SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Painting the Roses Red, CAM Raleigh, Raleigh, North Carolina
2016 Power, Gallery Poulsen Copenhagen, Denmark
2015 Power, Driscoll Babcock Galleries, New York, New York
2014 They Say It’s Wonderful, Alan Avery Art Company, Atlanta, Georgia
2014 Margaret Bowland, curated by Laura Marsh, University of New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut
2013 Disturbing the Peace, Driscoll Babcock Galleries, New York, New York
2011 Excerpts from the Great American Songbook, Babcock Galleries, New York, NY
2011 Excerpts from the Great American Songbook, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina
2010 Color, Thomas Paul Fine Art, Los Angeles, California
2010 Margaret Bowland New Paintings, Amy Morton Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2009 Introducing Margaret Bowland, Klaudia Marr Gallery, Sante Fe, New Mexico
2009 Margaret Bowland New Paintings, Strychnine Gallery, Berlin, Germany
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 The Dust on Butterflies’ Wings, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
2017 the girl next door, RJD Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York
2017 NO BOUNDARIES, RJD Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York
2017 Women Painting Women: A Voice with Vision, RJD Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York
2016 Truth and Vision, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware
2016 Excerpts from Behind the Easel, Somerville Manning Gallery, Wilmington, Delaware
2016 Poulsen’s Fifteen: “New Art from New York part VII”, Gallery Poulsen Copenhagen, Denmark
2016 Now and Then, Drawings from the 18th Century to the Present, Dalgleish Collection, New York Academy of Art Gallery, New York, New York
2014 Freedom, Greeneville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina
2013 Corpus Americus, Driscoll Babcock Galleries, New York, New York
2013 Contained Conflict, Driscoll Babcock Galleries, New York, New York
2012 This is How We Do it, Driscoll Babcock Galleries, New York, New York
2012 Face to Face, Driscoll Babcock Galleries, New York, New York
2011 New York Academy Artistson St. Barts, St. Barts
2010 Art Now, Curated by John Wellington, New York, New York
2010 Revisiting Beauty, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Anna, California
2010 New Realists, Lions Weir Gallery, New York, New York
2009 I Dream Awake, PopUp Project Exhibition, Washington, D.C.
2009 New Realists, 101 Gallery, Miami, Florida
2009 24 Square, Thomas Paul Fine Art, Los Angeles, California
2008 15th Annual Realism Invitational, Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1985 Gallery Artists, Tatistcheff Gallry, New York, New York
1984 Promising Emerging Realists, Tatistcheff Gallery New, York, New York
1984 Summer Show, Tatistcheff Gallry, New York, New York
ART FAIRS
2018 Painting the Figure Now, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wausau, Wisconsin
2018 Reclamation, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, Vermont
2017 Beauty and the Beast, New York Academy of Art, New York, New York
2016 Herning Art Fair, Herning, Denmark
2014 Miami Basel Scope, Driscoll Babcock Gallery, Miami, Florida
2014 The Armory Show, Modern, Driscoll Babcock, New York, New York
2013 Miami Basel Miami Projects, Driscoll Babcock Gallery, Miami Florida
2013 The Armory Show, Modern, Driscoll Babcock Gallery, New York, New York
2013 Freedom, Greenville County, South Carolina
2012 San Francisco Art Fair, Driscoll Babcock, San Fransisco, California
2012 Houston Art Fair, Driscoll Babcock, Houston, Texas
2012 The Armory Show, Modern, Driscoll Babcock, New York, New York
2011 Houston Art Fair, Driscoll Babcock, Houston, Texas
2011 The Armory Show, Modern, Driscoll Babcock, New York, New York
2010 Art BaselScope, Strychnine Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2009 Art Fair 21, Cologne, Germany, Yasha Young, Independent Curator
AWARDS
2014 Awarded the Florence Gaskins Harper Chair in Art Education at the Maryland Institute and College of the Arts
2010 Finalist and People’s Choice Award Winner for the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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2015 “Beauty in a Whirlpool: Margaret Bowland and Her Models,” John Seed Huffington Post, Dec.6
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