#eli bornowsky

Born in Alberta, Canada, Eli Bornowsky received his BFA in Visual Arts from the Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver (2005) and is currently an MFA candidate at Bard College, New York. In 2007 his paintings were shown in the group exhibition Gasoline Rainbows at the Contemporary Art Gallery and he began working with the Blanket Gallery with solo exhibitions in 2007, 2008 and 2011. In 2009 his work was included in the exhibition Enacting Abstraction at the Vancouver Art Gallery and in 2010 he exhibited Walking Square Cylinder Plane, a solo exhibition at the Western Front. In 2011 he was commissioned to create a new body of work for reproduction in the Walrus magazine. This year his most recent work was exhibited in a solo show at G Gallery (Toronto). His critical texts have appeared in Fillip Review, C Magazine, Pyramid Power and artist catalogues. He has curated exhibitions for the Or Gallery including,Making Real (2008), We are Invisible Here… (Or Gallery Berlin 2012), After Finitude (2013), and the ongoing Clamour and Toll, a series of experimental music and performance. He currently resides in Vancouver.