ABOUT

A. W. Owens is a multidisciplinary artist with a background in painting, printmaking, and graphic design, now working primarily in fine-art photography, poetry, and AI-assisted artwork. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in Photography.

Owens is the author of several poetry collections, including The Women, Meant for Me, Where Pigeons Rest, and Payments of Living, as well as the expanded edition of The Women featuring AI assisted artwork titled A. W. Owens’s The Women. His photographic project “American Loneliness,” is a series built as a photographic poem, created from fragments, both visual and written. The work uses photography as a way of speaking about solitude, memory, observation, distance, and loneliness. Each image carries its own weight both visually and poetically, a line painted on the road, a shadow on a tree, or the blurred outline of a face. Some of these pieces are then paired with text, others stand on their own, turning the series into a kind of poetic diary. It is not a straightforward autobiography, but a way of recording experience in small, layered moments that suggest both presence and absence.

His work has been exhibited at venues such as SeeMe At Armory (NYC), The Affordable Art Fair (NYC), Art Takes Miami: Scope Miami Beach, Black Box Gallery (Portland), and the Academy of Art University Spring Show (San Francisco). Publications featuring his photography include Fujilove Magazine, The White Wall Magazine, Mob Journal, MAC Magazine, Beautica, OFF TOWN, and Socks and Pizza: The Book II, among many others.