Born in 1980 in Alberta, Bornowsky currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. He holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, and an MFA from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; Vancouver Art Gallery; the Western Front, Vancouver; Ottawa Art Gallery; G Gallery, Toronto; SFU Gallery, Burnaby; and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, and Unit 17, among others. His writing has been published in Fillip, C Magazine and Pyramid Power, and he has curated numerous exhibitions and events at the Or Gallery, Vancouver.
Eli Bornowsky is a painter, writer and curator who lives in Vancouver and Brooklyn. Frequently drawing on a wide array of influences from art, mysticism, math and science, Bornowsky has produced a significant body of work that takes a consistently studied and exploratory approach to abstract painting, with special emphasis on colour. The artist’s investigations in recent years have resulted in shaped paintings, low wall reliefs and optical tessellations.
Eli Bornowsky 2020 solo exhibition in Canton-sardine.
IH86mod20 (rotation and improvisation) landscape | egg tempera, gesso, muslin, on panel | 30” x 30” | 2019
IH55Delannoy Lost, noise | egg tempera, gesso, muslin, on panel | 30” x 30” | 2019
IsoH47Delannoy74mod24 First | egg tempera, gesso, muslin, on panel | 30” x 30” | 2019
Delannoy Map10mod12_starts(1,1) (tantra center) | egg tempera, gesso, muslin, on panel | 15” x 15” | 2019
Isomonohedral_pg31 D19mod20 (riddim) | egg tempera, gesso, muslin, on panel | 15” x 15” | 2019
Isogonal25_mod15 (primaries) | egg tempera, gesso, muslin, on panel | 15” x 15” | 2019
All works’ price upon request by email: stdragonn@canton-sardine.com
Eli Bornowsky
Born:1980
Education
- 2012 – 2014 MFA Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, New York
- 2005 BFA Visual Arts, Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver
- 2001 Diploma Visual Communication: Design and Illustration, Grant MacEwan College, Edmonton
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 2020 TBA Kings Leap, New York City
- 2020 . A Way to Finish Thinking, Canton-Sardine, Vancouver
- 2017 Percussion Instruments, Unit 17, Vancouver
- 2015 Piano Finish, Violet Strays, online
- 2014 All is Unmentionable Up in the Air, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby
- Thin Places, CSA space, Vancouver,
- 2013 Eli Bornowsky, G Gallery, Toronto
- 2011 Eli Bornowsky, Blanket Gallery, Vancouver
- 2010 Walking, Square, Cylinder, Plane, Western Front, Vancouver
- 2009 Sleep 1, 2, 3, 4, Malaspina Printmakers, Vancouver
- 2008 New Works on Paper and Canvas, Blanket, Vancouver
- 2007 New Paintings, Blanket, Vancouver
- 2006 Great Drinker and Chandelier, Lobby gallery, Vancouver
- 2003 In Advance of the Coffee Table Book. Or Reterritorialized
- Deterritorializations of a Stream of Consciousness, Helen Pitt, Vancouver
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2020 Usageaster Naps, with Donato Mancicni, utsanga.it, online
- 2019 The Raiders, Terminal Creek Contemporary, British Columbia
- 2018 Under Construction, Terminal Creek Contemporary, British Columbia
- 2017 The Ornament of a House: Fifty Years of Collecting, Burnaby Art Gallery
- 2017 . Kitchen Midden, Griffin Art Projects, North Vancouver
- 2016 Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures, Vancouver Art Gallery
- 2016 An Agreeable State of Uncertainty, Vancouver Art Gallery
- 2016 . Madder lake: Eli Bornowsky, Max Galyon, In Limbo, Brooklyn New York
- 2015 Geometry of Knowing, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby
- 2015 . Close Listening, Eli Bornowsky, Jeremy Hof, Jinny Yu, Richmond Art Gallery, Vancouver
- 2015 . Occasional Furniture, The Apartment, Vancouver
- 2014 Close Listening, Eli Bornowsky, Jeremy Hof, Jinny Yu, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa
- 2013 What you call Space is really nothing but a vast Plane, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto
- New Acquisitions, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby
- 2009 Enacting Abstraction, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
- 2007 Gasoline Rainbows, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
- Let There Be Light, Blanket, Vancouver
- 2006 Homemade Polygons, Bjornson Kajiwara, Vancouver
- Way Crafty, Blanket, Vancouver
Awards, Grants, Residencies
- 2018 White Columns Artist Registry
- 2013 Canada Council Project Grant for Media Arts Organizations
- 2012 BC Arts Council Project Assistance for Visual Artists
- 2010 Shortlist for RBC Canadian Painting Competition
- BC Arts Council Project Assistance for Visual Artists
- 2009 Why are Conceptual Artists Painting Again? Because Think it is a Good
- Idea. Thematic Residency, Banff Center, Banff
- Malaspina Printmakers Society Artist in Residence
- 2008 Canada Council Visual Arts Project Grant
- Shortlist for RBC Canadian Painting Competition
- 2007 Shortlist for RBC Canadian Painting Competition
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