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MUSEUM
2024 Biggs Museum of American Art, DE, "Circle of Truth" with Ed Ruscha and Ed Moses.
2022 Museum of Art and History, CA, "Human Natures: Highlights from MOAH's Permanent Collection"
2021 Susquehanna Art Museum, PA, "Circle of Truth"
2020 Laguna Art Museum, Permanent works show with Raymond Pettibon and Laddie John Dill
2019 MOAH, Museum of Art & History, CA, “LA Painting”
2019 Riverside Museum of Art, CA, “Paintings from the Interior”
2017 Cal Poly Pomona, CA, Kellogg University Gallery, "About Face"
2013 Torrance Art Museum, CA, "True Believers" with Damien Hirst and Chuck Close
SOLO
2025 Galerie Paris, France, "Justin Bower: Capturing the Digital Identity"
2023 Maddox Gallery, London, UK, "Do Androids dream?"
2022 Galerie Berlin, Germany, “Justin Bower”
2020 Patrick Painter INC., Los Angeles, CA, "Colossus Id"
2019 Patrick Painter INC., Los Angeles, CA, "The Future"
2018 Fine Art Complex, Phoenix, AZ, "The Singularity"
2015 MOAH, California, “Thresholds”
2015 Unix Gallery, NYC, New York, "The Humiliations"
2013 Unix Gallery, NYC, New York, "Panic Room"
2010 Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "Embedded"
2010 Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont, CA, "Destabilizer"
GROUP
2023 Ruhr Objekt 2, Essen, Germany
2022 Maddox Gallery, Gstaad. "Winter Contemporary" with Banksy, Harland Miller and Damien Hirst
2021 Maddox Gallery, London, UK, "Autumn Contemporary" with Damien Hirst, J.M. Basquiat, and Banksy
2021 Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy, "The Unfocused"
2020 Maddox Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "The Agony and the Ecstasy"
2020 Unix Gallery, NYC, "Leave It"
2019 Galerie Klose, Germany, “Enter the Void”
2019 Unix Gallery, NYC, "Face Off"
2018 Patrick Painter Inc. Los Angeles, CA. "The Eternal Now" with Glenn Brown
2018 Patrick Painter Inc. "Figuration: Fact to Fantasy", with Stephen Balleux and Gottfried Hellwein
2017 Patrick Painter Inc., Los Angeles, CA. “Xenomorphs Egg” with Bas Jan Ader
2017 Melissa Morgan Gallery, Palm Desert, CA. “Psychedelic Tendencies"
2016 Gavin Brown Enterprise, NYC, "Shades of Perception" with Urs Fischer, Elizabeth Payton and Martin Creed
2015 Patrick Painter Inc., Los Angeles, CA, "Altered States" with Mike Kelley, Valie Export,
Martin Kippenberger, and Rinus Van de Velde
2015 Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna, Austria, "Angels with Dirty Faces"
2014 Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy, "Body Mods" with Wade Guyton
2013 Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. "The Debris of Giants" with Julien Schnabel and Robert Rauschenberg
2012 Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. "Reflector" with Mary Corse
2010 BravinLee Projects, Miami, FL. "SEVEN", ART BASEL
2010 Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, AZ. "Cacophonic", Curated by Edward Lucie-Smith
2009 Paddock Gallery, Curated by Shana Nys Dambrot, “Hybrid Pantheon”
2008 DA Gallery, Pomona, CA.
2007 Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, CA "In Your Face"
