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ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2008

2007
2005
2004

2003

2002
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1979

Paul Bowen, Drawings, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Paul Bowen, Sculpture, Christine Price Gallery, Castleton College, Castleton, VT
Paul Bowen, Recent Work, ArtStrand, Provincetown, MA
Paul Bowen, Sculpture: 1974-2004, Jaffe-Friede & Strauss Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Paul Bowen: Sculpture 1974-2004, The Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA
Paul Bowen, Sculpture, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Paul Bowen: Recent Works, Beshèrt Gallery, Montclair, NJ
Paul Bowen, Provincetown: Paper & Wood, Brick Walk Bookshop & Fine Art, West Hartford, CT
Paul Bowen, Koussevitzky Art Gallery, Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, MA
Paul Bowen, Sculpture, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Paul Bowen, Sculpture, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Wood and Paper, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
T.J. Walton Gallery, Provincetown, MA
T. J. Walton Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Koussevitzky Art Gallery, Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, MA
Wood Works, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
Sculpture, New England School of Art and Design, Suffolk University, Boston, MA
New Work, Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
Recent Work, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA
The Signal Drawings, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
Selected Works, 1976-1996, Takara Gallery, Houston, TX
Paul Bowen, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
Recent Sculpture, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
New Sculpture, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA
A Survey, Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
Waterfront, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
Sculpture, Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Recent Works on Paper, Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal, Canada
Vereniging Voor Het Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst Te Gent (The Association of the Museum of Contemporary Art), Ghent, Belgium
Saint Peter's Church, New York, NY
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
George Ciscle Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Graham Modern Gallery, New York, NY
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Graham Modern Gallery, New York, NY
Jack Shainman Gallery, Washington, DC
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA

SELECTED TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2007
2006

2001

2000
1997
1996
1987
1986
1985
1983
1981

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

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008
2007
2005-7
2006

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2004

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1974

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

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

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

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

SELECTED AWARDS and APPOINTMENTS

2007
2005
1993
1987
1981
1979
1978
1977-79
1972-74

Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant
Artist-in-Residence, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Sculpture Fellowship, New England Foundation for the Arts
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowship
Artist-in-Residence, Bear Mountain State Park, NY
Award to Artists, Welsh Arts Council
Hudson D. Walker Fellowship, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
Hoffberger Fellow, Maryland Institute, Baltimore, MD

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2006
2004
1990

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

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2008
2007

1995-2007
2006
1983-2006
2005
1993
1992
1991
1988

1987

1984
1982
1979
1978
1977
1974-1977
1976

Sculpture Instructor, Summer Workshops, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
Visiting Sculptor, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Sculpture Instructor, Visual Arts Programs, Great River Arts, Bellows Falls, VT
Sculpture Instructor, River Gallery School, Brattleboro, VT
Visiting Lecturer, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH
Sculpture Instructor, Summer Workshop Program, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
Sculpture Instructor, AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH
Sculpture Instructor, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Truro, MA
Visiting Lecturer, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH
Sculpture Instructor, Provincetown Art Association and Museum School
Visiting Artist, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
Visiting Artist, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Visiting Lecturer, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY
Visiting Lecturer, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
Visiting Lecturer, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA
Instructor, Four Sculptors Program, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Visiting Lecturer, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Visiting Lecturer, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Visiting Lecturer, Art Department, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Visiting Lecturer, Sheffield Polytechnic, Sheffield, England
Visiting Lecturer, Sculpture Department, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
Lecturer in Sculpture and Foundation Studies, Sheffield Polytechnic, Sheffield, England
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Fine Arts, Gwent College of Higher Education, Newport, Wales

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2004
1993-2004

1993-95
1993

Award to Artists Juror, Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, OH
Co-founder and Project Coordinator, Artist’s Eye: Children as Curators, Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA
1993-95 Visual Arts Coordinator, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
Visual Arts Juror, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA

OTHER ACTIVITIES

1999-present
1991-1995
1990-1995
1990

1988-1990
1986-1989
1979-1989

Advisory Board Member, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
Education Committee, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
1990-1995 Collections Committee, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
Artists Advisory Board, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Truro, MA
Arts Enrichment Committee, Veterans Memorial Elementary School, Provincetown, MA
Exhibition Committee, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
1986-1989 Board of Trustees, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
1979-1989 Visual Arts Committee, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA

EDUCATION

1972-74
1969-72
1968-69

MFA, Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Diploma in Art and Design, Newport College of Art, Newport, Wales
Prediploma Course, Chester School of Art, Chester, England

Installation View, Cape Cod Museum of Art