Biography

1999 Monash University, Ph. D (Extending Printmaking)
1993 Monash University, Master of Arts (Printmaking)
1976 RMIT, Diploma of Fine Art (Printmaking)
1957 Born Maryborough, Victoria

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2006 Axia Modern Art, Melbourne (Urban Heartland)
Greenhill Galleries, Perth
Galerie Miyawaki, Kyoto, Japan (year of the dog)
2005 Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
Galerie Miyawaki, Kyoto, Japan
2004 Axia Modern Art, Melbourne (On the Road Again)
Swan Hill Gallery, Swan Hill
2003 Icon Museum of Art, Deakin University, Melbourne (Urban Bird)
Beaver Galleries, Canberra
2002 Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
Greenhill Galleries, Perth
Brian Moore Gallery, Sydney
Galerie Miyawaki, Kyoto, Japan
2001 Axia Modern Art, Melbourne (Birds of a Feather)
BMG Art, Adelaide
2000 Beaver Galleries, Canberra
Greenhill Galleries, Perth
Galerie Miyawaki, Kyoto, Japan
Bunkamura Gallery, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery (Queenstown series)
Australian Galleries, Sydney
1999 Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Australian Galleries, Melbourne (Bronzes)
BMG Art, Adelaide
Galerie Miyawaki, Kyoto, Japan
Galerie Fallet, Geneva, Switzerland
1998 Beaver Galleries, Canberra
Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Galerie Miyawaki, Kyoto, Japan
Australian Galleries, Sydney
1997 Galerie Fallet, Geneva, Switzerland
Keihan Department Store Gallery, Moriguchi City, Osaka, Japan
Sogo Department Store Gallery, Toyota City, Japan
BMG Art, Adelaide
Grahame Galleries, Brisbane
Galerie Miyawaki, Kyoto, Japan
1996 Australian Galleries, Sydney
Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
Galerie Miyawaki, Kyoto, Japan
1995 Galerie Miyawaki, Kyoto, Japan
Sogo Department Store Gallery, Toyota City, Japan
Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1994 Galerie Australis, Adelaide
Motor Works Gallery, Melbourne Grammar School
1993 Australian Embassy, Paris
Galerie Franck and Herve Bordas, Paris
Grahame Galleries, Brisbane
Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1992 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1990 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1988 Acland Street Art Gallery, St Kilda
1983 Exhibition Space, Tattersalls Lane, Melbourne

