In 1958, thanks to the encouragement of Carel Weight, Bowling realised his ambition to become an artist. He enrolled first at the City & Guilds of London Art School and then the Royal College of Art in London. In 1960, he spent the autumn term at the Slade School of Art. Bowling studied the art of the past and of his contemporaries, absorbing ideas as he developed his own individual style. By the 1960s, he was among the leading group of painters in London.
EDUCATION
Royal College of Art, London, UK (1959–1962)
Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK (Autumn term, 1960)
City and Guilds, London, UK (1 term, 1958–1959)
Regent Street Polytechnic, Chelsea School of Art, London, UK (1–2 terms, 1957)
TEACHING
Artist in Residence, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine, USA
Tutor, Byam Shaw School of Art, London, UK
Lecturer, School of Visual Arts, New York, New York, USA
Artist in Residence, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Assistant Professor, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Assistant Professor, Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Instructor, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
Lecturer, Reading University, Reading, UK
Tutor, Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, London, UK
TALKS AND LECTURES
Greenwood, Robin. ‘Frank Bowling: In Conversation [with Robin Greenwood]’, Abstract Critical, 29 August 2012. Video, 18:35
Martin, Courtney J., and Bowling, Frank. '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, 12 October 2012
Ritchie, Ian. ‘Frank Bowling in conversation with the architect Ian Ritchie RA’, Talk given at The Royal Academy of Arts, London, 28 September 2011
Greenwood, Robin. ‘Bowling’s Cru Q&A’ [featuring Frank Bowling, John Bunker and Clifford Charles, et al.], Abstract Critical, July 2011. Video, 29:53; 30:49; 39:29
Gooding, Mel. ‘BP Artist Talk: Frank Bowling’, Talk given at Tate Britain, London, 9 May 2007
Cork, Richard. ‘In Conversation: Frank Bowling & Richard Cork’, Discussion for Frank Bowling RA: The White Paintings, ArtSway, Sway, 24 June 2006
Sims, Lowery. ‘Conversation between Frank Bowling and Lowery Sims’, Talk given for Energy/Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction 1964–1980, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, June 2006
Hunter, Jim. ‘Gallery Talk: Abstraction, Expressionism and the Paintings of Frank Bowling RA’, Talk given for Frank Bowling RA: The White Paintings, ArtSway, Sway, 22 May 2006
Bowling, Frank, Fred Wei-Han Ho, Martina Attile and Lorraine O’Grady. ‘Picking Winners’, Talk chaired by Dorothy Désir-Davis at the College Art Association Conference, Internationalism and the Kreole Abyss, New York, 1994
AWARDS AND HONOURS
Wolfgang Hahn Prize, Germany
Knight Bachelor. Services to Art, UK
Honorary Doctorate, The Royal College of Art, London, UK
Nominated for the Oldie of the Year award, The Oldie magazine, UK
Artist of the year award, Apollo magazine, UK
Critics’ Circle Visual Arts and Architecture Award, London, UK
Honorary Fellow, University of the Arts London, UK
Monograph, “Frank Bowling,” by Mel Gooding published by the Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
OBE: Order of the British Empire. Painter and writer and Services to Art, UK
Honorary Doctorate, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK
Honorary Fellow, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth, Bournemouth, UK
Member Royal Academy of Art, London, UK
Pollock Krasner Award, New York, New York, USA
Absolut Bowling, Absolut Vodka Commission, Stockholm, Sweden
Pollock Krasner Award, New York, New York, USA
Arts Council of Great Britain Award, UK
New York State CAPS Award, Fredonia, New York, USA
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, New York, New York, USA
Visiting Artists Program, New York State Council of the Arts, New York, New York, USA
Artist in Residence, New York State Council of the Arts, Critics Choice Program, New York, New York, USA
Painting Prize, Edinburgh Open 100, Edinburgh, UK
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, New York, New York, USA
First World Festival of Negro Art, Dakar, Senegal — Grand Prize for Contemporary Art
Shakespeare Quarto-Centenary, Stratford-on-Avon, UK
Calouste-Gulbenkian Foundation, Painting Purchase Award, London, UK
Associate of the Royal College of Art [MFA], London, UK
Royal College of Art, Silver Medal, London, UK
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Collage, Hauser & Wirth, Paris
Works on Paper 2020–2023, Marc Selwyn Fine Arts, Los Angeles
Frank Bowling at 90, Hauser & Wirth, London
Selected Prints, Brixton Library, London
Frank Bowling: The New York Years 1966–1975, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Arrival by Frank Bowling, CIRCA 20:23, Picadilly, London; Limes, Berlin; Cadorna Square, Milan; COEX K-Pop Square, Seoul; Courtyard Marriott LA Live, Los Angeles; Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo
Frank Bowling: Landscape, Hauser & Wirth, West Hollywood
