Lee Boroson

Outpost, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, May 7 – August 20.

2003
View From Here, ArtSpace, New Haven, Connecticut, July 18 – September 20.

2002
Lake Effect, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, New York, April 6 – May 10.

2000
Windowbox, H & R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri, November 10 – December 20.

Pleasure Grounds, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska, June 10 – August 20.

1999
Pleasure Grounds, Genovese/Sullivan Gallery, Boston, April 17 – May 8.

Underpass, Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris (now called Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria), New York, October 29, 1999 – March 17, 2000.

1997
Whitewater, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York, October 15, 1997 – June 11, 1998.

Lee Boroson—New Sculpture, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, September 4 – October 5.

Blisterpack, Bravin Post Lee Gallery, Project Room, New York, April 25 – May 24.

1993
Lee Boroson—Sculpture, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts.

1992
Lee Boroson—New Works, Quint Krichman Projects, La Jolla, California, May 22 – June 27.

1991
Lee Boroson—Sculpture, Sushi Performance and Visual Art, San Diego, California

Group Exhibitions

2015

Intersections@ 5, Contemporary Art Projects at the Phillips, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, May 28− October25, 2015.

Blow-Up, Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA

2012

Mierle Ukeles Exhibition, Temple Gallery, Tyler University, 2001 N. 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA

2009
Shrink Wrap, Delaware Arts Center, NY, curated by Liza Phillips

The Powers of Ten, Perrella Gallery, Fulton-Montgomery Community College, Johnstown, NY

2008-9
Childsplay, San Diego Children’s Museum, San Diego, CA

2008

Landscapes for Frankenstein, Curated by Jeffrey Walkowiak and Rachel Guggelburger, Sara Meltzer Gallery, NY

475 Kent Lives, Queens Museum of Art at Bulova, Queens, NY

2007
Material Pursuits, Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT

Crater New York, Location 1, New York, NY

The Pierogi Show, Pocket Utopia, Brooklyn, NY

2006
Matter of Fact, Manhattan Beach Contemporary Art Center, CA

2005
5 Projects, Wave Hill Glyndor Galley, Bronx, NY

New Tapestries, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY

2004
About Sculpture, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, June 26, 2004 – January 2, 2005.

2003
NextNext, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York, November 11 – December 21.

20/20 Vision, Museum of American Glass at Wheaton Village, Millville, New Jersey, June 1, 2003 – January 4, 2004.

2002
Artists to Artists: A Decade of the Space Program, Ace Gallery, New York, May 17 – June 1.

Thin Skin: The Fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres, and Inflatable Structures, AXA Gallery, New York, January 29 – April 13. Traveled to Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, May 25 – September 15; Gemeentemuseum Helmond, Helmond, The Netherlands, October 5, 2002 – January 5, 2003; McAllen International Museum, McAllen, Texas, January 25, 2003 – March 30, 2003; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois, April 19, 2003 – June 29, 2003; Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, July 20, 2003 – September 28, 2003; Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho, March 6, 2004 – May 16, 2004.

2001
Brooklyn!, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, Florida, September 9 – November 25.

2000
Soft Core, Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, December 9, 2000 – January 20, 2001.

Superduper New York, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, New York, February.

Showroom, Rensselaer County Council for the Arts (now called The Arts Center of the Capital Region), Troy, New York, January 29 – April 8.

1999
Another Place, Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, September 1 – September 18.

Escape, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, October 1 – October 17.

Men Who Sew, Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, YWCA, New York, November 2, 1999 – January 2, 2000.

Zero-G: When Gravity Becomes Form, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, Connecticut, June 4 – August 8.

Neuberger Museum of Art 1999 Biennial Exhibition of Public Art, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, June 27 – October 24.

Skin Tight, The Work Space, New York, through December 4.

Room With A View, Prince Street Gallery, New York, New York, May 9 – July 10.

Lee Boroson / Heidi Schlatter, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, New York, February 7 – March 8.

1998
Seven Year Itch, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, Florida, December 4, 1998 – January 1999.

Here, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, September 13, 1998 – January 3, 1999.

Polter-Zeitgeist: A Survey of Mischievous Art, Cape Museum of Fine Art, Dennis, Massachusetts, October 4 – November 8.

After Modernism, Genovese/Sullivan Gallery, Boston, October 10 – November 4.

Fashioned, White Box Gallery, New York, September 10 – October 31.

Southern Exposure, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, Florida, August 21 – October 10.

Crest Hardware Show, Crest Hardware, Brooklyn, New York, May – June.

