Exhibitions and One Person Shows featuring Gary’s art or his paintings were included in.
Small Works, Anderson-O’Brien Gallery, Omaha, NE – January-February 2026
Holidays Show, MA Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK – November-December 2025
Bowling, Nickell, Burmood Shows, Leopold Gallery, Kansas City, MO – December-January 2025
Landscape 2025, Olson-Larsen Gallery, West Des Moines, IA – June-July 2025
Bowling – Brown – Kimball At Leopold Gallery, Leopold Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri – April 19, 2024 – June 2024
Winter Mix, MA Doran Gallery, Tulsa, Oklahoma – February 9, 2024 -March 2024
Olson-Larsen Grand Reopening Celebration / Annual Landscape Show, Olson-Larsen Gallery, West Des Moines, Iowa – June 16, 2023 – July 2023
50th Anniversary Series – Past , Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota – May 6 – June 3, 2023
115 Miles East, The University of Arkansas School of Art Faculty and Alumni Exhibition, MA Doran Gallery, Tulsa, Oklahoma – April 13, 2023 – May 2023
Art Fitting Of The Era, exhibition at Jordan House, Des Moines, Iowa – August – September 2022
Art In Embassies Exhibition, Chief of Missions Residency, US State Department, Mbabane, Eswatini, Africa – 2021-2023
Timeless, Olson-Larsen exhibition at Jordan House Museum, Des Moines, Iowa – August 26, 2022 – September 30, 2022
Passing Time – Gary and Linda Bowling, LeMars Arts Center, LeMars, Iowa – September 14, 2021 – November 2021
Compelling Ground, Brunnier Art Museum, Ames, Iowa – January 25 – July 23, 2021
Art In Embassies Exhibition, American Embassy, US State Department, Ankara, Turkey – 2019-2023
Briar Clif Review – Art, Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, Iowa – April 23 – July 12, 2020
Art In Embassies Exhibition, American Embassy, US State Department, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – 2018-2022
Darral Dishman – The Artist As Mentor, Spiva Art Center, Joplin, Missouri May 31 – July 20, 2019
Naturally, exhibit of Olson-Larsen Gallery artists at the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden, Des Moines, Iowa – April 18, 2019 – June 2019
Olson-Larsen Gallery: 1979-2019 – 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Olson Larsen Gallery, West Des Moines, Iowa – April 12, 2019 – June 2019
Artcetera, Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, Iowa – December 15, 2018 – March 10, 2019
Sky, Land, Water: 2018 Summer Exhibitions – Sky, Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota – June – July 10, 2018
Gary Bowling and Dave Regier, Leopold Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri – April 27 – June 2018
25th Anniversary Show, Leopold Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri – September 30, 2016 – December 2016
Gary Bowling Paintings: Sun Screens, Gallery 72, Omaha, Nebraska, April 29 – May 28, 2016
Artcetera 2016, Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, Iowa – December 2015 – May 18, 2016
From Dawn to Dusk: Paintings by Gary Bowling, Brunnier Art Museum, Ames Iowa – April 20, 2016 – July 31, 2016
Holiday: a Small Works Exhibition, MA Doran Gallery, Tulsa, Oklahoma – December 3, 2015 – January 15, 2016
Bowling – Reiger – Martinez , Leopold Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri – December 4, 2015 – February, 2016
40 – 40, 40th anniversary show for the Brunnier Art Museum, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa – September – December 2015
Introduction, Gallery 72, Omaha, NE – October 2015
Summer Salon, Groveland Art Gallery, Minneapolis, MN — June 14 – August 30, 2015
Summer Art – 2015, Meyer East Gallery, Santa Fe, NM — Summer 2015
New Work, Bowling, Chiavetta, and Merkel-Hess, Olson-Larsen Gallery, West Des Moines, Iowa — April 10 – June 6, 2015
Annual Landscape Show, Olson-Larsen Gallery, West Des Moines, Iowa — June 13 – August 14, 2014
Summer Salon, Groveland Art Gallery, Minneapolis, MN — June – August 31, 2014
Summer Shows, Meyer East Gallery, Santa Fe, NM — Summer 2014
Annual Landscape Show – 2014, Olson-Larsen Gallery, West Des Moines, Iowa – June 13 – August 16, 2014
35th Anniversary Show, Olson-Larsen Gallery, West Des Moines, Iowa April 11 – June 7, 2014
Small Works, MA Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK — December 2013
The Art of the Landscape, MA Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK — November 2013
Gary Bowling: Oil Painting, Leopold Gallery, Kansas City, MO — September – October, 2013
2013 Summer Shows, Meyer East Gallery, Santa Fe, NM — Summer 2013
Groveland Summer Show, Groveland Gallery, June 29 – August 30, 2013
Bowling, Hornecker, Smith: New Work, Olson-Larsen Gallery, West Des Moines, Iowa — Februrary 15 – April 6, 2013