Penumbral Light, Hauser & Wirth, Zürich
Frank Bowling: Sculpture, University of Greenwich Galleries, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London
Frank Bowling's Americas, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston
Frank Bowling: Works on Paper: 2009–2021, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles
Frank Bowling: Wolfgang Hahn Prize, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Frank Bowling – London / New York, Hauser & Wirth, London
Frank Bowling – London / New York, Hauser & Wirth, New York
Frank Bowling – Land of Many Waters, Arnolfini, Bristol
Flow Pink Over Yellow, Royal Academy of Arts Academician's Room, London
Frank Bowling, Tate Britain, London
Frank Bowling: More Land than Landscape, Hales Gallery, London
Frank Bowling: Make It New, Alexander Gray Associates, New York
Frank Bowling: Towards the Light, Christian Larsen, Stockholm, Sweden
Mappa Mundi, Haus der Kunst, Munich; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
Frank Bowling: Fishes, Wishes in Summertime Blue, Hales Gallery, London
Metropolitanblooms, Hales Project Room, New York
New White Paintings, Hampstead School of Art, London
Frank Bowling: Map Paintings, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Frank Bowling: Right Here. Right Now, Triangle Space and Cookhouse Galleries, Chelsea College of Arts, London
Frank Bowling: The Poured Paintings, Hales Gallery, London
Frank Bowling, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles
Traingone, Paintings by Frank Bowling, 1979–96, Spritmuseum, Stockholm
Frank Bowling OBE, RA: At Eighty, Spanierman Modern, New York
The Map Paintings 1967–1971, Hales Gallery, London
Frank Bowling Paintings 1967–2012, Spanierman Modern, New York
Drop, Roll, Slide, Drip… Frank Bowling's Poured Paintings 1973–78, Tate Britain, London
Frank Bowling: Recent Paintings, Spanierman Modern, New York
Frank Bowling: Recent Large Paintings, Hales Gallery, London
Frank Bowling OBE, RA: Recent Small Works, Eleven Spitalfields Gallery, London
Enter the Dragon - Frank Bowling Large Works from the 1980s, Hales Gallery, London
Frank Bowling RA, Crossings: From New Amsterdam, Berbice, to New Amsterdam, New York via Holland and London, ROLLO Contemporary Art, London
Journeyings: Recent Works on Paper by Frank Bowling RA, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Frank Bowling: Recent Works, ROLLO Contemporary Art, London
Frank Bowling OBE, RA: Paintings 1974–2010, Spanierman Modern, New York
Frank Bowling, New Works, ROLLO Contemporary Art, London
Frank Bowling OBE RA, Paintings, The Gallery, Winchester Discovery Centre, Hampshire County Council Museums, Winchester
Light and Water: Frank Bowling's Big Paintings, Clifford Chance, London
Zippers: New Works by Frank Bowling RA, ROLLO Contemporary Art, London
New York Works, Latest Paintings by Frank Bowling RA, ROLLO Contemporary Art, London
Pondlife and Other Paintings: New Work by Frank Bowling, Poussin Gallery, London
Frank Bowling: The Big Paintings, Arts Institute at Bournemouth, The Gallery, Poole, Dorset; University of Wolverhampton, School of Art and Design, Wolverhampton
Frank Bowling RA Poured Paintings, Arts Club, London
Frank Bowling Recent Paintings, Peg Alston Fine Arts Gallery, New York
Frank's Colour: Painting by Frank Bowling RA, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Frank Bowling RA: Latest Paintings: A Celebration of His Election to the Royal Academy of Arts, ROLLO Contemporary Art, London
Frank Bowling: The White Paintings, ArtSway, Sway, Hampshire
Frank Bowling: Full of Light, G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Detroit; G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, New York
Frank Bowling, Recent Works, Peg Alston Fine Arts Gallery, New York
Frank Bowling: 4 Decades with Color, The Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Frank Bowling, Recent Paintings, Heidi Cho Gallery, New York
Frank Bowling: From the Studio, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia
Frank Bowling: What's Underneath, Recent Paintings, Delibar, London
Frank Bowling: Mapping Time and Space, G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Detroit; G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Chicago
Bending the Grid: Black Identity and Resistance in the Art of Frank Bowling, Aljira A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey
Frank Bowling: Works from the Studio, Skoto Gallery, New York
Peg Alston Fine Arts Gallery, New York
New Works by Frank Bowling, UFA Gallery, New York
Rohde und Nerlich, Berlin
Catching Up, Georgetown Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Frank Bowling, Recent Works, Peg Alston Fine Arts Gallery, New York
Frank Bowling, 'Painters Painter', G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan; G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Chicago
New Works by Frank Bowling, UFA Gallery, New York
Frank Bowling New Pictures, Rush Arts Gallery, New York
