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List of Exhibitions

2019

• Cult of Meow, Gristle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
• Sacramento Superheroes, Archival Gallery, Sacramento, CA
• El Final DE Una Era, Wonderland Sf, San Francisco, CA
• Selfish, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Wonderkin, WoWxWoW.com
• 5, Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
• Pareidolia, Antler Gallery, Portland, OR
• Microvisions 2, WoWxWoW.com
• Kaleidoscope, Gristle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
• Brink, Antler Gallery, Portland, OR
• SubVersions, Arc Studios and Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2018

• 12×12, The Stockroom Gallery, Melbourne, AU
• Quintessential, Luna Rienne Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Best Friends Painted Pets, Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
• Small Wonders 7,  Arch Enemy Arts, Philadelphia, PA
• Something Wicked, Revolution Gallery, Buffalo NY
• The Art of the Mushroom, The Compound Gallery, Oakland, CA
• Cognitive Dissonance,  Fe Gallery, Sacramento, CA
• The Void, Arch Enemy Arts, Philadelphia, PA
• Beyond  the Untold, WoWxWoW.com
• 25th Anniversary Show,  111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Blasphemous Nature, Solo Show, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• 2018 Art Auction, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
• Affordable Art Series 6, Luna Rienne Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• 10 Years in Wonderland, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Wow Squared II, WoWxWoW.com
• 12×12, Spoke Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Animation Reimagined, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Things You Shouldn’t Put in Your Mouth, Fe Gallery Sacramento, CA

2017

• Tales of the City, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Discolandia, Wonderland SF, San Francisco, CA
• Crazy 4 Cult, Gallery 1988, Los Angeles, CA
• Familiar, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Fruition, Artists Republic Gallery, Anaheim, CA
• Tekeli-Li, Faultline Artspace, Oakland, CA
• Loved to Death, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Visions Collide, Luna Rienne Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Heavy Metal 40th Anniversary Show, Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
• Trump L’oeil, Archival Gallery, Sacramento, CA
• Simply Frida, Wonderland Sf, San Francisco, CA
• Sweet ‘n Low, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
• Lightning Bolts & Little Sparks, WoWxWoW.com
• Tondo, Spoke Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• King, Gallery 1988, Los Angeles, CA
• Fauna-Anomaly, Fe Gallery, Sacramento, CA
• March Forth!, Luna Rienne Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2016

• Best Friends Painted Pets, Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
• Wanderlust, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Holiday Art Show, Wonderland Sf, San Francisco, CA
• Affordable Art Series 5, Luna Rienne Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, The Midway Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• The Pterodactyl Show, K-One, San Francisco, CA
• Unnatural Histories V, Antler Gallery, Portland, OR
• Simply Frida, Wonderland SF, San Francisco, CA
• 2nd Annual Ema Show, Curated by Hellion Gallery, Galerie Artistik Rezo, Paris, France
• Any Given Book, White Noise Gallery, Rome, Italy
• Portraits of Friends, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Ledgendary: Celebrating 30 Years of Lords Crew, 1AM Gallery, San Fransico, CA
• Lord of the Thrones, Spoke Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Fauna-Anomaly, Fe Gallery, Sacramento, CA
• 2nd Annual Ema Show, Hellion Gallery, Portland, OR
• Imanginary Menageie, Arch Enemy Arts, Philadelphia, PA
• The End is Near, 1AM Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Lower Branch Six Year Anniversary, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Legends, Oakland Terminal Gallery, Oakland, CA
• 2nd Annual Ema Show, Curated by Hellion Gallery, Hatos Bar, Tokyo, Japan
• Opiates for the Masses, Helikon Gallery/Curated by Sally Centigrade, Denver, CO
• 5th Annual Supersonic Invitational, Spoke Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2015

