Every year The Bowery Gallery Annual Juried Competition is open to all applicants working in two-dimensional media. Past jurors have included prominent artists such as William Bailey, Rackstraw Downes, Paul Resika and Joan Snyder, and eminent critics like Jed Perl, David Cohen, and Stephen Westfall. Over the years exhibitions at Bowery have been reviewed in The New Republic, The New York Times, The New York Sun, Art in America and other publications.

Enrico Riley is a Professor of Studio Art at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize in Visual Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Prize in Painting. Riley has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the American Academy in Rome, the University of New Hampshire and Jenkins Johnson Projects.

He has participated in group exhibitions at “State of the Art 2020” at Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, “Black Bodies on the Cross” at The Hood Museum, Lori Bookstein Fine Art in NYC, and The Painting Center in NYC. His work is in institutions including the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Hood Museum, and The Nasher Sculpture Center. Enrico Riley has an MFA in painting from Yale University and a BA in Visual Studies from Dartmouth College. Riley lives and works in Vermont and New Hampshire.