Born 1934 Bartica, Essequibo, British Guiana
Lives and works in London, UK

EDUCATION

1959-1962
  Royal College of Art, London, UK
1960
 Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK (Autumn term)
1958-1959
 City and Guilds, London, UK (1-2 terms)
1957
 Regent Street Polytechnic, Chelsea School of Art, London, UK (1 term)

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1962
 Image in Revolt, Grabowski Gallery, London, UK

1963
 Frank Bowling, Grabowski Gallery, London, UK

1966
 Frank Bowling, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, New York, USA

1971
 Frank Bowling, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, USA

1973
 Frank Bowling Paintings, Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York, New York, USA

1973-1974
  Frank Bowling, Center for Inter-American Relations, New York, New York, USA

1974
 Frank Bowling Paintings, Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York, New York, USA

1975
 Frank Bowling, Recent Paintings, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, New York, USA
Frank Bowling, Recent Paintings, William Darby, London, UK

1976
 
Frank Bowling, Recent Paintings, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, New York, USA
  Frank Bowling, Recent Paintings, Watson/de Nagy and Co, Houston, Texas, USA

1977
  Frank Bowling: Selected Paintings 1967-77, Acme Gallery, London, UK   Frank Bowling, Recent Paintings, William Darby, London, UK 1979
  Frank Bowling, Recent Paintings, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, New York, USA

1980
  Frank Bowling, New Paintings, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, New York, USA

1981
  Frank Bowling Shilderijn, Vecu, Antwerp, Belgium

1982
 Frank Bowling: Current Paintings, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, New York, USA

1983
 Frank Bowling, Recent Paintings, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, New York, USA

1986
 Frank Bowling: Paintings 1983-1986, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK  Frank Bowling, Recent Paintings, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, New York, USA

1988
 Frank Bowling, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK; Municipal Art Gallery, Limerick, Ireland; Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland; The Senate House, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

1989
 Frank Bowling, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK (Part of the Castlefield Gallery tour)  Frank Bowling, Recent Paintings, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, New York, USA

1991-1992
 Frank Bowling: Selected Pictures, Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba, New York, New York, USA

1993
 Frank Bowling Paintings 1981-1992, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, USA

1993-1994
 Frank Bowling Paintings, Heimatmuseum Eckernförde, Eckernförde, Germany

1995
Frank Bowling, The Cut Gallery, London, UK
  Frank Bowling: Transitions 1962-1994, AFTU/Bill Hodges Gallery, New York, New York, USA

1996
 Bowling on Through the Century, City Gallery, Leicester, UK

1997
 Bowling on Through the Century, Gallery II, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK; De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, UK; South Hill  Park, Bracknell, UK; Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham, UK; The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry, UK
 Frank Bowling Paintings, Camille Love Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
 Frank Bowling, 1997 Contemporary Masters Exhibition, The Skylight Gallery at Restoration Plaza, Brooklyn, New York, USA
 Frank Bowling, Christiane Nienaber Gallery, New York, New York, USA

1998-1999
 Frank Bowling New Pictures, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, New York, USA
 Frank Bowling Paintings, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, USA

1999
 New Works by Frank Bowling, UFA Gallery, New York, New York, USA

2000
 Frank Bowling, Recent Works, Peg Alston Fine Arts Gallery, New York, New York, USA
 Frank Bowling, “Painters Painter”, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, USA
 G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA

2001
 Frank Bowling New Pictures, UFA Gallery, New York, New York, USA
 Rohde und Nerlich, Berlin, Germany
 Catching Up, Georgetown Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA

2002
 Peg Alston Fine Arts Gallery, New York, New York, USA

2003
 Bending the Grid: Black Identity and Resistance in the Art of Frank Bowling, Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey, USA
 Frank Bowling: Mapping Time and Space, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, USA
 Frank Bowling: Works from the Studio, Skoto Gallery, New York, New York, USA

2003-2004
 Frank Bowling: What’s Underneath, Recent Paintings, Delibar, London, UK

2004
 Frank Bowling: 4 Decades with Color, The Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
 Frank Bowling, Recent Paintings, Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, New York, USA
 Frank Bowling: Mapping Time and Space, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
 Frank Bowling: From the Studio, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

2005
 Frank Bowling: Full of Light – A Survey Exhibition Featuring Paintings from 1978 to 2004, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, USA
 Frank Bowling, Recent Works, Peg Alston Fine Arts Gallery, New York, New York, USA

2006
 Frank Bowling RA: Full of Light, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, New York, New York and Chicago, Illinois, USA
 Frank Bowling RA: Latest Paintings: A Celebration of His Election to the Royal Academy of Arts, Rollo Contemporary Art, London, UK
 Frank Bowling: The White Paintings, ArtSway, Sway, Hampshire, UK

2006-2007
 Frank’s Colour: Painting by Frank Bowling RA, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

2007
 Frank Bowling RA Poured Paintings, Arts Club, London, UK
 Frank Bowling Recent Paintings, Peg Alston Fine Arts Gallery, New York, New York, USA

2008
 New York Works, Latest Paintings by Frank Bowling RA, ROLLO Contemporary Art, London, UK
 Pond Life and Other Paintings: New Work by Frank Bowling, Poussin Gallery, London, UK
 Frank Bowling: The Big Paintings, Arts Institute at Bournemouth, The Gallery, Poole, Dorset, UK; University of Wolverhampton, School of Art and Design, Wolverhampton, UK

2009
 Frank Bowling OBE RA, Paintings, The Gallery, Winchester Discovery Centre, Hampshire County Council Museums, Winchester, UK
 Light and Water: Frank Bowling’s Big Paintings, Clifford Chance exhibition space, London, UK
 Zippers: New Works by Frank Bowling RA, ROLLO Contemporary Art, London, UK

2010
 Frank Bowling OBE, RA: Paintings 1974–2010, Spanierman Modern, New York, New York, USA
 Frank Bowling, New Works, ROLLO Contemporary Art, London, UK

2011
 Enter the Dragon – Frank Bowling Large Works from the 1980s, Hales Gallery, London, UK  Frank Bowling RA, Crossings: From New Amsterdam, Berbice, to New Amsterdam, New York via Holland and London, ROLLO Contemporary Art, London, UK
 Journeyings: Recent Works on Paper by Frank Bowling RA, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
 Frank Bowling: Recent Works, ROLLO Contemporary Art, London, UK