Frank Bowling Paintings, G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Detroit
Bowling on Through the Century, The City Gallery, Leicester; Gallery II, University of Bradford, Bradford; De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea; South Hill Park, Bracknell; Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham; The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry
Frank Bowling Paintings, Camille Love Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Frank Bowling, 1997 Contemporary Masters Exhibition, The Skylight Gallery at Restoration Plaza, Brooklyn, New York
Frank Bowling, Christiane Nienaber Gallery, New York
Frank Bowling, The Cut Gallery, London
Frank Bowling: Transitions 1962–1994, A.F.T.U. / Bill Hodges Gallery, New York
Frank Bowling Paintings, Heimatmuseum Eckernförde, Eckernförde, Germany
Frank Bowling Paintings 1981–1992, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
Frank Bowling: Selected Pictures, Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba, New York
Frank Bowling, Recent Paintings, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
Bowling Through the Decade, University Art Gallery, Reading; Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Frank Bowling, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester; Municipal Art Gallery, Limerick; Crawford Art Gallery, Cork; The Senate House, University of Liverpool, Liverpool; Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Frank Bowling: Paintings 1983–1986, Serpentine Gallery, London
Frank Bowling, Recent Paintings, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
Frank Bowling, Arcade Gallery, Harrogate
Frank Bowling, Recent Paintings, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
Frank Bowling: Current Paintings, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
Frank Bowling Shilderijn, Vecu, Antwerp, Belgium
Frank Bowling, New Paintings, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
Frank Bowling, Recent Paintings, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
Frank Bowling: Selected Paintings 1967–77, The Acme Gallery, London
Frank Bowling: Recent Paintings, William Darby, London
Frank Bowling, Recent Paintings, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
Frank Bowling, Recent Paintings, Watson/de Nagy and Co, Houston, Texas
Frank Bowling, Recent Paintings, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
Frank Bowling, Recent Paintings, William Darby, London
Frank Bowling Paintings, Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York
Frank Bowling, Center for Inter-American Relations, New York
Frank Bowling Paintings, Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York
Frank Bowling, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Frank Bowling, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Not All Travellers Walk Roads: Of Humanity as Practice, 36th Biennial de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Photography and the Black Arts Movement: 1955–1985, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson
Ways of Seeing. Collection of Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland
Things Which Are Per Se Continuous, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Light, Hauser & Wirth, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Summer Exhibition 2025, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Black Earth Rising, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
Vertigo, Villa Carmignac, Foundation Carmignac, Porquerolles Island, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Feeling Color: Frank Bowling & Aubrey Williams, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
British Art: Convergence, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
The Gorgeous Nothings: Flowers at Chatsworth, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire
Iconic: Portraiture from Francis Bacon to Andy Warhol, Holburne Museum, Bath
Invisible Luggage, Hampton House, Miami
40 Years of the Future: Jo McGonigal x Frank Bowling, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
Pop Forever, Tom Wesselmann &…, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
Fragments of Epic Memory, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
Unreal City: Abstract Painting in London, Saatchi Gallery, London
Standing Ground, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London
RA Summer Exhibition 2024, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Rupture & Connection, Green Family Foundation, Dallas, Texas
Beyond the Bassline: 500 years of Black British Music, British Library, London
Day for Night: New American Realism, Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica in collaboration with Aïshti Foundation, Palazzo Barberini, Rome
The 24th Biennale of Sydney, Ten Thousand Suns, Sydney
Chromascopic, Art in Perpetuity Trust Gallery, London
Entangled Pasts, 1768 – now. Art, Colonialism and Change, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–today, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego
