EDUCATION
2007 Master of Fine Arts with honors, Painting and Drawing,
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA and Rome, Italy,
2005 Post Baccalaureate Certificate, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
2003 Bachelor of Arts with Honors, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Painting and Classics
2002 Undergraduate Affiliate Study Program, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, England
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022-24 Spring Song, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, AK
2023 Sun Dogs, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX
2020-21 In the Night Garden, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX
2019 Seedling, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX (upcoming June 2019)
2019 Sideways to the Sun, Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, TX
2018 Maneater, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA
2017 The Honey and the Root, The Bascom Center for Contemporary Art, 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
2015 Bloom, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
2015 HEXAM, 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 (catalogue)
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 2008 Panta Rei, Extraspazio Gallery, Rome, Italy
PUBLIC ART INSTALLATIONS
2025 Seed, Art in Embassies Project for United States Embassy, Chiang Mai, Thailand (upcoming February 2025)
2021 Power Flower, Rice University Public Art Collection, Houston, TX
2018 Garden Plot, NorthPark, Dallas, TXSELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 2013 RAIR Program Resident Show, Bone Springs Art Center, Roswell, NM
2023 Before Apollo, Before the Sun, Galveston Artist Residency, Galveston, TX
2022 Queer Maximalism x Machine Dazzle, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY (catalogue)
2022 CHRRCH BZRR, Basket Books and Art, Houston, TX, group exhibition to support TYGAR, Texas Young Artist Resource
2022 One More Once, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX
2021 Paper Routes: Women to Watch 2020, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C. (catalogue)
2020 Animal Crossing, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX, Curated by Dana Frankfort and Jackie Gendel
2018 40 Years of Discovery: The Gifts of Clint Willour, Museum of Fine Arts Houston Houston, TX
2017 Did you ever see such a thing as a drawing of a muchness?, Hudson Showroom, Artpace, San Antonio, TX, Curated by Michelle Grabner
2017 This is Now, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX
2016 Growing Wild, two-person exhibition with Anthony Sonnenberg,
Brookfield Arts, Houston, TX
2015 Out of Place, Monya Rowe Gallery, St. Augustine, FL
2015 Dual / Nature, Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts, Spring, TX
2015 Plant People, Galveston Artist Residency, Galveston, TX
2014 Pulp, Cohen Center and Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
2013 Animal House, Cargo Space, Hardesty Art 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, PPOW Gallery, New York, NY, Organized by the Rema Hort Mann Foundation
2010 Art on paper 2010: The 41st Exhibition, Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC (catalogue)
2010 A Torrent of Words: Contemporary Art and Language, John Michael
Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2010 Core Exhibition, Laura Lee Blanton Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX (catalogue)
2009 Toil and Trouble, Bryan Miller Gallery, Houston, TX
2009 Core Exhibition, Laura Lee Blanton Gallery, 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, Philadelphia, PA, Curated by Kirby Gookin and Sheryl Conkleton
OTHER CREATIVE WORKS AND COLLABORATIONS
2023 Collaborator with Open Dance Project, Flutter: The Monarch Butterfly Project.
An outdoor immersive dance experience in conjunction with the Houston Botanic Garden, Houston, TX
September 30 and October 1, 2023
2019 Collaborator with Machine Dazzle, Dimensions Variable:
A Performance
In conjunction with my solo exhibition Sideways to the Sun, Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, April 22 – 27, 2019
https://www.natashabowdoin.com/video-documentation
2019 Collaborator with Poncili Creación, in puppetry workshops and performance
In conjunction with my solo exhibition Sideways to the Sun, Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, March 19 – 23, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=6LHOhb51hq8
2018 Contributor to Loanwords to Live With: An Ecotopian Lexicon,
Edited by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and Brent Ryan Bellamy, University of Minnesota Press, publication forthcoming 2019
Loanwords is a collection of 30 short essays on ecologically productive words that should exist in English but currently do not,
drawn from other languages, speculative fiction, and activist subcultures. The book will include original artwork in response to these texts by 14 artists from 10 countries.
