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Justin Bower is a Los-Angeles based artist with paintings in the collections of Eugenio Lopez Collection, the Carlos Slim Collection, the Weisman Art Foundation, and the Cosmopolitan Collection. Bower has had museum solo shows at MOAH, the Pomona Art Museum, and the Riverside Art Museum. The artist has won and been nominated for several grants and awards, among them The Feitelson Fellowship Grant and The Joan Mitchell Award.
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"
2015 Museum of Art and History, CA, "Thresholds"
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, 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, 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, With Julien Schnabel and Robert Rauschenberg
2012 Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Untitled with Mary Corse
2010 BravinLee Projects, SEVEN, ART BASEL, MIAMI, FL.
2010 Bentley Gallery, Cacophonic, Curated by Edward Lucie-Smith, Phoenix, AZ.
2009 Paddock Gallery, Curated by Shana Nys Dambrot, “Hybrid Pantheon”
2008 DA Gallery, Pomona, CA.
2007 Saddleback College, In Your Face Mission Viejo, CA.
2007 Catalyst Gallery, Justin Bower: New Works, U. C. Irvine, CA.
2004 Blue Lot Gallery, Spectacle in Blue, Santa Ana, CA.
2004 Spurgeon Bld., Biology Lesson, Santa Ana, CA.
2004 Ocean Avenue Gallery, Face Off, Laguna Beach, CA.
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
Carlos Slim Collection
Cosmopolitan Collection, Las Vegas
Eugenio Lopez Collection
Fredrick R. Weisman Art Foundation
Greg Conn Colle collection, UK
Lancaster Museum of Art and History
Laguna Museum of Art
Paula Goodman Collection, Los Angeles
Paul Thomas Collection, Los Angeles
Nick Reed Collection, Los Angeles
Riverside Museum
Riverside College Permanent Collection
Stuart Holt Collection, UK
Tim Redman Collection, UK
University of Arizona, Museum of Art Collection
Wendy Asher Worth Collection, Malibu
Cosmopolitan Collection Las Vegas
