DEAN BOWEN
Born 1957, Maryborough, Victoria
EDUCATION
1999 Monash University, Ph. D
1993 Monash University, Master of Arts
1976 RMIT, Diploma of Fine Art (Printmaking)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 The Welcome Stranger, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
Dean Bowen Now, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff
2017 Home, Paintings and Sculpture, Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne
Auto Export, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff
2016 Prints, Paintings, Sculpture, PG Printmaker Gallery, Melbourne
Currawong, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
Paintings, Prints, Sculpture, Hamilton Gallery
New Morning,, Paintings, Sculpture, Prints, Beaver Galleries, Canberra
Prints, Paintings and Sculpture, The Art Vault, Mildura
2015 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Galerie Miyawaki, Kyoto
Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff
Customs House Art space, Port of Echuca
Dean Bowen: Paintings, Sculpture and Prints, Castlemaine State Festival,
Campbell House Exhibition
2014 Day by Day, Survey Exhibition, Castlemaine Art Gallery & Historical Museum
Jar of Stars, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2013 Recent Paintings, Prints and Drawings, Galerie Miyawaki, Kyoto
Bird Lover, Motorworks Gallery, Melbourne Grammar School
Mars Gallery, Pop up Space, 459 Collins Street, Melbourne
Paintings, Prints and Sculpture, Gecko Studio Gallery, Fish Creek
Cluster, Beaver Galleries, Canberra
Day by Day, BMG ART, Adelaide
Recent Lithographs, Port Jackson Press, Melbourne
Selected Paintings, Prints and Sculpture, Falkner Gallery, Castlemaine, Victoria
2012 The House of Love, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
Returning Comet, Central Goldfields Art Gallery, Maryborough, Victoria
Aviary – Recent Paintings, Sculpture and Prints, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
A Jar of Stars, Maroondah Art Gallery, Ringwood, Victoria
2011 Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
2010 Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
Galerie Miyawaki, Kyoto, Japan
Greenhill Galleries, Perth
2009 Argy Bargy, The Art of Dean Bowen, Benalla Art Gallery
Beaver Galleries, Canberra
The Art of Dean Bowen, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
Transmetropole, Axia Modern Art, Melbourne
2008 Sculpture Survey, Gomboc Gallery, Western Australia
2007 Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
Illumination: Recent watercolours & gouaches, Galerie Miyawaki, Kyoto, Japan
2006 Urban heartland, Axia Modern Art, Melbourne
Beaver Galleries, Canberra
Greenhill Galleries, Perth
Year of the Dog, Galerie Miyawaki, Kyoto, Japan
2005 Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
Journey. Recent paintings & lithographs, Galerie Miyawaki, Kyoto, Japan
2004 On the road again. Axia Modern Art, Melbourne
2003 Urban bird Icon, Museum of Art, Deakin University, Melbourne
Beaver Galleries, Canberra
2002 Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
Greenhill Galleries, Perth
Brian Moore Gallery, Sydney
Galerie Miyawaki, Kyoto, Japan
2001 Birds of a feather. Axia Modern Art, Melbourne
BMG Art, Adelaide
2000 Beaver Galleries, Canberra
Australian Galleries, Sydney
Greenhill Galleries, Perth
Galerie Miyawaki, Kyoto, Japan
Bunkamura Gallery, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Queenstown series, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
1983 – 1999
Selected exhibitions Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra, Brisbane,
Perth, Switzerland, France, Japan, UK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Small Sculpture Award Deakin University, Burwood Campus, Victoria
Birds, Bugs, and Beasties, BMG ART Adelaide
2016 Small Sculpture Award Deakin University, Burwood Campus, Victoria
2015 Salt Gallery, Queenscliff
Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award Bayside Acquisitive
Art Prize
2014 McClelland Sculpture Survey, McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery
The Object Divine, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Caulfield
International Print Exhibition, Australia and Japan, Kyoto Municipal Museum of
Art, Fukayama Museum of Art
Lorne Sculpture Biennale
Gallipoli Art Prize, Sydney
ANL Maritime Art Award, Melbourne
2013 Sopra Mobile, Melbourne Savage Club, Invitation Sculpture Prize
Contemporary Small Sculpture Award 2013, Deakin University Gallery, Burwood
Two Decades of Fine Art, Possum Gully Gallery, Adelaide Lead
Mt. Buller Sculpture Award, Victoria
A Question of Scale – Maquttes and small sculpture from the permanent collection,
Geelong Gallery
2012 Paul Guest Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
R & M McGivern Prize, Maroondah Art Gallery, Ringwood
National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
The Art of Mokuhanga: Contemporary Japanese Woodblock Prints.