Humanoid, Genovese/Sullivan Gallery, Boston, February 7 – March 5; Traveled to Vedanta Gallery, Chicago, February 26, 1999 – April 3, 1999; DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas, January 12, 2001 – February 24, 2001; Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York, December 6, 2001—January 12, 2002.

1997
Pierogi Flat Files, Pierogi, Brooklyn, New York. Boroson’s work has been shown in over a dozen Pierogi Flat Files traveling exhibitions since 1997.  Selected venues include the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, July 25, 1997 – January 25, 1998; Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina, November 16, 1997 – January 18, 1998; Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria, August 28, 1998 – September 28, 1998; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, August 4, 2000 – October 22, 2000; H & R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri, January 19, 2001 – February 28, 2001; The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, February 6, 2004 – March 30, 2004.

Emerging Sculptors 10, Sculpture Center, New York, January 7 – January 28.

1996
L’art du Plastique, “Nouvelles matières d’expression,” Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France, September 20 – November 10.

On the Map, Brooklyn Brewery, Brooklyn, New York.

Delirious, Eighth Floor Gallery, New York, July.

Crest Hardware Show, Crest Hardware, Brooklyn, New York, May 18 – June 29; Traveled to SoHo Arts Festival, New York, September 7 – October 7.

Group Show, Sauce Gallery, New York.

1995
Sculpture Space: Celebrating Twenty Years, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York, October 21 – December 31.

Crest Hardware Show, Brooklyn, New York, May – June 16.

1994
InSITE 94 ,Installation Gallery, installation at Agua Caliente, Tijuana, Mexico, September 25 – October 30.

Long Island University Summer Sculpture Show, Long Island University Brooklyn Campus, Brooklyn, New York, June 15 – October 31.

1993
93 NY 50, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York, May 23 – August 1.

1992
Just Visiting, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, December 5, 1992 – January 2, 1993.

Group Show, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Streetsites ’92, Sushi Performance and Visual Art; Tijuana River Estuarine Reserve, Imperial Beach, California, through April 11.

Fifth International Triennial of Drawing, Museum of Architecture, Miejska Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland.

1991
Three Dimensions, Mandeville Gallery, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, May 18 – June 16.

Catalogues & Brochures

Armajani, Siah and Judy Collischan. Neuberger Museum of Art 1999 Biennial Exhibition of Public Art. Exh. cat. Purchase, New York: Neuberger Museum of Art, 1999.

Ian Berry. Lee Boroson: Outer Limit. Exh. Cat. Saratoga Springs, NY: The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery 2005. Essay by Alva Noe.

Fashioned. Exh. cat. New York: White Box, 1998. Essay by Bill Arning.

Frankel, David, ed. Artists to Artists: A Decade of the Space Program. Exh. cat. Colorado Springs: The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, 2002.

Frantz, Susanne K. and Gay LeCleire Taylor. 20/20 Vision. Millville, New Jersey: Museum of American Glass at Wheaton Village, 2003.

Freedman, Matt, “Sculpture”, catalog for LIU show, Sculpture Center. 1995

Oliver Herwig, Axel Thallemer, “AIR/ LUFT: Unity of Art and Science”, Arnoldsche, 2005

Markonish, Denise. Lee Boroson: Plastic Fantastic, Exh. Catalogue. Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA 2015. Essay by Ginger Strand.

Massier, John. Lee Boroson: Lake Effect. Exh. brochure. Buffalo, New York: Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, 2002.

Murray, Mary E. Sculpture Space; Celebrating 20 Years. Exh. cat. Utica, New York: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1995.

Rush, Michael and Dominique Nahas. Brooklyn! Exh. brochure. Lake Worth, Florida: Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, 2001.

Singer, Debra. Lee Boroson: Underpass. Exh. brochure. New York: Whitney Museum  of American Art, 2000.

Smith, Raechell. Lee Boroson: Windowbox. Exh. brochure. Kansas City, Missouri: H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute, 2000.

Sretenovic, Vesela. Intersections@5; Contemporary Art Projects at the Phillips, Exh.cat., The Phillips Collection, 2015.

Thin Skin: The Fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres, and Inflated Structures. Exh. cat. New York: Independent Curators International, 2002. Essays by Barbara Clausen, Carin Kuoni, and David Barthelme.

Catalog for “Fifth Triennial of Drawing” Museum of Architecture, Wroclaw, Poland 1992

Highlike, FILE-electronic language Festival, SESI-SP Editora, Brazil 2014

Articles & Reviews

Backlund, Nicholas. “Lee Boroson; Sculptor.” San Diego Daily Transcript (20 September 1994).

Baker, R.C. “Best in Show” The Village Voice, June 28

Birke, Judy. “Spotlighted at Artspace, a cityscape with a view.” New Haven Register (22 September 2003).

