His photographs have been exhibited internationally and are in the collections of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, among others. Gowin is represented by the Robert Mann Gallery in New York City, and Dolphin Gallery in Kansas City. He is a 2008 recipient of the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. He participated in Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence Program in 1998.