2015 Contributor to Fossilized in Houston, a partnership between
Houston-based artists and environmentalists to raise awareness on the consequences of climate change.
2015 - ongoing
Invited artists contributed images (drawings, paintings, collages) of species endangered by climate change. These images were used for a guerrilla art campaign comprising hundreds of lawn signs and thousands of posters and stickers posted around Houston publicizing their plight.
https://www.fossilizedhouston.com/
PEDAGOGICAL AND COMMUNITY PROJECTS
2022 Co-organizer with The Orange Show of Bread and Puppet: Puppetry in Performance Workshop, Orange Show, Houston, TX, November 21-22, 2022
Bread and Puppet’s The Apocalypse Defiance Circus features diverse puppetry and street theater performance styles to tell vital stories of the moment. Through the lens of a rehearsal process, participants in the Puppetry in Performance Workshop are introduced to these activist performance styles and methods. Participants also learn about Bread and Puppet's history and the format of the circus. The workshop culminated with participants performing alongside Bread and Puppet company members in a performance of The Apocalypse Defiance Circus, November 22, 2022.
https://arts.rice.edu/event/visual-and-dramatic-arts/bread-and-puppet-theater-orange-show
2015 Organizer of Public Drawing Project with Sumi Ink Club
Media Center Gallery, Rice University, February 15 – 20, 2015 https://youtu.be/3EdZ-dq3sm8
http://sumiinkclub.com/
GRANTS/AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2022 AIGA (Professional Association of Design), 50 Books / 50 Covers Award for publication Natasha Bowdoin: Wild Eyed
2014-15 Arts Initiative Grant Recipient, Rice University, Houston, TX2012-13 Artist-in-Residence, Roswell Artist Residency Program, Roswell, NM
2012 Artist-in-Residence, The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2008-10 Artist-in-Residence, The Core Program, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX
2007 MFA Grant Recipient, The Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, NY
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2023 Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs and Special Projects, School of Humanities, Rice University, Houston, TX
2020 Associate Professor, Rice University, Houston, TX2013-20 Assistant Professor, Rice University, Houston, TX
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024 Tara Escolin, “In conversation with Natasha Bowdoin,” Burnaway, May 31, 2024.
2022 Queer Maximalism: Machine Dazzle, Edited by Elissa Auther, Rizzoli Press, 2022.
2021 Natasha Bowdoin: Wild Eyed, Edited by Kimberly Yu, Dallas: Talley Dunn Gallery, 2021
2019 Laura August, “Sideways to the Sun: Natasha Bowdoin at the Moody Center,” Arts + Culture Texas, March 2019.
2019 Molly Glentzer, “Nature Takes Root in Multimedia Exhibits,” Houston Chronicle, March 17, 2019.
2018 Chelsea Coon, “Maneater,” Big Red and Shiny, June 4, 2018.
2017 Janelle Proulx and Tyler Kirby, “Natasha Bowdoin: Lunar Spring,” Departure Point Films, Short Documentary, Richmond, VA, January 2017.
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* Magazine, June 29, 2015.
2014 Angela Fraleigh, “Five Questions with Natasha Bowdoin,” Angela
Fraleigh blog, July 25, 2014.
2014 Will Heinrich, “Natasha Bowdoin: Glyph’ at Monya Rowe Gallery,” New York Observer, February 19, 2014.
2014 Art in America Staff, “The Lookout: A Weekly Guide to Shows You Won’t Want to Miss,” Editors, Art in America, January 23, 2014.
2013 Michelle Grabner, “Cargo Space,” exhibition catalogue essay, The Hardesty Arts Center, Tulsa, OK, 2013, pages 15, 23.
2013 Andy Amato, “In the garden” at Talley Dunn Gallery, Arts + Culture Texas, August, 29, 2013.
2012 Steven Matijcio and Xu Bing, “paperless,” exhibition catalogue essay, 2012
2012 David M. Lubin, Reviews: "paperless at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art," Artforum, October 2012.