2012
 Frank Bowling: Recent Paintings, Spanierman Modern, New York, New York, USA
 Frank Bowling: Recent Large Paintings, Hales Gallery, London, UK
 Frank Bowling OBE, RA: Recent Small Works, Eleven Spitalfields Gallery, London, UK

2012-2013
 Drop, Roll, Slide, Drip… Frank Bowling’s Poured Paintings 1973–78, Tate Britain, London, UK

2013
 The Map Paintings 1967–1971, Hales Gallery, London, UK
 Frank Bowling Paintings 1967–2012, Spanierman Modern, New York, New York, USA

2014
 Frank Bowling OBE, RA: At Eighty, Spanierman Modern, New York, New York, USA

2014-2015
 Traingone, Paintings by Frank Bowling, 1979–96, Spritmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden

2015
 Frank Bowling: Map Paintings, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, USA
 Frank Bowling: Right Here. Right Now, Triangle Space and Cookhouse Galleries, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
 Frank Bowling: The Poured Paintings, Hales Gallery, London, UK
 Frank Bowling, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, California, USA

2016
 New White Paintings, Hampstead School of Art, London, UK

2017
 Frank Bowling: Fishes, Wishes in Summertime Blue, Hales Gallery, London, UK
 Metropolitanblooms, Hales Project Room, New York, New York, USA

2017-2018
 Mappa Mundi, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

2018
 Frank Bowling: Make It New, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, New York, USA
 Frank Bowling: Towards the Light, Christian Larsen, Stockholm, Sweden
 Mappa Mundi, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

2018-2019
 Mappa Mundi, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE

2019
 Frank Bowling, Tate Britain, London, UK
 Frank Bowling: More Land than Landscape, Hales Gallery, London, UK

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1962
 Young Commonwealth Artists, RBA Galleries, London, UK
 Young Contemporaries 1962, Arts Council Gallery, Cambridge, UK; Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston Upon Hull, UK; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery,  Swansea, UK; College of Arts and Crafts, Birmingham, UK; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.

1963
 Frank Bowling, William Thomson, Neil Stocker, Grabowski Gallery, London, UK

1964
 Young Commonwealth Artists Group, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

1967
 Maidstone Staff Painting and Sculpture, Alwin Gallery, London, UK

1968
 The Obsessive Image 1960-1968, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK

1969
 5+1, Art Gallery State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York, USA; and The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

1969-1970
 John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
 1969 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, USA

1970
 Afro-American Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

1971
 Contemporary Black Artists in America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, USA
 Some American History, Institute for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA

1972
Two Guyanese Painters: Frank Bowling and Philip Moore, Guyana Consulate, New York, New York, USA

1973
Whitney Biennial 1973: Contemporary American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, USA

1975
CAPS Painters 1975, Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center Gallery, Fredonia, New York, USA

1976
The Golden Door: Artist Immigrants of America, 1876–1976, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA

1977
Artists’ Maps, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
British Painting 1952-1977, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

1978
Selected Works from Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

1979
Another Generation, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York, USA Contemporary Caribbean Artists – African Expressions, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Bronx, New York, USA

1979-1980
The British Art Show, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK; Laing Art Gallery Newcastle, UK; Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, UK; Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK; Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK

1980
Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London, UK


1981
Mapped Art: Charts, Routes, Regions, University of Colorado Art Gallery, Boulder, Colorado, USA; Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA

1982
Color, Material, Form: Bowling, Loving, Mohr, The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA; The Art Center at Hargate, St Paul’s School, Concord, New Hampshire, USA; The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York, USA; and Kresge Art Center Gallery, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Mapped Art: Charts, Routes, Regions, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA

1982-1983
Mapped Art: Charts, Routes, Regions, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, USA

1986
Caribbean Expressions in Britain, Leicestershire Museum and Art Gallery, New Walk, Leicester, UK; Central Museum and Art Gallery, Guildhall Road, Northampton, UK

1986-1987
Caribbean Expressions in Britain, Cartwright Hall, Lister Park, Bradford, UK

1987
The First America: Selections from the Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Latin American Art: An Exhibition of Works from the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Americas Society / Center for Inter-American Relations, New York, New York, USA; El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas, USA; Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Variations in Matter Painting, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, New York, USA; Kingsborough Community College Gallery, City University of New York, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

1988
Exhibition Road: Painters at the Royal College of Art, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

1988-1989
The Presence of Painting: Aspects of British Abstraction 1957-1988, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK; Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, UK; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

1989
Frank Bowling and Dennis de Caires Recent Paintings, The Umana Yana, Georgetown, Guyana My Generation: 10 Contemporary Abstract Artists, Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport, UK; Skelmersdale Library Art Centre, Skelmersdale, Lancashire, UK
Whitechapel Open: East End Open Studios, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Recent Painting and Sculpture, The South London Art Gallery, London, UK

1989-1990
The Other Story, Hayward Gallery, London, UK; Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK; Manchester City Art Gallery and Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
Vintage Abstractions, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, New York, USA

1991
Frank Bowling and Graham Mileson, Painting and Sculpture, Greenwich Citizens Gallery, London, UK; Lanchester Gallery, Coventry Polytechnic, Coventry, UK
The Search for Freedom: African American Abstract Painting 1945–1975, Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, New York, USA; Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland Ohio, USA; State University of New York, New Paltz, New York, USA
Affinities in Paint, Crane Gallery, London, UK

1992
A/Cross Currents: Synthesis in African American Abstract Painting, Dakar Biennale, Dakar, Senegal; Abidjan, Ivory Coast; Kenkeleba House, New York, New York, USA
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery London, UK
Art for A Fairer World, Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow, UK; St David’s Hall, Cardiff, UK

1993
Art for A Fairer World, Smith’s Galleries, London, UK
Landscape as Metaphor: The Transcendental Vision, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg Massachusetts, USA

1994
Landscape as Metaphor: The Transcendental Vision, Newport Art Museum, Newport, Rhode Island, USA; Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine, USA
Dimensions of Guyana, Frank Bowling and Donald Locke, Camille Love Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Frank Bowling and Richard Baye, Skoto Gallery, New York, New York, USA

