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Frank Bowling
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British
, born 1934)
Frank Bowling
Pouring Over 2 Morrison Boys & 2 Maps I,
2019
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Biography
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Timeline
1934
Born in Bartica, Essequibo, British Guyana, South America
1957 - 1959
Regent Street Polytechnic, Chelsea School of Art
1959 - 1962
Slade School of Arts, London University, Royal College of Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
London Lighthouse
Lloyds of London
Kresge Art Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
De Menil Foundation, Houston TX
Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Currier Gallery, Manchester, NH
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Boca Raton Museum, Boca Raton, FL
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, NY
Port Authority of New York, World Trade Center, NY
Arts Council of Great Britain
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Rivercross Tenants Corporation, New York
Royal College of Art, London
Tate Gallery, London
University of Liverpool
Westinghouse Corporation
Whitney Museum of American Art
National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, West Indies
London Borough of Southwark
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
Herbert Art Gallery And Museum, Coventry, England
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation, Toledo, OH
American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, New York
Selected Public and Corporate Collections
1963-83 Tutor, Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, London
Awards, Fellowships, Grants
2007 Honorary Doctorate in Fine Art at University of Wolverhampton
2005 Royal Academy of Arts, London elected member
1992 & 1998 Pollock Krasner Award
1977 Arts Council of Great Britain Award
1975 New York State CAPS Award
1973 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
1972 Visiting Artist Program, New York State Council of the Arts
1968-69 Artist in Residence, New York State Council of the Arts, Critics Choice Program
1967 Painting Prize, Edinburgh Open 100, Edinburgh, Scotland
1967 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
1966 First World Festival of Negro Art, Dakar, Senegal Grand Prize for Contemporary Art
1963 Calouste-Gulbenkian Foundation, Painting Purchase Award Shakespeare Quarto-Centenary, Stratford on Avon, England, three canvases commissioned: 15'x10', 15'x35', 15'x10'
1962 Royal College of Art, Silver Medal
1962 Associate of the Royal College of Art (MFA)
Other Activities
1969-72 Contributing Editor and Critic for Arts Magazine
1965 Vice-Chairman of the London Group
1962 Member of the London Group
1958-63 Founder of the Young Commonwealth Artists Group with Billy Apple, Jonathan Kingdon, the late Neil Stocker and others
Teaching
1984 Artist in Residence, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine
1975-86 Tutor, Byam Shaw School of Painting and Sculpture, London
1975-76 Lecturer, School of Visual Arts, New York
1974-75 Artist in Residence, Rhode Island School of Design
1970-71 Assistant Professor, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
1969-70 Assistant Professor, Douglass College, Rutgers University, NJ
1968-69 Instructor, Columbia University, New York
1964-66 Lecturer, Reading University
Carmen & G.R. N'Nambdi Collection. University of Delaware, “The Paul R Jones Collection”
Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London
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Exhibitions
2009
Forthcoming
: British Subjects, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, Group Exhibition
2008
Forthcoming
: ROLLO PREVIEW 08 – ROLLO Contemporary Art, Group exhibition
Forthcoming
: BIG PAINTINGS – Bournemouth Institute (TEXT AND TALK programme) (later travelling to Wolverhampton)
Forthcoming
: REDEMPTION SONG, ‘Bridgetown to Brighton’, Brighton Jubilee Library
Forthcoming
: FRANK BOWLING LATEST WORKS, Solo Show at ROLLO Contemporary Art
Forthcoming
: BIG PAINTINGS, Wolverhampton University Art Gallery (travelled from Bournemouth Institute)
Forthcoming
: Recent Works, Solo Show at Poussin Gallery, London
2007
Peg Alston Fine Art Gallery, New York (solo)
Frank Bowling RA Poured Paintings, Arts Club London in collaboration with ROLLO Contemporary Art (3rd May – 1st June) (solo)
2006
Frank’s Colour: Paintings by Frank Bowling RA, Royal Academy Hush Casson Room for Friends (solo)
Frank Bowling The White Paintings, Art Sway (solo)
Frank Bowling ROLLO Contemporary Art, an exhibition celebrating Frank Bowling’s election to the Royal Academy (solo)
Frank Bowling: Full of Light, GR N’Nambdi New York City (solo)
Frank Bolwing: Full of Light, G. R. N’Nambdi Gallery, Chicago (solo)
Frank Bowling recent works, Peg Alston Fine Arts Gallery, New York (solo)
2005
Frank Bowling: Full of Light. A survey exhibition featuring paintings from 1978 to 2004, G. R. N’Nambdi Gallery, Detroit, MI (solo)
2004
The Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA (solo)
Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia (solo)
N’Namdi Gallery, Chicago (solo)
Heidi Cho Gallery, Chelsea, New York (solo)
Broadbent Gallery, London, England (solo)
This Was Tomorrow: Art and the Sixties. Tate Britain, London
Something to look forward to: an exhibition featuring abstract art by 22 distinguished Americans of African descent. Curated by Bill Hutson. The Philips Museum of Art, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, touring to Heckscher Museum, Long Island, California African-American Museum, Los Angeles, Lowe Museum, University of Miami
Illusion. Savacou Gallery, New York
A Century of African American Art: The Paul R. Jones Collection. University of Delaware
“The Painted Path”, Broadbent Gallery, Notting Hill, London
Confluence, Pilgrim Gallery, London
Faultlines: Contemporary African Art and Shifting Landscapes, a project for the 50th Venice Bienniale 2003 Curated by Gilane Tawadros, Director Intsttute of International Visual Arts, London
London Group, Woodlands Gallery, Greenwich, London
Delibar, Charterhouse Street, London (solo)
Outfitters Gallery, Margate. Kent 2003 G. R. N’Namdi Gallery, Detroit, MI (solo)
2003
Not just for Christmas: Visual Art with life and soul, Outfitters Gallery, Margate, Kent
Aljira, A Center for the Arts, Newark, NJ 2003 Skoto Gallery, Chelsea, New York (solo)
2002
Tate Unseen, living artists from, Tate Storeroom, London, England
Six American masters, Bowling, Carter, Clark, Huston, Loving, Pindell, Sugar Hill Art Center, Harlem, N.Y.
