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(b Bartica, Feb 26, 1934). British painter, art critic, and curator. Bowling was born Bartica, British Guiana, and in 1953 moved to England during a time of mass migration of people from the British Commonwealth after World War II, known as the 'Windrush Generation' (Beauchamp-Byrd 1997, 20). Upon arriving in England he first served in the Royal Air Force and in 1959 he received a scholarship to study art at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London. His work at the time was figurative and almost always oil paint on canvas. He graduated in 1962 and received the silver medal in painting. From 1958 to 1963 Bowling was a founding member of the Young Commonwealth Artists Group. After graduation, Bowling’s work shifted to abstraction, and he began using acrylic paint. He went on to receive Guggenheim Fellowships in 1967 and 1973. In 1971 he had a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Bowling became the first Black artist to be elected a member of the Royal Academy, London, in ...