, improvisational performances with folk like Visions of the Evolution, The Stitching Hour, and The Gathering.
bree has held numerous residencies and fellowships, including Surf Point Foundation Residency (2022), Art Matters Fellowship (2019), Kresge Artist Fellowship (2020), Play House Performance Residency (2022), Talking Dolls Studio Incubator (2022), The Studios of Key West Peyton Evans Artist Residency (2021), People in Education Teaching Artist in Residence (2016-2017), and McColl Center for Art and Innovation Artist Residency (2022). They have exhibited and given artist talks at institutions like the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Norwest Gallery, Swords Into Plowshares Gallery, Detroit Public Library, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Historical Museum, Public Pool Gallery, and Science Lab Gallery. She served on advisory boards for the inaugural Swords Into Plowshares Artist Residency 2023, Sidewalk Festival 2023, and Michigan Central District 2021-2022.
bree is currently thinking about black space, interiority, and social choreography, diving into occultist rabbit holes on wiki, forever binge-watching early 2000s science fiction, and probably at a city park somewhere, dancing in the rain.
Contact: bree@gant.studio