• Brooklyn Biennial, The Cotton Candy Machine, Brooklyn, NY
• Guns and Dolls, Archival Gallery, Sacramento, CA
• Art Awakens, Gallery 1988, Los Angeles, CA
• On the Tilt, Wonderland SF, San Francisco, CA
• 2nd Annual New Comtemporary Group Show, Baker Hesseldenz Fine Art, Tucson, AZ
• The Artists Arcana III, Archival Gallery, Sacramento, CA
• Lexicon Infernali, Stephen Romano Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
• Zerofriends Show, Upper Playground, Portland, OR
• Superhero, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Small Works Invitational, Baker Hesseldenz Fine Art, Tucson, AZ
• Storybook, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Fauna-Anomaly, Fe Gallery, Sacramento, CA
• Seven, Phone Booth Gallery, Long Beach, CA
• 3rd Annual 12×12 Exhibit, Gauntlet Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Adrift, Marcas Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
• 2, Good Mother Gallery, Oakland, CA
• 4th Annual Supersonic Invitational, Spoke Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• 1:am Revolution, 1AM Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2014

• Two Year Anniversary Group Show, Gauntlet Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Abundantia Cornu Copiae, Stephen Romano Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
• Postmodern Extinction, James Kaneko Gallery, Sacramento, CA
• Bad Dads 5, Spoke Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Honey I Shrunk the Streets, 1AM Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Le Chat Noir, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• The Brave Ones, Flower Pepper Gallery, Pasadena, CA
• Blasphemous Nature, Upper Playground, Portland, OR
• Contemporary Contemporary, Gauntlet Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Dark Matters, Bash Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
• 4 Year Anniverasery, Wonderland SF, San Francisco, CA
• Universe:The Art of Existence, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Less is More, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• CA 12×12, Gauntlet Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Nostalgia, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2013

• Sex, Drugs, Money & Guns, Gauntlet Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Authoring Evolution, Loakal Gallery, Oakland, CA
• Smile You Son of a Bitch: Jaws Tribute, Hero Complex Galley, Los Angeles, CA
• The Moleskine Project 3, Spoke Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Natural Disasters, Lower Branch Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Letter Heads, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Made In China, Ian Ross Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Canvas Collection, Gauntlet Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Bad Dads 4, Spoke Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• ZeroFriends, The Cotton Candy Machine, Brooklyn, NY
• Drawn To You, Wonderland SF, San Francisco, CA
• LiL Bub Show, Spoke Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• The Exhibition,Wilmore 9 Music Festival, Long Beach, CA
• August Printastic Group Show, Bash Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
• Boxes of Death, Gauntlet Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• 9 Minds, Lower Branch Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Draw Show, 63 Bluxome Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• 30 Artists, 30 Years, Archival Framing and Gallery, Sacramento, CA
• Fiction, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Gag Me With a Toon 5, WWA Gallery, Culver City, CA
• The Fantastic 50, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Metamorphosis: Liminal Beings & Legendary Creatures, Gristle Tattoo, Brooklyn, NY
• The Slippery Slope, Fe Gallery, Sacramento, CA
• Visions and Reflections, Gauntlet Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• DECADE-1, Varnish Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
• Game on, 1am Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Eye Candy, WWA Gallery, Culver City, CA
• I Believe in Unicorns Too, WWA Gallery Culver City, CA
• Charros VS. Luchadores, Wonderland SF, San Francisco, CA
• Juxtaposse/Winter Group Show, Driftwood Art Salon, San Francisco, CA
• Scumdance, Blonde Grizzly Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT

2012

• Unnatural Selection, Zerofriends, Oakland, CA
• Des Contes De Grimm, Galerie L’Art de Rien, Paris, France
• Bad Dads 3, Spoke Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Universal Monsters, Mondo Gallery, Austin, TX
• Reckoning, 1AM Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Heavy Hitters, Ann Lloyd Gallery, Decatur, Il
  
• Lethal Injection, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Pangea Seed’s Great West Coast Migration Tour, Spoke Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Tiny Trifecta, Cotton Candy Machine, Brooklyn, NY
• Full Spectrum, 63 Bluxome St. Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Botanica, Genome Gallery, Charlotte, NC
• Heavy Hitters, Mad Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO
• Room 46/Project One Gallery, ArtPadSF, Phoenix Hotel, San Francisco, CA
• Notorious, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Marvelous Humans, Articulated Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Wasted, WWA Gallery, Culver City, CA
• Ceci n’est pas une Galerie, Project One Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Sweeping of Giants, Old Crow, Oakland, CA
• Hide Your Wife, Hide Your Children, Hosted by The Bold Italic, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA
• The Have and Have Not Group Show, Varnish Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
• Gag Me With a Toon 4, WWA Gallery, Culver City, CA
• Beyond Reality, Temporary Contemporary, Sacramento, CA
• Menagerie, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2011

