Greenhill Galleries

Born 1957, Maryborough, Victoria.
1976 RMIT, Diploma of Fine Art (printmaking).
1993 Monash University, Master of Arts (printmaking).
1999 Monash University, Ph.D (Extended Printmaking)

Dean Bowen has developed his own artistic language. Comical and endearing characters grace the surface of the canvas with their distinctly graphic, simple and child-like style, dealing with both the whimsical and the absurd. By drawing upon his imagination, he manipulates the materiality of paint, ink or found objects, bringing to life vibrant works that have a distinctly graphic style. He will often use the face as a theatrical space for the presentation of ideas and symbols, and utilises multiple media types. The prints are usually a combination of etching, aqua-point, and dry point.

While brilliant hues dominate his palette, Dean succeeds in presenting subtleties that are beautifully played out. The combination of luscious colour and endearing, larger-than-life characters, Dean creates playful compositions that are reminiscent of one’s childhood memories. Through altering the scale and the proportions of his subjects, Bowen explores how the passage of time alters and distorts the recollection of our memories, thereby creating a pathway for the viewer to question their own perceptions of past experience.

Bowen is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes both nationally and internationally including: Mainichi and Daikin Prizes at the Osaka Print Triennale, Japan; the coveted Shell Fremantle Print Award; and the Silk Cut Award. The Print Council of Australia, the City of Melbourne, and a number of other associations have commissioned him to produce a variety of artworks. In addition to these, Dean’s colourful and gentle art is a part of over 50 important Australian and International collections.

Artbank
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Atelier Franck Bordas, Paris
Atelier Devreux-Gerbaud, St Christol De Rodieres, France
Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
Australian Securities Commission, Melbourne
Australian War Memorial, Canberra
A-Z Gallery, Tokyo Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
Baillieu Myer Collection
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Benalla Art Gallery
Bendigo Fine Art Gallery
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
Brisbane City Hall Art Gallery, Qld
Castlemaine Art Gallery & Museum
Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford, UK
Channel 10, Sydney
City of Fremantle
City of Logan
City of Melbourne
City of Richmond
City of Whitehorse
Contemporary Art and Culture Centre Osaka
Crown Casino, Melbourne
Cremona Public Museum
Cremona, Italy
Deakin University, Geelong
Deutsche Bank, Geneva, Switzerland
Flexovit Abrasives, Australia
Fukuoka Museum of Art, Japan
Geelong Art Gallery
Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum
Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Grafton Regional Gallery
Hamilton Regional Gallery
ICI
James Hardie Collection State Library of Queensland
Kiriaki Company Ltd, Sapporo, Japan
Mackay City Library, Queensland
Maryborough Community Arts Centre
Melbourne Grammar School
Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne
Monash University, Gippsland Campus
Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre
Muzeum Naradowe, Warsaw, Poland
National Bank of Australia
National Library of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts – Taichung, Taiwan
New England Regional Gallery
Nillumbik Shire Council
OTC Parliament House Collection, Canberra
Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
Print Council of Australia
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Shell, North Fremantle, Western Australia
St George Building Society, Sydney
St Christol De Rodieres, France
Silk Cut Foundation, Sydney
Silpalorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Swan Hill Art Gallery
Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart
Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, Murwillumbah
University of Ballarat
University of Melbourne
University of Southern Queensland
University of Sydney
URDLA Archives, Lyon, France
Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery
Warnambool Art Gallery
World Congress Centre, Melbourne.
Yarra Collection

1995
Review, Nikkei Art (June) 1995
Review, Hanga-Geijutsu (Spring) 1995
The Kyoto Galleries Federation of Arts, Monthly News, No.241, 4, 1995

1994
Fremantle Print Award Announced, Imprint, Spring 1994
The 7.30 report ABC TV, 5 September 1994
Graham, Duncan, 'Taking a punt on the traffic wins award', The Age, 12 September 1994
Banks, Ron, 'Printmaker brings art back to earth', The West Australian, 12 September 1994

1993
Museum of Contemporary Art (Brisbane) Bulletin, August 1993, Issue No.67
Soumilas, Diane. 'Paris', Art Monthly, August 1993
Grahame, Noreen, 'That Big Journey', Imprint, summer, 1993

1991
Palmer, Sheridan, "Transitional Times', Imprint, Spring 1991
Snell, Ted, 'Low-tech Relief for inhuman times', The Australian, 31 August 1991

1990
Bellamy, Louise, 'Bowen presents comic view with the magic of lithography', The Age, 4 April 1990





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2007
Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney

