Bonnie Donohue (MFA, Visual Studies Workshop, SUNY Buffalo; BFA, Tyler School of Art, Temple University) is a photographer and video artist whose work maps places of disruption, conflict and loss while examining race, class, economy, politics and cultural erasure. She carefully researches and documents these locations over time and works with ideas for art interventions. She is particularly interested in locations where ordinary people, after years of displacement, have successfully united with a singular notion of taking back their patrimonial heritage from dominant forces. Her former work prior to the peace accords in Northern Ireland (Belfast: Control Zone, in collaboration with Warner Wada), and prior to the end of apartheid in South Africa (South Africa Tapes: Living in a State of Emergency) laid groundwork for her long-term project in Vieques, Puerto Rico at the end of the U.S. military era. She works collaboratively with other artists and interdisciplinary scholars to produce historical context for her work. She organized a major graduate colloquium, Contested Territories, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston last year, inviting artists and academics who deal with the theme in their work. She is organizing and curating a large scale public art event, "Contested Territory: A Reclamation of the Island of Vieques, Puerto Rico," in the interest of reclaiming the territory from military use to cultural use.

Bonnie Donohue is a senior lecturer in Photography at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has exhibited throughout the United States, in Europe, and recently in Puerto Rico with her traveling exhibition, "Vieques: A Long Way Home." She is currently working on a book about the history of the military in Puerto Rico.