• The Print show, 1AM Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Monster Show, Project One Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Genus, Species, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Bad Dads II, Spoke Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• I Want My Music Video Show, Meltdown Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• Quentin VS. Coen: Round Three, Spoke Art Gallery-Beyond Eden Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
• Varnish ReLaunch Part I, Varnish Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
• Candy Coated, New works by Robert Bowen, Lopo Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Willie & Snoop, R&R Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• Pieces of Eden, Modern Eden, San Francisco, CA
• Quentin VS. Coen: Round Two, Spoke Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Paper View, Cotton Candy Machine, Brooklyn, NY
• Big Trouble In Little China, Dragatomi, Sacramento, CA
• RAW, The Uptown, Oakland, CA
• Tiny Trifecta, Cotton Candy Machine, Brooklyn, NY
• Lords Vs. CoBraS, Project One Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Brightness, Grass Hut, Portland, OR
• Warhol Reimagined, Project One Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Menagerie, Modern Eden, San Francisco, CA
• Gag Me With a Toon 3, Meltdown Comics, Los Angeles, CA
• Inle, Gallery 1988, Los Angeles, CA
• Old Wine, New Bottle, Archival Framing and Gallery, Sacramento, CA
• Stand Tall 2, Old Crow, Oakland, CA
• Magic Fucking Kingdom, MF Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2010

• PRINT, First Amendment Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Living With Fur, A Bitchin’ Space, Sacramento, CA
• Classic Monsters, Blonde Grizzly, Salt Lake City, UT
• Truisms, a tribute to Jenny Holzer, Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Minimart, Upper Playground, Mexico City, MX
• Bad Dads, Lopo Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Mr. Bill Murray, R&R Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• Dance Magic Dance, R&R Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• RAW, The Uptown, Oakland, CA
• Beyond The Frame, Solomon Dubnick Gallery, Sacramento, CA
• Magnanimous, Old Crow, Oakland, CA
• Surreal Salon, Baton Rouge Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
• Best Friends Forever, R&R Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2009

• Friends Stoning Friends, Jinxed, Philadelphia, PA
• Heavy Hitterz, Art Whino, National Harbor, MD
• The End is Near…, Babylon Falling, San Francisco, CA

2008

• Solo Exhibit, Element Lounge, San Francisco, CA
• Problem Child, solo exhibit, Archival Framing, Sacramento, CA
• Crom, Varnish Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
• American Gladiators, Lower Haters Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Art of the Cycle, Archival Framing, Sacramento, CA
• Night of the Treeple, Club 6, San Francisco, CA

2007

• Six Demon Bag, solo exhibit, Babylon Falling, San Francisco, CA
• Ghouls and Girls, Toyroom Gallery, Sacramento, CA
• People Who Hate People…That Paint People, ArtSF, San Francisco, CA
• Underdogs, Perihelion Arts Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
• Collabro, The Showroom, New York, NY
• Art of the Cycle, Archival Framing, Sacramento, CA
• Underdogs, Toyroom Gallery, Sacramento,CA
• Don’t Say Motherfucker, Motherfucker!, MF Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2006

• Collabro, Subject Matter, Costa Mesa, CA
• Exquisite Corpse, Toyroom Gallery, Sacramento, CA
• Art of the Cycle, Archival Framing, Sacramento, CA
• Uplifting Vengeance Tour, Rx Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Triclops: A Three-Eyed Exhibit of the Absurd, Toyroom Gallery, Sacramento, CA
• Collabro, Anno Domini Gallery, San Jose, CA

2005

• Drippin’ With Sin, Toyroom Gallery, Sacramento, CA
• Eye Candy Sideshow, James, Keneko Gallery, American River College, Sacramento, CA
• Worst Case Scenario, 111 Minna, San Francisco, CA
• Juxtapoz Presents: Eye of the Illuminati, CoproNason at Track 16 Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
• Art Auction, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
• Drawn and Quartered, Subject Matter, Costa Mesa, CA
• Yoohoo and Donuts, Varnish Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
• Crocker Kingsley, Juried Exhibition, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
• Cannibal Flower, CoproNason Gallery, Culver City, CA

