Margaret Bowland Biography
photo by Lisa Barlow
Born in Burlington, North Carolina, 1953
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Education:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1970-71 and 1971-72 Studio Art and English concentrations.
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2011
"Margaret Bowland: Excerpts from the Great American Songbook" - Babcock Galleries, New York
March 1 – April 22 > exhibition link
Greenville County Museum of Art – Greenville South Carolina
March 26 - May 28
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2010
"Revisiting Beauty" - Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, Calitfornia
April 29-May 29
"I Dream Awake"- a Pop-Up Project Exhibition, Washington, D.C.
March 26 - May 28
"Color" - Thomas Paul Fine Art, Los Angeles CA
January 23- March 13
2009
"24 Square", Thomas Paul Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
October 10 – November 30
Finalist/ People's Choice Award Winner for the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
October 23, 2009 - August 2010
> exhibition link > see people's choice award page > see youtube video of presentation and interview
Art Fair 21, Cologne, Germany, chosen by Yasha Young, Independent Curator
October 30 – November 5
2008
Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
15th Annual Realism Invitational
1980s
Tatistcheff Gallery
New, York, N.Y.
“Promising Emerging Realists”
two group shows
Bibliography:
2010
"Margaret Bowland Wins People's Choice Award," Design Taxi, February 1, 2010 >see article
Jeff Wilkins, "Artist beats out thousands to notch prestigious Smithsonian honor,"
The New York Daily News, March 2, 2010, p. 4 >see article
Peter Frank, "Blague d'Arte," Huffington Post, March 16, 2010 >see article
F. Lennox Campello, "Spring Brings Great New Art to the Nation's Capital," American Contemporary Art ,
April / May 2010 > see article (click to page 23)
Professional Activities:
New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Painting Instructor