Michael Borowski
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EDUCATION
2011, MFA, Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2003, BFA (photography), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, Summa Cum Laude
SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2017, Queer Constructs, Gallery 201, Lynchburg Diversity Center, Lynchburg, VA
2016, Home Reports, Ploch Gallery, Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts, Brookfield, WI
2016, Home Reports, Volume One Gallery, Eau Claire, WI
2012, Alcoves 12.6, curator: Merry Scully, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
2011, Make/Shift, Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2010, Restless Dwellings, Warren Robbins Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017, Range, curator: Andrew Nordin, Edward J and Helen Jane Morrison Gallery, University of Minnesota – Morris, Morris, MN
2017, ImageOHIO 17, juror: Drew Sawyer, Fort Hayes Shot Tower Gallery, Columbus, OH (catalog)
2017, Roanoke College 2017 Biennial, jurors: Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo & Beth Rudin DeWoody, Olin Hall Gallery, Roanoke College, Salem, VA
2016, Land:Mine, curators: Lori Chilefone & Jyl Kelley, Heyde Center for the Arts, Chippewa Falls, WI (catalog)
2015, On Fruited Plains: SPE Midwest Multi-Caucus Juried Exhibition, curators: David Martin, Marivi Ortiz, & James Kueffner, Hite Art Institute, Louisville, KY (catalog)
2015, Abreaction 3, curator: Caroline Partamian, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY
2014, Art Faculty Show, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI
2014, Metropolis Familiaris, Prairie Center for the Arts, Peoria, IL
2014, Mas 5 @ Albuquerque, Creative Abq, Albuquerque, NM
2014, TRIO, New Mexico State University Art Museum, Las Cruces, NM
2014, Ready-Made: 100 Years Later, curator: Catherine Barnabé , Espace Projet, Montreal, QC, Cananda (catalog)
2013, FIGMENT Sculpture Garden, Governor's Island, NY
2013, Facts & Fictions, curators: Ani Katz & Sara Winston, Invisible Dog Art Center, NY
2013, In/Visible Borders, curator: Mary Anne Redding, Marion Center for Photographic Arts, Santa Fe University of Art & Design, Santa Fe, NM, and The Santa Fe Arts Commission Community Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2012, Global Village, Traveling exhibition: Projekt 072, Alkmaar, NL, Chateau de Sully, Burgundy, FR, & Kulturehuset Bronden, Copenhagen, DK
2012, Un-Privileged Views, WUHO Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012, New Mexico Showcase, curator: Peter Frank, 516 Arts Gallery, Albuquerque, NM (catalog)
2012, Scan.It, curator: Gem Barton, Gallery 44, Brighton, England
2012, Design LAB, Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2012, PreOccupation, curators: Sarah Berkeley, Brent Fogt, Fine Arts Bldg., Chicago, IL
2012, N2NM: Exchange, curators: Julia Friedman and Isolde Kille, Farmers Market Pavilion, Santa Fe, NM
2011, Art in Odd Places: Ritual, curators: Kalia Brooks and Trinidad Fombella, 14th St., New York, NY (catalog)
2011, Once Upon a Coffee Table, The Shoe Factory Art Co-op, Rochester, NY
2010, (UofM)2, Traveling exhibition: Warren Robbins Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI, & Quarter Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2009, Time, Work Gallery, Detroit, MI
2009, Activesite: Emerge, curator: Paul Amenta, Flat Iron Building, Grand Rapids, MI
2009, Crane vs. Wolverine, Hangar Art Space, Cranbrook University, MI
2009, In Order of Appearance, Warren Robbins Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
2008, Hung, Hangar Art Space, Cranbrook University, MI
2008, From Here to There, Slusser Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
2006, Silicon Sands, curator: Rex Bruce, Las Cruces Art Museum, Las Cruces, NM
2005, Wide Gamut: Alternative Process Photography, Donkey Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2005, Juried Photo Exhibit, curators: Betty Hahn and Elena Baca, Harwood Art Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2004, Albuquerque Contemporary, curator: Gronk, Albuquerque Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM (catalog)
GRANTS & AWARDS
2017 Research Initiation Grant, Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology, SEAD (Science, Engineering, Art, and Design) Major Initiative Program, Virginia Tech
2016 Faculty Mentorship Grant, Virginia Tech
2015, Small Research Grant, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
2013, Artist Residency, School of Making Thinking, Delhi, NY
2013, Production Funding, FIGMENT Sculpture Garden, Governor's Island, NY
2012, Artist Residency, Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY
2012, Artist Residency, Est Nord Est, St. Jean Port Joli, Canada