2004

• Small Treasures, Tower Framing and Design Gallery, Sacramento, CA
• Anxiety and the Moral Misery, solo exhibit, Tower Gallery, Sacramento, CA
• Galerie Macabre, Tower Framing and Design Gallery, Sacramento, CA
• Two-person show, Rosemary’s Billy Goat  Odditorium, Silverlake, CA
• Art of the Cycle, Archival Framing, Sacramento, CA
• Monsters, Blue Space, Los Angeles, CA
• Art Throb, Blue Space, Los Angeles, CA
• Think Stains, N.A.C. Gallery, Portland OR
• 50 Caliber, Tower Framing and Design Gallery, Sacramento CA
• Tattoo Art Show, Toyroom Gallery, Sacramento CA
• The Erotic Arts Festival, Passive Arts, Los Angeles, CA
• Cold School, Las Vegas, NV
• Gang Bang, Balazo Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Table for One, Tower Framing and Design Gallery, Sacramento, CA
• Cowtown, Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA
• Raised in the Circus, Toyroom Gallery, Sacramento, CA

2003

• Through the Looking Glass, Tower Framing and Design Gallery, Sacramento, CA
• Monster Toy Closet, Evangeline’s, Sacramento, CA
• Theory of Revolution, Katherine Gianacles Park for the Arts, Las Vegas, NV
• Union Made, San Francisco, CA
• Stroke and Follow Through, Hilltop Tavern and Pool Hall, Sacramento, CA
• The Artists Arcana, Tower Framing and Design Gallery, Sacramento, CA
• Sci-Fi Western, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• What to See in 2003, Solomon Dubnick Gallery, Sacramento, CA

2002

• Union Made, Balazo Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Pink Ink., Tower Framing and Design Gallery, Sacramento, CA
• The Fine Art of Framing, Tower Framing and Design Gallery, Sacramento, CA

2001

• Wet Paint, The Creamery Gallery, Oakland, CA
• Solo Exhibit, Faux Gallery, Campbell, CA
• Blobby: New Angular-Free Works by Robert Bowen and Karen Salinger, Build Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2000

• Urban Frontier: An Eclectic Journey Through the Aerosol Art Movement, Merced Multicultural Art Center, Merced, CA

1999

• Nothing to do with Hip-Hop, Anger Management Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1998

• Academy of Art Sutter Street Gallery Window, San Francisco, CA
• Academy of Art Spring Show, San Francisco, CA

1997

• Piece Makers, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA

Selected Articles and books

• Spoke Art, Bad Dads, Abrams Books 2016, p. 215-219
• The Opiate, Cover, vol. 6, Summer, 2016
• de Salvo, J (Compiler), The Bicycle Review, Pedestrian Press 2016
• Caddel, Jinxi (Writer and Curator), Virtuosos of Paint, Out Of Step Books 2015, p. 59
• Beauliea, David. “Artist Robert Bowen.” Belle SF, Issue #5, August 2015.
• The Opiate, Cover, vol. 2, Summer, 2015
• Tim. McLean, Over Stepping Our Boundaries-Artist Interview, WOWxWOW.com, February 2015
• Simon Lundh, Robert Bowen- His (UN)Natural Art, Rise Tattoo Magazine, June 2014
• Simon Lundh, War Machnes, Skin Deep Tattoo Magazine, December 2013
• 10 page feature, Juxtapoz Magazine, August 2012
• Artist Profile, Juxtapoz Magazine, January 2011
• Adam Saake, Brightly Colored Darkness, Submerge Magazine, Sacramento, CA. May 2010
• Chris McCreary, An Interview With Robert Bowen, HI-Fructose.com, May 2010
• Sean Stewart, “Studio Visit #2.” Juxtapoz.com, March 2010
• Hunt, Aaron. “Robert Bowen – Interview.” Thefourohfive.com, January 2009.
• Goldman, Jessica. “Young at Art.” Sacramento Magazine, Sacramento, CA. March 2008.
• Interview, Refused Magazine, Issue one, 2005
• White, Tim. “Three-Ring Something.” Sacramento News & Review, Sacramento, CA. January 15, 2004.
• White, Tim. “In With the New.” Sacramento News & Review, Sacramento, CA. January 16, 2003