CV - FRANK BOWLING
1936, born Bartica, Essequibo, British Guiana
1962, received M.F.A., Royal College of Art, London
Currently resides in London and New York
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, 1990.
Wilmer Jennings at Kenkeleba, New York, 1991.
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. 1993.
Heimatmuseum, Eckernforde, Schleswig Holstein, Germany, 1993.
AFTU/ Bill Hodges Gallery, New York, 1995.
The Cut Gallery, Waterloo, London, 1995.
Leicester City Gallery, Bowling Through The Century, 1996.
Gallery 11, University of Bradford, Bradford, Yorkshire, 1997.
DE LA WARR Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex, 1997.
South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell, Berkshire, 1997.
The Herbert Art Museum & Gallery, Coventry, 1997.
Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham, 1997.
The Cut Gallery, Waterloo, London, 1997.
The YAA Asantewaa Arts Centre, Paddington, London, 1997.
Center for Art & Culture, Skylight Gallery, Restoration Plaza, Brooklyn, New York,
1997.
Camille Love Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, 1997.
Christiane Nienaber Gallery, New York, 1997.
Rush Arts Gallery, New York, 1998.
UFA Gallery, Chelsea, New York, 1999.
G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Chicago, 2000.
G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, 2000.
Peg Alston Fine Arts, New York, 2000
Georgetown Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2001.
UFA Gallery, Chelsea, New York, 2001.
Rohde und Nerlich, Berlin, Germany, 2001.
Peg Alston Fine Arts, New York, 2002.
Outfitters Gallery, Margate, Kent, 2002.
G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Detroit, 2002.
Aljira, A Center for the Arts, Newark, New Jersey, Bending The Grid, 2002.
Skoto Gallery, Chelsea, New York, 2002.
Delibar, Charterhouse Street, London, What’s Underneath, 2002.
Heidi Cho Gallery, Chelsea, New York, 2004.
The Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvanian, 4
Decades with Color, 2004.
Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, 2004.
Broadbent Gallery, London, 2004.
Peg Alston Fine Arts, New York, 2005.
G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Detroit, Full of Light, 2005
G. R. N’Namdi Gallery, Chicago, 2006.
G. R. N’Namdi Gallery, New York, 2006.
Rollo Contemporary Art, London, The White Paintings, 2006.
ArtSway, Sway, Hampshire, 2006.
Sir Hugh Casson Room for Friends of the Royal Academy, London, Frank’s Colour,
2006-7.
Peg Alston Fine Arts, New York, 2007.
The Arts Club, Dover Street, London, 2007.
The Gallery, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth, Dorset, Big Paintings, 2008.
University of Wolverhamption School of Art+Design, 2008.
Poussin Gallery, London, Pondlife, 2008.
Rollo Contemporary Art, London,2008.
G.R. N’Namdi Galleries (Detroit, Chicago, New York), 2008.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Royal Academy, London, Summer Exhibition, 1990
Kenkeleba House, New York (traveled to Cleveland Institute of Art), The Search for
Freedom: African American Abstract Painting 1945-75, 1991.
State University of New York, New Paltz, 1991.
Crane Gallery, London, Affinities in Paint, 1991.
Greenwich Citizens Gallery, London, 1991.
Lanchester Gallery, Coventry Polytechnic, 1991.
South London Gallery, 2nd Coming, 1992.
Whitechapel Gallery, London, Whitechapel Open, 1992”
Dakar Biennale, Dakar , Senegal, West Africa (traveled to Abidjan, Ivory Coast), A/
Cross currents, synthesis in African American Abstract Painting, 1992.
Fitchburg Museum, Massachusetts, Landscape as Metaphor: the Transcendental Vision,
1993.
Newport Art Museum, Rhode Island, 1993.
Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, Maine, 1993.
Brenau University, Gainsville, Georgia, Gala, 1994.
Clove Gallery, Butlers Wharf, London, 1994.
Skoto Gallery, New York, 1994.
Camille Love Gallery, Atlanta, Dimensions of Guyana, 1994.
Center for Fine Arts, Miami, Caribbean Visions: Contemporary Painting and Sculpture,
1994.
New Orleans Museum of Art, 1994.
The Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut, 1994.
School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, Maryland, Abstract in Black, 1995.
Skoto Gallery, New York, 1996.
Harlech Biennale 1996, Wales, 1996.
Mall Galleries, London, The Discerning Eye, 1996.
Tribes Gallery, New York, For the Young Collector, a k a Small Gems, 1996-7.
Skylight Gallery, Center for Art and Culture, Brooklyn, New York, Skylight Gallery Holiday Exhibition, 1997-8.
Cinque Gallery, New York, In The Spirit, 1997-8.
CUNY, The Institute For Research On the African Diaspora in the Americas and the
Caribbean, Space, Time & Object – Black Abstractionists, 1997-8.
