Dawna Rose’s work has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions across Canada. Her collaborative installation (with Betsy Rosenwald) Journal of the Plague Year(s): 2020–2023—an urgent visual response to the pandemic and climate crisis—was on view at Remai Modern in 2022/23. A book documenting the project was published in 2023. She has received grants from the SKArts and The Canada Council for the Arts, and has been an artist in residence at The Banff Centre, Artscape Gibraltar Point (TO), Klondike Institute for Art and Culture (Dawson City, YT), The Vermont Studio Centre (US), Gullkistan (Iceland), Pouch Cove Foundation (NL), AKA Artist-Run (SK), and Emma Lake Writers/Artist Retreat (SK). Dawna’s work can be found in the collections of the SKArts and University of Saskatchewan, as well as in private collections in Canada, the U.S., and Europe. Dawna has published two graphic books, one of which (Smoking with My Mother) won an Alcuin Society national book award. She was awarded the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Medal in 2023 for her contributions to Saskatchewan’s arts community.