Royal Scottish Academy Galleries, Edinburgh, Scotland
Suburbia, Wyndham Art Gallery, Werribee
2011 Suburbanology, Geelong Art Gallery
Collective Memory: Facets of the Permanent Collection, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Silent Feathers, Maroondah Art Gallery
Dean Bowen and Rona Green, Solander Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2010 Stone Love, 20 Years Lancaster Press, Melbourne
Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Blake Prize, National Art School, Sydney
2009 Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Salon Des Refuses, National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Regards Croises: Australie-France, Espace Beaurepaire, Paris, France
2008 International Print Exhibition, Yunnan, China
Tesselaar Sculpture Prize, Silvan, Victoria
MacarthurCook Art Awards
2008 45 Downstairs, Melbourne, Victoria
The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Werribee Park, Victoria
An approach to the landscape, Axia Modern Art, Melbourne, Victoria
2007 Recent acquisitions, Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria
Beauty of Heavenly Bodies & the Universe, The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan
Internationale Kunstler, Glass Inspiration, Burgdorf, Switzerland
Introductions, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, USA
Let them roam, Harrison Galleries, Sydney
Artists’ Ink: Printmaking 1970 – 2001, Warrnambool Art Gallery Collection
2006 Dusan International Print Fair, Dusan Art Centre, Daegu, Korea
Australian Printmaking, 1960’s to the present day. Castlemaine Art Gallery
The Artist/The Printmaker, Australian Art Resources, Melbourne
Passion Printing, Lithographs printed by Fred Genis & Peter Lancaster,
Lancaster Press, Melbourne, Victoria.
Montalto Sculpture Prize, Montalto Vineyard, Red Hill
2005 Aquabon, URDLA, Centre International Estampe et Livre, Villeurbanne, France
We are all animals, Latrobe University, Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo
Melbourne Savage Club, Invitation Prize for Painting
Tapestry Workshop, Singapore Tyler Print Institute Gallery, Singapore
Contemporary Australian Prints, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Contempora 2, Docklands Festival of Sculpture, New Quay, Melbourne
Montalto Sculpture Prize, Montalto Vineyard and Olive Grove, Red Hill
Renascence, The 10th Anniversary of Post Earthquake Restoration, Hyogo
International Competition of Painting, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan 1990 – 2004
Selected group shows throughout Australia and Worldwide
RESIDENCIES
2015 Geelong Grammar School
2013 Grimwade House, Melbourne Grammar School
2000 Nagasawa Art Park Artist-In-Residence workshop program for Japanese woodblock printmaking, Awaji Island, Hyogo, Japan
1994 Melbourne Grammar School
COMMISSIONS + PUBLIC ART
2014 Lavington Library Sculpture Commission, Albury City Council Grimwade House, Melbourne Grammar School, bronze commission
2013 Hamilton Art Gallery, bronze commission
2012 Maroondah City Council, Glen Park, Sculpture Commission
Wyndham City, bronze commission, Wyndham Vale Community Learning Centre 2011 ArtsACT, Canberra, ACT, Public sculpture commission
Glen Park Public Sculpture Commission, Maroondah City Council
2010 Linking Laverton Public Sculpture Commission, Hobsons Bay City Council
Colas Foundation, Paris, France
2008 Centennial Sculpture, Canterbury Primary School, Sculpture Commission
2007 Public Art Acquisition, Petrie Plaza, artsACT, Canberra, ACT
Public Art Acquisition, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
2006 City of Greater Shepparton, Sculpture Commission, Shepparton Showgrounds
1999 Small Tapestries Project, Victorian Tapestry Workshop
1995 City of Melbourne, Melbourne Town Hall Tapestry
1991 Transitional Times, Print Council of Australia (Member Print)
1990 ICI Print Commission
1989 Print Council of Australia (Member Print)
AWARDS + PROJECTS
2007 The Inaugural Macarthur Cook Art Award 2007 (3rd Prize)
2003 1st International Print Biennial of Beijing, Tai-he Award, Beijing, P.R.China
Popular Choice Award, The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award,