Blandford, Kristin. “Gender Allusion.” Surface, no. 21 (1999).

Bonenti, Charles. “’Plastic Fantastic’ at Mass MoCA: Making art out of thin air.” The Berkshire Eagle (October 17, 2014)

Camhi, Leslie. “Blow Up.” The Village Voice (13 February 2002).

Cotter, Holland. “Sculpture Under the Sky: Free, Daring and Soon Departed.” The New York Times (26 August 1994): C1.

Curcio, R. “’Softcore’: Joseph Helman Gallery.” Sculpture 20, no. 5 (June 2001): 73-74.

Dalton, Jennifer. “Fashioned.” Review Magazine (15 September 1998).

Delblanco, Andrea. “Men With Needles and Some Points to Make.” The New York Times (7 November 1999): CY16.

Eck, Michael. “The Inflatables; Lee Boroson’s Airy Clouds and Rambling Castles Fill the Tang.” The Times Union (February 3, 2005): P20

Freedman, Matt. “Emerging Sculptors 10.” Review Magazine (15 January 1997).

Goodman, Jonathan. “All of the Above at Sara Meltzer Gallery” Sculpture 26, no. 1 (January February 2007): 71-72.

Goodman, Jonathan. “Lee Boroson: Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris.” Sculpture 19, no. 7 (September 2000): 64-65.

Griffin, Tim. “Review of Crest Hardware Show.” World Art (January 1997).

Herd, Colin. “Imitating the Natural World; Lee Boroson.” Aesthetica Magazine (Oct Nov 2014) 26-31

Hershenson, Roberta. “Sunlight and Shade Infuse Sculptures.” The New York Times (11 July 1999) sec. 14WC: 19.

Hill, Shawn. “Loving and Delving.” Bay Windows (February 1998).

Huntington, Richard. “Cloudy Thinking.” The Buffalo News (3 May 2002): G18.

Jarmusch, Ann. “Three dimensions and beyond.” San Diego Tribune (24 May 1991).

Johnson, Ken. “Another Place.” The New York Times (10 September 1999): sec. E: 36.

“Fred Tomaselli and Lee Boroson.” The New York Times (24 December 1999): sec. E: 52.

“Skintight.” The New York Times (26 November 1999): sec. E: 42.

Kimmelman, Michael. “’93 New York 50’ at Socrates Sculpture Park.” The New York Times (6 August 1993): C30.

Levin, Kim. “Lee Boroson + Fred Tomaselli.” The Village Voice (5 January 2000).

London, Sara. “Installations challenge the eye, defy definition.” Cape Cod Times (29 January 1993).

MacMillan, Kyle. “Bemis Center Installations a Fun, Sensuous Experience” Omaha World Herald (18 June 2000): 13.

Mante, Alexis. “Students create ‘insider’ artwork.“ New Haven Register (15 July 2003).

McNally, Molly. “Lily Pads and Neon Chromosomes.” The Reader (2 August 2000).

McQuaid, Cate. “Lily pads and other inflated pleasures.” The Boston Globe (29 April 1999): E3.

McQuaid, Cate. “Sculpture, Photos capture things in flux.” The Boston Globe (16 January 2004): D16.

McQuaid, Cate. “Critic’s picks for fall museum exhibitions around New England.” The Boston Globe (18 October 2014)

McQuaid, Cate. “Boroson Manufactures Elemental Journey at Mass MoCA.” The Boston Globe (22 January 2015)

Ollman, Leah. “Sculpture that touches spirit.” The Los Angeles Times (22 May 1991): 1.

Pincus, Robert. “Objects of wit, metaphor.” San Diego Union (25 May 1991).

Reed, Victoria. “Review.” The Los Angeles Times (11 March 1992).

Richard, Frances. “Underpass at Whitney Philip Morris,” Artforum 38, no. 10 (Summer 2000): 185.

Shales, Ezra. “Emerging Sculptors 10.” Review Magazine (15 January 1997).

Thorson, Alice. “‘Windowbox’ on the world.” The Kansas City Star (10 December 2000).

Toivanen, Kati. “On Topic: Interiors, Balloons, and Marcel Duchamp.” Review Magazine (December 2000).

Unger, Miles. “Lee Boroson: Pleasure Grounds.” Art New England 20, no. 5 (August/September 1999).

Viveros-Faune, Christian. “Lee Boroson.” Contemporary, no. 64 (2004).

Waterman, Jill. “Lee Boroson’s Fabricated Garden.” artsMEDIA (December 1999).

Wisniewski, Adam. “Sew what?; Men pick up the needle but avoid getting into knots about gender.” Time Out New York, no. 219 (2 December 1999).

