Bio
1949 Born in Montréal, Quebec, Canada
1967-70 McGill University
1971-74 New York Studio School
The artist lives and works in New York
TEACHING POSITIONS AND AWARDS
1977, 91 Canada Council Arts Grant
1994 MacDowell Fellowship
1995 Visiting Faculty, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Parsons School of Design, New York
1995-present Associate Professor, The Cooper Union School of Art, New York
1998 Tesuque Foundation, Artist Fellowship Award
2007 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
2010 Ballinglen Foundation, BallyCastle, Ireland
2012 Painting Fellowship, The New York Foundation for the Arts
2011 Bard MFA, Faculty
2014 Robert de Niro Sr, Painting Prize
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2016 Robert Bordo/Sam Anderson (with Michel Auder), Bortolami Gallery, New York
2014 Drawing Installation, The Suburban, Oak Park, Illinois
2013 Three Point Turn, Alexander and Bonin, New York
2009 Back Road, Mummery + Schnelle, London
2008 Robert Bordo, Alexander and Bonin, New York
2007 Blind Spot, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
2005 Another Day, Alexander and Bonin, New York
2002 Picture Window, Alexander and Bonin, New York
2000 Robert Bordo/Pierre Dorion, Galerie René Blouin, Montréal
1999 New Paintings, Alexander and Bonin, New York
1996 Robert Bordo, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
1992 Robert Bordo, Brooke Alexander, New York
1991 Paintings l989-1990, Brooke Alexander, New York and Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
1989 Robert Bordo, Brooke Alexander, New York
1987 Robert Bordo, Brooke Alexander, New York
1984 Robert Bordo, Concordia Art Gallery, Montréal
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 It was never Linear: Recent Paintings, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln NE
Vitreous Humor, Kansas Gallery, New York , NY
Lost for Words, a project with Matthew Higgs, Murray Guy Gallery, New York , NY
Introductions, curated by Roberto Jaurez, La Mama gallery, New York , NY
2015- 16 Greater New York, crated by Peter Eleey, Mia Locks,Thomas Lax and Douglas Crimp, PS1, NY. NY
The Guston Effect, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston Mass.
Tribeca Film Festival, Artist Awards, 2014- 15 ,New York, NY
2014 New Paintings, Alexander and Bonin, New York,
12 Painters, The Studio School 1974/2014, Steven Kasher Gallery, New York
2013 Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Culturgest,
Lisbon, Artist Space, New York (2014)
2012 Raw/Cooked: Ulrike Müller, Brooklyn Museum, New York
The Room and It's Inhabitants, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
The Grand Tour, Alexander and Bonin, New York
The Big Picture, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
Best of 2012, Soloway, New York
2011 Colors for a new home, Signs of Love and other paintings, Alexander and Bonin, New York
Robert Bordo, Gajin Fujita, Gwynn Murrill, Don Suggs, L.A. Louver, Los Angeles
Paper A-Z, Sue Scott Gallery, New York
2010-11 4 on paper: Robert Bordo, Diango Hernández, Stefan Kürten, Paul Etienne Lincoln, Alexander and Bonin, New York
2010 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City
2010 The Beholder’s Share, Mummery + Schnelle, London
2009 Free as Air and Water, 41 Cooper Square Gallery, New York
White on The Moon, 106 Green, Brooklyn
Whaddaya Wanna Be, a Flower?!, Alexander and Bonin, New York
Slough, David Nolan Gallery, New York
Primitif Compliqué, Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Brussels
Out of the blue, Bergen Community College, NJ
2008 Stay alive till ’95, Alexander and Bonin, New York
2007 Contemporary Art at the Colby College Museum of Art: Gifts from the Alex Katz
Foundation, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters,
New York
Open End, Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
2006 Air, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York
Out of the Blue, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
2005 Incorrigible, Sentimental, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Mirage, Alexander and Bonin, New York
The Continuous Mark: 40 Years of the New York Studio School, New York Studio School, New York
2004 the gallery selects…, Alexander and Bonin, New York
Spaces < Towards a History of the Present, Häusler Contemporary, Munich
2003 Land and Sea, Alexander and Bonin, New York
2001 Song Poems, Cohen Leslie and Browne, New York
(Self) Portraits, Alexander and Bonin, New York
Finely Drawn: A Recent Gift of Contemporary Drawings, Weatherspoon Art Gallery,
Greensboro, North Carolina
2000 Still, Alexander and Bonin, New York
1999 1999 Drawings; Alexander and Bonin, New York
Les peintures, Galerie René Blouin/Galerie Lilian Rodriguez, Montréal
Landscape Memories, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
1998 From the Collection: The Twentieth Century, Jersey City Museum, NJ
1997 Aerial Perspectives, DC Moore Gallery, New York
Landscape as Abstraction, James Graham & Sons, New York
Oceans and Galaxies, Karen McCready Fine Art, New York
1996 Staging Purcell Today, Convent Garden Theatre Museum, London
1995 Painting Faculty, The Cooper Union School of Art
Literally Abstract, The Center for Research in Contemporary Art, The University of Texas at Arlington
Faculty Exhibition, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
In a mediatative manner, E.S. Vandam, New York
1994 Transport, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Women's College, Lynchburg, VA
Points of Interest, Points of Departure, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Changing Views, Feigen Incorporated, Chicago
Paintings, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York
le temps d'un dessin, Galerie de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Lorient and Philippe Briet Gallery,
New York.