Judith Klein Gallery, New York, Celebration [Significant Smaller works], 1997-8.
Tribes Gallery, New York, A year in the Life of Present Modernism, 1997-8.
O. K. Harris Gallery, New York, The Fanelli Show, 1998.
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey, The African-American Fine Arts
Collection of the New Jersey State Museum, 1999.
Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, 19TH & 20TH Century: African American Art, 2000.
The Custom House Gallery, Mill Dam, South Sheilds, Tyne & Wear, England, In A Marine Light, 2000.
City Gallery East, Atlanta, Georgia, African American Abstraction, 2000.
Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, Jazz and Visual Improvisation, 2001.
G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Chicago, Take Five, 2001.
Peg Alston Fine Arts, New York, Group Show 2002, 2002.
G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Detroit, Forms of Abstraction 111. Abstract Works From The 60s,
70s, & 80s: Bowling, Clark, Edwards, Gilliam, Hunt, Hutson, Loving, Pindell. Whitten, 2002.
Sugar Hill Art Center, Harlem, New York, Six American Masters—Bowling, Carter,
Clark, Hutson, Loving, Pindell, 2002.
Gallery, Lincoln, England, Tate Unseen, Living Artists from the Tate Storeroom, 2002.
Jack Tilton/Anna Kustera Gallery, New York, No Greater Love, Abstraction, 2002.
Woodlands Gallery, Greenwich, London, England, London Group, 2002.
Broadbent Gallery, Notting Hill, London, The Painted Path, 2002.
Director Institute of International Visual Arts, London, Faultlines: Contemporary African Art and Shifting Landscapes, 2002.
Venice, 50th Venice Biennale, 2002.
Outfitters Gallery, Margate, Kent, England, Not Just For Christmas: Visual Art With Life and Soul, 2002.
Pilgrim Gallery, London, England, Confluence, 2002.
The Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
(traveled to The Heckscher Museum of Art, New York; Beach Museum of Art, KSU, Kansas; California African-American Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of Texas Tech University; Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan; Morris Museum of Art, Georgia; Robeson Galleries, Penn State University), Something to Look Forward To: An exhibition featuring abstract art by 22 distinguished Americans of African Descent, 2004-8.
Tate Britain. London, This Was Tomorrow; Art and the 60s, 2004.
Savacou Gallery, New York, Ill’lusion, 2004.
University of Delaware, A Century of African American Art: The Paul R Jones Collection,
2004.
Bankside Gallery, London, The London Group Annual Exhibition, 2005.
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, Energy/ Experimentation: Black Artists, 1964 – 1980, 2006.
The Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, Unstitched, Unbound: Imprints for Change, 2006.
G.R.N’Namdi Galleries (New York, Detroit, Chicago), 25th Anniversary Exhibition: Forms of Abstraction, 2007.
Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland, [c] artography – Map – Making As ARTFORM,
2007.
Muzeum Aztuki, Lodz, Poland, Swingujacy London,Kolekcja Grabowskigo [Swinging London, Collection of Grabowski], 2007.
Jubilee Library, Brighton, England, Redemption Song, 2008.
Menier Gallery, Southwark Street, London, The London Group, 95th Anniversary Exhibition, 2008.
The Discovery Centre, Winchester, Hampshire, 2009.
SELECTED PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, New York
Arts Council of Great Britain
Boca Raton Museum, Florida
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
Cornell University Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Ithaca, New York
Currier Gallery, Manchester, New Hampshire
Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
De Menil Foundation, Houston
Franklin and Marshall College, The Phillips Museum of Art, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Guyana National Collection, Castellani House, Georgetown
Herbert Art Gallery And Museum, Coventry, England
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
Lloyds of London
London Lighthouse
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Michigan State University, Kresge Art Center, East Lansing
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton
Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase
Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation, Toledo, Ohio
Port Authority of New York, World Trade Center
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Rivercross Tenants Corporation, New York
Royal College of Art, London
Tate Gallery, London
University of Liverpool
University of Delaware
Unilever PLC, United Kingdom
Westinghouse Corporation
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies
N’Namdi Collection
London Borough of Southwark
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Royal Academy of Arts, London
AWARDS
1962 Royal College of Art, Silver Medal
1963 Calouste-Gulbenkian Foundation, Painting Purchase Award
1966 First World Festival of Negro Art, Dakar, Senegal, Grand Prize for Contemporary
Art
1967 Painting Prize, Edinburgh Open 100, Edinburgh, Scotland
1967 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
1973 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
1975 New York State CAPS Award
1977 Arts Council of Great Britain Award
1992 Pollock Krasner Award
1998 Pollock Krasner Award
2006 Honorary Fellow, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth, Dover, England
2007 Honorary Doctorate, University of Wolverhampton, England
2008 Order of the British Empire. Painter and Writer and Services to Art |
