Dean Bowen Artist

Selected Group Exhibitions

2020
John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale
Animalia, Arthouse Gallery, Rushcutters Bay, Sydney
2019
Zoographia, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney
2018
Mosman Art Prize
Montalto Sculpture Prize, Montalto Winery, Red Hill, Victoria
2017
Tessellar Sculpture Prize, Silvan, Victoria
Deakin University Small Sculpture Award
2016
& Art Fair, djprojects, 220 Spencer Street, Melbourne
Deakin University Small Sculpture Award
2015
Salt Gallery, Queenscliff
Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award
Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize
2014
McClelland Sculpture Survey, McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery
The Object Divine, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Caulfield
International Print Exhibition, Australia and Japan, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Fukayama Museum of Art
Lorne Sculpture Biennale
Gallipoli Art Prize, Sydney
ANL Maritime Art Award, Melbourne
2013
Sopra Mobile, Melbourne Savage Club, Invitation Sculpture Prize
Contemporary Small Sculpture Award 2013, Deakin University Gallery, Burwood
Two Decades of Fine Art, Possum Gully Gallery, Adelaide Lead
Mt.Buller Sculpture Award, Victoria
A Question of Scale - Maquttes and small sculpture from the permanent collection, Geelong Gallery
2012
Paul Guest Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
R and M McGivern Prize, Maroondah Art Gallery, Ringwood
National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
The Art of Mokuhanga: Contemporary Japanese Woodblock Prints. Royal Scottish Academy Galleries, Edinburgh, Scotland
Suburbia, Wyndham Art Gallery, Werribee March/April 2012
2011
Suburbanology, Geelong Art Gallery
Collective Memory: Facets of the Permanent Collection, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Silent Feathers, Maroondah Art Gallery
Dean Bowen and Rona Green, Solander Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2010
Stone Love, 20 Years Lancaster Press, Melbourne
Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Blake Prize, National Art School Gallery, Sydney
Colas Fondation, Boulogne-Billancourt,Paris,France
Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Melbourne Campus at Burwood
2009
Director's Choice: New additions to the Permanent Collection, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Salon Des Refuses, National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Regards Croises: Australie-France, Espace Beaurepaire, Paris, France.
Point of connection: Print Workshop Encounters, Grafton Regional Gallery
The freedom of angels sculpture in a century of upheaval. Geelong Gallery
The Cat, Umeno Memorial Museum of Art, Tohmi City, Nagano, Japan
The ANL Maritime Art Exhibition, The Mission to Seafarers, Melbourne
The Lorne Sculpture Exhibition.
Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Deakin University, Burwood.
2008
International Print Exhibition, Yunnan, China
Tesselaar Sculpture Prize, Silvan, Victoria
MacarthurCook Art Awards 2008, 45 Downstairs, Melbourne, Victoria
An approach to the landscape, Axia Modern Art, Melbourne, Victoria
The Helen Lempriere Sculpture Award and Exhibition, Werribee Park, Victoria
2007
Recent acquisitions, Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria
Internationale Kunstler, Glass Inspiration, Burgdorf, Switzerland
Introductions, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, USA
Let them roam, Harrison Galleries, Sydney
Artists' Ink: Printmaking 1970 2001, Warrnambool Art Gallery Collection
'Beauty of Heavenly Bodies and the Universe', Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan
2006
Dusan International Print Fair, Dusan Art Centre, Daegu, Korea
Passion Printing, Lithographs printed by Fred Genis and Peter Lancaster
Lancaster Press, Melbourne
Australian Printmaking, 1960's to the present Day, Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum
Montalto Sculpture Prize, Montalto Vinyard, Red Hill
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, December 1999
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