Sydney Bowers is a Brooklyn based oil painter whose work combines 'feminine' subject matter with surrealist and minimalist languages to create iconography that reminds us to forgive ourselves. She sources and stages her own sets- illusions constructed in front of colorful paper backdrops containing everything from lush foliage to broken crystal stemware. This process is inextricable from the act of painting itself. These precariously placed and hovering items indiscriminately vary from low-brow to luxury and from fully realized to a barely-there muteness. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2011 with her BFA in Illustration, and from the New York Academy of Art in 2020 with her MFA in Painting. 

Education
​New York Academy of Art 
MFA 2020

Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
BFA 2011
RISD European Honors Program 2009

Exhibitions
2020 When Life Doesn't Give You Lemons Tchotchke Gallery, NY, NY (Online Only)
2020 Thesis Exhibition New York Academy of Art, NY, NY
2020 Summer Exhibition New York Academy of Art, NY, NY
2020 Milieu New York Academy of Art, NY, NY
2019 Beneath Notice New York Academy of Art, NY, NY
​2019 UND Residency Show Kylemore Abbey, Galway, Ireland
2019 Spring Copyist Celebration The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2018 Tracing Lineage New York Academy of Art, NY, NY
2015 National Juried Competition Runner Up Show The Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013 The Salon Show The Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Senior Show ISB Gallery, RISD, Providence
2011 The Illustration Show Woods Gerry Gallery, RISD, Providence, RI
2010 Collabustration ISB Gallery, RISD, Providence, RI
2009 EHP Fall Show Cenci Beatrice Gallery, Rome, Italy

Press
2020 Harpers Bazaar Arabia

Residencies and Awards
2019 Kylemore Abbey Global Centre Residency Award, New York Academy of Art
2018-2020 Academy Scholar Award, New York Academy of Art
2016 Vermont Studio Center
2015 Runner Up, The Greenpoint Gallery National Juried Competition

Select Collections
John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, RI
Cranbrook Schools, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Scott and Pat Moger