News
36th Bienal de Sao Paulo
Frank has been announced as one of the participants in the 36th Bienal de Sao Paulo. Curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, the edition is entitled Not All Travellers Walk Roads - Of Humanity as Practice and will open on 6 September, marking Frank's first exhibition in South America.
Publications
The Tate Catalogue Special Limited Edition will be released this June, with 200 signed copies available. Alongside this, the 2019 Tate Catalogue Reprint is scheduled for release in June, featuring an expanded print run.
Studio Visits
Recent studio visits have been a great success, including the Pullens Yards Open Studios Summer 2025 and the Bold Tendencies studio tour earlier this month, which inspired participants through Frank's paintings and insightful discussions. The next Open Studio event is scheduled for December.
Education Outreach
Educational outreach continues: the Mapping Our Heritage exhibition at Southwark Heritage Centre showcased artwork by Year 3 students inspired by Frank Bowling, while a recent teacher training workshop at the University of Rostock incorporated Frank's work as part of innovative arts-based methods for teaching English.
Exhibitions
The Power of Drawing: Marking 25 Years of the Royal Drawing School
This free exhibition celebrates the enduring role of drawing across creative disciplines, featuring works and reflections by artists including Frank Bowling, Quentin Blake and Tracey Emin. On view from 1 July - 26 July 2025 at the Royal Drawing School.
British Art - Convergence
Bringing together seminal works by major 20th-century artists, this exhibition highlights Frank Bowling's Beggar (1963) and his central role in shaping British art's evolving narrative. Open until 21 July 2025 at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal.
Feeling Color: Aubrey Williams & Frank Bowling
This focused exhibition explores the rich dialogue between two pioneering abstract artists, revealing the emotional and chromatic depth of their individual yet interconnected practices. Open until 27 July 2025 at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas.
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2025
Held annually since 1769, this landmark group show features painting, sculpture, film and architecture by established and emerging artists. Highlights include Frank Bowling's monumental Red, Yellow and Blue (2025). Open until 17 August 2025 at the Royal Academy of Arts.
Black Earth Rising
Curated by Ekow Eshun, and featuring Bowling's Polish Rebecca (1971), this exhibition brings together artists of African diasporic, Latin American and Native heritage, examining the natural world as a space of beauty, resistance and ancestral memory. Open until 21 September 2025 at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
The Gorgeous Nothings: Flowers at Chatsworth House
This group show explores themes of gathering, preservation and natural beauty, with works by Frank Bowling, Dorothea Tanning, Ruth Asawa and Eileen Agar in dialogue with Chatsworth's rich botanical heritage. Open until 5 October 2025 at Chatsworth House.
VERTIGO
Exploring the intersection of abstraction and natural perception, this exhibition features works by James Turrell, Yves Klein, Helen Frankenthaler and Frank Bowling's Hello Rosa New York (1973). Open until 2 November 2025 at Villa Carmignac, Porquerolles Island.
Press
Jonathan Jones highlighted Frank's work as a standout in his four-star review of the RA Summer Exhibition in The Guardian, describing the painting as "a fizzing cocktail of gold fire and night blue that seems a homage to Whistler's Nocturnes, but on a grand abstract expressionist scale."
Art historian and critic Larissa Kikol interviewed Frank for a substantial piece in Kunstforum, exploring his practice, the different cultural eras he has lived through and his time in New York.
French art critic Judith Benhamou noted Frank's work in her review of VERTIGO at the Fondation Carmignac in Les Echos, remarking on the "sumptuous" way his painting opens the exhibition. Hamish Bowles, Creative Director at Large of The World of Interiors, also noted Frank's work as a highlight of Gorgeous Nothings at Chatsworth House, describing how his paintings "seem to ignite the Great Hall's 18th-century murals".
On Display
Night Journey, 1969-70 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Raining Down South, 1968 at MoMA, New York.
