Roy Fowler (b. 1952, Santa Barbara, CA) earned a BFA from the University of California Santa Barbara in 1976 and moved to New York upon graduation. His work first appeared in a group show at the Queens Museum of Art in 1979, and his first solo show was at the Anne Plumb Gallery in 1985. He has continued to show in New York and abroad, most recently at Fort Gansevoort, New York in 2016. Fowler has also created set designs for choreographer Molissa Fenley, appearing in the following performances: Regions (1995), Trace (1997), Aquarium Trio (2000), Waiting For Rain (2003), Planes in Air (2010), Found Object (2013), and Lincoln Center Event (2014). He has won awards from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, The Adolph and Ester Gottlieb Foundation, and Artist’s Space. His work is in public and private collections, including The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, The JP Morgan Chase Collection, Equitable Collection, The Honolulu Museum of Art and The Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Fowler lives and works in New York.