Frank Bowling
Middle Passage, 1970
Acrylic on canvas
323 x 281 cm
127 1/8 x 110 5/8 in
127 1/8 x 110 5/8 in
Photo: NGC
Exhibitions
'Things Which Are Per Se Continuous: The Michael Nesbitt Collection, Winnipeg', National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; Group show; 10 July - 14 December 2025'Entangled Pasts', Royal Academy of Arts, London; Group Show; 3 February – 28 April 2024, catalogue no. 88, reproduced in colour, medium as acrylic paint and oil-based ink on canvas, dimensions as 319.9 x 280.3 cm
'Frank Bowling The New York Years 1966-75,' San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Solo Show; 20 May – 10 September 2023, reproduced in colour, medium as acrylic paint and oil-based ink on canvas
'Fragments of Epic Memory', Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Group Show; 1 September 2021 – 21 February 2022, fig. 4, reproduced in colour, medium as acrylic and oil-based ink on canvas
'Frank Bowling', Tate Britain, London; Solo Show; 31 May – 26 August 2019, reproduced in colour, dimensions as 321 x 281 cm
'Mappa Mundi', Haus der Kunst, Munich; Solo Show; 23 June 2017 - 7 January 2018; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 24 March - 8 July 2018; Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE, 29 September 2018 - 12 January 2019, reproduced in colour
'The Map Paintings 1967–1971', Hales Gallery, London; Solo Show; 16 October - 23 November 2013'Bending the Grid: Black Identity and Resistance in the Art of Frank Bowling'; Aljira, a Center For Contemporary Art, Newark; Solo Show; 18 September - 10 December 2003
Literature
Eshun, Ekow (ed.). Black Earth Rising: Colonialism and Climate Change in Contemporary Art, exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 2025, reproduced on p. 36 (colour)Sena Quarshie, Nikita. 'Double-speak: Abstraction and Figuration in Firelei Báez's Practice', New Curators, Firelei Báez: A Midnight's Dream, exh. cat., South London Gallery, London, 2024, p. 64, reproduced on p. 63 (colour)
Thompson, Rose. ‘Crossing Waters: The Aquatic Sublime’, Chadwick, Esther, Gilroy-Ware, Cora, Price, Dorothy & Lea, Sarah.
Price, Dorothy. 'Fallacies of Hope', Chadwick, Esther, Gilroy-Ware, Cora, Price, Dorothy & Lea, Sarah. Entangled Pasts, 1768–Now: Art, Colonialism and Change, exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2024, pp. 39-45, pp. 165-167
Price, Dorothy. 'A New Sublime', Frank Bowling: Landscape, exh. cat., Hauser & Wirth, West Hollywood, 2023, reproduced on p. 6 (colour), dimensions as 319.9 x 280.3 cm
Gyarkye, Lovia. ‘Artist’s Questionnaire: Frank Bowling’s Geographies’, The New York Times Style Magazine, 11 August 2023, reproduced (colour)
Gamon, Pia. ‘Interview mit Frank Bowling: Probiere es aus. Probiere es an. Probiere, es besser zu machen’/’Interview with Frank Bowling: Trying it out. Trying it On. Trying To Do It Better’, Gammon, Pia (ed.). Trying It Out. Trying It On. Trying To Do It Better. Frank Bowling, exh. cat., Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 2022, pp. 23-61, reproduced on p. 34 (colour)
Mercer, Kobena. 'The Longest Journey: Black Diaspora Artists in Britain', Art History, vol. 44, no. 3, 2021, reproduced on p. 487 (colour)
Gooding, Mel. Frank Bowling, London 2021, reproduced on p. 71 (colour)
Choudhury, Indie A. 'Frank Bowling's White Paintings', Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, 45, November 2019, pp. 34-47, reproduced on p. 40 (colour), medium as acrylic and silkscreened ink on canvas
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