Gary Bowling and Chris Dahlquist: New Artists, Leopold Gallery, Kansas City, MO — December 2012 – January 2013
Artcetera 2013, Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, Iowa – December 2012 – April 2013
Gary Bowling – Cumulative Now, Anderson-O’Brien Gallery, Omaha, NE — March 2 – 25, 2012
Valentine’s Show: 2012, MA Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK – February 2012
Annual Small Works 2012, MA Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK – November 29 – December 31, 2012
2012 Annual Landscape Show, Olson-Larsen Gallery, West Des Moines, IA – July 1 – August 29, 2012
The Art of the Landscape, MA Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK – November 3 – December 1, 2011
Plein Air SmackDown Exhibition, Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis, MN – July 15 – August 2, 2011
Gary Bowling: One Moment, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art Gallery, Kansas City, MO – June 1 – August 13, 2011
By the Light of the Night, Gallery KH, Chicago, IL — January – March 2, 2011
Silver Lining, The Citadelle Art Foundation, Canadian, TX – April 15 – May 20, 2010
Gary Bowling – A Chance of Sun, Gallery KH, Chicago, IL – April 16 – June 2, 2010
New Work by Gary Bowling, Olson-Larsen Gallery, West Des Moines, IA – April 6 – May 12, 2010
Gary Bowling – Notes To Self, Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis, MN – June 5 – July 18, 2009
Annual Landscape Show – Bowling, McKibbin, Gordnier, Olson/Larsen Gallery, West Des Moines, IA – May 12 – June 20, 2009
Small Works, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK – December 4, 2008 – January 5, 2009
Shelter, Olson/Larsen Gallery, West Des Moines, IA – November 1 – 30, 2008
September – National Landscape Show, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK – September 4 – October 1, 2008
End of Summer, Hyde – Walnut Street Gallery, Springfield, MO – August 15 – October 5, 2008
KH, Gallery KH, Chicago, IL – June 5 – August 1, 2008
Working on Paper, Mary Bell Gallery, Chicago, IL — January 2008
Not Just Landscapes, Highland Park Art Center, Highland Park, IL – December 2007
Gary Bowling—New Paintings, solo exhibit, Hyde Gallery, Springfield, Missouri — Fall 2007
Summer Landscape Show, Olson-Larsen Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa — May-July 2007
Still, solo exhibit at Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis, MN — December 2006 – January 2007
Obsessed with Weather, group exhibition, Brunnier Art Museum, Iowa State University, Ames, IA,
September 2006 – February 2007
Trees, Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, March 17 – April 29, 2006
The National Landscape Show, MA Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK, Fall 2005
Gary Bowling, Gallery 72, October 2005
Summer Landscapes, Olson-Larsen Gallery, June 2005
Gary Bowling: New Landscape, Steinway Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC, May – July 2005
American Realism , M.A. Doran Gallery, Spring 2005
Background, Solo exhibition at Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, September 2004
New Landscapes, Olson/Larsen Galleries, Des Moines, IA, May 21 – July 30, 2004
Group Show, Olson/Larsen Galleries, Des Moines, IA, November – December 2003
Solo exhibition, Walnut Street Gallery/Gallery Bistro, Springfield, MO, October 2003
2003 National Landscape Exhibition, MA Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK, October-November 2003
30 Artists – 30 Years, Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, June 2003
National Realism Show, Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK, May 2003
Gary Bowling, Steinway Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC, May 2003
Solo exhibition, Olson/Larsen Galleries, Des Moines, IA, February 2003
National Landscape Exhibition, MA Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK, November 2002
Light of Places, solo exhibition at Lakes Art Center, Spirit Lake, Iowa, June – July 2002
Summer Exhibitions, New Work by Gary Bowling, Olson/Larsen Galleries, Des Moines, Iowa, June 2002
GARY BOWLING – New Landscapes, exhibition at M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK, March 2002
Group Exhibition, Hammon School of Architecture, Drury University, Springfield, MO, January 2002
Solo exhibition at Gallery Bistro and Walnut Street Gallery, Springfield, MO, October 2001
National Landscape Invitational, MA Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK, October 2001
New Work by Gary Bowling and David Bowling, exhibition at Gallery 72, Omaha, NE, September 2001
Summer, exhibition at Walnut Street Gallery, Springfield, MO, June – July 2001
