NATASHA BOWDOIN
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EDUCATION
2007 MFA, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA and Rome, Italy (Honors)
2005 Post Baccalaureate Certificate, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
2003 BA, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Double major in Painting and Classics
2002 Undergraduate Affiliate Study Program, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, England
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Maneater, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
2017 The Honey and the root, The Bascom Center for Contemporary Arts, The Highlands, NC
2017 Lunar Spring, The Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Richmond, VA
Curated by Melissa Messina, (catalogue)
2016 Animal Print, Monya Rowe Gallery, St. Augustine, FL
2016 Spelboken, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX
2016 H E X A M, The Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX
2015 Bloom, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
2015 H E X ∆ M, The Old Jail Art Center, Albany, TX
2014 Glyph, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY
2013 In the garden, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX
2013 thornappleflower, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM
2012 Jungle Book, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Implausible Tiger, Bryan Miller Gallery, Houston, TX
2011 The Daisy Argument, Visual Arts Center, University of Austin, TX
2009 PULSE Miami, Solo Presentation, Bryan Miller Gallery, Miami, FL
2008 Panta Rei, Extraspazio Gallery, Rome, Italy
2013 Animal House, Cargo Space at the Hardesty Arts Center, Tulsa, OK (catalogue)
2013 Inaugural Group Exhibition at 34 Orchard Street, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Paper Art, CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands (catalogue)
2012 This is how my brain works, Radiator Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2012 Paperless, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston- Salem, NC (catalogue)
2011 Portland Museum of Art Biennial, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME (catalogue)
2011 Aggetti - progettazioni - proiezioni - prominenze - protuberanze - sporgenze, Extraspazio Gallery, Rome, Italy
2010 Girls Just Want to Have Funds (organized by the Rema Hort Mann Foundation), PPOW Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Art on paper 2010: The 41st Exhibition, Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC
2010 A Torrent of Words: Contemporary Art and Language, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI (catalogue)
2010 Core Exhibition, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX (catalogue)
2010 Project Space: New Works by Natasha Bowdoin and Heimir Bjorgulfsson, Bryan Miller Gallery, Houston, TX
2009 Toil and Trouble, Bryan Miller Gallery, Houston, TX
2009 Core Exhibition, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX (catalogue)
2009 Rich Text, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2008 Paper[space], The Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
2008 2007 Joan Mitchell MFA Grant Recipient Show, The Cue Art Foundation, New York, NY (catalogue)
2008 Myths and Fables: Alexander DeMaria and Natasha Bowdoin, Julie Chae Gallery, Boston, MA
2007 The Fluid Field: Abstraction and Reference, Tyler Gallery, Elkins Park, PA, Curated by Dona Nelson (catalogue)
2007 VOXXOXO, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Curated by Kirby Gookin and Sheryl Conkleton
2006 Seven in a box, Temple Gallery, Rome, Italy, Curated by Cecilia Canziani
2006 Works on Paper, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA, Curated by Cornelia Butler
GRANTS/AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2014-2015 Arts Initiative Grant to organize Sumi Ink Club exhibtion, Rice University, Houston, TX
2012-2013 Artist in Residence, Roswell Artist Residency Program, Roswell, NM
2012 Artist in Residence, The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2011 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award Nominee, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, New York, NY
2008-2010 Artist in Residence, The Core Program, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX
2007 MFA Grant Recipient, The Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2016 John Zotos, "Critics Picks," Art ltd., March/April 2016 v. 10 no. 2.
2015 Brook Mason, "Life by 1,000 cuts: Natasha Bowdoin's work on view at the SCAD Museum of Art, GA," Wallpaper*, June 29, 2015.
2015 Adrienne Johnson, "Q and A with Natasha Bowdoin," Lets talk art blog: http://www.kinzelmanart.com/blog/tag/installation/, June 23, 2015.
2014 Angela Fraleigh, "Five Questions with Natasha Bowdoin," www.angelafraleigh.com/blog, July 2014.
2014 Will Heinrich, "Natasha Bowdoin: Glyph' at Monya Rowe Gallery," Gallerist NY and The New York Observer, February 24, 2014.
2014 "The Lookout: A Weekly Guide to Shows You Won't Want to Miss," Editors, Art in America, January 23, 2014.
2013 Andy Amato," In the garden" at Talley Dunn Gallery, Arts+Culture Texas, August 29,2013.
2012 David M. Lubin, Reviews, "paperless at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art," Artforum, October 2012.
2012 Kevin Kinsella, "Randomly Determined," BOMBLOG, September 26, 2012.
2012 "Natasha Bowdoin's 'Jungle Book' Roars at Monya Rowe Gallery," Editors, The Huffington Post, February 29, 2012.
2012 Jarrett Moran, "Transcribing the Body Electric," Artlog, January 19, 2012.
2011 Papercraft 2: Design and Art with Paper, Edited by Robert Klanten and Birga Meyer, Berlin: Gestalten Publishing, 2011.
2011 Sebastian Smee, "Biennial Hits and misses," The Boston Globe, May 2011.
2011 Rebecca Wadlinger, "Natasha Bowdoin, CTRL Gallery, Exhibition Review," Art Lies, Spring/Summer 2011.
2011 Wendy Vogel, "From the Editor," Might be good e-journal, February 18, 2011.
2011 Wendy Vogel, "Artist Interview: Natasha Bowdoin," …Might be good e- journal, February 18, 2011.
2011 Gabino Iglesias, "Following the White Rabbit," UWeekly Austin, February 16, 2011.
2011 Robert Faires, "Natasha Bowdoin: The Daisy Argument; A work that takes Lewis Carroll's texts undersea and lets us drown in words," The Austin Chronicle, February 4, 2011.
2011 Douglas Britt, "A Literary Vision: The Tale of the Tiger," The Houston Chronicle, January 28, 2011.
2009 Douglas Britt, "CTRL Gallery hosts Toil and Trouble," The Houston Chronicle, August 1, 2009.
2009 Troy Schulze, "Toil and Trouble," Houston Press, July 7, 2009.
2009 Stacey Holzer, "Redefining Language,"
www.visualseen.intuiwebsites.com, March 2009.
2008 Gregory Amenoff, "The 2007 Joan Mitchell MFA Grant Recipient Show," exhibition catalogue essay, 2008.
2008 Libby Rosof, "Slice, dice, and fold - Art Alliance, Pageant and Fleisher/Ollman," Fallonandrosof.blogspot.com/2008/07/slice-dice-and- fold-alliance.html, July 2008.
2007 Dona Nelson, "The Fluid Field: Abstraction and Reference," exhibition catalogue essay, October 2007.
TEACHING
2013-Present Assistant Professor, Painting and Drawing, Rice University
Houston, TX
OTHER PROJECTS
2015 Organized symposium "On Drawing" at Rice University, March 20, 2015.
"On Drawing" was conceived to examine questions around what defines drawing today, where are its boundaries and what continues to make the field compelling. Claire Gilman, Curator at The Drawing Center in New York; Michelle White, Curator at the Menil Collection; and Los Angeles-based artist Robyn O'Neil were invited to discuss drawing through their own experience. A panel discussion followed each speaker's presentation.
2015 Organized Sumi Ink Club public drawing project at Rice University. With the support of an Arts Initiative Fund University Grant, the founders of Sumi Ink Club, Sarah Rara and Luke Fischbeck were invited to host three open to the public drawing sessions in the Rice Media Center, creating an improvisational drawing directly on the walls of the gallery space with community participants.
