Paul Bowen

www.paulbowen.com

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2009    Paul Bowen, New Work, ArtStrand, Provincetown, MA
            Stuff: Sculpture by Paul Bowen, Winfisky Gallery at Salem State College, Salem, MA
2008    Paul Bowen, Drawings, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
            Paul Bowen, Sculpture, Christine Price Gallery, Castleton College, Castleton, VT
2007    Paul Bowen, New Work, ArtStrand, Provincetown, MA
2005    Paul Bowen, Sculpture: 1974-2004, Jaffe-Friede & Strauss Galleries, Dartmouth College,
                        Hanover, NH
2004    Paul Bowen: Sculpture 1974-2004, The Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA
            Paul Bowen, Sculpture, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
            Paul Bowen: Recent Works, Beshèrt Gallery, Montclair, NJ
2003    Paul Bowen, Provincetown: Paper & Wood, Brick Walk Bookshop & Fine Art, West Hartford, CT
            Paul Bowen, Koussevitzky Art Gallery, Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, MA
            Paul Bowen, Sculpture, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2002    Paul Bowen, Sculpture, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2001     Wood and Paper, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
            DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2000    T.J. Walton Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1999    T.J. Walton Gallery, Provincetown, MA
            Koussevitzky Art Gallery, Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, MA
1998    Wood Works, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
            Sculpture, New England School of Art and Design, Suffolk University, Boston, MA
            New Work, Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
1997    Recent Work, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA
            The Signal Drawings, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1996 Selected Works, 1976-1996, Takara Gallery, Houston, TX
            Paul Bowen, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
Recent Sculpture, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
1994    New Sculpture, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1993    A Survey Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
            Waterfront, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1991            Sculpture, Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
1990-91 Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
1989    Recent Works on Paper, Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal, Canada
Vereniging Voor Het Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst Te Gent (The Association of the Museum of
            Contemporary Art), Ghent, Belgium
Saint Peter’s Church, New York, NY                          
1987-85 Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
1986    George Ciscle Gallery, Baltimore, MD
            Graham Modern Gallery, New York, NY
1985        Graham Modern Gallery, New York, NY
            Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA

SELECTED TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2009    Paul Bowen: Sculpture, and Gerald Auten: Works on Paper, New England College Gallery, Henniker, NH
2008    Paul Bowen and Bert Yarborough: Recent Work, AVA Gallery and Art Center, Lebanon, NH
2007    Paul Bowen and Pat de Groot:, Recent Work, Brick Walk Bookshop & Fine Art, West Hartford, CT
2006    Paul Bowen/Brian Cohen: Stern to Bow, Selected Works on Paper, Brick Walk Fine Art,
                        West Hartford, CT
            Paul Bowen and Irèn Handschuh: Sidetracks, New Hope, PA
2001    Paul Bowen: Sculpture and Don Kimes: Painting, Jaffe-Friede and Strauss Galleries, Dartmouth
                        College, Hanover, NH
2000    Paul Bowen and Pat de Groot, Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
1997    Paul Bowen and David Shapiro, Numark Gallery, Washington, DC
1996          Paul Bowen and Helen Miranda Wilson, Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
1987    Paul Bowen/James Hansen, East End Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1986          Paul Bowen -Sculpture/Jack Tworkov-Drawings, Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
1985    Carl Apfelschnitt, Drawings and Paintings/Paul Bowen, Drawings and Sculpture, Bayer Fine Arts,
             Provincetown, MA
1983          Robert Mapplethorpe, Fashion/Head Shots/Paul Bowen, Recent Sculpture, Hardison Fine Arts Ltd.,
                  New York, NY
1981        Paul Bowen and Bert Yarborough, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
            Paul Bowen/Ken Horii, Soroban Gallery, Wellfleet, MA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009    Float, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2005-09 ArtStrand, Provincetown, MA
2008    Free Reign, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
            Art on Paper, The Toyota Museum, Toyota, Japan
2007    Four Sculptors—Other Dimensions, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
2006    Collage and Light, Marian Graves Mugar Art Gallery, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH
            Sculptural Elements, Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth, ME
            35th Anniversary Exhibition, Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
2005    Triage: Paul Bowen, MP Landis and Bert Yarborough Collaborations, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY
2004            Sculpture, Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
            Feast or Famine: Artists and Food, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
            Three, Battelle Harding Gallery, Greenfield, MA
2003            Sculpture, Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
2002    The Charles H. Carpenter Collection, Fifty Years of Supporting the New
                        Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
            Ten Artists from Provincetown, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001    Paul Bowen: Sculpture, and Drawings from New York Galleries, curated by Bob Monk for Cherry Stone
                        Gallery, Wellfeet, MA
            The Altered Landscape, LFL Gallery, New York, NY
1999    Square Roots, curated by Ladd Spiegel, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., New York, NY
           Survey 1998, curated by Pasquale Natale and Tom McCanna, Provincetown Art Association and           
           Museum, Provincetown, MA
1998    Utopia, The Silas-Kenyon Gallery at the Schoolhouse Center for Art and Design, Provincetown, MA
            Drawing Invitational, curated by Bob Bailey and Tom McCanna,
            Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
            FABRICations, Yukiko Lunday Gallery, Houston, TX
1998    Long Point Gallery at the Cape Museum of Fine Art, Dennis, MA
            Long Point Gallery at FAWC, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
            Long Point Gallery Tribute, Nardin Gallery, New York, NY
            Artists’ Books, Invitational, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
            Subtext, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1997    Group Exhibition, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
1996 Outermost Sculpture, The Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA
            Odyssey of a Collector: Charles H. Carpenter, Jr., The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
1995          New Forms from the Fine Arts Work Center: A Sculpture Show, Cape Museum of Arts, Dennis, MA
             Selected Recent Acquisitions, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
1994    Gallery Viva, Kawasaki, Japan
            Sculpture in the Garden, Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA
Important Papers, Walker/Kornbluth Art Gallery, Fairlawn, NJ
1993    A Place in the Universe, The Higgins Gallery, Cape Cod Community College, West Barnstable, MA
            More Books as Art, Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
Ways to See, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1991    The Far Field: Six Artists in America, Zephyrus Contemporary Art/
            Excellent Coast, Yokohama, Japan; Toyota Corporation, Kobe, Japan
1991     Birds as Critics: Artists' Birdhouses,Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Twelve Artists, Twelve Months, E. N. S. Graphics/U.F.O. Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1990 Nature's Materials, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
8 Artists/8 Visions, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
            Origins: Six Contemporary Sculptors, M13 Gallery, New York, NY
1989    Contemporary Provincetown, curated by Ann Wilson Lloyd, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
            The Age of Pluralism, Centro di Cultura Ausoni, Rome, Italy
            Group Show,Glenn Dash Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Working in Wood, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1988 Innovations in Contemporary Sculpture, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
            David and Goliath, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Sculpture on the Wall, Boston College, Boston, MA
1986 Sculpture on the Wall, curated by Larry Aldrich and Ellen O'Donnell, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
            The Tar Show, Attitude Art, New York, NY
Crosscurrents, curated by Ellen O'Donnell and Helen A. Harrison, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton,
                        Long Island, New York, NY
1985 Myth/Culture, Jack Shainman Gallery, Washington, DC
Southern Exposure, Brockton Museum, Brockton, MA
1984 Invitational Exhibition, McNay Museum, San Antonio, TX
Four Sculptors: Ritual and Artifact, Zabriskie Gallery, curated by James L. Reinish, New York, NY      
Eight Sculptures: Two Decades,Oriel, Welsh Arts Council Gallery, Cardiff, Wales
1983    Found Objects, Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, NY
Group Exhibition, Impressions Gallery, Boston, MA
1982          100:One Hundredth Annual Summer Exhibition, Royal Cambrian Academy of Art, Plas Mawr,
                  Conwy, Wales
1976        Origins, Welsh Arts Council, Cardiff, Wales
The Fall, Welsh Arts Council, Cardiff, Wales, (travelling exhibition)
1974           Edinburgh Arts, Richard DeMarco Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