1993 Robert Bordo, Raoul De Keyser, Helmut Dorner, Michel Frere, Brooke Alexander, NY
Beyond Loss: Art in the Era of Aids, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC
1993 Another View, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Les Environs, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York
Nature Morte: A Current View, The New York School Studio, New York
1992 Not For Sale, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
Siteseeing, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
Drawings, Brooke Alexander, New York
Aids Forum, Artists Space, New York
Group Show, Brooke Alexander, New York
1991 Art for Your Collections, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Discourse: The Faculty of the New York Studio School, New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture
1990 Clyfford Still/A Dialogue, Philippe Briet Gallery, New York
"All Quiet on the Western Front?", Espace Dieu, Paris
At the Water's Edge, 19th and 20th Century American Beach Scenes, Tampa Museum of Art; Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL; Virginia Beach Center for the Arts; The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock
Terra Incognita: Contemporary Landscape Painting, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
1989 Mystery, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
Field and Frame: Meyer Schapiro's Semiotics of Paintings, New York Studio School, New York
1988 11th Anniversary Benefit Auction, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
1986 Selection 35, The Drawing Center, New York
20 Year Retrospective, New York Studio School
1984 Coup d'Eclat, Michael Tetreault Art Contemporain, Montréal, Quebec
1983 Large Scale Painting, Paul Robeson Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
1982 The Aesthetics of Consumption, Group Material, New York
1981 Eight Painters, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
Group Show, Pam Adler Gallery, New York
Group Show, Deitcher/O'Reilly Gallery, New York
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY—Books and catalogues
2009 Free as Air and Water, ex. cat. New York: The Cooper Union
2007 Robert Bordo: Blind Spot, ex. cat. with essay by Aidan Dunne. Dublin: Rubicon Gallery
1995 Painting Faculty, ex. cat. New York: The Cooper Union School of Art
1990 Robert Bordo: Paintings 1989-1990, ex. cat. with essay by David Deitcher. New York:
Brooke Alexander; Toronto: Mira Godard Gallery
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY—Reviews and articles
2013 Heinrich, Will. “Robert Bordo: Three Point Turn” The New York Observer (April 2, 2013): B17
Plagens, Peter. “Robert Bordo: Three Point Turn” The Wall Street Journal (March 30-31, 2013)
Bordo, Robert. “500 Words” Artforum.com (March 17, 2013)
http://artforum.com/words/id=39818
Schwabsky, Barry. “Robert Bordo” Artforum (Summer 2013): 358
Smith, Roberta. “Robert Bordo: Three Point Turn” The New York Times (April 19, 2013): C26
"Robert Bordo" The New Yorker (April 15, 2013):13
Sherman, Sam. Robert Bordo: Three Point Turn at Alexander and Bonin Gallery, Reviews Issue Thirteen, Turps Banana, Painting Magazine, London.
2012 Smith, Roberta. “Like Watching Paint Thrive” The New York Times (June 28, 2012)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/arts/design/in-five-chelsea-galleries-the-state-
of-painting.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
Cohen, David. “The Big Picture at Sikkema Jenkins & Co.” artcritical (July 1, 2012)
http://www.artcritical.com/2012/07/01/the-big-picture/
2011 “25th Anniversary Visual Art Retrospective.” Gulf Coast (23, no. 2): 124
2010 “Robert Bordo in Conversation with Steve Dibenedetto.” Turps Banana (Issue 8: Summer 2010): 14-27
2009 “Art: Robert Bordo.” Kultureflash (November 18, 2009)
http://www.kultureflash.net/archive/301/default.htm#event6484
2008 “Robert Bordo.” The New Yorker (September 29, 2008): 14
Cohen, David. “The Heady Hedonist.” The New York Sun (September 11, 2008): 19
Neyenesch, Cassandra. “Robert Bordo: It’s always raining.” The Brooklyn Rail (October 2008)
Tipton, Gemma. “Robert Bordo: Blind spot.” Circa (Spring 2008): 76-77
2007 Dunne, Aidan. “Blurring the boundaries.” The Irish Times (October 24, 2007): 17
2006 Johnson, Ken. “Air” The New York Times (July 7, 2006)
“Out of the Blue,” ex. brochure. Jenkintown, PA: Abington Art Center
Maine, Stephen. “Robert Bordo at Alexander and Bonin.” Art in America (February 2006): 131- 132
2005 Baker, R.C. “Robert Bordo.” Village Voice (September 28-October 4): 85-86