Werribee Park, VIC
2002 12th Space International Print Biennial, Seoul, Korea
1999 Conrad Jupiters Acquisitve Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery
1998 Sponsors prize, 4th Sapporo International Print Biennale, Japan
Bathurst Art Purchase, Bathurst Regional Gallery (Acquisitive Sculpture)
1997 Daikin Industries Company Prize, Osaka Print Triennale, Japan
Boyne Smelters Ltd Award (Sculpture)
1996 Toowoomba Biennale, Toowoomba Regional Gallery (Acquisitive Sculpture)
Mornington Peninsula Art Centre (Acquisitive Print)
1995 Murwillumbah Print Prize
1994 Monash University, Graduate Scholarship
Fremantle Print Award
Martin Hanson Memorial Art Award, Works on Paper, Gladstone Regional Gallery
Silk Cut Award (Acquisitive Print)
Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Gallery
Nillumbik Art Award (Acquisitive Print and Sculpture)
1992 Australia-France Foundation Grant
Mornington Peninsula Art Centre (Aquisitive Print)
1991 Henri Worland Memorial Print Award (Acquisitive Print)
Arts 21, International Export and Touring Program Grant
Collie Trust Award
Dyason Bequest Grant (Art Gallery of New South Wales)
City of Logan (Acquisitive Print)
City of Richmond (Acquisitive Print)
1988 Mornington Peninsula Art Centre (Acquisitive Print)
1978 Maryborough Arts Centre Award
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Artbank,
artsACT, ACT
Government Atelier Devreux-Gerbaud, St Christol De Rodieres, France
Atelier Franck Bordas, Paris, France
Australian Defense Force Academy, Canberra
Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
Australian Securities Commission
Australian War Memorial, Canberra
A-Z Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Baillieu Myer Collection
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Benalla Art Gallery
Bendigo Art Gallery
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
Brisbane City Hall Art Gallery, Queensland
Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum
Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford, UK
Channel 10, Sydney
City of Banyule
City of Fremantle
City of Logan
City of Melbourne
City of Richmond
City of Whitehorse
City of Shepparton
Colas Foundation, Paris, France
Cremona Public Museum, (Prints Cabinet), Cremona, Italy
Crown Casino, Melbourne
Davenport Regional Gallery
Deakin University , Geelong
Deutsche Bank, Geneva, Switzerland
Flexovit Abrasives, Australia
Fukuoka Museum of Art, Japan
Geelong Art Gallery
Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum
Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Grafton Regional Gallery
Hamilton Regional Gallery
Heide Museum of Modern Art
ICI Collection, Istanbul
James Hardie Collection, State Library of QLD
Kiriaki Company Ltd, Sapporo, Japan
Mackay City Library, Queensland
Maryborough Community Arts Centre
Melbourne Grammar School
Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne
Monash University, Gippsland Campus
Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre
Muzeum Naradowe, Warsaw, Poland
National Bank of Australia
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Library of Australia, Canberra
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
New England Regional Gallery
Nillumbik Shire Council
O.T.C., Springfield, Missouri
Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
Peter Mac Art Collection, Melbourne
Print Council of Australia
Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Tasmania
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Shell, North Fremantle, Western Australia
Silk Cut Foundation, Melbourne
Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
St George Bank, Sydney
Swan Hill Art Gallery
Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart
Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, Murwillumbah
University of Ballarat
University of Melbourne, Institute of Education
University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba
University of Sydney, New South Wales
URDLA Archives, Lyon, France
Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery
Warrnambool Art Gallery
World Congress Centre, Melbourne
Yarra Collection