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2006 Australian Printmaking, 1960's to the present day, Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum
Montalto Sculpture Prize, Montalto Vinyard, Red Hill
Australian Printmaking, 1960's to present day, Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum
The Artist/The Printmaker, Australian Art Resources, Melbourne
2005 Melbourne Savage Club Invitation Prize for Painting
The Big Small Tapestry Show, Victorian Tapestry Workshop
We are all animals, Latrobe University Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo
Aquabon, Centre International Estampe et Livre. URDLA, Villeurbanne, France
The Art of Collaboration, Masterpieces of Modern Tapestry from the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Singapore Tyler Print Institute Gallery, Singapore
Expansion, Lancaster Press, Brooklyn, Melbourne
Contemporary Australian Prints from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, AGNSW, Sydney
Artists'/Artists, Axia Modern Art, Melbourne
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, Hygo Perfectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan
2004 Australian Art Resources, Shanghai International Art Fair, Shanghai
Between a rock and a hard place, Lancaster Press, Brooklyn, 15 years of collaboration
The Motor Show, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Collingwood
Des Yeux aux Images, Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Bron, France
Hanga, Selected artists from the Nagasawa Art Park Residency, Devonport Regional Gallery
Owl on my head: Small sculpture from the collection, Geelong Gallery
The Waterhouse Art Prize, South Australian Museum, Adelaide
Zood, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville
11th International Biennial Print and Drawing Exhibition, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
3465, Past and Present, Maryborough Artists, Central Goldfields Art Gallery, Maryborough
Capturing the images alive, Monotypes, Galerie Miyawaki, Kyoto, Japan
2003 Sculpture 2003, Brian Moore Gallery, Sydney with Anne Ross and Darien Pullen
The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Werribee Park, Victoria
Alchemy (Ceramics), Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
The Lane Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Fresh paint, Greenhill Galleries, Perth
International Print and Drawing Exhibition, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
L'Art Emmele, Hotel de Ville, Paris, France
Less is More (small sculptures), BMG Art, Adelaide
2002 "Nagasawa Artists 1997 - 2001, Challenging Japanese Woodblock Printmaking", Skydoor Artspace, Aoyama, Tokyo.
Central Goldfields Sculpture Prize, Maryborough, Victoria
Focus on Sculpture 2002, Axia Modern Art, Melbourne
Korea International Print Art Festival, Busan, Chang Won, Korea
Five Sydney Years, Australian Art Resources, Volvo Gallery, Sydney
5th Kochi International Triennial of Prints, Kochi, Japan
Impressions URDLA, Salon d'art contemporain d'Albigny sur-Saone, France
Sculpture in the City, Martin Place, Sydney
"Inheritance, the Art of Victoria", Gold Treasury Museum, Victoria
Hutchins Art Prize, The Long Gallery, Salamanca Place, Hobart
"Zeichen der Gegenwart", Vienna Art Centre Gallery, Vienna, Austria
"We are Australian", Immigration Museum, Melbourne (touring)
12th Space International Print Biennial, Sungkor Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Plate to Paper, artists books and prints, Mackay Collection, Artspace, Mackay, QLD
"Size Doesn't Matter", Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
2001 Nagasawa Prints, Australian Embassy, Tokyo
4 ernes Rencontres de Sculpture, d'Art Contemporain, Les cinq continents, Place Napoleon Bonaparte, Fontainebleau, France
Paquebot collection de I'atelier Franck Bordas, Centre d'Art Graphic de la Metairie Bruyere, Parly, Yonne, France
A private view 1971-2001, the collection of Beverly and Anthony Knight, McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin
Small tapestries and works on paper from the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Lyceum Club, Melbourne
Brian Moore Gallery, Sydney, with Tony Chadwick
International Print Triennial, Kanagawa, Japan
A Survey of Cotemporary Australian Printmaking, Warrnambool Art Gallery
"Triennial Continents", Ksiaz Castle Gallery, Walbrzych, Poland
2000 International Print Triennale, Krakow, Poland
Intergrafica 2000, World Award Winners Gallery, Katowice, Poland
Qingdao International Print Biennial, PR China
Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
Small Tapestries, Victorian Tapestry Workshop, South Melbourne
Contemporary Linocuts, McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin (touring)
1999 Art and the Printing Press, 15th International Small Engraving Exhibition, Cremona, Italy
Pleasure, Australian Galleries, Works on Paper, Melbourne
Central Goldfields Sculpture Award, Maryborough, Victoria
International Triennial '97 Rio de Janeiro, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Geelong Print Prize, Geelong Art Gallery
Atelier Franck Bordas Paris, Australian Galleries, Works on Paper, Melbourne
Sculpture, Australian Galleries, Sydney with Augustine Dall'ava, Stuart James and Alex Kosmas
23rd International Biennial of Graphic Art Ljubljana, Slovenia
Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery
"On the Road: The Car in Australian Art", Museum of Modern Art at Heide
1998 Lithographies Contemporaines -bicentenaire de la lithographie, Galerie Helene de Roquefeuil, Paris, France
A decade of Contemporary Australian Printmaking, Metropolitan Museum of Seoul
Kanagawa International Print Triennial, Japan
4th Sapporo International Print Biennale, Sapporo, Japan
Graphic Constellation Cultural City Network, Graz, Austria
International Triennial '97 Cracow -Nuernberg Fair Centre, Nuernberg, Germany
The Cask an Aussie Icon, Vichealth Access Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria
1997 Victorian Tapestry Workshop at Australian Galleries, Sydney
International Print Triennial '97, Cracow, Poland
Fremantle Print Award
Osaka Print Triennale, Mydome Osaka, Osaka
Alice Prize, Alice Springs
City of Hobart, Art Prize
"The Sea", Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
1996 Artists' Books and Multiples Fair '96, Brisbane
Silk Cut Acquisitive Award, RMIT Gallery Storey Hall, Melbourne
Anthologie 1978-1996 Atelier URDLA, Lyon, France
3rd Sapporo International Print Biennale, Sapporo, Japan
SAGA Print Fair, Paris
Europ'ART, Geneva International Art Fair, Switzerland
Imagining the real, recent acquisitions, Parliament House Collection, Canberra
11th International Grafik -Triennale Frechen 1996, Germany
UWS Macarthur National Print Media Acquisitive, Casula
Powerhouse Arts Centre, N.S.W
Toowoomba Biennial Acquisitive, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Queensland
Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Gallery, N.S.W
Gold Coast City Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
Alice Prize, Alice Springs
4th London Artists' Book Fair, Concourse Gallery, Barbican Centre, London
2nd Egyptian International Print Triennale, Cairo, Egypt
Mornington Regional Gallery, 12th Biennial Prints
1995 Contemporary Printmakers, La Trobe Regional Gallery, Morwell
Art of Reproduction, Plimsoll Gallery , University of Tasmania, Hobart
2nd Artist Book International, The Waldorf Astoria Towers, New York
From silkscreen to computer screen. 20 years of the Fremantle
Print Award, Fremantle (Touring)
1994 Alice Prize, Alice Springs
Osaka Print Triennale 1994, Mydome Osaka, Osaka, Japan
SAGA Print Fair, Paris
International Triennial of Graphic Art, Bitola, Macedonia
1993 SAGA Print Fair, Paris
Galerie Claude Samuel, Paris
Fremantle Print Award
1992 Atelier Franck Bordas, Paris
ARCO 92, Madrid
SAGA Print Fair, Paris
Fremantle Print Award
Henri Worland 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Warrnambool Art Gallery
1991 SAGA Print Fair, Paris
Henri Worland Memorial Print Award, Warrnambool Art Gallery
Fremantle Print Award
Transitional Times, Print Council of Australia (Touring)
Edition 2/91 Basel, Switzerland
Th Gallery, Lyon, France (L'URDLA Chez Th)
URDLA, Une annee d'editions, Lyon, France
5th International Biennial Print Exhibition, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan R.O.C.
1990 Australian Prints, Florida State University, USA
Australian Prints, Alabama Festival of Arts, Birmingham, USA
Second Irish Mini Print Exhibition, Dublin
Australian Contemporary Art, A-Z Gallery, Tokyo, ]apan

PRIZES AND COMMISSIONS

NATIONAL PRIZES AND AWARDS
2003 Popular Choice Award, Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Werribee Park, Victoria
1999 Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery (Acquisitive Sculpture)
1998 Bathurst Art Purchase, Bathurst Regional Gallery (Acquisitive Sculpture)
1997 Boyne Smelters Ltd Award (Sculpture)
Nillumbik Art Award (Acquisitive Print and Sculpture)
1996, 92, 88 Mornington Peninsula Art Centre (Acquisitive Print)
1996 Toowoomba Biennale, Toowoomba Regional gallery (Acquisitive Sculpture)
Silk Cut Award (Acquisitive Print)
Arts 21, International Export and Touring Program Grant
Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Gallery
1995 Murwillumbah Print Prize
1994 Monash University, Graduate Scholarship
Fremantle Print Award
Martin Hanson Memorial Art Award, Works on Paper, Gladstone Regional Art Gallery
1992 Australia-France Foundation Grant
Collie Trust Award
Dyason Bequest Grant (Art Gallery of New South Wales)
City of Logan (Acquisitive Print)
City of Richmond (Acquisitive Print)
1991 Henri Worland Memorial Print Award (Acquisitive Print)
1978 Maryborough Arts Centre Award

INTERNATIONAL PRIZES
2003 Tai-he Award, 1st International Print Biennial of Beijing, P.R.China
2002 12th Space International Print Biennial, Seoul, Korea
1998 Sponsors prize, 4th Sapporo International Print Biennale, Japan
1997 Daikin Industries Company Prize, Osaka Print Triennale, Japan
1994 Mainichi Broadcasting System Prize, Osaka Print Triennale, Japan

COMMISSIONS
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)

COLLECTIONS

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Artbank
Atelier Devreux-Gerbaud, St Christol De Rodieres, France
Atelier Franck Bordas, Paris, France
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 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
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
ICI
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.
Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
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

