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: Hilights 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 G-Allery Paris, France, "Justin Bower: Capturing the Digital Identity"
2023 Maddox Gallery, London, UK, "Do Androids dream?"
2022 G-Allery Berlin, Germany, “Justin Bower”
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, CA. "Destabilizer"
GROUP
2023 Ruhr Objekt 2, Essen, Germany
2022 Maddox Gallery, Gstaad. "Winter Contemporary" with Banksy, David Yarrow, Harland Miller and
Damien Hirst
2021 Maddox Gallery, London, UK, "Autumn Contemporary" with Damien Hirst, J.M. Basquiat, and Banksy
2020 Maddox Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "The Agony and the Ecstasy"
2019 Galerie Klose, Germany, “Enter the Void”
2017 Patrick Painter Inc., Los Angeles, CA, “Xenomorphs Egg” with Bas Jan Ader
2017 Melissa Morgan Gallery, Palm Desert, CA, “Psychedelic Tendencies"
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"
2012 Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Untitled with Mary Corse
The Wrong BIENNALE, Spain 2023
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Museum of Art and History, Lancaster
Laguna Museum of Art
Riverside Museum
Riverside College Permanent Collection
Fredrick R. Weisman Art Foundation
Axl Rose Collection
Eugenio Lopez Collection
Cosmopolitan Collection Las Vegas
Carlos Slim Collection