Bruce Bowale is a South African born artist based in Pretoria.

During school he explored various creative pursuits, such as dance, music, drama, and gumboots dance.

Bruce began exposing his talent to the public by painting a mural at the Pretoria National Zoo in 2016. The project was made possible by the partnership between the Pretoria National Zoo and Tshwane University of Technology.

In 2017 he was amongst the top five shortlisted candidates for the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) scholarship for Fine Arts. He obtains a National Diploma in Fine Arts from the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) 2018.

He is also an Alumni to the Pretoria Art Museum Educational Assistant development programme, were he was equipped with the necessities of being a Tour Guide, an Art facilitator to workshops and art-making projects with schools.

In 2018 he participated in his first group exhibition at the Pretoria Art Museum. He was then part of the top forty States Of The Art finalists. He participated at the top 100 finalist of Thami Mnyele Fine Arts Awards Competition.

In 2019 he was then selected for the Artist Career Boot Camp (ACBC) year three – 2019 mentored by Lesley Cohn from the Art Source South Africa. This programme was funded by the National Arts Council (NAC) and in association with the Bag Factory Artists Studios. The programme lead to a group exhibition “Bibliotheca 700” hosted at the Bag Factory, in which he was the co-curator.

During 2019 he participated in the autumn and spring edition collection from the Julie Miller Art Investment Institute, Mall of Africa. The Bi-annual winter and summer Salon exhibition at the Bag Factory. A group exhibition titled “Void” hosted by MmARTHouse in collaboration with FirstRand Limited (RMB) curated by Ntokozo Langa. He then exhibited at the BKhz Gallery in Braamfontein from a group exhibition show “Genesis II X’hibition” in partnership with the Pretoria Art Museum.

In the year of 2020 Bruce Bowale exhibited with the Association for Visual Arts (AVA) Gallery at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair (ICTAF). During his stay in Cape Town he partook at the Zeitz Mocca group exhibition “Home is where the Art is”. He then had a Dual exhibition titled “Legae/Khayalethu” with a Cape Town based artist Chumisa Fihla at the AVA Gallery in 2020-2021.

On his return of arrival (early 2021) Bruce Bowale became his Residency at the Kopanong Art Studio in the Pretoria Art Museum until mid 2022. In 2023 he partnered with the TUT Science Campus, the United Nations South Africa , Wildlife & Environment Society of South Africa (Wessa), Khutuza Foundation and TUT Science faculty to create a Mural Painting at the Science Campus. In 2024 he debutes his Solo Exhibition with the Pretoria Art Museum titled Resonance Of My Body.

During the course of this year Bruce Bowale has collaborated with Ntshikiwane Raphesu on her third album cover titled “Soul Medicine” which was released on the 11th of April 2025. He then exhibited at the Capital Art Fair Tshwane (CAFT) in May 2025. 

he is looking further onto upcoming projects and ideas.