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Frank Bowling was born in British Guyana, and has had a long and distinguished career as a painter in both the US and the UK. This has been dully recognized by his election to the Royal Academy of Arts, London in 2005, marking the first time that a Black British artist has been chosen for this role in the academy’s two hundred year history. Bowling is perhaps best known for his highly coloured, textural, and often large scale abstract acrylic paintings. Frank Bowling’s work has been shown in many prestigious public institutions such as a solo show at the Royal Academy in 2006, an exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery an the Whitney Museum of modern Art New York and Bowling’s work is included in many important public and private collections such as Tate (London) and Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York). In 2008 Frank Bowling’s latest works will be exhibited at ROLLO Contemporary Art and his epic scaled work from the 80s will travel in an exhibition at the Arts Institute in Bournemouth (as part of the Text and Work programme) and move to Wolverhampton, showing some enourmous canvases which have never been exhibited before.

See Frank Bowling’s website for an archive of his work.