Artist

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, retiring from the school in 2008. In 2010 he was awarded the Monique Corpet Prize for painting from the Taylor Foundation in Paris. 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

2011	Galería Ámbit, Barcelona Salon Comparaisons, Grand Palais, Paris
2010	Salon Comparaisons, Grand Palais, Paris
2009	Galerie Beckel-Odille-Boïcos, Paris
2008	Galerie Beckel-Odille-Boïcos, Paris Selection du Salon d'Automne à Compiègne Galerie Raison d'Art, Lille
2007	Salon d'Automne Paysages, Pont-l'Evêque et Beaumont-en-Auge
2004	Galerie Artemisia, Paris Galerie Beckel-Odille-Boïcos, Paris
2003	D.F.N. 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 D.F.N. 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 D.F.N. Gallery, New York Zenith Gallery, Washington Salon de Saint-Cloud American Embassy Art Show, Paris Kiron Espace, Paris Galerie Liliane R, Deauville
1998	Salon d'Automne, Paris D.F.N. Gallery, New York Zenith Gallery, Washington 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

2012	Fondation Taylor, Paris
2011	Galerie Beckel-Odille-Boïcos, Paris
2010	ARTSZ, Galerie Suzanne Belaieff, Monaco La Galerie Anna-Tschopp,Marseille
2006	Galerie Beckel-Odille-Boïcos, Paris Galerie Catherine et André Hug, Paris
2005	Galerie Catherine et André Hug et Galerie Eric Monbel, Paris
2004	Rona Gallery, London
2003	Galerie Artemisia, Paris
2002	Rivier College Art Gallery, Nashua, New Hampshire DFN Gallery, New York
2001	Royal Street Gallery, Paris
2000	DFN Gallery, New York
1999	Boutique Hughes Chevalier, Paris Royal Street Gallery, Paris Galerie Beckel-Odille-Boïcos, Paris
1998	Galerie Mouvances, Paris Zenith Gallery, Washington
1997	Zenith Gallery, Washington
1996	American School of Paris Galerie Toft, Paris
1990	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