Bruce Bowale

Bowale Bruce is a South African-born artist from Pretoria. During school Bowale explored various creative pursuits, such as dance, music, drama, gumboots dance and visual arts. His first public outing as an artist was in the form of a mural painted at Pretoria National Zoo (2016). He went on to obtain his National Diploma in Fine Arts from the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) in 2018. During his studies at TUT, Bowale also found time to participate in the Pretoria Art Museum Educational Assistance (EA) development program to become an art tour guide and an art facilitator.

In 2018 Bowale was amongst the top five short-listed candidates for the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) scholarship and participated in his first group exhibition at the Pretoria Art Museum. He featured in the top 40 and top 100 of the States of The Art (SOTA) and Thami Mnyele Fine Arts Awards competition respectively. In 2019 he was selected for the Artist Career Boot Camp (ACBC) and was mentored by Lesley Cohn from Art Source South Africa. This program was funded by the National Arts Council of South Africa (NAC) in association with the Bag Factory Artists ’Studios.

In the year of 2020 Bruce Bowale exhibited with the Association for Visual Arts (AVA) ...

Tshwane University of Technology (TUT)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Year 2024
“Resonance Of My Body”, Debut Solo Exhibition, Pretoria Art Museum, 2024, Pretoria.

DUO EXHIBITIONS

Year 2020
Association for Visual Arts (AVA) Gallery,
Duo Exhibition, titled “Legae/Khayalethu” Exhibition, 2020, Cape Town.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Year 2022
RK Contemporary Gallery, Cape Town
TRANSLOCATION, Group exhibition.

Lizamore and Associates
Salon Group exhibition, Johannesburg.

Year 2020
Zeitz Museum Of Contemporary African Art (Mocaa),
Group exhibition “Home Is Where the Art Is”. Cape Town.

Pretoria Art Museum in partnership with Banele Khoza (BKhz) Gallery, Genesis X’hibition, Group exhibition at BKhz Gallery, Johannesburg.

Bag Factory Artists’ Studios
Summer Salon exhibition. Johannesburg, Fordsburg.

MmARTHouse in collaboration with First Rand Limited (RMB),
group exhibition titled “Void” curated by Ntokozo Langa. Randburg, Blairegowrie.

The Bag Factory Artists’ Studios
Group exhibition titled Bibliotheca 700, Johannesburg, Fordsburg

Julie Miller Investment Art Institute
Autumn edition collection. Mall of Africa. Midrand.

Year 2018
The Thami Mnyele Fine Arts Awards,
top 100 artists Group Exhibition. Ekurhuleni.

Julie Miller Investment Art Institute,
Spring Art Collective Exhibiti...