1995
Frank Bowling, New Small Pictures, Larry Mohr, Recent Sculpture, Skoto Gallery, New York, New York, USA
The Caribbean Connection, Islington Arts Factory, London, UK
Caribbean Visions: Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida, USA

1996
Absolut Expressions, Sprit Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
Abstractions, Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, New York, USA
Caribbean Visions: Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; African American Museum, Dallas, Texas, USA

1997
Caribbean Visions: Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont, USA; The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; Smithsonian Institution (Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture; Arts and Industries Building, South Gallery), Washington, DC, USA

1997–98
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, New York, USA
A Year in the Life of Present Modernism, Tribes Gallery, New York, New York, USA
The Skylight Gallery Holiday Exhibition, The Skylight Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA

1998
The Fanelli Show, OK Harris Gallery, New York, New York, USA
The African-American Fine Arts Collection of the New Jersey State Museum, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey, USA
Caribbean Visions: Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida, USA; Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California, USA

1999
New Works by Frank Bowling, Sculpture by Milton Sherrill, UFA Gallery, New York, New York, USA
Slave Routes: The Long Memory, Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, New York, USA

2000
African American Abstraction, City Gallery East, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century: African American Art, Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, New York, USA
Absolut Anniversary, Vanderbilt Hall, Grand Central Terminal, New York, New York, USA

2001
Jazz and Visual Improvisation, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, USA
Take Five, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Forms of Abstraction, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, USA

2002
Tate Unseen: Living Artists from the Tate Storeroom, Tate Britain, London, UK
Six American Masters: Bowling, Carter, Clark, Hutson, Loving, Pindell, Sugar Hill Art Center, New York, New York, USA
No Greater Love, Abstraction, Jack Tilton/Anna Kustera Gallery, New York, New York, USA
Forms of Abstraction III: Abstract Works from the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, USA

2003
Fault Lines: Contemporary African Art and Shifting Landscapes, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy London Group, Woodlands Gallery, London, UK
Not Just for Christmas: Visual Art with Life and Soul, Outfitters Gallery, Margate, UK
National Black Fine Art Show, The Puck Building, New York, New York, USA
The Painted Path: Contemporary Abstraction, Broadbent Gallery, London, UK

2004
A Century of African American Art: The Paul R. Jones Collection, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA
Art and the 60s: This Was Tomorrow, Tate Britain, London, UK
Confluence, Pilgrim Gallery, London, UK
AL.LU'SION II, Savacou Gallery, New York, New York, USA
Something to Look Forward to: An Exhibition Featuring Abstract Art by 22 Distinguished Americans of African descent, The Phillips Museum Of Art, Franklin And Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA

2005
Something to Look Forward to: An Exhibition Featuring Abstract Art by 22 Distinguished Americans of African descent, The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York, USA

2006
Energy/Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction, 1964–1980, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York, USA
Unstitched, Unbound: Imprints for Change, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, New York, USA
Something to Look Forward to: An Exhibition Featuring Abstract Art by 22 Distinguished Americans of African descent, The Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA; California African American Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA

2007
25th Anniversary Exhibition: Forms of Abstraction, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, New York, New York, USA; G.R. N’Namdi Gallery Detroit, Michigan, USA; G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Full Circle, Summer Group Show, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Swinging London, Collection of Grabowski, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland
(C)artography: Map-Making as Artform, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland

2008
Something to Look Forward to: An Exhibition Featuring Abstract Art by 22 Distinguished Americans of African descent, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan, USA; Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia, USA; HUB- Robeson Galleries, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA

2009
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
The Mark of the Hand, Spanierman Modern, New York, New York, USA
Sound: Print: Record: African American Legacies, University Museums, University of Delaware, Mechanical Hall Gallery, Newark, Delaware, USA
British Subjects: Identity & Self-Fashioning 1965-2009, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, New York, USA
The London Group Open Exhibition, Menier Gallery, Southwark Street, London, UK

2010
Abstract Relations, University Museums, University of Delaware, Mechanical Hall Gallery, Newark, Delaware, USA; David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
African American Abstract Masters, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, New York, USA; Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba, New York, New York, USA; Opalka Gallery, The Sage Colleges, Albany, New York, USA
Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Poussin Review 2010: New to Sight, Poussin Gallery, London, UK
PINTA: The Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art Show, Earls Court Exhibition
Centre, Brompton Hall, London, UK; Pier 92, New York, New York, USA
Gallery Selections, Spanierman Modern, New York, New York, USA
August Gallery Selections, Spanierman Modern, New York, New York, USA

2011
Bowling’s Cru, Painters, The Cello Factory, London, UK
Frank Bowling and Graham Mileson Paintings, The Cello Factory, London, UK
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Black, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Contemporary Expressions: Art from the Guyana Diaspora, FiveMyles, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Ten Modern and Contemporary Artists, Spanierman Modern, New York, New York, USA
Abstract Expressionism and its Legacy, Spanierman Modern, New York, New York, USA
NEW: Latest Work by ROLLO Artists, Rollo Contemporary Art, London, UK

2012
Fifteen Contemporary Artists Represented by Spanierman Gallery, Spanierman Gallery, New York, New York, USA
British Design, 1948–2012: Innovation in the Modern Age, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
A Family Affair, The Cello Factory, London, UK
Frank Bowling and Dennis de Caires, University of Glyndwr, Wrexham, UK
Bowling’s Friends, The Cello Factory, London, UK
Migrations: Journeys into British Art, Tate Britain, London, UK
New Possibilities: Abstract Paintings from the Seventies, The Piper Gallery, London, UK
Solomon. Boxer. Bowling. Syd Solomon, Stanley Boxer and Frank Bowling, Spanierman Modern, New York, New York, USA
Summer Selections, Spanierman Modern, New York, New York, USA
Caribbean: Crossroads of the World, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York, USA

2013
Grit to Gold: Collaging the Abstract, Frank Bowling OBE RA, John Bunker, Scott O’Rourke, Standpoint Gallery, London, UK BP Walk through British Art, Tate Gallery, London, UK Frank Bowling and his Invited Artists, The Cello Factory, London, UK The London Group Centenary Exhibition, Pitzhanger Manor, London, UK 2014 Caribbean: Crossroads of the World, Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami, Florida, USA I Cheer a Dead Man’s Sweetheart, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, UK Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, USA The London Group on London, The Cello Factory, London, UK 2015 Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA A Marriage of Styles: Pop to Abstraction, Mascalls Gallery, Paddock Wood, Kent, UK Affecting Presence and the Pursuit of Delicious Experiences, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, USA