2007
Galerie Miyawaki, Kyoto, Japan

2006
Axia Modern Art, Melbourne

2006
Galerie Miyawaki, Kyoto, Japan

2006
Beaver Galleries, Canberra

2006
Greenhill Galleries, Perth

2005
Galerie Miyawaki, Kyoto

2005
Jan Murphy Gallery, Melbourne

2004
Axia Modern Art, Melbourne

2003
Beaver Galleries, Canberra

2003
Icon Museum of Art, Deakin University, Melbourne

2002
Galerie Miyawaki, Kyoto

2002
Brian Moore Gallery, Sydney

2002
Greenhill Galleries, Perth

2002
Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane

2001
Axia Modern Art, Victoria.

2000
Greenhill Galleries, Perth.

2000
Beaver Galleries, Canberra

2000
Australian Galleries, Sydney

2000
Gallery Miyawaki, Kyoto, Japan

2000
Bunkamura Gallery, Shibya, Tokyo, Japan

2000
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery (Queenstown Series)

1999
Australian Galleries, Melbourne (Bronzes).

1999
Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.

1999
BMG Art, Adelaide

1999
Gallery Miyawaki, Kyoto, Japan

1999
Gallery Fallet, Geneva, Switzerland

1998
Beaver Galleries, Canberra.

1998
Australian Galleries, Melbourne.

1998
Australian Galleries, Sydney.

1998
Gallery Miyawaki, Kyoto, Japan.

1997
Gallery Fallet, Geneva, Switzerland.

1997
Keihan Department Store Gallery, Moriguchi City, Osaka, Japan.

1997
Sogo Department Store Gallery, Toyota City, Japan.

1997
BMG Art, Adelaide.

1997
Grahame Galleries, Brisbane.

1997
Gallery Miyawaki , Kyoto, Japan.

1996
Australian Galleries, Sydney.

1996
Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London.

1996
Gallery Miyawaki, Kyoto, Japan.

1995
Gallery Miyawaki, Kyoto, Japan.

1995
Sogo Department Store Gallery, Toyota City, Japan.

1995
Australian Galleries, Melbourne.

1994
Gallery Australis, Adelaide

1994
Motor Works Gallery, Melbourne Grammar School.

1993
Australian Embassy, Paris.

1993
Gallery Franck and Herve Bordas, Paris.

1993
Grahame Galleries, Brisbane.

1993
Australian Galleries, Melbourne.

1992
Australian Galleries, Melbourne.

1990
Australian Galleries, Melbourne.

1988
Acland Street Art Gallery, St.Kilda.

1983
Exhibition Space, Tattersalls Lane, Melbourne.

1981
Moray St Mural, South Melbourne

1982
Pickles St Mural, Port Melbourne: Tres Bon Restaurant Mural, Fitzroy.
Maryborough Community Arts Centre Mural

1982-3
Therapy Hotels Murals, North Melbourne

1989
Print Council of Australia (Member Print)

1990
ICI Print Commission

1991
Transitional Times, Print Council of Australia (Member Print)

1995
City of Melbourne, Melbourne Town Hall Tapestry.

1999
Small Tapestries Project, Victorian Tapestry Workshop

2007
City of Greater Shepparton, Sculpture Commission, Shepparton Showgrounds

1994
Mainichi Broadcasting System Prize, Osaka Print Triennial, Japan

1997
Daikin Industries Company Prize, Osaka Print Triennial, Japan.

1998
Sponsor's Prize, 4th Sapporo International Print Biennale, Sapporo, Japan.

2002
12th Space International Print Biennial, Seoul, Korea

2003
1st International Print Biennial of Beijing-Tai-he Award, Beijing

2003
Popular Choice Award – The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award – Werribee Park, Victoria

1999
Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery (Acquisitive Sculpture)

1998
Bathurst Art Purchase, Bathurst Regional Gallery (Acquisitive Sculpture)

1997
Boyne Smelters Ltd Award (Sculpture)
Nillumbik Art Award ( Acquisitive) Print and Sculpture)

1996
Silk Cut Award (Acquisitive Print)
Arts 21, International Export and Touring Program Grant
Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Gallery.
Toowoomba Biennale, Toowoomba Regional Gallery (Acquisitive Sculpture)

1995
Murwillmbah Print Prize

1994
Monash University, Graduate Scholarship.
Fremantle Print Award.
Martin Hanson Memorial Art Award works on Paper, Gladstone Regional Gallery.