Glory of the World: Color Field Painting (1950s to 1983), NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
The London Group Open 2023, Coleman Gallery, London
Like Paradise, Claridges ArtSpace, London
170 RWA Annual Open Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Fabric Works, Hauser & Wirth, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Suncrush, Greene Naftali, New York
Ecstatic: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
To Bend the Ear of the Outer World: Conversations on contemporary abstract painting, Gagosian, London
Modern British and Contemporary, The Nine British Art Gallery, London
Escape, Hauser & Wirth, Southampton, USA
Explorations in Paint Exhibition, Petworth House, National Trust, Petworth, UK
Instant Loveland, Thames Side Studios Gallery, London
Avant L'Orage, Bourse de Commerce, Pinault Collection, Paris
Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–today, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago
Black Abstractionists From Then 'til Now, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas
Lucian Freud and The Soul as Sphere, The Lightbox, Woking
Revisiting 5+1, Stony Brook University, Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, New York
Revisiting Modern British Art, The Higgins, Bedford, UK; The Lightbox, Woking
Chromophilia, Hauser & Wirth, Zürich
Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s – Today, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Summer Exhibition 2022, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Competere: An Exhibition of Artist Couples, Bo Bartlett Centre, Columbus
Spirit Matter, Alex Vardaxoglou, London
The Soul as Sphere, Maximillian William, London
Post-war Modern: New Art in Britain: 1945–65, Barbican Centre, London
Slip Zone: A New Look at Postwar Abstraction in the Americas and East Asia, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Grayson Perry Art Club 2, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol
Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950's – Now, Tate Britain, London; Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario, Toronto
Tree and Leaf, Hannah Barry Gallery, London
Breathing one's breath, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, France
Afro-Atlantic Histories, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Seven Part 2, Newington Art Academy, London
Exploration in Paint, Royal Academy Collection Room, London
RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
Painting Is… A group exhibition of abstract painting, Larsen Warner, Stockholm
British Art Collection of the CAM, Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, Cascais, Portugal
Fragments of Epic Memory, Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario, Toronto
Creating Community. Cinque Gallery Artists, Art Students League of New York
Modal Painting, Maximillian William, London
RWA Annual Open Exhibition 168, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Frank Bowling, Ed Clark and Sam Gilliam: Color and Shape, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts; Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington D.C.; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah
RELATIONS: Diaspora and Painting, Phi Foundation for Contemporary Art (Fondation Phi pour l'art contemporain), Montreal
Generations: A History of Black Abstract Art, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
Desire: A Revision From the 20th Century to the Digital Age, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City; Frye Art Museum, Seattle
Mapping Black Identities, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
The Shape of Abstraction: Selections from the Ollie Collection, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Spilling Over: Painting Color in the 1960s, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
From Dürer to Digital and 3-D: The Metamorphosis of the Printed Image, Trenton City Museum, Trenton, New Jersey
The Warmth of Other Suns: Stories of Global Displacement, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Epic Abstraction: Pollock to Herrera, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
From Color & Form to Expression & Response: Abstract Art at University of Delaware, University Museums, University of Delaware, Mechanical Hall Gallery, Newark, Delaware
250th Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, Tate Modern, London, UK; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York; The Broad, Los Angeles; The de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), San Francisco; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), Houston, Texas
Looking Anew: Art and Estrangement, 1900–2000, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Thinking Out Loud: Notes for an Evolving Collection, The Warehouse, Dallas, Texas
Impulse, Pace, London
Circa1970, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and Atlantic, 1945–1965, Haus der Kunst, Munich
