A painting by Nate Lowman, titled Maria, dated 2022.

 (b. 1979) deftly mines images culled from art history, the news, and popular media, transforming visual signifiers from these distinct sources into a diverse body of paintings, sculptures, and installations. Since the early 2000s, the artist has continually pushed the boundaries of his multimedia approach with works that are by turns critical, humorous, political, and poetic. In his work, Lowman stages an encounter with commonplace, universally recognizable motifs, questioning and revisiting their intended meanings while creating new narratives in the process.

In 2025, the Musée national Eugène Delacroix, Paris, presented a solo exhibition of the artist’s work in conversation with the work of Delacroix. In 2024, a two-person exhibition was held at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, presenting Lowman’s work alongside that of August Rodin. The artist’s work was the subject of a solo exhibition at Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, in 2018. Other solo presentations at public institutions include those at the Aspen Art Museum, Colorado (2017); FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France (2016); Dallas Contemporary, Texas (2015); The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, Connecticut (2012); Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo (2009); and Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (2006).

Lowman’s work has also been featured in significant group exhibitions including 

Third Dimension: Works from The Brant Foundation

, The Brant Foundation, New York (2019); 

Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim

, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2015); 

, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (2014); 

, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium (2014); 

, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo (2012); 

George Herms: Xenophilia (Love of the Unknown)

, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2011);

 The Luminous Interval: The D. Daskalopoulos Collection

, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain (2011); 

Off the Wall: Part 1—Thirty Performative Actions

, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2010); and 

Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance

, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2010).

In 2019, the artist joined David Zwirner and had his first solo presentation at the gallery’s London space later that year, followed by a solo exhibition at David Zwirner New York in 2022. In 2024, 

 on view at David Zwirner, Los Angeles. The artist lives and works in New York.

Work by Lowman is held in numerous institutional collections including the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York; Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Postcard with Red Slippers (After Delacroix)

Open Container

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Study of Two Tigers (After Delacroix)

Shipwrecks with Unmade Bed (After Eugène Delacroix and Cecily Brown)

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Unmade Bed Studio (After Delacroix)

Shipwrecks (After Cecily Brown)

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Unmade Bed (After Delacroix)

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Million Dollar Babies (After Delacroix)

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Palette with Unmade Bed

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Eugene (After Cecily Brown)

Mother with Sigfried & Roy (After Delacroix)

Editorial

Nate Lowman: After Delacroix

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