An interdisciplinary artist with a career spanning six decades, Dowell captures the pulse of America’s cities and agricultural landscapes as seen between sunset and dawn. Through paintings, prints, and photography, as well as performance, sound, and installation work, he explores themes such as surrealism, the Black experience, ancestry, and our shared humanity. His works have been featured in more than 50 solo exhibitions and are held in the permanent collections of 70 museums and public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, France. Dowell holds a BFA from the Tyler School of Art + Architecture at Temple University, where he is also a Professor Emeritus of Printmaking.
