BIO

Claire Cowie attended both the North Carolina School of the Arts (Winston-Salem, NC) and Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, MO). She received her MFA from the University of Washington (Seattle, WA). Cowie’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, including shows at the Henry Art Gallery (Seattle, WA), Takeda Biennial (Oaxaca, Mexico), Tacoma Art Museum (Tacoma, WA), Frye Art Museum (Seattle, WA), Shenzhen Fine Art Institute (Shenzhen, China) and The Art Gym at Marylhurst University (Marylhurst, OR). Her work is included in the collections of the Henry Art Gallery (Seattle, WA), Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA), Safeco (Seattle, WA) and Tacoma Art Museum (Tacoma, WA), among others. In 2017, Cowie completed a large installation for Facebook Artist in Residence (Seattle, WA). Cowie is currently a full-time lecturer at the University of Washington (Seattle, WA) in the Interdisciplinary Visual Arts Program.