Cohen, David. “Gallery Going: Robert Bordo: Another Day.” The New York Sun (Thursday,
October 13, 2005)
Cotter, Holland. “Robert Bordo.” The New York Times (October 14, 2005): E28
Editors. “Robert Bordo.” The New Yorker (October 10, 2005): 19
Gladstone, Valerie. “Reviews: New York: Robert Bordo.” Artnews. (November 2005): 187
Goodbody, Bridget L. “Robert Bordo, ‘another day.’” Time Out New York (September
29-October 5): 92
Higgs, Matthew. “Best of 2005: Matthew Higgs.” Artforum (December 2005): 258-259
Montreuil, Gregory. “Abstract Delight in the Everyday.” Gay City News (October 20-26, 2005):
Naves, Mario. “A Painter Walks the Plank: Art With a Long Shelf Life.” The New York
Observer (October 10, 2005): 18
Stern, Steven. “Robert Bordo: Studio Visit.” Absolute (September 2005): 86-88, 90
Walentini, Joe. “New York Views: Robert Bordo.” Abstract Art Online (October 15, 2005), http://www.abartonline.com/html/ny_views_3_2.html
2002 Eleey, Peter. “Robert Bordo.” frieze (June-July-August 2002): 112-113
Wilson, Michael. contemporary (June-July-August2002): 158
2000 Krishtalka, Sholem. “Bag of tricks.” Mirror (August 24-31, 2000): 38
Lamarche, Bernard. “Figures de paysage.” Le Devoir (Montréal) (September 9, 2000): D9
Lehmann, Henry. “From picturesque to total abstraction.” The Gazette (Montréal) (September 2, 2000): J2
Mavrikakis, Nicolas. “Expression formelle.” Voir (Montréal) (August-September 2000): 52
1999 Arning, Bill. “Robert Bordo.” Time Out New York (April 8-15, 1999): 62
Deitcher, David. “Zwischenräume.” Texte Zur Kunst (June 1999): 211-214
Glueck, Grace. “Robert Bordo ‘New Paintings’.” The New York Times (April 16, 1999): E35
Mumford, Steve. “Robert Bordo.” Review 4 (April 1, 1999): 18-19
1998 Bordo, Robert. “Artist Statement.” Gulf Coast XX (Houston, TX) (Summer 1998): 77-80, images, 85
1997 Smith, Roberta. "'Aerial Perspectives' 'Imagination, Reality and Abstraction'." The New York Times (August 1, 1997)
1996 Cotter, Holland. "Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Bordo." The New York Times (December 20, 1996)
1994 Camper, Fred. "Human Nature." Chicago READER (July 15, 1994)
1993 Smith, Roberta. "Group Shows in SoHo for a Weekend of Gallery Hopping." The New York Times (January 15, 1993)
1992 Gopnick, Adam. "Robert Bordo." The New Yorker (November 16, 1992)
1991 Cyphers, Peggy. "Robert Bordo." Arts (April 1991)
Hanna, Deirdre. "Bordo's Uncoventional Landscapes Map Potential for Cultural Change." Now Magazine (Toronto) (February 28, 1991)
Taylor, Kate. "Geographic Works in Realm of Politics." The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (March 1, 1991)
1989 Allen, William. "Robert Bordo, Brooke Alexander." Flash Art (June 1989)
Larson, Kay. New York Magazine (April 10, 1989)
Pardee, Hearne. "Robert Bordo." Arts (September 1989): 71
Smith, Roberta. "Robert Bordo." The New York Times (April 7, 1989)
Tait, Catherine. “Canadian Cultural Events in the New York Area” Artnews (March 1989)
Yau, John. "Robert Bordo's Current Address." Cover (April 1989)
1988 Jones, Alan. "Robert Bordo." Flash Art (March – April, 1988): 113
Westfall, Stephen. "Robert Bordo at Brooke Alexander." Art in America (September 1988): 181
COMMISSIONS AND DESIGNS
989-12 Dido and Aeneas Monnaie Dance Group/Mark Morris Dance Group, Theatre Varia Brussels; Emerson Majestic Theatre, Boston; Brooklyn Academy of Music Opera House, Brooklyn (set design); Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York
1995 Dido and Aeneas, Mark Morris Dance Group, Screen adaptation of scenic design for Channel 4, London and Bravo, Canada
1992 Les Grands Ballets Canadians, Montréal, World Premier at O'Keefe Center, Toronto, March 14th. Choreographed by Mark Morris (set and costume design)
1986 Dance in America-Mark Morris Dance Group, WNET-13/Danmarks Radio (set design)
Sabat Mater, Mark Morris Dance Group, Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music (set design)
Man on the Moon, by William Allen, New York University Press (frontispiece)
1983 The Death of Socrates, Mark Morris Dance Group, Dance Theatre Workshop, New York (set design)
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Ca
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach Fla
Sheldon Art Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska
Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin
Birmingham Museum of Art, AL
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
The Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Miss,
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City,NJ
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine