Born in Guyana (then British Guiana) in 1934, Frank Bowling moved to London aged 19. He went on to study painting at the Royal College of Art alongside David Hockney and R.B. Kitaj. It was during this time that he also became friends with Peter Blake.

After graduating with a silver medal, he spent the next 60 years criss-crossing the Atlantic between studios in London and New York. Maturing into a master of his medium, he developed a visionary approach that fuses abstraction with personal memories. Now 90 he still paints every day, experimenting with new materials and techniques.

Frank Bowling exhibits in Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States. His works are included in important private and corporate collections worldwide including the Metropolitan Museum and Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Tate Gallery in London where he has had a major retrospective. Recent exhibitions include Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art, Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, Hauser and Wirth, Los Angeles, and the Saatchi Gallery, the British Library and the Royal Academy of Arts in London.