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ryan, Colleen, "Starring role", The Australian Financial Review, 18 November 2004
Backhouse, Megan "Colour separation makes the art grow yonder", The Age 13 November 2004
Dutkiewicz, Adam, "Variations on a theme", Adelaide Advertiser, 7 August 2004
Makin, Jeff, "Of cut and thrust", Herald Sun, 17 May 2004
Bellamy, Louise, "Everyday life like a dog to a Bowen", The Age, 15 May 2004
Barren, Sonia, "Creator of prints that please the people", Canberra Times, 10 October 2003
Makin, Jeff, "Private world is made visible", Dean Bowen Urban Bird, Herald Sun, 11 June 2003
Edwards, Geoffrey, Urban Bird, Icon Museum of Art, Catalogue, April 2003
Backhouse, Megan, Mixed Media, The Age, 14 May, 2003
Nelson, Robert, "Mixing perception with space", The Age, 26 March 2003
Obrien, Mary, "Great ideas, great shapes", The Age, 5 March 2003
Brown, Penny "Holy Commune" The Australian, 24 Jan 2003
Makin, Jeff, 'Healthy Sculpture", Herald Sun, 3 June 2002
Zimmer, Jenny, "Of Birds, Bees and Nest Eggs", Axia Modern Art catalogue, Dean Bowen, Birds of a Feather, Oct 2001
Kadota, Keiko, 2000 Report, Workshop Japanese Woodblock, Printmaking, Nagasawa Art Park, Artist in Residence, Awaji island, Hyogo, Japan
McCulloch-Uehlin, Susan, "Packing art and leaving home", The Australian, June 2-3, 2001
Le Grand Petit Homme de Fontainebleau, I'Australie en France, Avril 2000, Number 11, Ambassade d'Australie, Australia France Foundation
Walker, Sue, "Modern Australian Tapestries", Beagle Press 2000
Arts Show, ABC-TV, October 12, 2000 Interview by Neil Proud
Kampianne, Harry, "A la decouverte de I'art Australien", Arts Acualites, Paris October 2000
McGrath, Judith, "Dean Bowen from a child's eye", X Press Mag, Issue 707 August 2000
Cook, Robert, "A birds eye view', The West Australian 30 Aug 2000
Fraser, Morag, "Venturing" Art Monthly, Australia, August 2000
Newman, Verity, "Watch the birdie" City hub, Sydney 10 Aug 2000
Sturgis, Mathew, "Figures in the landscape, the rise of contemporary Australian printmaking", Printmaking Today Vol 9. No. 1 Spring 2000, U.K.
Taylor, Roger, "Dean Bowen at Australian Galleries", World Sculpture News, Vol 6. No. 1. Winter 2000
Grishin, Sasha, "Images that are simple but strong", The Canberra Times 22 Feb 2000
Zanetta, Jerome, Galerie Fallet, Dean Bowen, Suisse Romande Magazine, Geneva, December 1999
Auty, Giles, "Everyone's a winner", The Australian, 27 November 1999
Makin, Jeff, "Memories of Middle Earth", Herald Sun, 6 September 1999
Trimble, Judith, "Dean Bowen Bronze Sculpture 1995- 1999", Australian Galleries catalogue, May 1999
Exhibition review, Nihon Keizai Shinbun, Tokyo, Japan, 2 March, 1999
Zimmer, Jenny, "Art tour de force", Profile Dean Bowen, State of the Arts, August 1998
Sunday Program, GTV Channel Nine, July 19 1998. Interview by Max Cullen, Producer Marianne Latham
Zimmer, Jenny, "Personnages et Animaux", Australian Galleries catalogue, July 1998
Makin, Jeff, "In the Frame", Herald Sun, July 13 1998
Grishin, Sasha, "A wondrous feast for the eyes", Canberra Times, 10 April, 1998
Chavvy Lawrence, "Des cheminements de Petit Poucet", Journal de Geneve et Gazette de Lausanne, 3rd March, 1997
McCulloch, Susan, "Dean Bowen at the Australian Galleries", Asian Art News, Vol 6, No. 1, January 1996
Ryllis Clark, Mary, "School Days", Education Supplement, The Age, 28 May 1996
Grishin, Sasha, "Australian Printmaking in the 1990's", Artist Printmakers 1990-1995, 1996
The Kyoto Galleries Federation of Arts, Monthly News, No.241 , 4, 1995
Nelson, Robert, "Obsessed and Repulsed", The Age, 6 December 1995
McCulloch, Susan, "Dean Bowen", Australian Galleries Catalogue, November 1995
Review, Nikkel Art (June) 1995
Review, Hanagawa-Geijutsu (Spring) 1995
"Drawing Everyday Life with a Unique Touch", Asahi Shinbun, 13 April 1995
Mainichi Shimbun, Local News (Art), 25 March 1995
Ohtagaki, Minoru, Exhibition Review, Kyoto Shinbun, 15 April 1995
Coppola, Filomena and Pickering, Susan, "Art of Reproduction", University of Tasmania, August 1995
McCulloch, Alan and McCulloch, Susan, "The Encyclopedia of Australian Art", Alien & Unwin, Sydney 1994
Osaka Triennale Catalogue (Print), November 1994
Bromfield, David, "Beyond the Medium", Artlink, Summer 1994
The 7.30 Report ABC TV 5/9/94
Fremantle Print Award Announced, Imprint, Spring 1994
Snell, Ted, "Fremantle Print Award Catalogue", 1994
Trickey, Leighanne, "A living that's fit to print", Southern Cross, 14th September, 1994
Banks, Ron, "Printmaker brings art back to earth", The West Australian, 12th September, 1994
Graham, Duncan, "Taking a punt on the traffic wins award", The Age, 12th September, 1994
Grahame, Noreen, "That Big Journey", Imprint, Summer, 1993
Museum of Contemporary Art (Brisbane) Bulletin, August 1993, Issue No.67
Soumilas, Diane, "Paris", Art Monthly, August 1993
Snell, Ted, "Low-tech Relief for Inhuman Times", The Australian, 31 August 1991
Palmer, Sheridan, "Transitional Times, Imprint, Spring 1991
Bellamy, Louise, "Bowen presents comic view with the magic of lithography", The Age, 4 April 1990

Thank you for subscribing