Back Road
2009
 
1949 Born in Montréal
Lives and works in New York

Education

1967-70
1972-75

McGill University
New York Studio School

One Person Exhibitions

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1984

Back Road, Mummery + Schnelle, London

it's always raining, Alexander and Bonin, New York

Blind Spot, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin

Another Day, Alexander and Bonin, New York

Picture Window, Alexander and Bonin, New York

Robert Bordo/Pierre Dorion, Galerie René Blouin, Montréal

New Paintings, Alexander and Bonin, New York

Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York

Brooke Alexander, New York

Paintings 1989-1990
, Brooke Alexander, New York and Mira Godard
Gallery, Toronto

Brooke Alexander, New York

Brooke Alexander, New York

Concordia Art Gallery, Montréal

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Whaddaya Wanna Be, a Flower?!
, Alexander and Bonin, New York
Slough, David Nolan Gallery, New York
Out of the blue, Bergen Community College, New Jersey
Primitif Compliqué, Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Brussels

Contemporary Art at the Colby College Museum of Art: Gifts from the Alex Katz
Foundation
, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
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

Air, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York
Out of the Blue, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania

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

the gallery selects…, Alexander and Bonin, New York
Spaces < Towards a History of the Present, Häusler Contemporary, Munich

Land and Sea, Alexander and Bonin, New York

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

Still, Alexander and Bonin, New York

1999 Drawings, Alexander and Bonin, New York
Les peintures, Galerie René Blouin/Galerie Lilian Rodriguez, Montréal
Landscape Memories, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles

From the Collection: The Twentieth Century, Jersey City Museum, NJ

Aerial Perspectives, DC Moore Gallery, New York
Landscape as Abstraction, James Graham & Sons, New York
Oceans and Galaxies, Karen McCready Fine Art, New York

Staging Purcell Today, Convent Garden Theatre Museum, London

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

Transport, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Women's College, Lynchburg, Virginia
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

Robert Bordo, Raoul De Keyser, Helmut Dorner, Michel Frere, Brooke Alexander, New York
Beyond Loss: Art in the Era of Aids, Washington Project for the Arts,
Washington DC
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

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

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

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, Florida; Virginia Beach Center for the Arts; The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
Terra Incognita: Contemporary Landscape Painting, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Mystery, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York
Field and Frame: Meyer Schapiro's Semiotics of Paintings, New York Studio School, New York

11th Anniversary Benefit Auction,
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

Selection 35, The Drawing Center, New York
20 Year Retrospective, New York Studio School

Coup d'Eclat, Michael Tetreault Art Contemporain, Montréal

Large Scale Painting, Paul Robeson Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey

The Aesthetics of Consumption,
Group Material, New York

Eight Painters, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, New Jersey
Group Show, Pam Adler Gallery, New York
Group Show, Deitcher/O'Reilly Gallery, New York


Awards

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1998

1994

1991

1977


Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Grant

Artist Fellowship Award, Tesuque Foundation

MacDowell Fellowship

Canada Council Arts Grant

Canada Council Arts Grant


Collections
 


Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Ccarolina
The Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson
Jersey City Museum, New Jersey
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine


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Selected Books and Exhibition Catalogues

Robert Bordo: Blind Spot, texts by Aidan Dunne, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
Out of the Blue, ex. brochure. Jenkintown, PA: Abington Art Center
Painting Faculty, The Cooper Union School of Art, New York

Robert Bordo: Paintings 1989-1990
, text by David Deitcher, Brooke Alexander, New York and Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto (1990)


Selected Magazine and Newspaper articles:

Robert Bordo, The New Yorker, p.14 (29 September)
Cohen, David, The Heady Hedonist, The New York Sun, p.19 (1 September)
Neyenesch, Cassandra, Robert Bordo: It’s always raining,
The Brooklyn Rail (October)
Tipton, Gemma, Robert Bordo: Blind spot, Circa, p.76-77 (Spring)

Dunne, Aidan, Blurring the boundaries, The Irish Times, p.17 (24 October)

Johnson, Ken, Air, The New York Times (7 July)
Maine, Stephen, Robert Bordo at Alexander and Bonin, Art in America,
p.131- 132 (February)

Baker, R.C., Robert Bordo, Village Voice, p.85-86 (28 September)
Cohen, David, Gallery Going: Robert Bordo: Another Day,
The New York Sun (13 October)
Cotter, Holland, Robert Bordo, The New York Times (14 October)
Robert Bordo, The New Yorker, p.19 (10 October)
Gladstone, Valerie, Reviews: New York: Robert Bordo, Artnews,
p.187 (November)
Goodbody, Bridget L., Robert Bordo, ‘another day.’, Time Out New York,
p.92 (29 September)
Higgs, Matthew, Best of 2005, Artforum, p.258-259 (December)
Montreuil, Gregory, Abstract Delight in the Everyday, Gay City News, p.29
(20 October)
Naves, Mario, A Painter Walks the Plank: Art With a Long Shelf Life,
The New York Observer, p.18 (10 October)
Stern, Steven, Robert Bordo: Studio Visit, Absolute, p.86-90 (September)
Walentini, Joe, New York Views: Robert Bordo, Abstract Art Online (15 October)

Eleey, Peter, Robert Bordo, frieze, p.112-113 (June-August)
Wilson, Michael, contemporary, p.158 (June-July-August)

Krishtalka, Sholem, Bag of tricks, Mirror, p.38 (24 August)
Lamarche, Bernard, Figures de paysage, Le Devoir (Montréal) (9 September)
Lehmann, Henry, From picturesque to total abstraction, The Gazette (Montréal)
(2 September)
Mavrikakis, Nicolas, Expression formelle, Voir (Montréal), p.52 (August)

Arning, Bill, Robert Bordo, Time Out New York, p.62 (8 April)
Deitcher, David, Zwischenräume, Texte Zur Kunst, p.211-214 (June)
Glueck, Grace, Robert Bordo ‘New Paintings’, The New York Times (16 April)
Mumford, Steve, Robert Bordo, Review 4, p.18 (1 April)

Bordo, Robert, Artist Statement, Gulf Coast XX (Houston), p.77-80 (Summer)

Smith, Roberta, 'Aerial Perspectives' 'Imagination, Reality and Abstraction',
The New York Times (1 August)

Cotter, Holland, Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Bordo, The New York Times
(20 December)

Camper, Fred, Human Nature, Chicago READER (15 July)

Smith, Roberta, Group Shows in SoHo for a Weekend of Gallery Hopping, The New York Times (15 January)

Gopnick, Adam, Robert Bordo, The New Yorker (16 November)

Cyphers, Peggy, Robert Bordo, Arts (April)
Hanna, Deirdre, Bordo's Uncoventional Landscapes Map Potential for Cultural Change, Now Magazine (Toronto), (28 February)
Taylor, Kate, Geographic Works in Realm of Politics, The Globe and Mail Toronto (1 March)

Allen, William, Robert Bordo, Brooke Alexander, Flash Art (June)
Larson, Kay, New York Magazine (10 April)
Pardee, Hearne, Robert Bordo, Arts (September)
Smith, Roberta, Robert Bordo, The New York Times (7 April)
Tait, Catherine, Canadian Cultural Events in the New York Area, Artnews (March)
Yau, John, Robert Bordo's Current Address, Cover (April)

Jones, Alan, Robert Bordo, Flash Art (March – Apri)
Westfall, Stephen, Robert Bordo at Brooke Alexander, Art in America (September)