No Greater Love, Abstraction, Jack Tilton / Anna Kustera Gallery, SoHo, New York
Group Show 2002, Peg Alston Fine Arts, New York
Forms of Abstraction 111. Abstract works from the 60’s, 70’s & 80’s. Bowling, Clark, Edwards, Gilliam, Hunt, Hutson, Loving, Pindell, Whitten, G. R. N’Namdi Gallery, Detroit
Peg Alston Fine Art Gallery, New York (solo)
KATONAH Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, Jazz and Visual Improvisation 2001 N’Namdi Gallery, Take Five, Chicago, IL. 2001 Art Chicago 2001, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
Georgetown Gallery of Art, Washington DC (solo)
2001
UFA Gallery, Chelsea, New York (solo)
Rohde und Nerlich, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2000
In A Marine Light. The Custom House Gallery, Mill Dam, South Shields, Tyne & Wear, England
African American Abstraction, City Gallery East, Atlanta, Georgia
19th & 20th Century: African American Art, Kenkeleba Gallery, New York
Peg Alston Fine Art Gallery, New York (solo)
George N’Namdi Gallery, Chicago (solo)
George N’Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, MI (solo)
1999
UFA Gallery, Chelsea, New York (solo)
The Fanelli Show, O.K. Harris Gallery, New York
1998
Rush Arts Gallery, New York (solo)
The African-American Fine Arts Collection of the New Jersey State Museum, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton New Jersey
"In The Spirit", Cinque Gallery New York
A year in the Life of Present Modernism, curated by Piri Halasz, Tribes Gallery New York
Celebration [Significant Smaller works], Judith Klein Gallery, New York
Skylight Gallery Holiday Exhibition, Skylight Gallery Brooklyn
1997 - 1998
Space, Time & Object: Black Abstractionists, IRADAC [The Institute For Research On the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean]. City University of New York [CUNY]
1997
University Gallery, Bradford, Yorkshire (solo)
The YAA Asantewaa Arts Centre, Paddington, London (solo)
The Cut Gallery, Waterloo, London (solo)
South Hill Park Arts Centre, Paddington, London (solo)
Midland Art Centre, Birmingham (solo)
De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex (solo)
Christiane Nienaber Gallery, New York (solo)
Center for Art & Culture, Skylight Gallery, Restoration Plaza Brooklyn, New York (solo)
Camille Love Gallery, Atlanta Georgia (solo)
1996 - 1997
For the Young Collector, a k a Small Gems, curated by Randy Bloom, Tribes Gallery. New York
City Gallery, Leicester (solo)
Harlech Biennale, Wales
1996
The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
1995
The Cut Gallery, Waterloo, London (solo)
AFTU / Bill Hodges Gallery, New York (solo)
Skoto Gallery, New York City (with Larry Mohr)
"Abstract in Black", School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD
1994
Skoto Gallery, New York City (with Richard Baye)
Clove Gallery, Butlers Wharf, London
"Gala", Brenau University, Gainsville, GA
"Dimensions of Guyana", Frank Bowling and Donald Locke, Camille Love Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1993
National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC (solo)
Heimatmuseum, Eckernforde, Schleswig Holstein, Germany (solo)
1991
Wilmer Jennings at Kenkeleba, New York (solo)
"Bowling through the Decade", The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol (solo)
"Bowling through the Decade", University Art Gallery, Reading (solo)
1989
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York (solo)
1988
The Senate House, University of Liverpool (solo)
Municipal Art Gallery, Limerick, Ireland (solo)
Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland (solo)
Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (solo)
1986
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York (solo)
Serpentine Gallery, London (solo)
Arcade Gallery, Harrogate (solo)
1983
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York (solo)
1982
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York (solo)
1981
Vecu, Antwerp, Belgium (solo)
1980
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York (solo)
1979
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York (solo)
1978
Frank Bowling Retrospective, Polytechnic Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne (solo)
1977
William Darby, London (solo)
Selected Paintings (solo)
1976 - 1977
Acme Gallery, London (solo)
1976
Watson / de Nagy and Company, Houston, TX (solo)
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York (solo)
1975
William Darby, London (solo)
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York (solo)
1974
Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York (solo)
1973 - 1974
Gallery Center for Inter American Relations, New York (solo)
1973
Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York (solo)
1971
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (solo)
1966
Terry Dintenfass, New York (solo)
1963
Grabowski Gallery, London (solo)
1962
Grabowski Gallery, London (solo)
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