CV

RECENT SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2023Carey Blyth Gallery, Oxford
2022Two Painters and a Sculptor in conjunction with KCAW 2022 at Hansard Studio London
2021Seaside Citadels: Bermondsey Project Space
2021Expressionism: Daile Galerie Berlin
2020Plashy Places: Carey Blyth Gallery Oxford
2019Tearing up the Rule Book, Westminster Reference Library London & Atelier Melusine France
2012Olympic Commission for giant hoardings at Weymouth Railway Station
2012The Urban Wastelands Project (see curated exhibitions)
2006WaterZones Art First, London
2006WaterZones’, Karin Sanders Fine Art. New York. USA
2005Paint Art First London

RECENT SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024BEEP International Painting Prize, Cardiff and Aberystwyth
202450/50 Open Exhibition, Unit 1 Workshop and Gallery London
2024The Mixtape: The Vanner Gallery Salisbury
2024Slow Painting: Contemporary British Painting. Studio Kind and Plough Arts Devon
2024Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, Mall Galleries London
2024Aesthetica Art Prize, York Art Gallery
2023ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries London
2023Elemental, Curated by Sandra Higgins, Bath
2023Charity Water, The Other Art Fair London
2023Thelma Hulbert Gallery Open
2023‘Paradise Found’: Thelma Hulbet Gallery Honiton, Devon
2023‘X’ Contemporary British Painting: Newcastle Contemporary Arts
2022Paradoxes, Quay Arts IOW
2022Linden Hall Studio Winter Group Show
2022Vitalistic Fantasies, Elysium Gallery Swansea
2022BEEP International Biennial 2022 at Elysium Gallery Swansea
2022A Sense of Place – ‘Survival’. Bermondsey Project Space
2021Wells Art Contemporary, International Open.  Wells Cathedral
2021The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours: Mall Galleries London
2021Oxlade Soup, Terrace Gallery London
2021Satellites, Rise Art London
2020Beyond Other Horizons: International group exhibition of Romanian and British painters at the Palace of Culture Iasi, Romania
2020Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, Mall Galleries London. Winner of the Winsor and Newton Product Prize
2020Future Now Aesthetica Art Prize, York Art Gallery
2020Journey, Migration and the Sea Open Exhibition: Southampton City Art Gallery
201934 Painters: Norwich Cathedral. Contemporary British Painting
2019Inaugural Summer Open at ARB Gallery, University of Cambridge
2019Winner of the Anima Mundi Painting Prize, Venice Biennale 2019
2019Drawing on Dorset: touring group exhibition selected by Professor Anita Taylor and Tania Kovats celebrating drawing in Dorset
2019The Westmorland Landscape Open Competition
2019Wales Contemporary Art Prize: First Prize Winner.  The Waterfront Gallery Milford Haven and Mall Galleries London
2018Future Now celebrates 100 artists selected for the Aesthetica Art Prize. York Art Gallery 2018 
2018Getting Away!  Arthouse 1 Bermondsey and Quay Arts IOW
2017Edgelands (see curated exhibitions)
2017Contemporary Masters from Britain – 4 Museum China Tour
The Yantai Art Museum, Yantai 
Jaingsu Arts and Crafts Museum, Artall, Nanjing
Jiangsu Art Museum
Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts
2016Columbia Threadneedle Prize
2016Contemporary British Painting at Quay Arts IOW
2013Nord Art, Germany.

CURATED EXHIBITIONS

2018Getting Away! Arthouse 1 Bermondsey and Quay Arts IOW
2016/17Edgelands a UK touring exhibition:
APT Gallery, Deptford, London
The Crypt, St. Marylebone Parish Church
Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales
Hartlepool Art Gallery
ARB Cambridge University 
2011/12The Urban Wastelands Project:
Kelly Ross Fine Art
Quay Arts IOW
Black Swan Arts
Atkinson Gallery

PRIZES, AWARDS & COLLECTIONS

2020Winsor and Newton Product Prize: Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours
2019First Prize: Anima Mundi International Painting Prize 2019
2019First Prize: Bath Arts Open 2019
2019First Prize: Wales Contemporary 2019
2012Olympic Commission 2012: hoardings for Weymouth Railway Station

PRESS, ARTICLES AND CATALOGUES

RECENT REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS

2023Rise Art Interview with Day Bowman: Treading Between Abstraction and Figuration
2022Artist of the Month – Contemporary British Painting Newsletter
2022https://www.galleriesnow.net/shows/a-sense-of-place-survival/
2022https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2022/12/21/a-sense-of-place-survival-group-exhibition-spotlights-environment-crisis-refugee-dilemmas-and-the-place-of-skin/
2020FLUX Review Interview: https://www.thefluxreview.com/interview-day-bowman/ 
2020Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours Blog: https://www.mallgalleries.org.uk/about-us/blog/exhibition-tour-with-tony-hunt-ri?fbclid=IwAR27g6F8XKa_3C8bm84JydM1GLLe2oRV3MZvAMTasGis1kTy-LYfuYJLanM
2020https://www.sober-magazine.com/#/new-page-65/
2019https://www.artlyst.com/reviews/tearing-rule-book-paintings-day-bowman-atelier-melusine/
Conversation between John Stephens and Day Bowman at Galerie Melusine France. Sept. 2019
2019http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/11/06/wales-contemporary-winners-at-the-mall-galleries-london/
Coverage of Day Bowman’s winning painting for Wales Contemporary 2019
2019Tomout Blog: https://tomoutblog.wordpress.com/2019/04/11/all-at-sea-day-bowman-tearing-up-the-rule-book-westminster-reference-library-/comment-page-1/
2018BBC News South East coverage of Winter Group Show at Linden Hall Studios
2017Art Reveal Magazine.com (full interview)
2017FAD Magazine Top 6 exhibitions to see this week: coverage of Anything Goes at Art Bermondsey Project Space
2017Online magazine review of Anything Goes at Art Bermondsey Project Space
2017Review of Contempoary Masters from Britain: 80 British Painters of the 21st century.  A tour of 4 Chinese Art Museums 2017/18
2017News coverage of my work at Linden hall Studios Winter Group Show
2016The Jackdaw, coverage of the Edgelands cross-arts exhibition.
2016State Media Magazine
2016All About Shipping.co.uk
https://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2016/06/25
2015Oxford Times
2014Art Monthly
2014Aesthetica Art Magazine
2014The Guardian Review
2013Aesthetica Art Prize, York

COLLECTIONS

St Vincent and the Grenadines Government Art Collection
Dorset County Hospital: installation of hoardings on external entrance tower
RNLI
ING
Philip Morris Inc
Hilton Hotel Group
British Dental Association
The Priseman Seabrook Collection
Yantai Art Museum China