Sumi Ink Club is a participatory drawing project established in 2005. The club produces work cooperatively in open-to-the-public meetings, which can be organized by anyone at any time. In each of its permutations, Sumi Ink Club uses group drawing as a means to open and fortify social interactions that bleed into everyday life.
https://youtu.be/3EdZ-dq3sm8
http://sumiinkclub.com/
2015 Participation in "Fossilized in Houston," a partnership between Houston based artists and environmentalists to raise awareness on the consequences of climate change. Artists were asked to create and contribute images (drawings, painting, collages) of species endangered by climate change. These images in turn will be used for a guerilla art campaign of hundreds of lawn signs, thousands of posters and stickers installed throughout Houston to help bring these facts to light.
http://fossilizedhouston.com/about.html
2012 Participation in The Intersections Project running a workshop entitled "Illuminated Manuscripts" with students at the John F. Kennedy High School, Winston-Salem, NC, October 2012.
For this project Bowdoin worked with students in James Allred’s Art and Brittany Payne’s and Kerri Chewning's English classes to help students imagine how text might be a catalyst for art making.
The Intersections Project is an ongoing collaborative initiative launched by the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, the Winston- Salem/Forsyth County Schools, and the Arts Council of Winston- Salem/Forsyth County. In a unique partnership, visiting artists and classroom educators work together to develop arts integrated lesson plans and residencies for classroom applications.
http://bit.ly/S1bHAi
SELECTED LECTURES AND VISITS
2016 Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
2015 Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
2014 Rice Art Gallery, Houston, TX
2013 Hardesty Art Center, Tulsa, OK
2013 Santa Fe University of Art and Design, Santa Fe, NM
2013 Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM
2012 The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2012 The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art,
Winston-Salem, NC
2009 Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
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EDUCATION
2007 MFA, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA and Rome, Italy (Honors)
2005 Post Baccalaureate Certificate, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
2003 BA, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Double major in Painting and Classics
2002 Undergraduate Affiliate Study Program, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, England
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Maneater, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
2017 The Honey and the root, The Bascom Center for Contemporary Arts, The Highlands, NC
2017 Lunar Spring, The Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Richmond, VA
Curated by Melissa Messina, (catalogue)
2016 Animal Print, Monya Rowe Gallery, St. Augustine, FL
2016 Spelboken, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX
2016 H E X A M, The Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX
2015 Bloom, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
2015 H E X ∆ M, The Old Jail Art Center, Albany, TX
2014 Glyph, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY
2013 In the garden, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX
2013 thornappleflower, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM
2012 Jungle Book, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Implausible Tiger, Bryan Miller Gallery, Houston, TX
2011 The Daisy Argument, Visual Arts Center, University of Austin, TX
2009 PULSE Miami, Solo Presentation, Bryan Miller Gallery, Miami, FL
2008 Panta Rei, Extraspazio Gallery, Rome, Italy
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 RAIR at 50, The Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, NM
2017 This is now, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX
2017 Did you ever see such a thing as a drawing of a muchness?, Hudson Showroom at Artpace, San Antonio, TX, Curated by Michelle Grabner
2016 Growing Wild, two-person exhibition with Anthony Sonnenberg, Brookfield Arts, Houston, TX
2015 Out of place, Monya Rowe Gallery, St. Augustine, FL 2015 Destination Unknown, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX
2015 Dual / Nature, Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts, Spring, TX (catalogue)
2015 Plant People, the Galveston Artist Residency, Galveston, TX
2014 Pulp, Cohen Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, NY2017 This is now, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX
2017 Did you ever see such a thing as a drawing of a muchness?, Hudson Showroom at Artpace, San Antonio, TX, Curated by Michelle Grabner
2016 Growing Wild, two-person exhibition with Anthony Sonnenberg, Brookfield Arts, Houston, TX
