Frank Bowling
Curriculum Vitae
Born in Guyana in 1936
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2003
George N'Namdi Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
Bending the Grid: Black Identity and Resistance in the Art of Frank Bowling,
Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
Delibar, Charterhouse London, UK, and Outfitter Gallery, Margate, Kent, UK
2002
Peg Alston's Fine Art Gallery, New York, NY
2001
Georgetown Gallery, Washington, DC
UFA Gallery, New York, NY
Rhode und Nerlich, Germany
George N'Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2000
Frank Bowling: The Painter's Painter, G. R. N'Namdi Gallery, Detroit, MI and Chicago, IL
Peg Alston's Fine Art Gallery, New York, NY
1999
UFA Gallery, New York, NY
1998
G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Rush Art Gallery, New York, NY
1997
Frank Bowling: Selected Paintings, Christiane Nienaber Gallery, New York, NY
Frank Bowling - Paintings, Camille Love Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Frank Bowling: 1997 Contemporary Masters Exhibition,
Skylight Gallery at Restoration, Brooklyn, NY
Yaa Asantewaa Art Gallery
Cut Gallery, London, UK
1996
Frank Bowling: Bowling on Through the Century, Leicester City Gallery, UK (travelling show in England)
1995
Transistions 1962-1994, AFTU/Bill Hodges Gallery, New York, NY
The Cut Gallery, London, UK
1993
130th Annual Meeting, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
Heimatmuseum Eckernforde, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
1991
Wilmer Jennings Gallery, Kenkeleba House, New York, NY
1989
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
Bowling through the Decade, UK, travelling show
1988
Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK
(tours to two sites in England and Ireland)
1986
Serpentine Gallery, London UK
Arcade Gallery, Harrogate UK
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
1985
Colby College Art Gallery, Waterville, ME
1983
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
1982
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
1981
VECU, Antwerp, Belgium
1980
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
1979
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
1978
Frank Bowling Retrospective, Polytechnic Art Gallery, Newcastle-on-Tyne, UK
1976
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
Watson/de Nagy and Company, Houston, TX
1975
Caps 1975 Award-Winning Painters, Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center Gallery, State University College, Fredonia, NY
William Darby Gallery, London
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
1974
Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York, NY
1973
Center for Inter-American Relations, New York, NY
Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York, NY
1971
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1966
Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2003
Fault Lines: Contemporary African Art and Shifting Landscapes,
50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
The London Group, Woodlands Gallery, Greenwich, London, UK
The Painted Path: Contemporary Abstraction in Painting, Broadbent Gallery, Notting Hill, London, UK
2002
Tate Unseen: A Small Exhibition of Work by Living Artists from the Tate Storeroom, Tate Gallery, London, UK
Six American Masters, Sugar Hill Art Center, New York, NY
No Greater Love, Jack Tilton / Anna Kustera Gallery, New York, NY
G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999
Slave Routes: The Long Memory, Kenkeleba House, New York, NY
1998
The African-American Fine Arts Collection of the New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
The Fanelli Show (The God, the Bad, and the Ugly),
O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, NY
Jackson Pollock Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1997
For the Young Collector, a.k.a. Small Gems, Tribes Gallery, New York, NY
Space, Time & Object: Black Abstractionists, IRADAC (CUNY), New York, NY
In the Spirit, Cinque Gallery, New York, NY
1996
The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, UK
Harlech Biennale 1996, Wales, UK
Abstractions, Kenkeleba House, New York, NY
Contemporary Masters Series Exhibition, Center for Art and Culture of Bedford Stuyvesant and Skylight Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1995
Skoto Gallery, New York, NY
Abstract in Black, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD
1994
Skoto Gallery, New York, NY
Camille Love Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Gala, Brenau University, Gainesville, GA
Caribbean Vision: Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, travelling show
Clove Gallery, Butlers Wharf, London, UK
1993
Landscape as Metaphor: The Transcendental Vision, Fitchburg Art Museum, travelling show
1992
2nd Coming, South London Gallery, London, UK
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
A Crosscurrents Synthesis in African American Abstract Painting, Dakar Biennale, Dakar, Senegal, Africa, touring to Abidjan, Ivory Coast
1991
The Search for Freedom: African American Abstract Painting 1945-75, Kenkeleba House, New York, NY; Cleveland Institute of Art, OH; and State University of New York, New Paltz, NY
Affinities in Paint, Crane Gallery, London, UK
Greenwich Citizens Gallery, Lanchester Gallery School of Art & Design and Coventry Polytechnic, UK
1990
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
1989
198 Gallery, Herne Hill, London, UK
My Generation: 10 Contemporary Abstract Artists, Atkinson Art Gallery, Stockport, UK touring to Skelmersdale Library Art Centre, Lancashire, UK
Recent Painting & Sculpture, South London Gallery, London, UK
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Jouvert, touring to Swindon, Huddersfield, Bradford and Cheltenham, UK
The Other Story: Afro-Asian Artists in Post War Britain, Hayward Gallery, London, UK; touring to Wolverhampton and Manchester, UK
Umana Yana Art Gallery, Goergetown, Guyana
Chicago Art Fail, Chicago, IL
National Mid-Year Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1988
Exhibition Road: Painters at the Royal College of Art, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
The Presence of Painting: Aspects of British Abstraction, travelling show
1987
The First American: Selections from the nancy Sayles Day Collection of Latin American Art, travelling show
Variations in Matter Painting, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
On a Plate, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Painting and Sculpture, Trelawney Road, Britol, UK
The Daybook, Smiths Gallery, Covent Garden, London, UK
1986
Caribbean Expressions in Britain, Leicester Museum, UK
Transitions: The Afro-American Artists, Bergen Museum of Art & Science
1985
Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
1984
Colby College Art Gallery, Waterville, ME
1983
Place 1, Gimple Fils Gallery, London, UK
1982
Bowling, Loving, Mohr, US travelling show
1981
Mapped Art, US travelling show
1980
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Hayward Annual, Arts Council of Great Britain, London, UK
Maps, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
1979
British Art Show, Arts Council of Grate Britain, travelling show
The Russel Coates Modern Artists Exhibition, Russel Coates Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth, UK
Another Generation, Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY
Contemporary Caribbean Artists - African Expressions, Bronx Museum of Art, NY, travelling show
1978
Selected Works form Tibor de Nagy, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
1977
Artists' Maps, Philadelphia College of Art, PA
25 Years of British Painting, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
1976
The Golden Door: Artists-Immigrants of America, 1876-1976,
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
1973
Whitney Biennial: Contemporary American Art,
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1971
Whitney Biennial: Contemporary American Art,
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Contemporary Black Artists in America,
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1970
Afro American Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Some American History, Rice University, Houston, TX
1969
Whitney Biennial: Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
John Moor's Liverpool Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery
New York State Council on the Arts travelling show
5+1, State University of new York, Stonybrook, NY, and Princeton University, NJ
1968
The Obsessive Image, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
1965
John Moore's Liverpool Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery
1964
John Moore's Liverpool Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery
London Group, Tate Gallery, London, UK
Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
1962
John Moore's Liverpool Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery
Images in Revolt, Grabowski Gallery, London, UK