Roy Dowell

Who is Roy Dowell?

Roy Dowell is a California contemporary visual artist. He was born in 1951 in New York and his work combines collage and painted elements, and elements of mass media to create abstract compositions.

Dowell received a Bachelor of Fine Art and Master of Fine Arts from California Institute of the Arts, where he also met his life partner, the painter Lari Pittman.

He is exhibited nationally and internationally, including a one-person exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of the Arts. He is represented in major museum collections such as Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Hammer Museum of UCLA, Berkeley Museum of Art and the Oakland Museum. He is represented by Margo Leavin Gallery.

In 1979, Dowell founded the Graduate Fine Arts Department at Otis College of Art and Design and serves as Chair. In 2010, he was honored by the Ben Maltz Gallery with an exhibition called "The Story of O", which celebrates the work of 20 graduates. He was selected for "critic's pick" in the May 2010 issue of ARTnews.

He has been awarded a J.