2016
Land, Sea and Air, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK 2016-2017 Circa 1970, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York, USA Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and Atlantic, 1945–1965, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

2017
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, Tate Modern, London, UK Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK Thinking Out Loud: Notes for an Evolving Collection, The Warehouse, Dallas, Texas, USA Impulse!, Pace, London, UK

2017-2018
Looking Anew: Art and Estrangement, 1900—2000, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, USA 2018 From Color & Form to Expression & Response: Abstract Art at University of Delaware, University Museums, University of Delaware, Mechanical Hall Gallery, Newark, Delaware, USA 250th Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, USA

2018-2019
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, USA

2018-2020
Epic Abstraction: Pollock to Herrera, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA

2019
The Warmth of Other Suns: Stories of Global Displacement, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, USA
From Dürer to Digital and 3-D: The Metamorphosis of the Printed Image, Trenton City Museum, Trenton, New Jersey, USA
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, The Broad, Los Angeles, California, USA
Spilling Over: Painting Color in the 1960s, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, USA
Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, California, USA; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina, USA; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA

2019-2020
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, The de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), San Francisco, California, USA
The Shape of Abstraction: Selections from the Ollie Collection, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Missouri, USA
Mapping Black Identities, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

2020
RELATIONS: Diaspora and Painting, Phi Foundation for Contemporary Art (Fondation Phi pour l’art contemporain), Montreal, Canada
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), Houston, Texas, USA
Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA; Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, USA; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

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Alley, Ronald. Frank Bowling. London: Serpentine Gallery, 1986. Exh. cat. Alloway, Lawrence, Sam Hunter and Frank Bowling. 5+1. New York: State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1969. Exh. cat. Amaya, Mario. The Obsessive Image 1960-1968. London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1968. Exh. cat. Ammirati, Domenick. “Energy/Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction, 1964-1980.” Artforum, vol.44, no.10 (Summer 2006). https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/200606/energy-experimentation-black-artists-and-abstraction-1964-1980-43786. Amy, Michael. “Frank Bowling at Skylight and Christiane Nienaber.” Art in America, May 1998. Another Generation. New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 1979. Exh. cat. Apollo Magazine. “Artist of the year: The Shortlists.” November 15, 2019. https://www.apollo-magazine.com/artist-of-the-year-shortlist-apollo-awards-2019/. Archer, Michael. Artscribe International, (March-April 1990).

Artdaily.com. “Tate Britain Opens the First Major Retrospective of Work by Frank Bowling.” May 30, 2019. http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=113945#.XO_zUohKiUk.

The Arts Society. “Frank Bowling: Breaking Boundaries.” June 18, 2019. https://theartssociety.org/arts-news-features/frank-bowling-breaking-boundaries.

Artsy Editors. “The Artsy Vanguard 2019.” Artsy, September 16, 2019. https://www.artsy.net/series/artsy-vanguard-2019.

Artsy Editors. “Frank Bowling’s Forgotten Painting.” Artsy, March 8, 2013. https://www.artsy.net/article/editorial-frank-bowlings-forgotten-painting.

Assheton, Richard. “The London Scene: Recalling 60s Soho With Bacon, Freud, & Kossoff.” The Quietus, April 20, 2018.

https://thequietus.com/articles/24435-london-painters-modernists-and-mavericks-bacon-freud-riley-hockney. Axarlis, Nick. Artrage. Summer 1986.

Bajekal, Naina. “How Artists of All Ages Keep Their Creative Spirit Alive.” Time Magazine, February 7, 2019. https://time.com/longform/artists-through-the-ages/.

Barker, Tommy. “Bowled Over by the Light.” Cork Examiner, April 9, 1988.

Barnard, Imelda. “My Life Has Always Been About Painting.” Apollo Magazine, July 1, 2017. https://www.apollo-magazine.com/my-life-has-always-been-about-painting-frank-bowling/.

Barnett, Laura. “Frank Bowling and the Politics of Abstract Painting.” The Guardian, July 2, 2012. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/jul/02/frank-bowling-abstract-artist-interview.

Bedell, Geraldine. “Tuned in, Turned Out, Still Far Out.” The Observer, June 6, 2004. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2004/jun/06/art1.

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Enwezor, Okwui, Sarah Glennie, Kobena Mercer, Zoe Whitley, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Frank Bowling, Rose Jones and Anna Schneider. Frank Bowling: Mappa Mundi. Edited by Okwui Enwezor. Munich: Haus der Kunst (and touring); London and New York: Prestel, 2017. Exh. cat.

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Khan, Tabish. “14 Exhibitions That’ll Blow You Away This Summer.” Londonist, June 21, 2019. https://londonist.com/london/art-and-photography/10-exhibitions-that-ll-blow-you-away-this-summer.

Khan, Tabish. “The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London in August.” FAD Magazine, August 4, 2019. https://fadmagazine.com/2019/08/04/the-top-7-art-exhibitions-to-see-in-london-in-august-2/.

Kpade, Sabo. “Frank Bowling at London’s Tate Modern.” The Guardian Nigeria, July 28, 2019. https://guardian.ng/art/frank-bowling-at-londons-tate-modern/.

Kramer, Hilton. “Many Small Grotesques In Sculpture by King…Frank Bowling: Center for Inter‐American Relations.” New York Times, December 1, 1973. https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/01/archives/many-small-grotesques-in-sculpture-by-king.html. Kreimer, Julian. “Frank Bowling at G.R. N’Namdi.” Art in America, April 2007. Lack, Jessica. “Is Frank Bowling Britain’s Greatest Living Abstractionist?” Christies.com, September 6, 2019. https://www.christies.com/features/Frank-Bowling-How-Britain-neglected-its-foremost-abstractionist-9922-1.aspx.