2012 Kevin Kinsella, "Randomly Determined," BOMB Magazine, Sept. 26, 2012.
2012 Staff writer, "Natasha Bowdoin's 'Jungle Book' Roars at Monya Rowe Gallery," The Huffington Post, March 5, 2012.
2012 Jarrett Moran, "Transcribing the Body Electric," Artlog, January 18, 2012.
2011 Papercraft 2: Design and Art with Paper, Edited by Robert Klanten and Birga Meyer, Berlin: Gestalten Publishing, 2011.
2011 Rebecca Wadlinger, "Natasha Bowdoin, CTRL Gallery"Art Lies, No. 68 Spring/Summer 2011.
2011 Robert Faires, "Natasha Bowdoin: The Daisy Argument," The Austin Chronicle, March 12, 2011.
2011 Wendy Vogel, "Artist Interview: Natasha Bowdoin," …Might be good
e-journal, February 2011.
2011 Gabino Iglesias, "Following the White Rabbit," UWeekly Austin,
February 16, 2011.
2011 Douglas Britt, "A Literary Vision: The Tale of the Tiger," The Houston Chronicle, January 28, 2011.
2009 Troy Schulze and Kelly Klaasmeyer, "Toil and Trouble," Houston Press, July 7 2009.
2008 Gregory Amenoff, "The 2007 Joan Mitchell MFA Grant
Recipient Show," exhibition catalogue essay, 2008.
2007 Dona Nelson, “The Fluid Field: Abstraction and Reference,” exhibition catalogue essay, October 2007.
INVITED LECTURES, WORKSHOPS, PANELS AND CONVERSATIONS
2024 Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN, Visiting Artist
2024 Haystack School of Art and Craft, Deer Isle, ME, Invited Workshop Leader
2023 Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Artist lecture
2023 University of Houston School of Art, Invited artist lecture and critiques
2022 Gulf Coast Connections, Rice University, Houston, TX, Invited talk and panel
2021 Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Artist Lecture
2021 Texas Talks Art, Lunchtime Lecture Series, in conversation with Amon Carter Curator Shirley Reece-Hughes, Invited panel
2020 National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C., Artist Lecture
2019 Roswell Museum and Art Center, Artist Lecture and Workshop Leader
2018 Roswell Artist in Residence Program, Juror
2018 Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, Visiting artist
2017 Lawndale Art Center, Studio Artist Residency Program, Houston, TX, Juror
2016 Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, Visiting artist
2015 Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, Visiting artist
2015 Artist Lecture Series at Greenpoint Studios, Brooklyn, NY, Artist talk
2014 Rice Gallery, Houston, TX, Lecture: Animals in Art, Artist talk
2014 Roswell Artist in Residence Program, Juror
2013 Texas Contemporary Art Fair, Houston, TX, Panelist
2013 Hardesty Art Center, Omaha, NE, Artist talk
2013 Santa Fe University of Art and Design, Santa Fe, NM, Artist talk
2013 Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM, Artist talk
2013 The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE, Artist talk
2012 The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC,
Artist talk
2011 The University of Houston, MFA Painting Program, Houston, TX,
Artist talk and Graduate Critiques
2011 Art Institute of Boston, MFA Program, Graduate Mentor
2010 Rice Gallery, Houston, TX, Workshop Leader
2009 Rice University Visual and Dramatic Arts Department, Houston, TX,
Artist talk and Undergraduate Critiques
2009 Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, Artist talk
COLLECTIONS/ARCHIVES
1:1 Projects, Curated Artist Archive, Rome, Italy
Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, NM
The Drawing Center, Curated Online Viewing Program, New York, NY
Federal Reserve Bank, Houston, TX
La Nube di Oort, Rome, Italy
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX
Rice University, Rice Public Art, Houston, TX
Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM
The Old Jail Art Center, Albany, TX