 

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

The Association of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
Cape Museum of Fine Art, Dennis, MA
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
School of Art Museum and Gallery at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH
University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, Wales
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
Bodelwyddan Castle Trust, Bodelwyddan Castle, Denbighshire, Wales
Central Sports Club of Japan, Chiba, Japan
The Church of Saint Mary of the Harbor, Provincetown, MA
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
School of Art Museum and Gallery at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales
Mercantile Bank of Saint Louis, MO
Meditech Corporation, Westwood, MA
Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, OH
Prudential Insurance Collection, Newark, NJ
Smith College, Northampton, MA
Swiss Bank Collection, New York, NY
Town of Provincetown, Provincetown, MA
Uchidayoukou Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, Wales
Welsh Arts Council, Cardiff, Wales

COMMISSIONS
Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA, Windrush II, wood sculpture
Whalers' Wharf, Provincetown, MA, large-format photographic installation from original collage
The Mall at Chestnut Hill, Chestnut Hill, MA, Red Fleet, White Fleet, fabric banner
Lumen Editions, Cambridge, MA, book cover for Starry, Starry Night:Provincetown’s Response to the AIDS
            Epidemic by Jeanne Braham & Pamela Peterson
Provincetown Arts Press, Provincetown, MA, frontispiece for Slow Burn by Ellen Dudley
Quality Paperback Club, Qualiteria: The QPB Literary Journal, New York,NY
Weslyan University Press, book cover for Sea Room by Maria Flook
Galleria Tommaseo, Trieste, Italy, Moltiplicazione, limited edition of multiples      
Uchidayoukou Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, Shapeshifting, collaboration with poet Robert Lunday
Welsh Arts Council, The Fall, six drawings

 

AWARDS and APPOINTMENTS
2007                Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant
2005                Artist-in-Residence, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
1993                Sculpture Fellowship, New England Foundation for the Arts
1987                Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1981                Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowship
1979                Artist-in-Residence, Bear Mountain State Park, NY
1978                Award to Artists, Welsh Arts Council
1977-79            Hudson D. Walker Fellowship, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
1972-74            Hoffberger Fellow, Maryland Institute, Baltimore, MD

CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2006             Former Fellows 1994-95 Exhibition, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center,
                                    Provincetown, MA
2004                Louise Bourgeois, Sculpture and Drawings, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center,
                                    Provincetown, MA
1990                The Assembled Image, curated by Paul Bowen and Jim Forsberg, Provincetown Art Association
                                    and Museum, Provincetown, MA