Artist: Ronald Bowen
Biographical Information
Ronald
Bowen was born in 1944. He grew up in Lake Placid Florida, a quiet
town surrounded by lakes, citrus groves, and ranches. From an early
age he showed a talent for drawing. |
From
1962 to 1967 he studied art, along with music and languages, at
Florida State University in Tallahassee, completing his final year
at their study center in Florence, Italy. This first contact with
Europe was a turning point for him. |
Finished
with his university studies, he taught art for a year at his former
school in Lake Placid. In 1968 he chose to return to Europe to teach
and continue his art studies, spending a summer in Paris, then a
year teaching in a small boarding school in England followed by
a year in Nice, France, enrolled as a full-time painting student
at the Ecole Nationale d'Art Décoratif. |
In
1970 he returned to Paris as "Artist in Residence" at
the Fondation des Etats-Unis, a scholarship offered by the Woolley
Foundation. The scholarship was renewed for a second year. In 1973
he began teaching art classes part-time at the American School of
Paris and has since made that city his home. In 1993 Ronald Bowen
received French Nationality, making him a citizen of both the U.S.
and France. |
The
artist lives and works in a light-filled Montmartre studio surrounded
with tropical plants overlooking Paris rooftops and the Basilica
of Sacré Coeur in the distance. |
List of Exhibitions
Personal Exhibitions
| 2006 | Galerie Beckel-Odille-Boïcos, Paris |
| 2005 | Galerie Catherine et André Hug et Galerie Eric de Montbel, Paris |
2004 |
Rona Gallery, London |
| 2003 | Galerie Artemisia, Paris |
| 2002 | DFN Gallery,
New York Rivier College Art Gallery, Nashua, NH |
| 2001 | Royal Street Gallery, Paris |
| 2000 | DFN Gallery, New York |
| 1999 | Royal
Street Gallery, Paris Hughes Chevalier, Paris Galerie Beckel-Odille-Boïcos, Paris |
| 1998 | Zenith
Gallery, Washington, DC Galerie "Mouvances", Paris |
| 1997 | Zenith Gallery, Washington, D.C. |
| 1996 | Galerie
Toft, Paris American School of Paris |
| 1990 | Retrospective at the American School of Paris |
| 1983 | Galerie Philippe Frégnac, Paris |
| 1981 | Galerie Philippe Frégnac, Paris |
| 1979 | Galerie Philippe Frégnac, Paris |
| 1974 | Conservatoire National d'Art Dramatique, Paris |
| 1971 | Fondation des Etats-Unis, Paris |
Collective Exhibitions
| 2007 | Salon d'Automne |
| 2004 | Galerie Artemisia,
Paris Galerie Beckel-Odille-Boïcos, Paris |
| 2003 | DFN Gallery, New
York Redwing Fine Art Gallery, Yarmouth, MA Rona Gallery, London |
| 2002 | Salon
d'Etampes Redwing Fine art Gallery, Yarmouth, MA Galerie Beckel-Odille-Boïcos, Paris DFN Gallery, New York |
| 2001 | Salon
d'Automne Works on Paper, Espace Belleville, Paris Salon de Saint Cloud Salon de Garches American Embassy Art Show Galerie Beckel-Odille-Boïcos, Paris D.F.N. Gallery, New York |
| 2000 | Salon
de Saint Cloud American Embassy Art Show, Paris D.F.N. Gallery, New York Salon d'Automne Salon de Saint Cloud Honors Show Philharmonic Center, Naples, Florida |
| 1999 | Salon
d'Automne, Paris DFN Gallery, New York Zenith Gallery, Washington D.C. Salon de Saint-Cloud American Embassy Art Show, Paris Kiron Espace, Paris Galerie Liliane R, Deauville |
| 1998 | Salon d'Automne,
Paris DFN Gallery, New York Zenith Gallery, Washington D.C. Salon de Saint-Cloud American Embassy Art Show, Paris Prix International d'Art Contemporain, Monte Carlo "Montmartre Aux Artistes" at the Mairie du 18ème, Paris Carpeaux 18, Paris |
| 1997 | Figuration
Critique, Paris Le Nu et L'Âme, Galerie Beckel-Odille-Boïcos, Paris The Art Gallery at the Registry, Naples, Florida Itinéraires, Levallois-Perret Salon d'Automne, Paris |
| 1996 | The
American Embassy Art Show (Guest of Honor), Paris Salon d'Automne, Paris The Art Gallery at the Registry, Naples, Florida Indigo Galleries, Inc., Boca Raton, Florida |
| 1995 | Galerie
Vallois, Paris Figuration Critique, Paris |
| 1994 | Galerie
Vallois, Paris The Art Gallery at the Registry, Naples, Florida Prix International d'Art Contemporain, Monte Carlo |
| 1993 | L'Art
à l'Ecole, Paris The Art Gallery at the Registry, Naples, Florida |
| 1989 | L'Art
à l'Ecole, Paris Centre Culturel d'Orly Galerie Caplain-Matignon, Paris Galerie L'Entrée des Artistes, Barbizon Salon de Lisieux |
| 1988 | Salon
d'Octobre, Brive Fondation W.I.C.E., Paris |
| 1987 | The Naples Art Gallery, Naples Florida |
| 1986 | Salon
de Rouen (Prix Spécial du Jury) Comparaisons, Paris Galerie Philip Frégnac, Paris The Naples Art Gallery, Naples Florida |
| 1985 | Figuration Critique, Paris |
| 1984 | Figuration
Critique, Paris Galerie Philippe Frégnac, Paris Salon d'Angers Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, Florida |
| 1983 | Figuration Critique, Paris |
| 1981 | Art
Vivant, Paris Centre d'Action Culturelle, Macon Holford Gallery, London |
| 1980 | Peindre
et le Réel, Poitiers and Pont-à-Mousson Les Ateliers Imaginaires, Paris Journée du Soleil, Paris Galerie Philippe Frégnac Salon de Montrouge |
| 1979 | Grands
et Jeunes d'Aujourd'hui, Paris Peindre et le Réel, Chartres, Fougères and Châteaudun Art Vivant, Paris Salon de Montrouge |
| 1978 | Grands
et Jeunes d'Aujourd'hui, Paris Figuration Critique, Paris Galerie Liliane, François, Paris Salon de Montrouge Salon de Vitry |
| 1977 | Grands et Jeunes d'Aujourd'hui, Paris |
| 1975 | Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris |
| 1974 | Art
International, Allonnes Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris |
| 1972 | Foundation des Etats-Unis, Paris |
| 1970 | Fondation Maeght, Saint Paul de Venice |
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