David Dirrane Bowes (born 1957) is an American painter, based in Turin, Italy.

[4] Bowes attended Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in the mid 1970s and has taught painting classes at his alma mater.

[5][6][7] His paintings are often brightly colored, with loose painterly strokes and make reference to multiple sources such as allegories, mythology and art history.

He has been described as being a "brilliant painter",[8] and having a "delicacy of touch and genuine fascination with the medium of paint.

He participated in 1999 at the 48th Venice Biennale and one of his works is present in the Lucio Amelio's Terrae Motus collection at the Royal Palace of Caserta starting in 1994.