Justin Bower — CV (Selected)

Selected exhibitions, awards, bibliography, collections, and auction results (since 2010).

Exhibitions (since 2010)

Solo exhibitions

  • 2025Justin Bower: Capturing the Digital Identity, Paris, France
  • 2023Do Androids Dream?, Maddox Gallery, London, UK
  • 2022Justin Bower (Solo Presentation), G-ALLERY, Berlin, Germany
  • 2020 — Exhibition, Maddox Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • 2020Justin Bower, G-ALLERY, Germany
  • 2020Colossus Id, Patrick Painter Inc., Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • 2019The Future, Patrick Painter Inc., Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • 2018The Singularity, Fine Art Complex, Phoenix, AZ, USA
  • 2016Thresholds, MOAH (Lancaster Museum of Art and History), Lancaster, CA, USA
  • 2015Efflorescence, UNIX Gallery, New York, NY, USA
  • 2015The Humiliations, UNIX Gallery, New York, NY, USA
  • 2013Panic Room, UNIX Gallery, New York, NY, USA
  • 2010Embedded, Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA, USA
  • 2010Destabilizer, Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont, CA, USA

Selected group exhibitions

  • 2023 — Ruhr Objekt 2, Essen, Germany
  • 2022Winter Contemporary, Maddox Gallery, Gstaad, Switzerland
  • 2022The Agony and the Ecstasy, Maddox Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • 2021Autumn Contemporary, Maddox Gallery, London, UK
  • 2021The Unfocused, Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy
  • 2020Leave It, UNIX Gallery, New York, NY, USA
  • 2019Enter the Void, Galerie Klose, Essen, Germany
  • 2017#UNIX, UNIX Gallery, New York, NY, USA
  • 2017About Face, Kellogg University Art Gallery (Cal Poly Pomona), Pomona, CA, USA
  • 2013True Believers, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, USA
  • 2012 — Group Exhibition, Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA, USA
  • 2011Tel-Art-Phone (curated by Mat Gleason), Los Angeles, CA, USA

Biennales & art fairs (selected)

  • 2023 — The Wrong Biennale, Spain
  • 2022 — The Armory Show (with Maddox Gallery), New York, NY, USA
  • 2021 — Art Basel Miami Beach (with UNIX Gallery), Miami Beach, FL, USA
  • 2019 — Art Basel Miami Beach (with UNIX Gallery), Miami Beach, FL, USA
  • 2018 — Art Basel Miami Beach (with UNIX Gallery), Miami Beach, FL, USA
  • 2018 — LA Art Fair (with Patrick Painter Inc.), Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • 2017 — NADA Art Fair (with UNIX Gallery), New York, NY, USA
  • 2017 — LA Art Fair (with Ace Gallery), Beverly Hills, CA, USA
  • 2015 — LA Art Fair (with Ace Gallery), Beverly Hills, CA, USA
  • 2013 — Art Southampton, New York, NY, USA
  • 2013 — Art Los Angeles Contemporary Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Awards

  • 2010 — Feitelson Fellowship Grant; Joan Mitchell Award Nominee
  • 2009 — Four Outstanding Fine Art Painting Fellowships, Claremont Graduate University, CA

Selected bibliography & interviews

  • 2025 — Interview, COUTEUR
  • 2020 — “In Conversation with Justin Bower,” Maddox Gallery
  • 2015Justin Bower “Thresholds”, Museum of Art & History, Lancaster, CA
  • 2015 — American Art Collector, “In Flux,” by John O’Hern
  • 2013 — KCET, “Beneath the Skin: The Paintings of Justin Bower,” by Carolina Miranda
  • 2013 — Studio Visit Magazine, Front Cover
  • 2011 — LA Times, “Art Review: Justin Bower at Ace Gallery,” by Christopher Knight
  • 2010 — Artillery Magazine, “Embedded,” by James Scarborough
  • 2010 — New American Paintings, Front Cover

Selected collections

  • Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles
  • University of Arizona Museum of Art
  • Eugenio López Alonso Collection, Mexico
  • Rutan & Tucker LLP
  • Tim Redman (UK); Stuart Holt (UK); Greg Conn (UK)
  • Ben Bourgeois (Los Angeles); Paula Goodman (Los Angeles); Nick Reed (Los Angeles)
  • Paula Thomas, CEO Thomas Wylde Design Labs

Auction results

  • Christie’s — First Open | Post-War and Contemporary Art | Online, 20–30 September 2016: Lot 85 (Justin Bower, The Magician).