Laughlin, Nicholas. “Let it Come Down: Nicholas Laughlin Visits an Exhibition of Frank Bowling’s Poured Paintings.” Caribbean Beat, Issue 118 (November/December 2012), Word of Mouth. https://www.caribbean-beat.com/issue-118/word-mouth-novemberdecember-2012. Lloyd-Smith, Harriet. “Frank Bowling Cements his Status as a Modern Master with Tate Britain Retrospective.” Wallpaper, June 6, 2019. https://www.wallpaper.com/art/frank-bowling-tate-britain-london. Locke, Donald. Frank Bowling Paintings. Atlanta: Camille Love Gallery, 1997. Exh. brochure. Locke, Donald. “Master Colorist [subdued].” Creative Loafing, October 25, 1997. Ludel, Wallace. “SFMOMA Revealed the Works it Acquired with Proceeds from Selling a Rothko for $50 million.” Artsy, June 27, 2019. https://www.artsy.net/news/artsy-editorial-sfmoma-revealed-works-acquired-proceeds-selling-rothko-50-million.

Lynton, Norbert. “Grooves of Academe.” The Guardian, May 11, 1966. Lynton, Norbert. “London Letter.” Art International, December 1962.

Macpherson, Amy. “10 Minutes with... Frank Bowling RA.” RA Blog, September 22, 2014. https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/10-minutes-with-frank-bowling-ra. Mair, John. “Guyanese Artist Frank Bowling Part of Major Tate Exhibition in London.” Guyana Stabroek News, July 21, 2004. Malby, Poppy. “Frank Bowling on the Most Random Object that has Ended up in his Paintings.” GQ Magazine, August 4, 2019. https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/gq-hype/article/20-questions-with-frank-bowling. Martin, Courtney J. ed. Four Generations: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art. New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2016. Martin, Courtney J. “Frank Bowling in Conversation with Courtney J. Martin.” Discussion for, Focus Display: Drop, Roll, Slide, Drip... Frank Bowling’s Poured Paintings 1973-8, Tate Britain, London, October
 12, 2012. Martin, Courtney J. Frank Bowling: The Poured Paintings. London: Hales Gallery, 2015. Exh. cat. (Reprint of conversation from 2012). Martin, Courtney J. “They’ve All Got Painting: Frank Bowling’s Modernity and the Post-1960 Atlantic.” In Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic, edited by Tanya Barson and Peter Gorschlüter. London: Tate Publishing, 2010. Exh. cat. Masheck, Joseph. “Frank Bowling.” Artforum, vol.12, no.6 (February 1974): 72. https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/197402/frank-bowling-69862. McCabe, Cynthia Jaffee and Daniel J. Boorstin. The Golden Door, Artist-Immigrants of America, 1876-1976. Washington, DC: Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, 1976. Exh. cat. McLean, Sarah. “An Interview with Frank Bowling.” Chelsea College of Arts, May 29, 2019. https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/chelsea-college-of-arts/stories/frank-bowling.

Mercer, Kobena. “Black Atlantic Abstraction: Aubrey Williams and Frank Bowling.” In Discrepant Abstraction, edited by Kobena Mercer, 182-205. Cambridge: MIT Press; London: INIVA, 2006. Mercer, Kobena. “Frank Bowling’s Map Paintings.” In Fault Lines: Contemporary African Art and Shifting Landscapes, edited by Gilane Tawadros and Sarah Campbell, 139-149. London: INIVA, 2003. Exh. cat. (50th Venice Biennale). Micchelli, Thomas. “The Colors of the Sixties.” Hyperallergic, April 6, 2019.
 https://hyperallergic.com/493541/spilling-over-painting-color-in-the-1960s-whitney-museum-of-american-art/. Michalska, Julia and Amah-Rose Abrams. “‘Not Good Enough’: Oscar Murillo Criticises Tate Over Frank Bowling Exhibition.” The Art Newspaper, June 5, 2019. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/not-good-enough-oscar-murillo-criticises-tate-over-frank-bowling-exhibition. Miller, Nicole. “Frank Bowling: Make It New.” The Brooklyn Rail, November 1, 2018. https://brooklynrail.org/2018/11/artseen/FRANK-BOWLING-Make-It-New. Modern Painters. “Images of a Lifetime.” (Winter 1999). Moore, Nick. “Nick Moore Writes on Frank Bowling at Hales, London.” Abcrit, no.85 (November 19, 2017). https://abcrit.org/2017/11/19/85-nick-moore-writes-on-frank-bowling-at-hales-london/. Nawrocki, Dennis Alan. “Shining Through, Frank Bowling Paints Light.” Detroit Metro Times, December 7, 2005. Nicholson, Julia. Caribbean Expressions in Britain. Leicester: Leicestershire Museums, Art Galleries and Records Service (and touring), 1986. Exh. cat. Nonn, Thomas. Variations in Matter Painting. New York: Anita Shapolsky Gallery (and touring), 1987. Exh. cat. Packer, William. The British Art Show: Recent Paintings and Sculpture by 112 Artists. London: Arts Council of Great Britain (and touring), 1979. Exh. cat. Pagel, David. “Review: Frank Bowling at Marc Selwyn Fine Art: Discipline meets Delight.” Los Angeles Times, September 29, 2015. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-art-review-frank-bowling-at-marc-selwyn-fine-art-20150928-story.html. Patel, Alpesh Kantilal. “Gauging the Potential of Abstraction at Art Basel Miami Beach.” Hyperallergic, December 6, 2019. https://hyperallergic.com/532035/gauging-the-potential-of-abstraction-at-art-basel-miami-beach/. Pes, Javier. “After Decades of ‘Appalling’ Institutional Neglect, Museums Are Now Clamoring for Artist Frank Bowling’s Work.” Artnet News, June 11, 2019. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/museums-clamoring-for-frank-bowling-1567474. Petersson, Josef. “The Painter of Bare Life.” Kunstkritikk, August 14, 2019. https://kunstkritikk.com/the-painter-of-bare-life/.

Primrose, Alice. “Frank Bowling: “I Realised that Girls Liked Me at Art School.”” Royal Academy, June 5, 2019. https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/as-i-see-it-frank-bowling.

Prodger, Michael. “Frank Bowling, an Overlooked Star of British Art’s Golden Generation.” New Statesman, May 22, 2019. https://www.newstatesman.com/frank-bowling-tate-britain-retrospective-2019.