2015 Out of place, Monya Rowe Gallery, St. Augustine, FL 2015 Destination Unknown, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX
2015 Dual / Nature, Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts, Spring, TX (catalogue)
2015 Plant People, the Galveston Artist Residency, Galveston, TX
2013 Animal House, Cargo Space at the Hardesty Arts Center, Tulsa, OK (catalogue)
2013 Inaugural Group Exhibition at 34 Orchard Street, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Paper Art, CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands (catalogue)
2012 This is how my brain works, Radiator Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2012 Paperless, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston- Salem, NC (catalogue)
2011 Portland Museum of Art Biennial, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME (catalogue)
2011 Aggetti - progettazioni - proiezioni - prominenze - protuberanze - sporgenze, Extraspazio Gallery, Rome, Italy
2010 Girls Just Want to Have Funds (organized by the Rema Hort Mann Foundation), PPOW Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Art on paper 2010: The 41st Exhibition, Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC
2010 A Torrent of Words: Contemporary Art and Language, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI (catalogue)
2010 Core Exhibition, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX (catalogue)
2010 Project Space: New Works by Natasha Bowdoin and Heimir Bjorgulfsson, Bryan Miller Gallery, Houston, TX
2009 Toil and Trouble, Bryan Miller Gallery, Houston, TX
2009 Core Exhibition, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX (catalogue)
2009 Rich Text, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2008 Paper[space], The Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
2008 2007 Joan Mitchell MFA Grant Recipient Show, The Cue Art Foundation, New York, NY (catalogue)
2008 Myths and Fables: Alexander DeMaria and Natasha Bowdoin, Julie Chae Gallery, Boston, MA
2007 The Fluid Field: Abstraction and Reference, Tyler Gallery, Elkins Park, PA, Curated by Dona Nelson (catalogue)
2007 VOXXOXO, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Curated by Kirby Gookin and Sheryl Conkleton
2006 Seven in a box, Temple Gallery, Rome, Italy, Curated by Cecilia Canziani
2006 Works on Paper, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA, Curated by Cornelia Butler
GRANTS/AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2014-2015 Arts Initiative Grant to organize Sumi Ink Club exhibtion, Rice University, Houston, TX
2012-2013 Artist in Residence, Roswell Artist Residency Program, Roswell, NM
2012 Artist in Residence, The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2011 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award Nominee, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, New York, NY
2008-2010 Artist in Residence, The Core Program, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX
2007 MFA Grant Recipient, The Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2016 John Zotos, "Critics Picks," Art ltd., March/April 2016 v. 10 no. 2.
2015 Brook Mason, "Life by 1,000 cuts: Natasha Bowdoin's work on view at the SCAD Museum of Art, GA," Wallpaper*, June 29, 2015.
2015 Adrienne Johnson, "Q and A with Natasha Bowdoin," Lets talk art blog: http://www.kinzelmanart.com/blog/tag/installation/, June 23, 2015.
2014 Angela Fraleigh, "Five Questions with Natasha Bowdoin," www.angelafraleigh.com/blog, July 2014.
2014 Will Heinrich, "Natasha Bowdoin: Glyph' at Monya Rowe Gallery," Gallerist NY and The New York Observer, February 24, 2014.
2014 "The Lookout: A Weekly Guide to Shows You Won't Want to Miss," Editors, Art in America, January 23, 2014.
2013 Andy Amato," In the garden" at Talley Dunn Gallery, Arts+Culture Texas, August 29,2013.
2012 David M. Lubin, Reviews, "paperless at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art," Artforum, October 2012.
2012 Kevin Kinsella, "Randomly Determined," BOMBLOG, September 26, 2012.
2012 "Natasha Bowdoin's 'Jungle Book' Roars at Monya Rowe Gallery," Editors, The Huffington Post, February 29, 2012.
2012 Jarrett Moran, "Transcribing the Body Electric," Artlog, January 19, 2012.
2011 Papercraft 2: Design and Art with Paper, Edited by Robert Klanten and Birga Meyer, Berlin: Gestalten Publishing, 2011.
2011 Sebastian Smee, "Biennial Hits and misses," The Boston Globe, May 2011.
2011 Rebecca Wadlinger, "Natasha Bowdoin, CTRL Gallery, Exhibition Review," Art Lies, Spring/Summer 2011.
2011 Wendy Vogel, "From the Editor," Might be good e-journal, February 18, 2011.
2011 Wendy Vogel, "Artist Interview: Natasha Bowdoin," …Might be good e- journal, February 18, 2011.
2011 Gabino Iglesias, "Following the White Rabbit," UWeekly Austin, February 16, 2011.
2011 Robert Faires, "Natasha Bowdoin: The Daisy Argument; A work that takes Lewis Carroll's texts undersea and lets us drown in words," The Austin Chronicle, February 4, 2011.
