Guided Tour: ‘Frank Bowling. Like Water’ with Ben Bowling, Hauser & Wirth, Hong Kong, 11 June 2026

$Guided Tour: \u2018Frank Bowling. Like Water\u2019 with Ben Bowling$

Please join us to celebrate the opening of ‘Frank Bowling. Like Water’ at Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong.
About this Event

The exhibition brings together a selection of works from the 1960s to 2020, showcasing his mastery of surface texture.

11 June – 29 August
Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong

G/F, 8 Queen's Road Central
Tue – Sat, 11 am –7 pm
Guided Tour with Ben Bowling
Thursday 11 June
4 – 5 pm

Opening Reception
Thursday 11 June
5 – 7 pm

About Frank Bowling

Sir Frank Bowling OBE RA is regarded as one of Britain’s most significant living artists. For over six decades, Bowling has rigorously pursued a practice which boldly expands the possibilities and properties of paint. At the age of 92, Bowling continues to paint every day in his South London studio.

Frank Bowling’s work is represented in around 60 collections worldwide and has been exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions, including the 2017 – 2019 touring exhibition ‘Mappa Mundi,’ the hugely successful retrospective at Tate Britain in 2019 and the major exhibition ‘Frank Bowling: Americas,’ which toured from MFA Boston to SFMOMA from 2022 – 2023. Bowling’s ‘Map Paintings’ were the centerpiece of the exhibition ‘Faultlines: Contemporary African Art and Shifting Landscapes’ at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003. He was elected a Royal Academician in 2005, appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2008 and knighted in 2020 for his services to art. In 2022, Bowling was awarded the Wolfgang Hahn Prize which honors exceptional contemporary artists.

About Ben Bowling

Ben Bowling is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at King’s College London, co-director of Frank Bowling Studio and Chair of Trustees of the Frank Bowling Foundation. His books including Young People and Crime (1995), Violent Racism (1999), Policing the Caribbean (2010), and The Politics of the Police (2020). As co-director (with his brother, Sacha Bowling) of Frank Bowling studio, he leads the studio team and works with galleries and museums freeing Sir Frank to make the critically acclaimed work that is at the heart of his painting practice. Bowling is also a musician and his band—Doc Bowling and his Blues Professors—performs regularly across the UK and Europe.

Frank Bowling , Shrill , 2002 . Photo: Alex Delfanne

Sir Frank Bowling at his studio in Peacock Yard, 2025. Photo: William Waterworth. Courtesy Frank Bowling Archive

Portrait of Ben Bowling and Frank Bowling. Photo: Spencer Richards