Pryor, Eric, Spencer A. Richards, Carl E. Hazlewood. Frank Bowling: 1997 Contemporary Masters Exhibition. Brooklyn: Skylight Gallery at Restoration Plaza, 1997. Exh. cat.

Pyle, Hilary. The Irish Times, September 7, 1988.

Raynor, Vivien. “Art: Gary Stephan Show at Boone and Werner [Frank Bowling, Tibor de Nagy].” The New York Times, May 23, 1986. https://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/23/arts/art-gary-stephan-show-at-boone-and-werner.html.

Raynor, Vivien, Valentin Tatransky, Jean Seigel [Jeanne Siegel], Mel Gooding, Gerrit Henry and Tony Godfrey. Frank Bowling & Dennis de Caires Recent Paintings. Georgetown: The Umana Yana, British Council and the Department of Culture in Guyana, 1989. Exh. cat.

Regan, Sheila. “Art in Bloom and More.” Southwest Journal: Southwest Minneapolis' Community Newspaper, April 3, 2019. https://www.southwestjournal.com/focus/get-out-guide/2019/04/art-in-bloom-and-more/.

Reyburn, Scott. “A Landmark Achievement for a Painting by a Woman, Upstaged by a Man.” The New York Times, October 12, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/12/arts/-jenny-saville-banksy-sothebys.html.

Richards Spencer A. and Frank Bowling. Frank Bowling: 4 Decades with Color. Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College, 2004. Exh. cat.

Richards Spencer A. Frank Bowling RA: Full of Light. Chicago, Detroit, New York: G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, 2006. Exh. cat.

Richards Spencer A. and Page Benkowski. Frank Bowling: Make it New. New York: Alexander Gray Associates, 2018. Exh. cat.

Richie, Ian. “Frank Bowling in conversation with the architect Ian Ritchie RA.” Talk given at The Royal Academy of Arts, London, September 28, 2011. Rickey, Carrie. “Frank Bowling, Tibor de Nagy Gallery.” Artforum, vol.18, no.1 (September 1979): 76. https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/197907/frank-bowling-67618.

Robertson, Bryan, John Russell, and Lord Snowdon. Private View: The Lively World of British Art. London: Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd, 1965.

Rodney, Seph. “Gathering the Work of Guyanese Artists Far from Home.” Hyperallergic, September 14, 2016. https://hyperallergic.com/322185/gathering-the-work-of-guyanese-artists-far-from-home/.

Ross, Gregory. “Time and Object: Black Abstractions, Exhibition at CCNY.” New York Amsterdam News Space, 1997.

Rowe, Dorothy C. “Nonsynchronous Cartographies: Frank Bowling’s Map Paintings.” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, vol.17, no.2 (41) (July 1, 2013): 255-73. https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2323445.

Sack, Emily. “Journeys & Location: Frank Bowling RA, ROLLO Contemporary Art, London.” Aesthetica, May 19, 2011. https://aestheticamagazine.com/journeys-location-frank-bowling-ra-rollo-contemporary-art-london/.

Schwarz, Gabrielle. “Artist of the Year.” Apollo Magazine, November 21, 2019. https://www.apollo-magazine.com/artist-of-the-year-winner-apollo-awards-2019/.

Searle, Adrian and Jonathan Jones. “Top 20 Art Exhibitions of 2019.” The Guardian, December 15, 2019. https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/dec/15/top-20-art-exhibitions-of-2019.

Seidel, Frederick L. Frank Bowling Selected Paintings 1967-77. London: Acme Gallery, 1977. Exh. cat.

Sheets, Hilarie M. “Discovered After 70, Black Artists Find Success, Too, Has Its Price.” The New York Times, March 23, 2019.
 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/23/arts/design/black-artists-older-success.html. Shields, Chris. “Frank Bowling: The Possibility of Paint.” Art & Antiques Magazine, May 2019. http://www.artandantiquesmag.com/2019/05/frank-bowling/.

Siegel, Jeanne. “Frank Bowling’s Abstract Paintings: A Critique and Interview.” Art International, vol.19, no.5 (1975): 23-7.

Siegel, Katy, ed. “The heroine Paint” After Frankenthaler. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2015. Exh. cat.

Sims, Lowery. “Conversation between Frank Bowling and Lowery Sims.” Talk given for the exhibition, Energy/Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction 1964-1980, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, June 2006. Sims, Lowery S. Contemporary Caribbean Artists... African Expressions. The Bronx: The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1979. Exh. cat.

Small, Zachary. “Historical Memory Haunts Frank Bowling’s New Paintings.” Hyperallergic, October 1, 2018. https://hyperallergic.com/462452/frank-bowling-make-it-new-alexander-gray-associates-2/.

Smith, Roberta. “At 7 Art Galleries, the Ecstatic Flow of Paint and the Stories It Can Tell.” The New York Times, September 27, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/arts/design/seven-painting-shows-to-see-in-new-york-art-galleries.html.

Sooke, Alastair. “Frank Bowling, Tate Britain, Review: How did we Miss This Master for So Long?” The Telegraph, May 31, 2019. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/what-to-see/frank-bowling-review-tate-britain-did-miss-master-long/.

Steer, Emily. “5 Questions with Frank Bowling.” Elephant Magazine, January 9, 2017.
https://elephant.art/5-questions-frank-bowling/.

Stephens, Chris and Katherine Stout, eds. Art & the 60s: This Was Tomorrow. London: Tate Publishing, 2004. Exh. cat.

Sylvester, David. “No Baconians.” New Statesman, April 20, 1962.

Tait, Simon. “Frank Bowling is the 2018 Visual Arts Winner.” The Critics’ Circle, November 4, 2018. http://criticscircle.org.uk/frank-bowling-is-the-2018-visual-arts-winner/.

Tancock, John. Frank Bowling. New York: Center for Inter-American Relations, 1973. Exh. cat. Tate Gallery. “Frank Bowling, Spreadout Ron Kitaj 1984–6, T04889.” In Tate Gallery: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions 1986–88. London: Tate Gallery, 1996. (Catalogue Entry available here: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/bowling-spreadout-ron-kitaj-t04889.) Tatransky, Valentin. “Frank Bowling.” Arts Magazine, vol.57, no.5 (1983): 37-8. Tatransky, Valentin. “Some Remarks about Bowling’s art.” In Frank Bowling and Graham Mileson Painting and Sculpture. London: Greenwich Citizens Gallery, 1991. Exh. brochure. Tooby, Michael and Joanna Drew. The Presence of Painting: Aspects of British Abstraction 1957-1988. London: South Bank Centre (and touring), 1988. Exh. cat.

