Ty Bowman is a photographer, interactive video artist, sculptor and printmaker living in Los Angeles, California. His interactive video applications are produced with photographs, digital prints, serigraphs and software and hardware he develops himself. He served as an Artist-in-Residence at the Grand Canyon National Park in September, 2014. His photographs from that body of work, sometimes labeled as “experimental”, can be described as intentional abstractions of the natural beauty of the canyon. Works from the Grand Canyon came out of his foreign travels and earlier work with nudes using the same technique. From 1991 to 1996 Bowman exhibited large scale outdoor sculpture at La Quinta Sculpture Park in California and the College of Santa Fe in 1991. Bowman first came to Taos in the summer of 1981 on a fellowship from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico. During that summer he produced large format black and white pinhole photographs of Northern New Mexico landscapes.
Exhibitions
2019 Residency, Budapest Art Factory, Hungary
2018 Open Studios exhibition, Long Beach, CA
2017 Open Studios exhibition, Long Beach, CA
2014 Artist-in-Residence, Grand Canyon National Park, AZ.; Lecture & Exhibition, Aquarium of the Pacific, Long Beach CA
2012 TAG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004 Group exhibitions: Sulkin Secant Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1996 La Quinta Sculpture Park, La Quinta, CA
1995 College of Santa Fe Sculpture Project, New Mexico. Northlight Gallery, Los Angeles. Desmond Gallery, Los Angeles. La Quinta Sculpture Park, La Quinta, CA
1994 South Bay Contemporary Museum, Torrance, CA. DADA: Group Exhibition, Los Angeles. Fine Art at Factory Place: Group Exhibition, Los Angeles. Tower Gallery, Van Nuys, CA. City Design, Los Angeles. La Quinta Sculpture Park, La Quinta, CA
1993 La Quinta Sculpture Park, La Quinta, CA. DADA: Group Exhibition, Los Angeles
1992 College of Santa Fe Sculpture Project, New Mexico
1991 College of Santa Fe Sculpture Project, New Mexico. Ten Artists, Group Exhibition, Burbank, CA. Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Open Studios Tour
1990 Gallery of Functional Art, Santa Monica. CA. Minus Zero Gallery, Torrance, CA. Photo Art Gallery, Burbank, CA. Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Open Studios Tour
1989 Downey Museum of Art, CA. Le Cafe, Sherman Oaks, CA
1988 Richard Bennet Gallery, Hollywood, CA
1987 Marina Fine Arts, Marina Del Rey, CA
1986 D-Art Visual Art Center, Dallas, Texas. Heart of America National Print Exhibition: University of Missouri, Columbia
1985 Solo Exhibition: North Texas State University. Best of Show, Purchase Awards, North Texas State University Art Gallery, Denton. Permanent Collection: North Texas State University, Denton. Voertman Collection: Denton, Texas. Air Gallery, Austin, Texas. 28th Annual Delta Art Exhibition: Little Rock, Arkansas. 25th Anniversary Own Your Own Art Exhibit: Pueblo, Colorado
1984 Galeria Sigala, Taos, New Mexico. Austin Citation Exhibition, Austin, Texas
1983 Fifth Annual Austin Contemporary Art Exhibition, Austin, TX. Galeria Sigala, Taos, New Mexico. Del Rio Art Center, Del Rio, Texas
1982 Solo Exhibition, Bois D'arc Gallery, Austin, Texas. First Place Award, Texas As Art, Bastrop, Texas. Galeria Sigala, Taos, New Mexico. Gallery 104, Austin, Texas
1981 Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Fellowship, Taos, New Mexico. First and Second Place Awards, Barton Creek Square Mall Exhibition, Austin, Texas. Associated Press Photography Awards: Spot News and Sports, Temple, Texas
1979 Austin Book of Days: Austin, Texas
1976 Purchase Awards, University Art Auction, Austin, Texas
Education
Graphic Design/Multimedia - UCLA Extension
Master of Fine Arts - North Texas State University, Denton
Bachelor of Fine Arts - University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Journalism - University of Texas at Austin
