Ronald Bowen
Seats (1997)
One work consisting of six paintings based on seats in the Paris métro stations
each 100 x 81 cm
Oil on linen

Biography

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.

Solo Exhibitions
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

Contact
www.ronaldbowenart.com
ronaldbowen@noos.fr