Worth, Alexi. “Star Track: The Next Generation—Lee Boroson.” ARTnews 97, no. 5 (May 1998): 159.

Zimmer, William. “A Dozen Artists at Work Within a Challenging Space.” The New York Times (29 November 1998) sec. 14WC: 20.

Honors, Awards & Grants

2013

Finalist, NYFA Environmental Structures fellowship grant

2012

Professional Development Grant, Rhode Island School of Design, RI

P/T Union Technology Grant, RISD, Providence, RI

2010

Professional Development Grant, Rhode Island School of Design, RI

2008

Individual Artist Grant, The Gottlieb Foundation, NY, NY.

2005

Artist grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation Inc., New York, NY

2004
Professional Development Grant, Part Time Union, Rhode Island School of Design, RI

2002
Professional Development Grant, Rhode Island School of Design, RI

2001-2002

One year studio residency at Marie Walsh Sharp Foundation Studio Residency Program, NY

2000
NYFA fellowship grant for Architecture/Environmental Structures

1998
Fellowship, computer video editing, BCAT & Rotunda Gallery, NY

1997
Artist grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation Inc., New York, NY

1996
Art Matters (individual artist fellowship), Art Matters Inc, New York, NY
Fellowship for two month residency at Centre d’ Art Contemporanie d’ Herblay, Paris France

1993
Fellowship for two month residency at Sculpture Space, Utica, NY

1992
Fellowship to attend Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA

1990
Fellowship for emerging artists, Creative Glass Center of America, Millville, NJ

1989
Four month residency grant, Bemis foundation/ Alternative Worksite,  Omaha, NE
Grant to attend Skowhegan School, Indiana University School of Arts and Sciences, Bloomington, IN

Professional Affiliations

2001-present
Artist Advisory Committee, Sculpture Center, New York, NY

2000-2003
Visual Arts Panel, New York State Council on the Arts, New York, NY

Teaching

1998-9 & 2000-present
Senior Critic, Sculpture Department, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Currently teaching Senior Sculpture Studio and Fabric Structures (interdisciplinary course)

(classes taught: STUDIO-Junior Sculpture, Senior Sculpture, Sophomore Sculpture, Alternative Materials. SEMINARS-New York, NY (Gallery and museum focused curriculum), Graduate Sculpture Seminar.

2006-7 & 2001-2012
Non-Resident Studio Instructor, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

1999-2000 & 2002
Assistant Professor, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY

(Courses taught: STUDIO- Site Works, Material to Meaning)

1998-9
Sculpture Associate, Skowhegan School, Skowhegan ME

1997
Visiting Lecturer, University of Chicago, IL

(courses taught: Introduction to Visual Thinking, Beginning Sculpture)

Lectures and other experience

2014

The Art Assignment, PBS Digital Studios Network, Episode 16. Desktop Monument-Lee Boroson. Published October 16, 2014. URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX9FiewKqI0

2012

Visiting Artist Lecture, The Boston Museum School, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

2011

Guest Critic, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

2010

Artist Lecture, College of St. Rose, Albany, NY

2008
Visiting Artist Lecture, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Visiting Artist Lecture, Yale University, New Haven, CT

2007
Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

2006
Panelist, Education Round Table, ISC Sculpture Conference, Cincinnati, OH

2005
Lecture & interview with curator (Ian Berry), Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Visiting Artist Lecture, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI

2004
Visiting Artist Lecture, Virginia Commonwealth University, VA
Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

2003
Visiting Artist Lecture, The Boston Museum School, MA
Visiting Artist Lecture, The College at New Rochelle, NY

2002
Visiting Artist Lecture, Kent State University, OH
Visiting Artist Lecture, Williams College, MA

2001
Visiting Artist Lecture, Bennington College, VT

2000
Artist Lecture, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, NY

1999
Visiting artist lecture, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Plus & Minus: Sculptors Reflect on the State of Sculpture, panel discussion, Sculpture Center, New York, NY; moderator-Michael Brenson

1998
Lecture, Aspects of Contemporary Art, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Guest Critic, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

1997
Guest Lecture, Visiting Artist Colloquium Series, Chicago School of the Art Institute, IL
Guest Lecture, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Guest Critic, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL

1996-7
Preparator, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, NY

1996
Working in Brooklyn, The Principles of Installation Art, Artist Panel, Brooklyn Museum, NY; moderator- Charlotta Kotik
Residency-Centre d’Art Contemporain d’Herblay/Pontoise, France

1994
Residency-inSITE94, Installation Gallery, San Diego, CA

1993
Residency-Sculpture Space, Utica, NY

1992
Residency-Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA

1990
Guest Lecture, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA