david bowen

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS                                                        *indicates one person exhibition

 2008 BRAINWAVE: Common Senses, Exit Art, New York, NY
         
Group exhibition featuring works concerned with the brains capacity for perception          

           Evolution Haute Couture: Art and Science in the Post-Biological Age, IX MediaForum, Moscow, Russia
        XXX Moscow International Film Festival

           Abels Sketchbook, Vitenfabrikken, Stavanger, Norway
        Group exhibition featuring works which explore the connections between mathematic, science, technology and art

         Phenomena(l), Spaces, Cleveland, OH
         Group exhibition featuring works concerned with art a science

         HMC, Vizivarosi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
         Group exhibition featuring work of Hungarian Multicultural Center residents

 2007 Host, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
         Group exhibition curated by Elizabeth Grady, Curatorial Assistant, The Whitney Museum of American Art,

         New York, NY

         *anomalies, Hotcakes Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
         One person exhibition featuring robotic devices, installation and video


         art LA
, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA
         International contemporary art fair featuring works form Dangerous Curve


         *on growth and form, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN

         One person exhibition

         The Minnesota Biennial: 3D II, Minnesota Museum of American Art, St Paul, MN
         Juried exhibition featuring contemporary art of Minnesota
         
         Automation, Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Detroit, MI
         Group exhibition featuring works concerned with the theme of automation

         locate-point-place, Vergette Gallery, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
         Two person exhibition featuring works related to proximity and space

 2006 Good Work, Dangerous Curve, Los Angeles, CA
         Participated in invitational gourp exhibition featuring video and installation.


         Robotix, PASS-Parc d'Aventure Scientifiques, Brussels, Belgium
         Participated in group exhibition featuring robotic installation curated by installation curated by Douglas Repetto
         Assistant Professor, Columbia University, Computer Music Center
.

         Voxumenta, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
         Participated in national juried exhibition curated by Emily Hage Mellon Curatorial Fellow, Modern and
         Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

         From/About, Central European Cultural Institute, Budapest, Hungary
         Participated in group exhibition featuring works from the Balatonfured/Csopak artist's resedency

         
Balatonfured International film festival, Congress Center, Balatonfured, Hungary
         Exhibition featuring video works of international artists


         Surface, Space and Light
, ALL gallery, New Haven, CT
         
Participated in national juried exhibition featuring works related to the topics of surface, space and light.

         
Light/Sound/Action: Art and Technology Utica College, Utica NY
         
Participated in invitational exhibition in conjunction with the thirtieth anniversary of Sculpture Space.

         Summer of Light
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY
         Participated in invitational exhibition.

 
2005 Thailand New Media Art Festival, Bed Supper Club, Bangkok, Thailand
         Participated in international, invitational media arts festival featuring experimental sculpture,video,digital art and
         installation.

         Compulsive Expressions, Blackstone River Gallery, Woonsocket, RI
         Participated in exhibition concerned with preoccupation with an idea resulting in an irresistable urge.
         
         Projekt 30, Gallery at www.projekt30.com, Philadephia, PA
         Work featured in an online publicly juried international exhibition of 30 artists.

 2004 *interactive systems, Zone Gallery, Kansas City, MO
         One person exhibition featuring a series of autonomous and interactive drawing devices.

         Draw, Soo Visual Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
         Participated in national juried exhibition featuring artists and works that explore drawing in unique ways.
         
         Sparkfest, Regis Center for Art, Minneapolis, MN
         Participated in invitational national group exhibition featuring performance, music, dance, video & interactive
         installations.

 2003 Art of Machines, RXgallery, Blasthaus, San Francisco, CA
         Participated in invitational, international group exhibition featuring sculptural, interactive, wearable, mechanical
         and robotic works.
         
         ArtBots: the robot talent show, Eyebeam Atelier, New York, NY
         Participated in international annual group exhibition featuring art-making robots curated by Douglas Repetto,          Assistant professor, Columbia University, Computer Music Center.

         *interaction, Paul Whitney Larson Gallery, St Paul, MN 
         One person exhibition featuring a series of kinetic and robotic works dealing with reciprocal activities and          influence.

         systems, Paul Watkins Gallery, Winona State University, Winona, MN
         Three person invitational exhibition featuring systematic relationships within artistic practice.

         Untitled 2, Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
         Participated in national juried group exhibition.

         Visible Fringe, Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
         Participated in invitational group exhibition to benefit the Minneapolis Fringe festival.

 2002 *Recent Works, Greater Lafayette Museum of Art, Lafayette, IN
          One person exhibition featuring cast natural forms articulated by interactive mechanical devices.

         Sculpture Salmagundi VI, Rocky Mount Art Center, Rocky Mount, NC
         Participated in national juried exhibition.

 2001 Indiana Now, Greater Lafayette Museum of Art, Lafayette, IN
         Participated in statewide juired biennial exhibition, received "best in show" award.

 2000 2-3-4 Dimensional, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE
         Participated in national juried exhibition, received "special recognition" for kinetic sculpture.

         Positive/Negative 15, Slocumb Gallery, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 
         Partipated in national exhibition curated by Terrie Sultan, curator of contemporary art, Corcoran Gallery,
         Washington, D.C.

         Salon 2000, Limner Gallery, New York, NY 
         Participated in national invitational salon exhibition.

AWARDS

 2008 Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
         Awarded fellowship and residency for June, July and August 2008

 2007 Joan Mitchell Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
         Awarded full fellowship for four week residency June 2007

            Grant in Aid of Research, Artistry and Scholarship, University of Minnesota
         July 2007 – July 2009

 2006 International Artist Residency, Balatonfured, Hungary
         Selected to participate in a 3 week international artist's residency

 2005 Sculpture Space, Utica, NY
         Awarded fellowship and participated in residency program funded by the New York State Arts Board and the
         National Endowment for the Arts. 

 2004 The Drawing Center Viewing Program, New York, NY 
         Invited to meet with viewing program curators and documentation included in slide registry.

 2003 Kinetic Art Organization, International web-based organization featuring worlds latest database of kinetic works.
         Received second prize for engineering ingenuity.

REVIEWS/PRESS

 2008 Art in America, April 2008 Vol. # 4 Mind and Matter Eleanor Heartney
         review of Brainwave: Common Senses image and text page 69

         we make money not art.com, March 26th 2008 Régine Debatty
         web blog review of Brainwave exhibition

 2007 Sculpture, January/February 2007 Vol. 26 No. 1
         Image of work featured on pages 5 and 54

         Alarm Press, Winter Issue # 25, anomalies exhibition, Buck Austin

         Shepherd Express, January 25th-31st, 2007 Breaking New Ground, Ashley Tibbits review of anomalies          exhibition page 34

 2006 The New Haven Register, May 6, 2006 Thoughtful ALL Exhibit, Judy Birke

         North Haven Courier, May 11, 2006 Two Halves Become On at ALL, Leah Lopez
         Schmalz

 2004 The Pitch, Sept. 9, 2004 Art Capsule Reviews, Theresa Bemnister & Gina Caufmann
         interactive systems, Exhibition recommended by Kansas City critics. 
         
         The Kansas City Star, Sept. 3, 2004. Art Calendar, Cathy Ibarra.

         Review, Sept. 2004, Kansas City, MO, Image from interactive systems featured on pg. 26.

 2003 San Francisco Guardian, Sept. 3, 2003, The Art of Machines, Lindsey Westbrook.
         Work in Art of Machines descibed as "a subtle comment of human group behavior." 

         San Francisco Weekly, Aug. 20, 2003. House of Tudor, Spike Tudor.
         Work in Art of Machines described as "a flock of motors."

         Minneapolis Star Tribune, Aug. 8, 2003. No Name and Soo VAC offer miscellany of talent in summer shows,
         Mary Abbe.

         National Public Radio, July 9, 2003. Future Tense, John Gordon.
         Interview on participation in ArtBots: robot talent show.

         DigitalCity.com New York, July 3, 2003. Image of work from ArtBots:robot talent show featured in Arts &
         Entertainment section.

LECTURES

 2008 Washington University, St. Louis, MO
         Presented work to faculty and students

         Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
         Visiting artist lecture

 2007 Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
         Visiting artist lecture

 2005 California State University Sacramento, Sacramento, CA
         Presented work to faculty and students.

 2004 University of Washington, Seattle, WA
         Presented work to the faculty and students at the DXARTS Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media.

 2003 College of Visual Art, St. Paul, MN
         
Visiting artist talk




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