Land, Sea and Air, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK
Un | Fixed Homeland, Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, New Jersey
No Colour Bar, Guildhall Art Gallery, London
Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties, Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
A Marriage of Styles: Pop to Abstraction, Mascalls Gallery, Paddock Wood, Kent
Affecting Presence and the Pursuit of Delicious Experiences, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
Caribbean: Crossroads of the World, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami, Florida
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; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
The London Group on London, The Cello Factory, London
Grit to Gold: Collaging the Abstract, Frank Bowling OBE RA, John Bunker, Scott O'Rourke, Standpoint Gallery, London
BP Walk through British Art, Tate Gallery, London
Frank Bowling and his Invited Artists, The Cello Factory, London
The London Group Centenary Exhibition, Pitzhanger Manor, London
The 245th Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
20th Century British Art, Paisnel Gallery, London
Fifteen Contemporary Artists Represented by Spanierman Gallery, Spanierman Gallery, New York
British Design, 1948–2012: Innovation in the Modern Age, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
A Family Affair: Art, Music & Dance, The Cello Factory, London
The Body Clothed in Art, Chelsea Arts Club, London
Frank Bowling and Dennis de Caires, University of Glyndŵr, Wrexham, UK
Bowling's Friends, The Cello Factory, London
Migrations: Journeys into British Art, Tate Britain, London
New Possibilities: Abstract Paintings from the Seventies, The Piper Gallery, London
Syd Solomon, Stanley Boxer, Frank Bowling, Spanierman Modern, New York
Summer Selections, Spanierman Modern, New York, New York
Caribbean: Crossroads of the World, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York
The Perfect Place to Grow: 175 Years of the Royal College of Art, Royal College of Art, London
Bowling's Cru: Paintings and Sculpture, The Cello Factory, London
Frank Bowling and Graham Mileson Paintings, The Cello Factory, London
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
RCA Black, Royal College of Art, London
Contemporary Expressions: Art from the Guyana Diaspora, FiveMyles, New York
Ten Modern and Contemporary Artists, Spanierman Modern, New York
Abstract Expressionism and its Legacy, Spanierman Modern, New York
NEW: Latest Work by ROLLO Artists, Rollo Contemporary Art, London
Abstract Relations, University Museums, University of Delaware, Mechanical Hall Gallery, Newark, Delaware; David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
African American Abstract Masters, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York; Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba, New York; Opalka Gallery, The Sage Colleges, Albany, New York
Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool; Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago
Poussin Review 2010: New to Sight, Poussin Gallery, London
PINTA: The Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art Show, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, Brompton Hall, London; Pier 92, New York
Gallery Selections, Spanierman Modern, New York
August Gallery Selections, Spanierman Modern, New York
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
The Mark of the Hand, Spanierman Modern, New York
Sound: Print: Record: African American Legacies, University Museums, University of Delaware, Mechanical Hall Gallery, Newark, Delaware
British Subjects: Identity & Self-Fashioning 1965–2009, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, New York
The London Group Open Exhibition, Menier Gallery, Southwark Street, London
Expanding Boundaries: Lyrical Abstraction, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida
Something to Look Forward to: An Exhibition Featuring Abstract Art by 22 Distinguished Americans of African Descent, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan; Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia; HUB- Robeson Galleries, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
Big Paintings: Jim Hunter + Frank Bowling, Text+work, Arts Institute at Bournemouth, Bournemouth; University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton
Seminal Works from the N'Namdi Collection of African-American Art, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, Michigan
25th Anniversary Exhibition: Forms of Abstraction, G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, New York; G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Detroit; G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Chicago
Full Circle, Summer Group Show, G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Detroit
Swinging London, Collection of Grabowski, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland
[C]artography: Map-Making as Artform, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