1992
Australia-France Foundation Grant
Collie Trust Award
Dyason Bequest Grant (Art Gallery of NSW)
City of Logan (Acquisitive Print)
City of Richmond (Acquisitive Print)

1991
Henri Worland Memorial Print Award (Acquisitive Print)

1988, 92, 96
Mornington Peninsula Art Centre (Acquisitive Print)

1978
Maryborough Arts Centre Award

2008
SQUARED, Greenhill Galleries, Perth
The Helen Lempriere Sculture Award and Exhibition, Werribee Park, Victoria

2007
SQUARED, Greenhill Galleries, Perth
Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan
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

2006
SQUARED, Greenhill Galleries, Perth
Montalto Sculpture Prize, Montalto Vineyard, Red Hill
Australian Printmaking, 1960's to present day, Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum
The Artist/The Printmaker, Australian Art Resources, Melbourne
Dusan International Print Fair, Dusan Art Centre, Daegu, Korea
Australian Printmaking, 1960’s to the present day. Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum Passion Printing, Lithographs printed by Fred Genis and Peter Lancaster, Lancaster Press, Melbourne
Montalto Sculpture Prize, Montalto Vineyard, Red Hill

2005
SQUARED, Greenhill Galleries, Perth
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 Emes Recontres de Sculpture, d'Art Contemporain, Les Cinq Continents, Place Napoleon Bonaparte, Fontainebleau, France.
Paquebot Collection de l'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.
10th International Print and Drawing Biennial, Taipei, R.O.C.
Brian Moore Gallery, Sydney, with Tony Chadwick.
International Print Triennial, Kanagawa, Japan.

2000
Fresh Paint, Greenhill Galleries, Perth.
International Print Triennial, Krakow, Poland.
Intergrafica 2000, World Award Winners Gallery, Katowice, Poland
Qingdao International Print Biennial, PR China.
Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
Small Tapestries, Victorian Tapestries Workshop, South Melbourne
Contemporary Linocuts, McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin (touring)

1999
Eclectic Selective, Greenhill Galleries, Perth.
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, Heide.

1998
Lithographies Contemporaines - bicentenaire de la lithographie, Galleries Helene de Roquefeuil, Paris.
4th Sapporo International Print Biennale, Sapporo, Japan.
A Decade of Contemporary Australian Printmaking, Metropolitan Museum of Seoul
Kanagawa International Print Biennale, Japan
Graphic Constellation Cultural City Network, Graz., Austria
International Triennial '97 Cracow-Nuemberg Fair Centre,
Nuemberg, 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 Triennial, Mydome Osaka, Osaka, Japan.
Alice Prize, Alice Springs.
'The Sea', Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart.

1996
Anthology 1978-1996 Atelier URDLA, Lyn, France.
Art 1996, The London Contemporary Art Fair.
SAGA Print Fair, Paris
Europe' Art, Geneva International Art Fair, Switzerland.
Imagining the real, recent acquisitions, Parliament House Collection, Canberra.
Artists' Books and Multiples Fair 1996, Brisbane.
Silk Cut Acquisitive Award, RMIT Gallery Storey Hall, Melbourne.
11th International Grafik - Triennial Frechen 1996, Germany.
UWS Macarthur National Print Media Acquisitive, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre NSW.
Toowoomba Biennial Acquisitive, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Queensland.
Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW.
Gold Coast City Conrad Juniters Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland.
Alice Prize, Alice Springs.
4th London Artists' Book Fair, Concourse Gallery, Barbican Centre, London.
Mornington Regional Gallery, 12th Biennial Prints.
2nd Egyptian International Print Triennial, Cairo, Egypt

1995
Contemporary Printmakers, La Trobe Regional Gallery, Morwell
Art of Reproduction, Plimsoll Gallery
University of Tasmania, Hobart.
From silk screen to computer screen. 20 Years of the Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle (touring).
2nd Artist Book International, The Waldorf Astoria Towers, New York.

1994
Alice Prize, Alice Springs.
Osaka Print Triennial 1994, Mydome Osaka, Osaka Japan.
SAGA Print Fair Paris.
International Triennial of Graphic Art, Bitola, Macedonia.

1993
SAGA Print Fair, Paris.
Gallery 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 Exh. Warnambool Art Gallery.

1991
SAGA Print Fair, Paris.
Henri Worland Memorial Print Award, Warnambool 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)
(Une annee d'editions) URDLA, 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, Japan.