2011, Artist Residency, Elsewhere, Greensboro, NC
LECTURES & PANEL DISCUSSIONS
2017, Artist Talk: Queer Constructs, Gallery 201, Lynchburg Diversity Center, Lynchburg, VA
2017, Guest Lecture: Photography & Architecture, Moss Art Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
2016, Panelist, Intersections: Interdisciplinary Conversations about Social Justice and the Environment, Art & Architecture Library, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
2016, Guest Lecture: Public Art & Racial Justice, HIST 205: Introduction to Public History, Roanoke College, Salem, VA
2016, Guest lecture: Introduction to Performance Art, ARCH 3015: Architecture III, School of Architecture and Design, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
2016, Artist Talk, ART 4894: Senior Studio, School of Visual Arts, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
2016, Artist Talk, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
2016, Artist Talk: Home Reports, Ploch Gallery, Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts, Brookfield, WI
2015, Panelist: On Fruited Plains, Society of Photographic Education Midwest Conference, Louisville, KY
2014, Artist Talk, University of Nebraska, Wesleyan, Lincoln, NE
2014, Featured Faculty Lecture, Department of Art & Design, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI
2013, Artist Talk, PHOT 4006 History: Contemporary Art/Photography, Santa Fe University of Art & Design, Santa Fe, NM
2013, Artist Talk, ARTS188: Visualizing Ideas, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
2012, Artist Talk: Objects of Interdependence, International Symposium of Electronic Arts, Albuquerque, NM
2011, Artist Talk, Sculpture X Symposia #2, Cleveland Institute of Art, OH
2011, Moderator: Graduate School Debt: What do you get for your money?, Sculpture X Symposia #2, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2011, Artist Talk: Make/Shift, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2010, Panelist: The Role of the Art Institution in Community Engagement, Moderator: Nato Thompson, Open Engagement, Portland, OR
SELECTED PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
Float Photo Magazine, “Alternative Reality, June, 2017
Fraction Magazine, Issue 98, “9th Anniversary Issue”, May 2017 http://www.fractionmagazine.com/issue-98/
Borowski, Michael. “Artists and Architecture: Projection/Convergence/Intersections” (exhibition review), SECAC, March 2017 http://www.secacart.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=273:artists-and-architecture--projection-convergence-intersection--curated-by-margo-crutchfield--moss-art-center--blacksburg--va--through-april-1&catid=23:online-exhibition-reviews&Itemid=132
Hoyt, Shannon. “There’s No Place Like Home”, Stoutonia, January 26, 2016 http://stoutonia-online.com/?p=2719
Seitz, Mike. “No Place Like Home”, Volume One, Issue #297, January 13, 2016 https://volumeone.org/articles/2016/01/13/12810_no_place_like_home
Stiegele, Juliane, and Nick Tobier eds. Utopia Toolbox.1 (English Translation), University of Michigan Press, 2015
Cox, Josh. “The Artist in the City”, Whiskey City Collaborative, August 2014
Borowski, Michael. “Objects of Interdependence”, Media-N: Journal of the New Media Caucus, Fall 2013
Goukassian, Elena. “No Longer Empty & Art in Odd Places: Unconventional Public Art in New York”, Sculpture, September 2012
ArtArchitecture Project, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic http://artarchitectureproject.blogspot.com/search/label/Michael%20Borowski
Tylevich, Katya. “Un-Privileged Views”, Domus, March 16, 2012 http://www.domusweb.it/en/architecture/2012/03/16/un-privileged-views.html
Pulkka, Wesley. “An overload of superb creation”, The Albuquerque Journal, February 19, 2012
Corbett, Rachel. “Art in Odd Places Hits NYC”, Artnet Magazine, October 5, 2011 http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/news/artnetnews/art-in-odd-places-hits-nyc.asp
Meier, Allison. “Finding Art in Odd Places Along 14th Street”, Hyperallergic, October 6, 2011 http://hyperallergic.com/37466/art-in-odd-places-2011-1/
CURATED EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
2016, Rinse, Repeat, Armory Gallery, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
2010, (UofM)2, Traveling exhibition: Warren Robbins Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI, & Quarter Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2009, Migration, Work Gallery, Detroit, MI
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2016-Pres. Assistant Professor, School of Visual Arts, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA
2014-2016 Lecturer, Department of Art & Design, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI