Owen lives and works in Edinburgh. In 2002 he participated in New: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary British Art at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, and in 2014 was included in Art Basel, Miami and Hong Kong. In 2016 Owen exhibited at Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kerala, completed a public commission for the Edinburgh Art Festival and participated in Frieze Art Fair, London, and the Armory Show, New York.