25 Years of Post-War British Art 1951–1975, Paisnel Gallery, London
Energy/Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction, 1964–1980, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Unstitched, Unbound: Imprints for Change, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York
Something to Look Forward to: An Exhibition Featuring Abstract Art by 22 Distinguished Americans of African Descent, The Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York; The Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas; California African American Museum, Los Angeles, California
A Century of African American Art: The Paul R. Jones Collection, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
Frank Bowling: Survey Show, Broadbent Gallery, London
Art & the 60s: This Was Tomorrow, Tate Britain, London
Confluence, Pilgrim Gallery, London
AL.LU'SION II, Savacou Gallery, New York
Fault Lines: Contemporary African Art and Shifting Landscapes, Venice Biennale, Venice
London Group, Woodlands Gallery, London
Not Just for Christmas: Visual Art with Life and Soul, Outfitters Gallery, Margate
National Black Fine Art Show, The Puck Building, New York
The Painted Path: Contemporary Abstraction, Broadbent Gallery, London
Tate Unseen: Living Artists from the Tate Storeroom, Gallery, Lincoln, UK
Six American Masters: Bowling, Carter, Clark, Hutson, Loving, Pindell, Sugar Hill Art Center, New York
No Greater Love, Abstraction, Jack Tilton/Anna Kustera Gallery, New York
Forms of Abstraction III: Abstract Works from the 60's, 70's and 80's, G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
Jazz and Visual Improvisations, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York
Take Five, G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Forms of Abstraction, G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
African American Abstraction, City Gallery East, Atlanta, Georgia
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century: African American Art, Kenkeleba Gallery, New York
Absolut Expressions, Vanderbilt Hall, Grand Central Terminal, New York
In a Marine Light, The Customs House, South Shields, Tyne and Wear
New Works by Frank Bowling, Sculpture by Milton Sherrill, UFA Gallery, New York
Slave Routes: The Long Memory, Kenkeleba Gallery, New York
The Fanelli Show, OK Harris Gallery, New York
The African-American Fine Arts Collection of the New Jersey State Museum, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey
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
A Year in the Life of Present Modernism, Tribes Gallery, New York
The Skylight Gallery Holiday Exhibition, The Skylight Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Absolut Expressions, Sprit Museum, Stockholm
Abstractions, Kenkeleba Gallery, New York
Caribbean Visions: Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana; African American Museum, Dallas, Texas; Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont; The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut; Smithsonian Institution (Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture; Arts and Industries Building, South Gallery), Washington, D.C.; Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida; Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California
Frank Bowling, New Small Pictures, Larry Mohr, Recent Sculpture, Skoto Gallery, New York
The Caribbean Connection, Islington Arts Factory, London
Landscape as Metaphor: The Transcendental Vision, Newport Art Museum, Newport, Rhode Island; Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
Dimensions of Guyana, Frank Bowling and Donald Locke, Camille Love Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Frank Bowling and Richard Baye, Skoto Gallery, New York
Art for A Fairer World, Smith's Galleries, London
Landscape as Metaphor: The Transcendental Vision, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, Massachusetts
A/Cross Currents: Synthesis in African American Abstract Painting, Dakar Biennale, Dakar; Abidjan, Ivory Coast; Kenkeleba House, New York
1992 Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Art for A Fairer World, Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow; St David's Hall, Cardiff
Frank Bowling and Graham Mileson, Painting and Sculpture, Greenwich Citizens Gallery, London; Lanchester Gallery, Coventry Polytechnic, Coventry
The Search for Freedom: African American Abstract Painting 1945–1975, Kenkeleba Gallery, New York; Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA; State University of New York, New York
Affinities in Paint, Crane Gallery, London
The Other Story, Hayward Gallery, London, UK; Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton; Manchester City Art Gallery and Cornerhouse, Manchester
Vintage Abstractions, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
Frank Bowling and Dennis de Caires Recent Paintings, The Umana Yana, Georgetown, Guyana
My Generation: 10 Contemporary Abstract Artists, Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport; Skelmersdale Library Art Centre, Skelmersdale, Lancashire
