Collection: Judy Bowman Collection

Judy Bowman is a mixed-media collage artist who was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. Her art practice centers on exalting America’s Black culture that move beyond institutional racism and disparaged perspectives of the Black experience. Considering herself a visual griot, she pays tribute to personal memories from of her coming-of-age in Detroit’s Eastside and Black Bottom neighborhoods.
Bowman’s work appears in the permanent Institutional Collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI, Detroit Historical Museum, Mack Alive, Detroit, MI, the R.W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, LA, the Flint Institute of Arts, the Federal Reserve Board, Washington, DC. She has had solo shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit 2022 and the Flint Institute of Arts 2024. Her work has been shown at Art Basel, Miami, Florida, The Amory Show, New York, New York, Expo Chicago, Chicago, IL. Her art is featured on the set of the TV show, The Neighborhood.  Her represented is by Eric Firestone Gallery, New York, NY.
She is a 2021 Kresge Fellow for visual Arts and a 2022 Alain Locke Recognition Awardee.