Valentine, Victoria L. “Auction Results: A Review of African American Art Featured in Sotheby’s Fall 2017 Contemporary Auctions—Several Never Exhibited, Unseen for Decades.” Culture Type, March 4, 2018.
shorturl.at/sDJTV.

Valentine, Victoria L. “Latest News in African American Art: Guggenheim Hires First Black Curator and Names Hugo Boss Prize Finalists, de Young Museum Acquires Frank Bowling Painting.” Culture Type, November 19, 2019. shorturl.at/jrsHT.

Valentine, Victoria L. "Scenes From Frieze New York: A Look at African American Art Throughout the Fair." Culture Type, May 3, 2019.
shorturl.at/chGLM.

Valentine, Victoria L. “Six Decades of Color: First Major Retrospective of Frank Bowling Opens at Tate Britain in London.” Culture Type, June 1, 2019. shorturl.at/szFHQ. Valentine, Victoria L. “‘Soul of a Nation’ Opens in New York Where Many of the Exhibition Artists Were Active During the Civil Rights, Black Power Eras.” Culture Type, September 14, 2018. shorturl.at/hBDMT.

Valentine, Victoria L. “This Fall, Multiple Exhibitions Dedicated to ‘Soul of a Nation’ Artists are on View Throughout New York City.” Culture Type, September 24, 2018.
 shorturl.at/xyMSW.

Valentine, Victoria L. “Whitney Museum’s ‘Spilling Over’ Exhibition Celebrates Color and Calls to Mind an Earlier Moment in Art History.” Culture Type, May 24, 2019. shorturl.at/bEIPU.

Valentine, Victoria L. “The Year Ahead in African American Art: What to Look Forward to in 2019.” Culture Type, January 24, 2019. shorturl.at/osJT9.

Vendryes, Margaret Rose. “Frank Bowling.” In Art by African Americans in the collection of the New Jersey State Museum, edited by Alison Weld. Trenton: New Jersey State Museum, 1998. Exh. cat.

Viganò, Giulia. “African American Art Exhibitions: Kara Walker and Frank Bowling.” Made In Shoreditch Magazine, October 29, 2013. shorturl.at/gGPSU.

Wainwright, Leon. “Frank Bowling and the Appetite for British Pop.” Third Text, vol.22, issue 2, no.91 (March 2008): 195-208. https://doi.org/10.1080/09528820802012877. 


Wainwright, Leon. “Varieties of Belatedness and Provincialism: Decolonization and British Pop.” Art History, vol. 35, issue 2 (April 2012): 442-61.

Waters, Katherine. “Frank Bowling, Tate Britain Review - A Marvel.” The Arts Desk, June 5, 2019. https://theartsdesk.com/visual-arts/frank-bowling-tate-britain-review-marvel.

Watson, Kathy. “Bowling in the Tate.” Weekend Voice, November 1987.

Westall, Mark. “Frank Bowling Solo Exhibition More Land Than Landscape.” FAD Magazine, June 1, 2019. https://fadmagazine.com/2019/06/01/frank-bowling-solo-exhibition-more-land-than-landscape/. White, James. “Frank Bowling at the Tate Britain.” The Upcoming, June 25, 2019. https://www.theupcoming.co.uk/2019/06/25/frank-bowling-at-the-tate-britain-exhibition-review/.

White, Katie. “What Art Defined the Civil Rights Era? We Asked 7 Museum Curators to Pick One Work That Crystallized the Moment.” Artnet News, January 20, 2020. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/artworks-that-define-the-civil-rights-era-1755375.

Whitley, Zoe and Helene Baum. Meet the Artist: Frank Bowling. London: Tate Publishing, 2019.

Whittet, George Sorley. “Two New Imagists at the Grabowski.” Studio, November 1962.

Widdicombe, Ben. "Critic & Artist Argue Color.” New York Daily News, October 28, 2006.

Wilson, Janet. “Frank Bowling at National Academy of Sciences.” The Washington Post, May 22, 1993.

Wilson, Simon. “Frank Bowling: The Artist who Put Abstraction on the Map.” RA Magazine, June 5, 2019. https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/magazine-frank-bowling.

Wise, Louis. “Three More Exhibitions by Leading—and Age-Defying—Painters to See this Year.” British Vogue, May 27, 2019. https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/luchita-hurtado-interview-2019.

Wolanin, Barbara A. “Frank Bowling at the National Academy of Sciences.” Art in America, November 1993.

Wright, Karen. “In the studio: Frank Bowling.” The Independent, November 2014

Yau, John. Art in America, November 1983.

Yau, John. “Frank Bowling, or the Odd Man Out.” Hyperallergic, September 9, 2018. https://hyperallergic.com/459314/frank-bowling-make-it-new-alexander-gray-associates/.

Yussuf, Aurella. “On Aging Black Artists and British Art Institutions.” Hyperallergic, December 3, 2019. https://hyperallergic.com/531270/on-aging-black-artists-and-british-art-institutions/.

SELECTED WRITINGS

“Where I Work: Artist Frank Bowling.” The Guardian, February 7, 2015. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/feb/07/where-work-frank-bowling-do-something-artist.
“Artist Frank Bowling on How he Paints.” The Guardian, September 20, 2009.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/sep/20/frank-bowling-guide-to-painting.
Graham Mileson. London: Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich Galleries, 2002. Essay for exh. cat.
“Postscript.” In The Dub Factor: Sylbert Bolton, Anthony Daley and David Somerville, edited by Eddie Chambers. London: Tribe Design, 1992. Essay for exh. cat.

“Some Notes Toward an Exhibition of African-American Abstract Art.” In The Search for Freedom: African American Abstract Painting 1945-1975, 125-8. New York: Kenkeleba Gallery, 1991. Essay for exh. cat.
“Formalist Art and the Black Experience.” Third Text, vol.2, issue 5, no.5 (Winter 1988): 78-82. https://doi.org/10.1080/09528828808576205.