2011 Douglas Britt, "A Literary Vision: The Tale of the Tiger," The Houston Chronicle, January 28, 2011.
2009 Douglas Britt, "CTRL Gallery hosts Toil and Trouble," The Houston Chronicle, August 1, 2009.
2009 Troy Schulze, "Toil and Trouble," Houston Press, July 7, 2009.
2009 Stacey Holzer, "Redefining Language,"
www.visualseen.intuiwebsites.com, March 2009.
2008 Gregory Amenoff, "The 2007 Joan Mitchell MFA Grant Recipient Show," exhibition catalogue essay, 2008.
2008 Libby Rosof, "Slice, dice, and fold - Art Alliance, Pageant and Fleisher/Ollman," Fallonandrosof.blogspot.com/2008/07/slice-dice-and- fold-alliance.html, July 2008.
2007 Dona Nelson, "The Fluid Field: Abstraction and Reference," exhibition catalogue essay, October 2007.
TEACHING
2013-Present Assistant Professor, Painting and Drawing, Rice University
Houston, TX
OTHER PROJECTS
2015 Organized symposium "On Drawing" at Rice University, March 20, 2015.
"On Drawing" was conceived to examine questions around what defines drawing today, where are its boundaries and what continues to make the field compelling. Claire Gilman, Curator at The Drawing Center in New York; Michelle White, Curator at the Menil Collection; and Los Angeles-based artist Robyn O'Neil were invited to discuss drawing through their own experience. A panel discussion followed each speaker's presentation.
2015 Organized Sumi Ink Club public drawing project at Rice University. With the support of an Arts Initiative Fund University Grant, the founders of Sumi Ink Club, Sarah Rara and Luke Fischbeck were invited to host three open to the public drawing sessions in the Rice Media Center, creating an improvisational drawing directly on the walls of the gallery space with community participants.
Sumi Ink Club is a participatory drawing project established in 2005. The club produces work cooperatively in open-to-the-public meetings, which can be organized by anyone at any time. In each of its permutations, Sumi Ink Club uses group drawing as a means to open and fortify social interactions that bleed into everyday life.
https://youtu.be/3EdZ-dq3sm8
http://sumiinkclub.com/
2015 Participation in "Fossilized in Houston," a partnership between Houston based artists and environmentalists to raise awareness on the consequences of climate change. Artists were asked to create and contribute images (drawings, painting, collages) of species endangered by climate change. These images in turn will be used for a guerilla art campaign of hundreds of lawn signs, thousands of posters and stickers installed throughout Houston to help bring these facts to light.
http://fossilizedhouston.com/about.html
2012 Participation in The Intersections Project running a workshop entitled "Illuminated Manuscripts" with students at the John F. Kennedy High School, Winston-Salem, NC, October 2012.
For this project Bowdoin worked with students in James Allred’s Art and Brittany Payne’s and Kerri Chewning's English classes to help students imagine how text might be a catalyst for art making.
The Intersections Project is an ongoing collaborative initiative launched by the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, the Winston- Salem/Forsyth County Schools, and the Arts Council of Winston- Salem/Forsyth County. In a unique partnership, visiting artists and classroom educators work together to develop arts integrated lesson plans and residencies for classroom applications.
http://bit.ly/S1bHAi
SELECTED LECTURES AND VISITS
2016 Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
2015 Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
2014 Rice Art Gallery, Houston, TX
2013 Hardesty Art Center, Tulsa, OK
2013 Santa Fe University of Art and Design, Santa Fe, NM
2013 Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM
2012 The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2012 The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art,
Winston-Salem, NC
2009 Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
