Marie Hines Cowan

Marie Hines Cowan (b. 1967 Brooklyn, NY) is a figurative oil painter marrying mythology with colloquial culture. Her work is narrative, life-sized, and representational, though unconstrained by realism. Hines Cowan’s work is bold, colorful, and painterly, but also graphic and illustrative.
Since 1979, Hines Cowan has been exhibiting in the US and Europe in group and solo exhibits and recently as part of art fairs. She served as the exhibition chair and the President of the National Association of Women Artists. In addition to her visual art, Hines Cowan is a sought-after speaker on the arts who has participated in The Artist Forum TV, radio programs, Yale’s 2014 Women in Leadership Conference, podcasts, and exhibition talks. In 2023, Hines Cowan had a solo exhibition as part of the symposium, Musing, Metamorphoses, and Medea, created with scholars, Claire E. Scott, and Valentina Motta, at New Rochelle’s Museum of Arts and Cultural. Motta and Scott used Hines Cowan’s work in their recent books on Greek mythology. Hines Cowan’s artwork has also been published in several literary and art journals. In 2024 she will be exhibiting work at the European Cultural Centre’s Biennial in Vience.
Hines Cowan received her art degree from FIT (198...

Education
New York University, Classical Literature
Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC
New York Summer School of the Arts, Fredonia College, NY
Apprenticeship with fine artist Alice Sweeney, Baldwin, NY

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 Musings, Metamorphoses and Medea, Museum of Arts & Culture, New Rochelle, NY
2019 Crary Art Gallery, Warren, PA
2018 Musings, Lord and Andra Art Gallery, New Rochelle, NY
Musings, Chapter 2, Lord and Andra Art Gallery, New Rochelle, NY
Musings, Chapter 3, Barrons Art Center, Woodbridge, NJ
2017 Flower Power, a Pop-Up Exhibition, Sutton Florist, New Rochelle, NY
2014 Musings: Book 1, National Association of Women Artists, Inc. NYC
2013 Musings: Selected Stories, New York Public Library Riverside Branch, NYC
2012 Musing: The Beginnings of an Epic, Museum of Arts & Culture, New Rochelle, NY
2004 The Galleries at Beyer Blinder Belle NYC
2001 Soho20, NYC
2000 Kavehaz, NYC
Group Exhibitions
2024 Personal Structures, European Cultural Centre - Biennial Art Exhibition, Venice, Italy
Group Exhibit Vanda Gallery, New Rochelle NY
The Female Gaze, Rotunda Gallery, New Rochelle, NY
2023 Focus Art Fair, NYC
2022 The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn Navy Yard, NY
New Rochelle ArtsFest, Open Studio, New Rochelle, NY
133rd Annual Members Exhibition, National Association of Women Artists, NYC
105th Annual Juried Open, Greenwich Art Society, Greenwich CT
The Subjective Portrait: Reflections of Our Humanity, NRCA Rot...