“Formalism, A Selective View.” Cover, no.6 (Winter 1981-2): 38-41. Untitled. Cover, no.5 (Spring-Summer 1981): 50-51. “A Modest Proposal.” Arts Magazine, vol. 47, no.4 (February 1973): 55-9.
“New York Classicism.” Arts Magazine, (December 1972-January 1973): 63-5.
“Problems of Criticism I-II-III-IV-V-VI.” Arts Magazine, vol.46, no.7 (May 1972): 34-8.
“Revisions: Color and Recent Paintings, Part 2.” Arts Magazine, vol.46, no.5 (March 1972): 47-50.
“Revisions: Color and Recent Paintings.” Arts Magazine, vol.46, no.4 (February 1972): 45-50.
“Fluid Structures.” Arts Magazine, vol.46, no.1 (September-October 1971): 30-3.
“It’s Not Enough To Say “Black is Beautiful”.” Arts Magazine, April 1971.
“Structure of Color at the Whitney.” Arts Magazine, vol.45, no.6 (April 1971): 79.
“If You Can’t Draw, Trace: Frank Bowling Talks with Larry Rivers.” Arts Magazine, vol.45, no.4 (February 1971): 19-21.
“Is Black Art About Color?” In Black Life and Culture in the United States, edited by Rhoda Goldstein and Rhoda Lois Blumberg, 302-21. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co, 1971.
“Another Map Problem.” Arts Magazine, vol.45, no.3 (December 1970-January 1971): 27-9.
“Outside the Galleries: Four Artists.” Arts Magazine, vol.45, no.2 (November 1970): 30-1.
“Silence: People Die Crying When They Should Love.” Arts Magazine, vol.45, no.1, (September-October 1970): 31-2.
“The Rupture: Ancestor Worship, Revival, Confusion or Disguise?” Arts Magazine, vol.44, no.8 (Summer 1970): 31-4.
“Discussion on Black Art III.” Arts Magazine, vol.44, no.3 (December 1969-January 1970): 20-2.
“Joe Overstreet exhibition at The Studio Museum in Harlem 1969/70.” Arts Magazine, vol.44, no.3 (December 1969-January 1970): 55.
“Notes from a Work in Progress.” In 5+1. New York: State University of New York at Stony Brook,1969. Essay for exh. cat.
“X to the Fourth Power.” Arts Magazine, (September-October 1969).
“A Shift in Perspective.” Arts Magazine, vol.43, no.8 (Summer 1969): 24-7.
“Discussion on Black Art II.” Arts Magazine, vol.43, no.7 (May 1969): 20-3.
“Discussion on Black Art I.” Arts Magazine, vol.43, no.6 (April 1969): 16-20.
“De Stijl and After [Review of Mondrian by Frank Elgar].” Arts Magazine, vol.43, no.6 (April 1969): 14.
“Letter from London: Caro at The Hayward.” Arts Magazine, vol.43, no.5 (March 1969): 20.
“Review of Two Books on African Art.” Arts Magazine, (December 1968-January 1969).

TEACHING

1984
Artist in Residence, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine, USA

1975-86
Tutor, Byam Shaw School of Painting and Sculpture, London, UK

1975-76
Lecturer, School of Visual Arts, New York, New York, USA

1974-75
Artist in Residence, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

1969-71
Assistant Professor, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

1969-70
Assistant Professor, Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA

1968-69
Instructor, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA

1964-66
Lecturer, Reading University, Reading, UK

1963-83
Tutor, Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, London, UK

AWARDS AND HONOURS

2020
Honorary Doctorate, The Royal College of Art, London, UK
Nominated for the Oldie of the Year award, The Oldie magazine, UK

2019
Artist of the year award, Apollo magazine, UK

2018
Critics’ Circle Visual Arts and Architecture Award, London, UK

2014
Honorary Fellow, University of the Arts London, UK

2011
Monograph, Frank Bowling, by Mel Gooding published by the Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

2008 OBE: Order of the British Empire. Painter and writer and Services to Art, UK

2007
Honorary Doctorate, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK

2006
Honorary Fellow, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth, Bournemouth, UK

2005
Member Royal Academy of Art, London, UK

1998
Pollock Krasner Award, New York, New York, USA

1996
Absolut Bowling, Absolut Vodka Commission, Stockholm, Sweden

1992
Pollock Krasner Award, New York, New York, USA

1977
Arts Council of Great Britain Award, UK

1975
New York State CAPS Award, Fredonia, New York, USA

1973
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, New York, New York, USA

1972
Visiting Artists Program, New York State Council of the Arts, New York, New York, USA

1968–9
Artist in Residence, New York State Council of the Arts, Critics Choice Program, New York, New York, USA

1967
Painting Prize, Edinburgh Open 100, Edinburgh, UK
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, New York, New York, USA

1966
First World Festival of Negro Art, Dakar, Senegal - Grand Prize for Contemporary Art

1964
Shakespeare Quarto-Centenary, Stratford-on-Avon, UK

1963
Calouste-Gulbenkian Foundation, Painting Purchase Award, London UK

1962
Associate of the Royal College of Art [MFA], London, UK
Royal College of Art, Silver Medal, London, UK

SELECTED PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, New York, New York, USA
Arts Council of Great Britain, London, UK
Boca Raton Museum, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Carmen & G.R. N’Namdi Collection, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, New York, USA
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, USA
de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Franklin and Marshall College, The Phillips Museum of Art, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
Guyana National Collection, Castellani House, Georgetown, Guyana
Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, UK
Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, New York, New York, USA
Kresge Art Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Lloyds of London, London, UK
London Borough of Southwark, London, UK
London Lighthouse, London, UK
Menil Foundation, Houston, Texas, USA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, USA
National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
National Museum Wales, Cardiff, UK
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey, USA
Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, Purchase, New York, USA
Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation, Toledo, Ohio, USA
Port Authority of New York, World Trade Center, New York, New York, USA (work destroyed) Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Rivercross Tenants Corporation, New York, New York, USA
Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Royal College of Art, London, UK
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco, California, USA
Tate Gallery, London, USA
University of Delaware, ‘The Paul R Jones Collection’, Newark, Delaware, USA
University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Unilever PLC, London, UK
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Westinghouse Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, USA