1989 Whitechapel Open: East End Open Studios, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Recent Painting and Sculpture, South London Art Gallery, London
The Presence of Painting: Aspects of British Abstraction 1957–1988, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Hatton Gallery, Newcastle; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Exhibition Road: Painters at the Royal College of Art, Royal College of Art, London
1988 Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Jouvert, Paddington Print Shop, London
Exhibitions of Painting and Sculpture, Fuse Gallery, London
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; El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas; Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts; University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Variations in Matter Painting, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York; Kingsborough Community College Gallery, City University of New York, New York
1987 Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London
An Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, 27 Trelawney Road, Bristol
Caribbean Expressions in Britain, Leicestershire Museum and Art Gallery, New Walk, Leicester, UK; Central Museum and Art Gallery, Guildhall Road, Northampton; Cartwright Hall, Lister Park, Bradford
Place I, Gimpel Fils, London
Camberwell School of Art Staff Show, South London Gallery, London
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; The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York; Kresge Art Center Gallery, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
Mapped Art: Charts, Routes, Regions, University of Colorado Art Galleries, Colorado; Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas; Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, Texas; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London
The British Art Show, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK; Hatton Gallery, Newcastle; Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK; Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Another Generation, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Contemporary Caribbean Artists – African Expressions, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Bronx, New York
Small Works, Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic Art Gallery, Newcastle
Selected Works from Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina
Afro-Caribbean Art, Drum Arts Centre, Artists Market, London
Artists' Maps, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
British Painting 1952–1977, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Small Works, Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic Art Gallery, Newcastle
The Golden Door: Artist Immigrants of America, 1876–1976, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
CAPS Painters 1975, Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center Gallery, State University College, Fredonia, New York
Whitney Biennial 1973: Contemporary American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Selections from the Permanent Collection 1950–1973, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Two Guyanese Painters: Frank Bowling and Philip Moore, Guyana Consulate, New York
Contemporary Black Artists in America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Some American History, Institute for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, Texas
Afro-American Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1969 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
5+1, Art Gallery State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York; The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
Critic's Choice 1968–69, New York State Council on the Arts, New York
Maidstone Staff Painting and Sculpture, Alwin Gallery, London
London Group 1967, Royal Institute Galleries, Piccadilly, London
1st Edinburgh Open 100, David Hume Tower, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
Commonwealth Festival Exhibition, Nottingham
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
London Group exhibition, Society of Watercolour Painters, Piccadilly, London
Young Commonwealth Artists Group, Whitechapel Gallery, London
The Shakespeare Exhibition: 1564–1964, Stratford-upon-Avon, Edinburgh, London
Frank Bowling, William Thomson, Neil Stocker, Grabowski Gallery, London
Commonwealth Art Today, The Commonwealth Institute, London
Young Commonwealth Artists, RBA Galleries, London
Young Contemporaries 1962, Arts Council Gallery, Cambridge; Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston Upon Hull; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea; College of Arts and Crafts, Birmingham; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Image in Revolt, Grabowski Gallery, London
Young Contemporaries 1960, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London