2007 Catalyst Gallery, U. C. Irvine, CA. "Justin Bower: New Works"
2004 Blue Lot Gallery, Santa ana, CA. "Spectacle in Blue"
2004 Spurgeon Bld., Santa Ana, CA. "Biology Lesson"
2004 Ocean Avenue Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA. "Face Off"
BIENNALES AND ART FAIRS
2023 The Wrong Biennale, Spain
2022 The Armory, Maddox Gallery, London
2021 Art Basel Miami, Unix Gallery, NYC
2019 Art Basel Miami, Unix Gallery, NYC
2018 Art Basel Miami, Unix Gallery, NYC
2017 NADA Art Fair, Unix Gallery, NYC
2018 LA Art Fair, Patrick Painter INC.
2017 LA Art Fair, ACE Gallery, Beverly Hills
2015 LA Art Fair, ACE Gallery, Beverly Hills
2013 The Other Art Fair, ACE Gallery, Beverly Hills
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Axl Rose Collection, Los Angles
Ben Bourgeois Collection, Los Angeles
Campen Collection, Thailand
Carlos Slim Collection, Mexico
Eugenio Lopez Collection, Mexico
Fredrick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles
Greg Conn Collection, UK
Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster
Laguna Museum of Art, Laguna
Paula Goodman Collection, Los Angeles
Paul Thomas Collection, Los Angeles
Nick Reed Collection, Los Angeles
Riverside Museum, Riverside
UCR Permanent Collection, Riverside
Stuart Holt Collection, UK
Tim Redman Collection, UK
University of Arizona, Museum of Art Collection, Arizona
Wendy Asher Worth Collection, Malibu
Cosmopolitan Collection, Las Vegas
MEDIA
Justin Bower Intersecting Technology and The Human Experience | Guy Hepner
JUSTIN BOWER INTERVIEW — COUTEUR
William Turner speaks with Justin Bower in his Santa Ana studio via zoom
Altered States - Artillery Magazine - Contemporary art news and criticism
JUSTIN BOWER - DO ANDROIDS DREAM? | Maddox Gallery
artnet Asks: Artist Justin Bower Got Stabbed, Went to Grad School
Justin Bower: Poet of the Singularity | HuffPost Entertainment
JUSTIN BOWER – COACHELLA MAGAZINE
Beneath the Skin: The Paintings of Justin Bower | Artbound | Arts & Culture | PBS SoCal
Art Report Today: The Paddock Gallery presents "Hybrid Pantheon" with Painter Justin Bower
Exclusive Interview with Justin Bower - Hi-Fructose Magazine
The Many Faces of Justin Bower - The Other Journal
Meet Justin Bower – CanvasRebel Magazine
Justin Bower: A Satellite of Direction - Execute Magazine!
Art review: Justin Bower at Ace Gallery - Los Angeles Times
CATALOG/MONOGRAPH ESSAYS
"Justin Bower: A Fractured Self" by G. James Daichendt
"The Seated Figure" by Stella Marie Allery
"Justin Bower: Painting the Body Electric" by John Seed
"Justin Bower: Poet of the Singularity" by Shana Nys Dambrot
"Conversations" by William Turner
"Dr. Frankenstein; Thresholds of the New Human" by David Pagel
"A Sustained Encounter" by Stella Marie Allery
"Shrapnel, Wounds and Seeing Double" by Cooper Johnson
"Justin Bower: Thresholds" by Andi Campognone
"The Exploration of Humanity and Technology" by Sam Woolfe
"The Many Faces of Justin Bower" by Jocelyn Grau
LECTURES/ARTIST TALKS
Laguna Arts College of Design (LCAD), CA. - Justin Bower: How Ai will Challenge the Art World- 2026
Riverside College, CA.-Lecture with John Seed author of "Disrupted Realism"-2025
Laguna Museum of Art, CA.- guest lecture on "California Figuration: From Diebenkorn to Bower"
Fine Art Complex, AZ.-conversation with Dr. Vetter, titled "The Singularity Grows Nearer"-2024
Brenau University, GA.- "LA Stories" lecture at the Leo Castelli Gallery-2024
William Turner, CA.- In Conversation: The Future of LA Figuration-2024
Maddox Gallery, London- "Do Androids Sleep-A Conversation with Maeve Doyle"-2023
Fullerton College, CA.- Lecture to staff and students on mid-career work-2022
Maddox Gallery, Los Angeles- "Dysmorphia" artist talk on new work- 2022
Cal Poly Pomona, CA.- "About Face" conversation with Rebecca Campbell-2020
Mat Gleason, CA.- A conversation with the publisher of famed art periodical "Coagula"- 2019
Moder Art Blitz-CA.- Panel discussion titled "Dave Hickey's Legacy"- 2018
Patrick Painter INC., Los Angeles- "Xenomorphs Egg" Panel discussion with Chaz Guest and Earnest Lor- 2017
Art Center College of Design, CA.- Survey of recent works-2016
Museum of Art and History (MOAH) CA.- "Thresholds", a lecture on my solo show at the museum-2015
Palm Springs Art Fair, CA.- "California Abstraction" a panel discussion with Ed Moses- 2015
Torrence Art Museum, CA.- "True Believers" a lecture on faith and technology-2014
Grand Central Art Center, CA.- "Harbingers" the coming age of tech and how it will affect the art-world-2013
Coagula Curatorial, Los Angeles- "Futuregaze" Lecture on new drawings-2013
Skillosophy, NYC.- Artist talk on latest work- 2013
