ABOUT

A. W. Owens is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of fine-art photography, poetry, and visual storytelling. With a foundation in painting, printmaking, and graphic design, his practice centers on memory, solitude, and the emotional weight of everyday places. Owens earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and is currently completing a Master of Fine Arts in Photography.

He is the author of several poetry collections: The Women, Meant for Me, Where Pigeons Rest, and Payments of Living, and the expanded edition of The Women, which incorporates AI-assisted artwork. His ongoing photographic project American Loneliness functions as a visual poem: each image carries its own emotional resonance while contributing to a larger, layered narrative about presence, distance, and absence.

Owens’s work has been shown in exhibitions including 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). His photography has appeared in publications such as Fujilove Magazine, The White Wall Magazine, Mob Journal, MAC Magazine, Beautica, OFF TOWN, and Socks and Pizza: The Book II.