Summer Landscape 2001, group exhibit at Olson/Larsen Galleries, West Des Moines, Iowa, June 29 – August 2001
5 Landscape Painters, Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, June 2001
Solo exhibition at Steinway Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC, March through April 2001
Landscape and Place, group exhibition at MA Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK, September – October, 2000
Six Artists, group exhibit at Morgan Gallery, October 2000
Gary Bowling, exhibition at Olson/Larsen Gallery, October 2000
Skyscapes and Landscapes: the Ever-changing Loess Hills, group exhibition, the Cultural Center of the Loess Hills, Moorhead, IA, July 14 – September 3, 2000
Gary Bowling, exhibition at First National Bank (exhibition managed by Sioux City Art Center), Sioux City, IA, May – June 2000
Land of the Fragile Giants, group exhibit, Interior Museum, Washington, D.C, January 2000
Gary Bowling, Carlos Ferguson, John Preston, exhibition at Olson-Larsen Galleries, West Des Moines, Iowa, October 15 – November 30, 1999
American Landscape, exhibition at M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK, October 1999
Two Views of Nature: Bowling and Sierra, exhibition at Gallery 72, Omaha, NE, May 13 – June 4 1999
Gary Bowling, exhibition at the Des Moines Club (exhibition managed by Olson/Larsen Gallery), Des Moines, IA May 14 – June 1999
Olson/Larsen 20th Anniversary Exhibition, group exhibit at Olson/Larsen Gallery, West Des Moines, May 1999
Midwest Passage, solo exhibition, Witter Gallery, Storm Lake, IA, April, 1999
Gary Bowling, solo exhibition, Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO, January 8 to March 6, 1999
Gary Bowling, solo exhibition, Goddard Gallery at SFCC, Sedalia, MO, October 1998
Shadows and Water: new work by Gary Bowling, van de Griff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, September 1998
Urban and Rural Landscapes, group exhibit at Olson-Larsen Galleries, West Des Moines, IA, July 11 – August 29, 1998
group exhibit at General Mills, Minneapolis, MN, June-July 1998
Gary Bowling – Midwestern Landscapes, solo exhibition, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK, June 1998
Gary Bowling Paintings, solo exhibition, Walnut Street Gallery, Springfield, MO, May1 – June 30, 1998
Contemporary American Landscapes, group exhibition, MA Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK, March 30 – April 30, 1998
New Paintings by Gary Bowling, Van de Griff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, October, 1997
Art At Work, curated by John Neff from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, September, 1997
Reflections on Water and Light, solo exhibition of new paintings, Olson/Larsen Galleries, West Des Moines, IA, May 1997
Gary Bowling: new paintings and studies, Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis, MN,
January 7 – February 4, 1997
Midwestern Romanticism, traveling exhibition of landscape paintings. Catalog by John Arthur, March 1996 through 1997
Light Land: New Paintings by Gary Bowling, solo exhibition at the McMillan Memorial Library Gallery, Wisconsin Rapids, WI, November 20, 1996 – January 3, 1997. Lecture, November 21, 1996
H. Gregor & G. Bowling Landscapes, two person exhibition at Gallery 72, Omaha, NE, September 27 – November 4, 1996
“Studies for Paintings”, exhibition of studies for paintings by Gary Bowling at M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, Oklahoma, February 1996
Our Artists, Walnut Street Gallery, Springfield, Missouri, November-December 1995
“On Paper”, group exhibition at M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, October 1995
New Landscapes by Gary Bowling, Gallery 72, May, 1994
“Land of the Fragile Giants: Landscapes, Environments, and Peoples of the Loess Hills”, traveling invitational exhibition sponsored by the Brunnier Art Gallery of Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 1994 and 1997
New Paintings by Gary Bowling, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, Oklahoma, November 1993 and January 1994
Paintings by Gary Bowling, Central College, Pella, Iowa, October 1993
Harold Gregor, James Butler, James Winn, & Gary Bowling at Artworks Gallery, Peoria, IL, October/November, 1993
“Flowers and Gardens”, Invitational Exhibition at the Olson/Larsen Gallery, West Des Moines, Iowa, August 15 to September 15, 1993
“The Crested Butte Series: Paintings by Gary Bowling” Solo Exhibition of painting sponsored by the Keene Corporation, Crested Butte Art Center, Crested Butte, Colorado, July 12 to August 18, 1993
New Masters Exhibition, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia, March through May 1992
“Close to Home: Artists with an Iowa Connection”, a group exhibition from the collection of the Principal Group at Artzone in Des Moines, Iowa, June 14 through July 19, 1991
“Gary Bowling: New Painting” solo exhibition at the Groveland Gallery in Minneapolis, MN, March 15 through April 19, 1991
“The Landscape in Art: New Traditions/Extended Meanings” selected works by contemporary Midwestern artists from regional corporate collections curated by Joseph Mella and sponsored by the Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois, February 2 through March 31, 1991
“The Eternal Horizon”, traveling exhibition from the collection of the Sheldon Art Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1990 through 1991
“Impressionism 1990”, Walnut Street Gallery, Springfield,MO, November through December 1990
“Barnes/Bowling/McKibben/Patrick” group exhibition at Olson/Larsen Gallery, Des Moines, IA November 1990
“Contemporary Landscape: Paintings by Gary Bowling”, Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, Iowa, September 1990
“Middle American Landscape: Bowling, Butler, and Jacobshagen”, group exhibition, Southwest State University, Marshal, Minnesota, January 1990
“New Paintings by Gary Bowling”, solo exhibition, Gallery 72, Omaha, Nebraska, October 1989
“New Perspective on Landscape”, Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, September 8 through October 2, 1989
“Sun/Clouds/Rain”, 3rd Annual Spring Invitational Show, Iowa State University, Lincoln Gallery, sponsored by the ISU Credit Union, Ames, Iowa, May 1, 1989 through June 23, 1989
“Landscapes: European and American Perspectives”, Carega Foxley Leach Gallery, Washington, D.C., April 27 through May 31, 1989
“Images from the Prairie: Urban and Rural”, exhibition of work by Gary Bowling, Steven Herrnstadt, and Genie Hudson Patrick sponsored by the Iowa Humanities Board and the National Endowment for the Humanities, Waterloo Art Center, Waterloo, Iowa, April 2 through May 7, 1989
“Directions, Color, and Form”, an exhibition of works by Gary Bowling, Warren Rosser, Robert Russell, and Wade Thompson, Spiva Art Center, Joplin, Missouri, October 1988
“Of Vapor and Denser Surfaces”, solo exhibition organized by the Mitchell Museum, Brunnier Art Gallery, Mitchell Museum, Mount Vernon, Illinois, November 1987 through January 1988, Brunnier Art Gallery at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, February through March1988
Solo Exhibition, Drury College Art Gallery, Springfield, Missouri, February 1988
“Of Vapor and Denser Surfaces”, solo exhibition,
Contemporary Landscape, Institute for Creative Arts, Fairfield, Iowa, May 17 – June 4, 1987
A Showcase of Iowa Artists, The Principal Corporate Center, Des Moines, Iowa, April 28 – May 22, 1987
Solo Exhibition, Batz/Lawrence Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, February 1987
“Rural and Urban Landscapes”, at the Olson/Larsen Galleries , Des Moines, Iowa, October – November 1986
Solo Exhibition, Paducah Art Guild, Paducah, Kentucky, July 1986
“Prairie Vistas”, group exhibition of paintings by Gary Bowling, Anne Burkholder, Hal Holoun, David Melby, and Jane Pronko, Joslin Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska May 27 through July 13, 1986
“Gary Bowling: New Paintings”, solo exhibition, Gallery 72, Omaha, Nebraska, May 1986
“Midsummer Magic: September Song”, exhibition of works by four artists, Batz/Lawrence Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, September 1985
Solo Exhibition, Friends Gallery, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 1984
“Air, Earth, and In-Between”, Solo Exhibition Sioux City Art Center, catalog by SCAC and the Iowa Arts Council, Sioux City, Iowa, August through September 1983
“The Friends Gallery of the Minneapolis Art Institute”, a exhibition displayed at the Lutheran Brotherhood Building, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 1982
“Paintings from a Studio at Yaddo”, Solo Exhibition, Mock Art Gallery, Westmar College, LeMars, Iowa, April 1982
“American Art: The Challenge of the Land”, Pillsbury Commemorative Exhibit, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 1981
“Homage to the Hindenberg”, installation piece on Westmar College campus as part of the “Legacy of Modernism” series, March 1981
Solo exhibition, Spiva Art Center, Missouri Southern State College, Joplin, Missouri, February 1980
Solo Exhibition, 100 watercolor illustrations to celebrate the epic opera, “The Ring of the Niebelung” by Richard Wagner, Weidler Art Gallery, LeMars, Iowa, Fall 1976
“Colleges of Mid-America Faculty Invitational”, University of South Dakota Art Gallery in Vermillion, Fall 1975
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