BORN: 1958 Hendersonville, North Carolina

EDUCATION:
1981 BFA, Calvin College

GRANTS:
1995 Illinois Arts Council, Fellowship in Visual Art ($5,000).
1987 Michigan Council for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant ($5,000).

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2008 "rise up children, sing a glorious future", Koplin Del Rio, Culver City, CA
2005 “At Arms Length”, Olson Gallery of Bethel University, St. Paul, MN
2004 “Drawing the Face of the Deep,” Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL
        “Too Close for Comfort”, gescheidle, Chicago, IL
        “Proximity”, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
2003 “Trouble the Water: Paintings by Tim Lowly,” Westmont College, Reynolds Gallery,
           Santa Barbara, CA
        “To Be, To Be”, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
2002 Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, IL.
        Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA.
        Judson College, Elgin, IL.
2001 Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL.
        Bethany Lutheran College, Mankato, MN
        Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL.
2000 Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL.
        Gordon College, Wenham, MA.
        Greenville College, Greenville, IL.
1999 Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL.
        Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL.
        Snite Art Museum, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN.
1998 Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX.
        Marywood University, Scranton, PA
        Proof, Gallery Arcadia, Grand Rapids, MI
        Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL.
1997 Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
        Art Space Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
1996 Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, MI.
        Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, Lynchburg, VA.
1995 Saginaw Art Museum, Saginaw, MI.
        Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI.
        Condeso Lawler Gallery, New York, NY.
        Isis Gallery, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN.
1994 Asbury College, Wilmore, KY.
1993 Wustum Museum of Art, Racine, WI.
        Millikin University, Decatur, IL.
        Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, IL.
1992 North Park College, Chicago, IL.
        Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.
        Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL.
1991 Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, IL.
        Saint Francis College, Fort Wayne, IN.
1990 The Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI.
1989 Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, IL.
1988 Mott Community College, Flint, MI.
1984 Arts Center, Chonju, South Korea.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007  “About Face”, Long Beach Museum, Long Beach, CA
2006 “Reality Effect”, Santa Ana College, Santa Ana, CA
        “Eighth Annual Realism Invitational”, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY and        
         San Francisco, CA
        “A Broken Beauty: Figuration, Narrative and the Transcendent in North American Art”
         Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
2005 “Seventh Annual Realism Invitational”, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
        “Re-presenting Representation VII”, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
        “After the Fact”, Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL
2004 Interlochen Center for the Arts, Michigan
        “Realism Today”, Columbus State University, GA
        “Drawings VII”, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
        “Another Look: Frye Viewpoints”, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2003 small voice, (group show) Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX
        Art Chicago, gescheidle gallery, Chicago, IL
2002 Clarke College (two-person), Dubuque, IA.
        The Perception of Appearance: A Decade of Contemporary American Figure Drawing, The Frye                 Museum, Seattle, WA.
        Contemporary Drawing Salon, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL.
        Drawings VI, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
        Harboring Beauty, Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2001 National Drawing Invitational, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK.
2000 Self-portraits, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL.
        Drawings V, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
1999 Esther Claypool Gallery, Seattle, WA.
1998 Portraits, Elmhurst Museum, Elmhurst, IL.
        Annual Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY.
        Parallel Visions, Dittmar Gallery, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
1997 Through a Glass Dimly, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX
1995 Arts in Healing, The Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, OH.
        Spiritual Inquiries, Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL.
1994 Veiled Images, S.F. Austin University, Nacodoches, TX (traveling exhibition)
        Body and Soul: Contemporary Art and Healing, Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
1993 View from the Bed: A Personal Look at Illness and Disability, Museum of Surgical Science,                 Chicago, IL.
1992 Self-portraits, Midtown Payson Gallery, New York, NY.
1990 THE CHICAGO SHOW, Cultural Center, Chicago, IL.
1989 FESTIVAL ARTS , Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI.
        WEST-MICHIGAN REGIONAL, Muskegon Museum of Art, MI.
1988 THE 1980'S: A NEW GENERATION, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
1987 MID-MICHIGAN EXHIBITION, Midland Center for the Arts, MI.
        Contemporary Art Workshop (two-person), Chicago, IL.
1986 THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER BIENNIAL, Cincinnati, OH (traveling exhibition).

PUBLICATIONS
2004 News and Events, June 2004, http://www.northpark.edu/news/story.cfm?ID=682
        Weiss, Hedy, “Three Contemporary Painters Give Their Take on ‘La Grande Jatte”,
          Chicago Sun Times, June 13
2003 Prescott, Theodore, “Beauty’s Embrace”, American Arts Quarterly, Winter
2002 Artner, Alan, “Lowly’s ‘Shift’ Captures Grace”, The Chicago Tribune, Nov. 22, Sec. 7, pg. 23
        Camper, Fred, “Temma Lowly and the Meaning of Life”, CH Reader, Nov. 22, Sec. 1, pg. 1, 14-20
        Woodard, Josef, “The daily art of being”, Santa Barbara News-Press, Sept. 6-12, pgs. 12-13
2001 Brunetti, John, Exhibition catalog, Peripheral Vision, Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL
        Wolfe, Towsend, Exhibition cat., National Drawing Invitational, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
2000 Camper, Fred, Camper Reader, Jan. 14
1999 Artner, Alan, Chicago Tribune, Dec. 23, May 27
        Camper, Fred, The Chicago Reader, Aug. 14
        Waskowsky, Greg, Christianity and the Arts, Summer
        Wiens, Ann, New City (Chicago), May
        Kubiski, Joyce, Exhibition Brochure, The Snite Museum, South Bend, IN
1998 Brunetti, John, New Art Examiner, July/Aug.
        Bakker, Conrad, The Paper (Grand Rapids), Oct. 22
1997 Artner, Alan, Chicago Tribune, Aug. 14
        Park, Soo-Jin, Exhibition catalog, Art Space Seoul, Korea, May
1995 Green, Roger, The Grand Rapids Press, Oct.
1994 Halvorsen-Schreck, Karen, Image Magazine, Fall
        Capasso, Nicholas, Exhibition catalog: Body and Soul: Contemporary Art and
        Healing, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
1993 Pepich, Bruce, Exhibition brochure, Wustum Museum, Racine, WI
1992 Krissoff, Sylvia, The Grand Rapids Press, August 20
        Bergman, Susan, Exhibition catalog, Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI
1990 Barckert, Lynda, Exhibition catalog, The Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI
1989 Bakker, John, The Banner, Dec. 18
        Barckert, Lynda, New Art Examiner, Nov., p.42
        McCracken, David, The Chicago Tribune, Sept. 29
        Artner, Alan, The Chicago Tribune, Oct. 6
1987 Benson, David, Grand Rapids Magazine, Aug., pg. 13
1984 Huntley, Martha, The Korea Times, July 11

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK.
Columbus College, Columbus, GA.
Davidson College, Davidson, NC.
The Graham Center Museum, Wheaton, IL.
The Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo, MI.
The Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI.
The McDonold's Corporate Collection, Oak Brook, IL.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY.
The Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL.
Millikin University, Decatur, IL.
The Wustum Museum of Art, Racine, WI.